Bill Text: IL HB2081 | 2019-2020 | 101st General Assembly | Enrolled
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Bill Title: Amends the Park District Code. Changes the staggering of the election schedule when a 7-member park district board with members with 6-year terms transitions its members into 4-year terms. Effective immediately.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 2-1)
Status: (Passed) 2019-07-12 - Public Act . . . . . . . . . 101-0058 [HB2081 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2019-HB2081-Enrolled.html
Bill Title: Amends the Park District Code. Changes the staggering of the election schedule when a 7-member park district board with members with 6-year terms transitions its members into 4-year terms. Effective immediately.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 2-1)
Status: (Passed) 2019-07-12 - Public Act . . . . . . . . . 101-0058 [HB2081 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2019-HB2081-Enrolled.html
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1 | AN ACT concerning local government.
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2 | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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3 | represented in the General Assembly:
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4 | Section 5. The Park District Code is amended by changing | ||||||
5 | Section 2-12a as follows:
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6 | (70 ILCS 1205/2-12a) (from Ch. 105, par. 2-12a)
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7 | Sec. 2-12a.
Any district may provide, either by resolution | ||||||
8 | of the board
or by referendum, that the term of commissioners | ||||||
9 | shall be 4 years rather
than 6 years. Any such referendum shall | ||||||
10 | be initiated and held in the same
manner as is provided by the | ||||||
11 | general election law for public questions
authorized by Article | ||||||
12 | VII of the Illinois Constitution.
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13 | If a majority of the votes cast on the proposition is in | ||||||
14 | favor of a 4-year
term for commissioners, or if the Board | ||||||
15 | adopts a resolution stating that
it is acting pursuant to this | ||||||
16 | Section to change the term of office from
6 years to 4 years, | ||||||
17 | commissioners thereafter elected, commencing with the
first | ||||||
18 | regular park district election at least 60 days after the date | ||||||
19 | on
which the proposition for 4-year terms was approved at | ||||||
20 | referendum or by
resolution, shall be elected for a term of 4 | ||||||
21 | years. In order to provide
for the transition from 6-year terms | ||||||
22 | to 4-year terms : , | ||||||
23 | (1) If if 2 commissioners on a 5-member board
are to be |
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1 | elected at the first such election and if the term of only | ||||||
2 | one
commissioner is scheduled to expire in the year of the | ||||||
3 | next election at
which commissioners are elected, of the 2 | ||||||
4 | commissioners elected, one shall
serve a 2-year
term and | ||||||
5 | one a 4-year term, to be determined by lot between the 2 | ||||||
6 | persons
elected within 30 days after the election. | ||||||
7 | (2) On a 7-member board under Section 2-10a, if the | ||||||
8 | terms of only 2 commissioners are scheduled to expire in | ||||||
9 | the year of the second election at which commissioners are | ||||||
10 | elected after the first regular park district election at | ||||||
11 | least 60 days after the date on which the proposition for | ||||||
12 | 4-year terms was approved at referendum or by resolution, | ||||||
13 | then: | ||||||
14 | (A) if 3 commissioners are elected at the first | ||||||
15 | regular election, 2 of the commissioners elected shall | ||||||
16 | serve a 2-year term and one shall serve a 4-year term | ||||||
17 | to be determined by lot between persons elected within | ||||||
18 | 30 days after the first election; or | ||||||
19 | (B) if 2 commissioners are elected at the first | ||||||
20 | regular election, those 2 commissioners elected shall | ||||||
21 | serve a 2-year term.
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22 | In any district where the board has created 4-year terms | ||||||
23 | pursuant to
this Section, whether by referendum or by | ||||||
24 | resolution, the length of terms
may later be increased to 6 | ||||||
25 | years, but only by a referendum initiated and
held in the same | ||||||
26 | manner as prescribed in this Section for creating 4-year
terms. |
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1 | No proposition to increase the terms of commissioners shall | ||||||
2 | affect
any commissioner holding office at the time of the | ||||||
3 | referendum or to be
elected within 60 days of the referendum.
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4 | (Source: P.A. 84-301.)
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5 | Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | ||||||
6 | becoming law.
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