Full Text of HR1438 095th General Assembly
HR1438 95TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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| HOUSE RESOLUTION
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| WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois House of | 3 |
| Representatives are saddened to learn of the death of former | 4 |
| State Representative and State Senator Virginia Macdonald of | 5 |
| Arlington Heights, who passed away on July 12, 2008; and
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| WHEREAS, Virginia B. Macdonald was born October 24, 1920, | 7 |
| in El Paso, Texas; she attended the University of New Mexico, | 8 |
| where she met her late husband; and
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| WHEREAS, She was a volunteer for President Eisenhower's | 10 |
| re-election campaign in 1956 and Richard Nixon's unsuccessful | 11 |
| campaign for the presidency in 1960; she also worked on the | 12 |
| campaigns of Senator Dirksen and Senator Percy; and
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| WHEREAS, She was a founding member of St. Simon's Episcopal | 14 |
| Church in Arlington Heights; and she was involved in the Girl | 15 |
| Scouts; and
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| WHEREAS, She served in the Illinois House from 1973 to | 17 |
| 1983, and the Illinois Senate from 1983 to 1994, representing | 18 |
| District 27; she was very active in Illinois politics for more | 19 |
| than 40 years and served as delegate to the Illinois | 20 |
| Constitutional Convention from 1969 to 1970; she was the only | 21 |
| woman who served as a member of the Bill of Rights Committee |
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| that created the State's Equal Rights provision at the Sixth | 2 |
| Illinois Constitutional Convention; and
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| WHEREAS, Her legislative accomplishments include laws | 4 |
| requiring hospitals to safely dispose of nonradioactive | 5 |
| medical waste and reimbursement for reconstructive breast | 6 |
| surgery; she also sponsored bills that brought Lake Michigan | 7 |
| water to the Northwest suburbs of Chicago, decentralized the | 8 |
| State's juvenile court system, broadened the State's rape law | 9 |
| to include the charge of sexual assault, and created property | 10 |
| tax caps for suburban Cook County; and | 11 |
| WHEREAS, She was the beloved wife of the late Alan H. | 12 |
| Macdonald; the loving mother of Susan (John) Van Bramer and | 13 |
| Alan H. Macdonald Jr.; the cherished grandmother of Rebecca, | 14 |
| Diana, Michael, and Joseph Van Bramer and Michelle | 15 |
| (Christopher) Smudde; and the dear sister of the late Richard | 16 |
| and Hendrix Blue; therefore, be it
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| RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE | 18 |
| NINETY-FIFTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we | 19 |
| mourn, along with her family, friends, and community, the | 20 |
| passing of former State legislator Virginia Macdonald; and be | 21 |
| it further
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| RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be |
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| presented to the family of Virginia Macdonald as a symbol of | 2 |
| our sincere sympathy.
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