Bill Text: IL HR0420 | 2009-2010 | 96th General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Urges the management of the James R. Thompson Center to terminate its security screening procedure that requires persons to display a State-issued form of identification to access State offices located within the building.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2009-08-16 - Rule 19(b) / Re-referred to Rules Committee [HR0420 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2009-HR0420-Introduced.html
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| 1 | HOUSE RESOLUTION
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| 2 | WHEREAS, The State of Illinois offers many services to the | ||||||
| 3 | people of Illinois; and
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| 4 | WHEREAS, All State employees are paid by the taxpayers of | ||||||
| 5 | Illinois; and
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| 6 | WHEREAS, State buildings are funded by the citizens of | ||||||
| 7 | Illinois; and
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| 8 | WHEREAS, The James R. Thompson Center in Chicago is one of | ||||||
| 9 | the most widely used State facilities with thousands of | ||||||
| 10 | visitors every day; and
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| 11 | WHEREAS, The Thompson Center is designed to be as open and | ||||||
| 12 | transparent as possible to the taxpayers and citizens who own | ||||||
| 13 | and finance the building; and
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| 14 | WHEREAS, In recent months, the Thompson Center's | ||||||
| 15 | management has instituted a new security screening procedure | ||||||
| 16 | that requires visitors to pass through a metal detector and | ||||||
| 17 | display a form of State-issued identification in order to | ||||||
| 18 | access any of the State offices located within the building; | ||||||
| 19 | and
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| 1 | WHEREAS, There is no clear rationale for requiring Illinois | ||||||
| 2 | citizens to display identification to access a State office as | ||||||
| 3 | many citizens do not possess any form of State-issued | ||||||
| 4 | identification or do not carry it on their person every day; | ||||||
| 5 | and
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| 6 | WHEREAS, State government must be as open and accessible to | ||||||
| 7 | citizens and taxpayers as possible; therefore, be it
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| 8 | RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE | ||||||
| 9 | NINETY-SIXTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we | ||||||
| 10 | urge the management of the James R. Thompson Center to | ||||||
| 11 | terminate its security screening procedure that requires | ||||||
| 12 | visitors to display a form of State-issued identification to | ||||||
| 13 | access any of the State offices located within the building.
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