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1 SENATE RESOLUTION
2 WHEREAS, The Illinois Senate has learned of the impending
3 retirement of Senator Doris Karpiel; and
4 WHEREAS, Doris Karpiel has served as State Senator for
5 25th District since 1984, having previously served five years
6 in the House of Representatives; and
7 WHEREAS, Senator Karpiel is a well-loved and respected
8 member of the Senate Republican Caucus, serving as Majority
9 Caucus Chairperson in Senate Leadership; and
10 WHEREAS, She previously served the public in DuPage
11 County as Bloomingdale Township Supervisor from 1975 through
12 1979 and Bloomingdale Township Trustee from 1973 through
13 1975; and
14 WHEREAS, Senator Karpiel works with a broad range of
15 issues in the Senate, serving on the Joint Committee on
16 Administrative Rules; Illinois State Chairman of American
17 Legislative Exchange Council; Council of State Governments'
18 Committee on Status of Children; National Conference of State
19 Legislatures' Children, Families and Health Commission;
20 American Legislative Exchange Council Task Force on Energy,
21 Environment, Natural Resources and Agriculture; and the
22 Education Funding Advisory Board; and
23 WHEREAS, She remains active in community issues,
24 sponsoring legislation to rid West Chicago of the Kerr-McGee
25 low-level radioactive waste, working with community groups
26 and local officials to stop a balefill from being built in
27 Bartlett, passing legislation that stopped the Kane County
28 Forest Preserve from taking homeowners' property for a
29 bicycle path, and accessing funds for the Fox Valley Water
30 Reclamation District to take over Skyline Sanitary District
31 and extend its lines to its service area; and
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1 WHEREAS, Senator Karpiel has also sponsored legislation
2 that reformed the Health Facilities Planning Board and the
3 Certificate of Need process; and
4 WHEREAS, She sponsored tax-cap legislation that has held
5 the line on local property tax increases; and
6 WHEREAS, Senator Karpiel sponsored the Abandoned Newborn
7 Infant Protection Act to create a safe haven for abandoned
8 babies, a law that is already successful in saving the lives
9 of newborn infants in Illinois; and
10 WHEREAS, She created the Spinal Cord Injury Paralysis
11 Research Fund and increased funding for spinal cord research
12 through grants and DUI fines; and
13 WHEREAS, Senator Karpiel passed legislation that gives
14 businesses incentive to provide on-site day care for working
15 families; and
16 WHEREAS, She helped families pay for tomorrow's college
17 costs at today's prices with the prepaid tuition law; and
18 WHEREAS, Senator Karpiel sponsored the I-SEARCH
19 legislation that changes the way law enforcement officers
20 search for missing children, an accomplishment which earned
21 her accolades from Illinois State Law Enforcement Agencies;
22 and
23 WHEREAS, Senator Karpiel was also honored by the Illinois
24 Department of Children and Family Services for legislation
25 that made Illinois a national leader in adoption services and
26 by the Nature Conservancy for sponsoring the Open Lands Act
27 in 1999; and
28 WHEREAS, She serves on Advisory Boards of Family Shelter
29 of DuPage and the Department of Children and Family Services,
30 Region 8; is a member of the Chambers of Commerce in Roselle,
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1 Bloomingdale, Streamwood, St. Charles, Bartlett, and
2 Winfield; and is a member of the Roselle Historical
3 Foundation; and
4 WHEREAS, Senator Karpiel is active in local Republican
5 politics, serving as Chairman of the Wayne Township
6 Republican Organization; Precinct Committeeman, Wayne
7 Township Precinct 21; Schaumburg Township Alliance of
8 Republicans; Bloomingdale Township Republican Women's Club;
9 Illinois Republican Women's Roundtable; Geneva-St.
10 Charles-Batavia Women's Republicans; Wayne Township
11 Republican Women's Organization; and
12 WHEREAS, She received a bachelor's degree in Political
13 Science from Northern Illinois University and was a member of
14 Pi Sigma Alpha National Political Science Honor Society; and
15 WHEREAS, She is the mother of four children and a proud
16 grandmother; therefore be it
17 RESOLVED BY THE SENATE OF THE NINETY-SECOND GENERAL
18 ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that the members of the
19 Illinois Senate will sorely miss their good friend and
20 colleague, Senator Doris Karpiel; and be it further
21 RESOLVED, That she be presented with a suitable copy of
22 this resolution along with our best wishes for her upcoming
23 retirement.