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HJM012..............................................by REVENUE AND TAXATION
ECONOMIC SECURITY PACKAGE - Stating findings of the Legislature concerning
President Bush's economic security package; urging members of Congress
representing the state of Idaho to support the package; and urging Senate
Majority Leader Senator Tom Daschle to allow the economic security package
to receive a vote.
01/21 House intro - 1st rdg - to printing
01/22 Rpt prt - to 2nd rdg
Rls susp - ADOPTED, voice vote
Title apvd - to Senate
01/23 Senate intro - 1st rdg - to Loc Gov
01/24 Rpt out - rec d/p - to 10th Ord
01/28 10th Ord - ADOPTED - voice vote - to House
01/29 To enrol
01/30 Rpt enrol - Sp signed
01/31 Pres signed
02/01 To Secretary of State
|||| LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF IDAHO ||||
Fifty-sixth Legislature Second Regular Session - 2002
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
HOUSE JOINT MEMORIAL NO. 12
BY REVENUE AND TAXATION COMMITTEE
1 A JOINT MEMORIAL
2 TO THE SENATE AND HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE UNITED STATES IN CONGRESS
3 ASSEMBLED, AND TO THE CONGRESSIONAL DELEGATION REPRESENTING THE STATE OF
4 IDAHO IN THE CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES.
5 We, your Memorialists, the House of Representatives and the Senate of the
6 State of Idaho assembled in the Second Regular Session of the Fifty-sixth
7 Idaho Legislature, do hereby respectfully represent that:
8 WHEREAS, President George W. Bush has proposed a bipartisan economic secu-
9 rity package to protect jobs; and
10 WHEREAS, President Bush's plan promotes new job creation; and
11 WHEREAS, President Bush's plan provides $3 billion in special National
12 Emergency Grants to help displaced workers maintain health coverage, supple-
13 ment their income and receive job training; and
14 WHEREAS, President Bush's plan makes $11 billion available to states to
15 help low income workers obtain health insurance; and
16 WHEREAS, President Bush's plan encourages affected workers to take advan-
17 tage of more than $6 billion in existing federal job search, training and
18 placement programs; and
19 WHEREAS, President Bush's plan encourages businesses to invest in new
20 equipment and resources, allowing them to make purchases they might not other-
21 wise have been able to afford; and
22 WHEREAS, President Bush's plan gives consumers more to spend and invest,
23 and gives businesses and entrepreneurs more resources to help them retain or
24 create more jobs; and
25 WHEREAS, President Bush's plan reduces taxes for low and moderate income
26 households beyond relief already approved by Congress, ensuring that the most
27 vulnerable workers will have more money in their pockets; and
28 WHEREAS, the economic security package has passed the United States House
29 of Representatives twice and has bipartisan majority support in the United
30 States Senate.
31 NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the members of the Second Regular Ses-
32 sion of the Fifty-sixth Idaho Legislature, the House of Representatives and
33 the Senate concurring therein, that we urge the members of Congress represent-
34 ing the state of Idaho to support President George W. Bush's economic security
35 package and specifically to urge Senate Majority Leader Senator Tom Daschle to
36 allow the economic security package to receive a vote.
37 BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Chief Clerk of the House of Representa-
38 tives be, and she is hereby authorized and directed to forward a copy of this
39 Memorial to the President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Repre-
40 sentatives of Congress, and the congressional delegation representing the
41 State of Idaho in the Congress of the United States.
STATEMENT OF PURPOSE
RS 11700
The purpose of this memorial is to urge Congress to support
President George W. Bush's economic security package.
FISCAL IMPACT
None
Contact
Name: Representative Dolores Crow
Phone: 332-1000
STATEMENT OF PURPOSE/FISCAL NOTE HJM12