Illinois Senate Bill 3205 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
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 those intending to become write-in candidates for statewide, congressional, state legislative, or judicial offices or offices in which the electors are not entirely within a county shall file a notarized declaration of intent with the State Board of Elections. Provides what shall be included in a declaration of intent. Provides that all write-in votes shall be counted for persons who filed the notarized declaration of intent with the appropriate election authority between 75 days and 65 days before the general primary and between 120 days and 75 days before the election or consolidated primary (rather than 61 days before the primary or election). Provides that persons intending to become write-in candidates for the offices of President and Vice President or Governor and Lieutenant Governor shall file one joint declaration of intent to be a write-in candidate with the State Board of Elections and that votes case for either candidate shall constitute a valid write-in vote for the slate of candidates. Provides that the State Board of Elections shall provide a listing of valid write-in candidates to the appropriate election authority before the deadline for ballot certification. Makes conforming changes throughout the Code and the Illinois Municipal Code.

ELECT CD-WRITE-IN CANDIDATES

Sen. William Cunningham [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
2020-02-19	Senate	To Subcommittee on Election Law
2020-02-19	Senate	Assigned to Executive
2020-02-11	Senate	Referred to Assignments
2020-02-11	Senate	First Reading
2020-02-11	Senate	Filed with Secretary by Sen. Bill Cunningham

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
10	5	17-16.1	Amended Code	Citation Text
10	5	18-9.1	Amended Code	Citation Text
10	5	7-59	Amended Code	Citation Text
65	5	3.1-20-45	Amended Code	Citation Text
65	5	3.1-25-20	Amended Code	Citation Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.ilga.gov/legislation/BillStatus.asp?DocNum=3205&GAID=15&DocTypeID=SB&SessionID=108&GA=101
Text	https://www.ilga.gov/legislation/101/SB/10100SB3205.htm