{"id":389838,"date":"2010-03-04T11:52:36","date_gmt":"2010-03-04T16:52:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.senatedem.ilga.gov\/index.php\/my-news-harmon\/738-harmon-bill-creates-commission-to-end-hunger-in-illinois"},"modified":"2010-03-04T11:52:36","modified_gmt":"2010-03-04T16:52:36","slug":"harmon-bill-creates-commission-to-end-hunger-in-illinois","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/389838","title":{"rendered":"Harmon Bill Creates Commission to End Hunger in Illinois"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><?xml:namespace prefix = st1><br \/>\n<st1:city><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Tracy Smith, State Director of Feeding Illinois  (formerly the Illinois Food Bank Association) testifies during Tuesday\u2019s hearing.\" style=\"margin-right: 8px\" height=\"163\" alt=\"Tracy Smith, State Director of Feeding Illinois  (formerly the Illinois Food Bank Association) testifies during Tuesday\u2019s hearing.\" width=\"240\" align=\"left\" src=\"http:\/\/www.senatedem.ilga.gov\/images\/stories\/2010\/harmon-030210br0557-030410.jpg\" \/>SPRINGFIELD<\/strong><\/st1:city><strong> <\/strong><strong>\u2014<\/strong> A bill to address the growing problem of hunger in<br \/>\n<st1:state>Illinois<\/st1:state> sponsored by State Senator Don Harmon (<br \/>\n<st1:place><br \/>\n<st1:placename>D-Oak<\/st1:placename><br \/>\n<st1:placetype>Park<\/st1:placetype><\/st1:place>) was heard in the Human Services Committee Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Senate bill 3158 establishes a Commission to End Hunger under the Department of Human Services toward the goal of addressing rising hunger in<br \/>\n<st1:state><br \/>\n<st1:place>Illinois<\/st1:place><\/st1:state>. An amendment explicitly states that DHS and the State of<br \/>\n<st1:state><br \/>\n<st1:place>Illinois<\/st1:place><\/st1:state> will not incur any costs because meeting coordination, reports, and other duties will be completed by a food bank representative who will serve as co-chair of the Commission.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SPRINGFIELD \u2014 A bill to address the growing problem of hunger in Illinois sponsored by State Senator Don Harmon ( D-Oak Park) was heard in the Human Services Committee Tuesday. Senate bill 3158 establishes a Commission to End Hunger under the Department of Human Services toward the goal of addressing rising hunger in Illinois. An [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6061,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-389838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6061"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=389838"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389838\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=389838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=389838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=389838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}