Resolves that this State must guarantee up to 2 years of post-secondary education or training for all Illinoisans.
Encourages the members of The National Black Caucus of State Legislators (NBCSL) and other legislators across the country to: partner with the American Heart Association and American Stroke Association to promote the Power to End Stroke program as a precursor to a nationwide movement to address stroke as a serious health disparity in African-Americans; raise awareness that uncontrolled high blood pressure and diabetes in African-Americans raises the risk for stroke; and promote adherence to primary and secondary stroke prevention guidelines by healthcare professionals; and encourages NBCSL members, in collaboration with the American Hearth Association and American Stroke Association, to seek to introduce and enact policy that will create and expand Statewide coordinated systems of care for stroke, with special focus and attention on timely access to care, diagnosis, and the most advanced treatment for those most disproportionately affected by stroke.
Congratulates Joseph C. Szabo on the occasion of being selected to serve as Federal Railroad Administrator by President Barack Obama.
Congratulates Ventura Diaz on the occasion of her 100th birthday.
Provides for a bipartisan task force that shall hold public hearings, gather evidence, develop, and propose legislation and ultimately furnish a report concerning business and job development in Illinois.
Creates the 2016 Olympic Games Act. Contains only a short title provision.
Congratulates the American Dental Association on its 150th anniversary.
Congratulates the family of R. Eugene Pincham on the occasion of Mr. Pincham's posthumous nomination for the Laurel Wreath Award from the Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity.
Mourns the death of McClendon Grice.
Amends the State Finance Act. Creates a non-appropriated Fund, the Minority Film Support Fund, to be administered by the State Treasurer to help collateralize loans from financial institutions to minority film makers producing films or building or maintaining minority film and television studios when the institution's credit standards would not otherwise be met.
