Illinois 2023-2024 Regular Session

Illinois Senate Bill SJR0047 Compare Versions

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3	3	1 SENATE JOINT RESOLUTION
4	4	2 WHEREAS, The American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)
5	5	3 stated in its 2021 report card that the United States received
6	6	4 a grade of C- regarding the current state of infrastructure
7	7	5 and that more than six trillion dollars is needed to restore
8	8	6 the nation's infrastructure to a state of good repair; over
9	9	7 two trillion dollars is currently not funded, and the
10	10	8 remainder is inadequately funded; new, 21st Century projects
11	11	9 are also unfunded; and
12	12	10 WHEREAS, The Illinois ASCE 2022 Report Card assigned the
13	13	11 State's systems a cumulative grade of "C-"; the report
14	14	12 analyzes 11 categories of infrastructure pertinent to
15	15	13 Illinois, including aviation (C+), bridges (C), dams (C+),
16	16	14 drinking water (D+), inland waterways (D), ports (C-), rail
17	17	15 (C+), roads (D+), storm water (D+), transit (D+), and
18	18	16 wastewater (C-); and
19	19	17 WHEREAS, Out of four million total water service lines,
20	20	18 over 675,000 have been identified as lead and almost 380,000
21	21	19 as copper with lead solder services; and
22	22	20 WHEREAS, Illinois' aging drinking water infrastructure is
23	23	21 leading to leaking pipelines, costing taxpayers money and
24	24	22 critical resources; in 2017, a total of 106 million gallons
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33	33	1 per day (MGD) were lost among Lake Michigan allocation
34	34	2 permittees, or 13% of total water supplied; additional funding
35	35	3 is needed for aging storm water infrastructure that must keep
36	36	4 up with increasing rainfall trends from climate change; and
37	37	5 WHEREAS, Illinois needs at least 300,000 new units of
38	38	6 affordable housing for the most housing insecure; and
39	39	7 WHEREAS, There are 2,405 bridges in poor condition, or 9%
40	40	8 of all bridges in the State that are crossed by motorists every
41	41	9 day; approximately 70% of Illinois bridges in poor condition
42	42	10 are owned by counties, towns, or cities, suggesting the local
43	43	11 maintenance backlog is a significant challenge; and
44	44	12 WHEREAS, U.S. Reps. Danny Davis and Jesus "Chuy" Garcia
45	45	13 introduced H.R. 4052 (The National Infrastructure Bank Act) on
46	46	14 June 13, 2023 in the 118th U.S. Congress; this would create a
47	47	15 $5 trillion bank to finance all infrastructure requirements to
48	48	16 bring the system to a state of good repair and build new
49	49	17 projects; and
50	50	18 WHEREAS, The new national infrastructure bank is modeled
51	51	19 on previous banks that helped build much of the country's
52	52	20 infrastructure under Presidents George Washington, James
53	53	21 Madison, Abraham Lincoln, and Franklin D. Roosevelt; the last
54	54	22 such bank helped bring us out of the Great Depression and win
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65	65	1 World War II; and
66	66	2 WHEREAS, The new national infrastructure bank will create
67	67	3 25 million new jobs, pay Davis-Bacon wages, and enforce Buy
68	68	4 America provisions; Disadvantaged Business Enterprises will
69	69	5 receive significant disbursements, and the bill mandates
70	70	6 large-scale minority hiring; the bank will require no new
71	71	7 federal spending or federal taxes; according to experts, the
72	72	8 bank will grow the economy by 5% per year as did its
73	73	9 predecessors; and
74	74	10 WHEREAS, Many organizations are in support of a new
75	75	11 national infrastructure bank, including the National Black
76	76	12 Caucus of State Legislators, the National Hispanic Caucus of
77	77	13 State Legislators, the National Asian-Pacific American Caucus
78	78	14 of State Legislators, the Council of State Governments-East,
79	79	15 the National Association of Counties, the National Association
80	80	16 of Development Organizations, the US High Speed Rail
81	81	17 Association, the National Latino Farmers and Ranchers Trade
82	82	18 Association, the American Sustainable Business Council, the
83	83	19 National Association of Minority Contractors, and the United
84	84	20 Association of Plumbers and Steamfitters International Union;
85	85	21 in addition, 26 state legislatures have introduced or passed
86	86	22 resolutions of support, as have county and city councils,
87	87	23 including the Chicago City Council; therefore, be it
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98	98	1 RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE ONE HUNDRED THIRD GENERAL
99	99	2 ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, THE HOUSE OF
100	100	3 REPRESENTATIVES CONCURRING HEREIN, that we urge the United
101	101	4 States Congress to pass H.R. 4052 to create a new national
102	102	5 infrastructure bank to finance urgently needed infrastructure
103	103	6 projects; and be it further
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