Bill Text: IL HJRCA0014 | 2023-2024 | 103rd General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Proposes to amend the Legislature Article of the Illinois Constitution. Provides that each Legislative District shall be composed of three contiguous counties, with a separate additional Legislative District for each municipality with a population over one million. Provides that Representative Districts shall be drawn independently of Legislative Districts.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2023-03-15 - Referred to Rules Committee [HJRCA0014 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2023-HJRCA0014-Introduced.html

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103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2023 and 2024 HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT HC0014 Introduced , by Rep. Charles Meier SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
ILCON Art. IV, Sec. 2
Proposes to amend the Legislature Article of the Illinois Constitution. Provides that each Legislative District shall be composed of three contiguous counties, with a separate additional Legislative District for each municipality with a population over one million. Provides that Representative Districts shall be drawn independently of Legislative Districts.
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HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION
CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT
RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE ONE
HUNDRED THIRD GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, THE
SENATE CONCURRING HEREIN, that there shall be submitted to the
electors of the State for adoption or rejection at the general
election next occurring at least 6 months after the adoption
of this resolution a proposition to amend Article IV of the
Illinois Constitution by changing Sections 2 as follows:
ARTICLE IV
THE LEGISLATURE
(ILCON Art. IV, Sec. 2)
SECTION 2. LEGISLATIVE COMPOSITION
(a) One Senator shall be elected from each Legislative
District. Immediately following each decennial redistricting,
the General Assembly by law shall divide the Legislative
Districts as equally as possible into three groups. Senators
from one group shall be elected for terms of four years, four
years and two years; Senators from the second group, for terms
of four years, two years and four years; and Senators from the
third group, for terms of two years, four years and four years.
The Legislative Districts in each group shall be distributed
substantially equally over the State.

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(b) Each Legislative District shall be composed of three
contiguous counties, with a separate additional Legislative
District for each municipality with a population over one
million divided into two Representative Districts. In 1982 and
every two years thereafter one Representative shall be elected
from each Representative District for a term of two years.
Representative Districts shall be drawn independently of
Legislative Districts.
(c) To be eligible to serve as a member of the General
Assembly, a person must be a United States citizen, at least 21
years old, and for the two years preceding his election or
appointment a resident of the district which he is to
represent. In the general election following a redistricting,
a candidate for the General Assembly may be elected from any
district which contains a part of the district in which he
resided at the time of the redistricting and reelected if a
resident of the new district he represents for 18 months prior
to reelection.
(d) Within thirty days after a vacancy occurs, it shall be
filled by appointment as provided by law. If the vacancy is in
a Senatorial office with more than twenty-eight months
remaining in the term, the appointed Senator shall serve until
the next general election, at which time a Senator shall be
elected to serve for the remainder of the term. If the vacancy
is in a Representative office or in any other Senatorial
office, the appointment shall be for the remainder of the

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term. An appointee to fill a vacancy shall be a member of the
same political party as the person he succeeds.
(e) No member of the General Assembly shall receive
compensation as a public officer or employee from any other
governmental entity for time during which he is in attendance
as a member of the General Assembly.
No member of the General Assembly during the term for
which he was elected or appointed shall be appointed to a
public office which shall have been created or the
compensation for which shall have been increased by the
General Assembly during that term.
(Source: Amendment adopted at general election November 4,
1980.)
SCHEDULE
This Constitutional Amendment takes effect upon being
declared adopted in accordance with Section 7 of the Illinois
Constitutional Amendment Act.