Illinois Senate Bill 2267 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 9-0)
Status: Failed on January 13 2021 - 100% progression
Action: 2021-01-13 - Session Sine Die
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

Amends the Election Code. Provides that members of the General Assembly and the offices Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Attorney General, Secretary of State, Comptroller, and Treasurer shall be elected by ranked-choice voting. Provides for ranked-choice ballots to be produced. Provides that voters may rank their choice for candidates for those offices and provides for interpretations of certain ballot marks. Provides that tallying ranked-choice votes proceeds in rounds. Provides that in each round, the number of votes for each continuing candidate must be counted, that each continuing ballot counts as one vote for its highest-ranked continuing candidate for that round, and that exhausted ballots are not counted for any continuing candidate. Provides that if only 2 candidates remain, the candidate with the higher vote total wins, and that if more than 2 candidates remain, the last-place candidate is eliminated and another round of tallying is to commence. Provides that rounds continue until a winner is found. Makes conforming changes.

ELEC CD-RANKED CHOICE VOTING

Sen. Laura Murphy [D]	Sen. Scott Bennett [D]	Sen. Heather Steans [D]	Sen. Robert Peters [D]
Sen. Ann Gillespie [D]	Sen. Celina Villanueva [D]	Sen. Laura Fine [D]	Sen. Suzanne Glowiak Hilton [D]
Sen. Sara Feigenholtz [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2021-01-13	Senate	Session Sine Die
2020-05-15	Senate	Rule 2-10 Committee/3rd Reading Deadline Established As May 31, 2020
2020-05-07	Senate	Rule 2-10 Third Reading/Passage Deadline Established As May 29, 2020
2020-05-07	Senate	Rule 2-10 Committee Deadline Established As May 22, 2020
2020-04-30	Senate	Rule 2-10 Third Reading/Passage Deadline Established As May 22, 2020
2020-04-30	Senate	Rule 2-10 Committee Deadline Established As May 15, 2020
2020-04-23	Senate	Rule 2-10 Third Reading/Passage Deadline Established As May 15, 2020
2020-04-23	Senate	Rule 2-10 Committee Deadline Established As May 7, 2020
2020-04-16	Senate	Rule 2-10 Committee Deadline Established As April 30, 2020
2020-04-12	Senate	Pursuant to Senate Rule 3-9(b) / Referred to Assignments
2020-03-25	Senate	Rule 2-10 Third Reading/Passage Deadline Established As May 7, 2020
2020-03-25	Senate	Rule 2-10 Committee Deadline Established As April 24, 2020
2020-03-18	Senate	Rule 2-10 Committee Deadline Established As April 2, 2020
2020-02-25	Senate	Added as Co-Sponsor Sen. Sara Feigenholtz
2020-02-19	Senate	To Subcommittee on Election Law
2020-02-14	Senate	Added as Co-Sponsor Sen. Suzy Glowiak Hilton
2020-02-05	Senate	Added as Co-Sponsor Sen. Laura Fine
2020-02-05	Senate	Added as Co-Sponsor Sen. Celina Villanueva
2020-02-05	Senate	Added as Co-Sponsor Sen. Ann Gillespie
2020-01-22	Senate	Assigned to Executive
2019-12-03	Senate	Added as Co-Sponsor Sen. Robert Peters
2019-11-21	Senate	Added as Chief Co-Sponsor Sen. Scott M. Bennett
2019-11-08	Senate	Added as Co-Sponsor Sen. Heather A. Steans
2019-10-28	Senate	Referred to Assignments
2019-10-28	Senate	First Reading
2019-10-28	Senate	Filed with Secretary by Sen. Laura M. Murphy

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
10	5	1-3	Amended Code	Citation Text
10	5	16-3	Amended Code	Citation Text
10	5	16-4.2	New Code	See Bill Text
10	5	17-11	Amended Code	Citation Text
10	5	17-18	Amended Code	Citation Text
10	5	17-18.2	New Code	See Bill Text
10	5	18-5	Amended Code	Citation Text
10	5	18-9	Amended Code	Citation Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.ilga.gov/legislation/BillStatus.asp?DocNum=2267&GAID=15&DocTypeID=SB&SessionID=108&GA=101
Text	https://www.ilga.gov/legislation/101/SB/10100SB2267.htm