Illinois 2025-2026 Regular Session

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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; Illinois will require at
22	22	20 least $12 billion to replace the lead water lines, and federal
23	23	21 appropriations will cover less than 10% of that cost; and
24	24	22 WHEREAS, Illinois' aging drinking water infrastructure is
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33	33	1 leading to leaking pipelines, costing taxpayers money and
34	34	2 critical resources; in 2017, a total of 106 million gallons
35	35	3 per day (MGD) were lost among Lake Michigan allocation
36	36	4 permittees, or 13% of total water supplied; additional funding
37	37	5 is needed for aging storm water infrastructure that must keep
38	38	6 up with increasing rainfall trends from climate change; and
39	39	7 WHEREAS, Illinois needs at least 300,000 new units of
40	40	8 affordable housing for the most housing insecure; homelessness
41	41	9 increased in Illinois in 2024 by 116%, and there are 26,000
42	42	10 unhoused in the State; and
43	43	11 WHEREAS, There are 2,405 bridges in poor condition, or 9%
44	44	12 of all bridges in the State that are crossed by motorists every
45	45	13 day; approximately 70% of Illinois bridges in poor condition
46	46	14 are owned by counties, towns, or cities, suggesting the local
47	47	15 maintenance backlog is a significant challenge; and
48	48	16 WHEREAS, U.S. Reps. Danny Davis and Jesus "Chuy" Garcia
49	49	17 introduced H.R. 4052 (The National Infrastructure Bank Act) on
50	50	18 June 13, 2023 in the 118th U.S. Congress; this would create a
51	51	19 $5 trillion bank to finance all infrastructure requirements to
52	52	20 bring the system to a state of good repair and build new
53	53	21 projects; and
54	54	22 WHEREAS, The new national infrastructure bank is modeled
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65	65	1 on previous banks that helped build much of the country's
66	66	2 infrastructure under Presidents George Washington, James
67	67	3 Madison, Abraham Lincoln, and Franklin D. Roosevelt; the last
68	68	4 such bank helped bring us out of the Great Depression and win
69	69	5 World War II; and
70	70	6 WHEREAS, The new national infrastructure bank will create
71	71	7 25 million new jobs, pay Davis-Bacon wages, and enforce Buy
72	72	8 America provisions; Disadvantaged Business Enterprises will
73	73	9 receive significant disbursements, and the bill mandates
74	74	10 large-scale minority hiring; the bank will require no new
75	75	11 federal spending or federal taxes; according to experts, the
76	76	12 bank will grow the economy by 5% per year as did its
77	77	13 predecessors; and
78	78	14 WHEREAS, The new national infrastructure bank will
79	79	15 complement the Rebuild Illinois infrastructure program passed
80	80	16 by the legislature in 2019 and provide the additional new
81	81	17 money to bring all infrastructure in Illinois to a state of
82	82	18 good repair; and
83	83	19 WHEREAS, Many organizations are in support of a new
84	84	20 national infrastructure bank, including the National Black
85	85	21 Caucus of State Legislators, the National Hispanic Caucus of
86	86	22 State Legislators, the National Asian-Pacific American Caucus
87	87	23 of State Legislators, the Council of State Governments-East,
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98	98	1 the National Association of Counties, the National Association
99	99	2 of Development Organizations, the US High Speed Rail
100	100	3 Association, the National Latino Farmers and Ranchers Trade
101	101	4 Association, the American Sustainable Business Council, the
102	102	5 National Association of Minority Contractors, and the United
103	103	6 Association of Plumbers and Steamfitters International Union;
104	104	7 in addition, 29 state legislatures have introduced or passed
105	105	8 resolutions of support, as have county and city councils,
106	106	9 including the Chicago City Council; therefore, be it
107	107	10 RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE ONE HUNDRED FOURTH GENERAL
108	108	11 ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, THE HOUSE OF
109	109	12 REPRESENTATIVES CONCURRING HEREIN, that we urge the United
110	110	13 States Congress to pass H.R. 4052 to create a new national
111	111	14 infrastructure bank to finance urgently needed infrastructure
112	112	15 projects; and be it further
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