Bill Text: IL HJRCA0014 | 2023-2024 | 103rd General Assembly | Introduced
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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1 | HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION
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2 | CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT
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3 | RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE ONE | |||||||||||||||||||
4 | HUNDRED THIRD GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, THE | |||||||||||||||||||
5 | SENATE CONCURRING HEREIN, that there shall be submitted to the | |||||||||||||||||||
6 | electors of the State for adoption or rejection at the general | |||||||||||||||||||
7 | election next occurring at least 6 months after the adoption | |||||||||||||||||||
8 | of this resolution a proposition to amend Article IV of the | |||||||||||||||||||
9 | Illinois Constitution by changing Sections 2 as follows:
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10 | ARTICLE IV
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11 | THE LEGISLATURE
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12 | (ILCON Art. IV, Sec. 2)
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13 | SECTION 2. LEGISLATIVE COMPOSITION
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14 | (a) One Senator shall be elected from each Legislative | |||||||||||||||||||
15 | District.
Immediately following each decennial redistricting, | |||||||||||||||||||
16 | the General Assembly
by law shall divide the Legislative | |||||||||||||||||||
17 | Districts as equally as possible
into three groups. Senators | |||||||||||||||||||
18 | from one group shall be elected for terms of
four years, four | |||||||||||||||||||
19 | years and two years; Senators from the second group,
for terms | |||||||||||||||||||
20 | of four years, two years and four years; and Senators from the
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21 | third group, for terms of two years, four years and four years. | |||||||||||||||||||
22 | The
Legislative Districts in each group shall be distributed | |||||||||||||||||||
23 | substantially
equally over the State.
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1 | (b) Each Legislative District shall be composed of three | ||||||
2 | contiguous counties, with a separate additional Legislative | ||||||
3 | District for each municipality with a population over one | ||||||
4 | million divided into two Representative
Districts . In 1982 and | ||||||
5 | every two years thereafter one Representative shall
be elected | ||||||
6 | from each Representative District for a term of two years. | ||||||
7 | Representative Districts shall be drawn independently of | ||||||
8 | Legislative Districts.
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9 | (c) To be eligible to serve as a member of the General | ||||||
10 | Assembly, a
person must be a United States citizen, at least 21 | ||||||
11 | years old, and for
the two years preceding his election or | ||||||
12 | appointment a resident of the
district which he is to | ||||||
13 | represent. In the general election following a
redistricting, | ||||||
14 | a candidate for the General Assembly may be elected from
any | ||||||
15 | district which contains a part of the district in which he | ||||||
16 | resided
at the time of the redistricting and reelected if a | ||||||
17 | resident of the new
district he represents for 18 months prior | ||||||
18 | to reelection.
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19 | (d) Within thirty days after a vacancy occurs, it shall be | ||||||
20 | filled by
appointment as provided by law. If the vacancy is in | ||||||
21 | a Senatorial office
with more than twenty-eight months | ||||||
22 | remaining in the term, the appointed
Senator shall serve until | ||||||
23 | the next general election, at which time a
Senator shall be | ||||||
24 | elected to serve for the remainder of the term. If the
vacancy | ||||||
25 | is in a Representative office or in any other Senatorial | ||||||
26 | office,
the appointment shall be for the remainder of the |
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1 | term. An appointee to
fill a vacancy shall be a member of the | ||||||
2 | same political party as the
person he succeeds.
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3 | (e) No member of the General Assembly shall receive | ||||||
4 | compensation as
a public officer or employee from any other | ||||||
5 | governmental entity for time
during which he is in attendance | ||||||
6 | as a member of the General Assembly.
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7 | No member of the General Assembly during the term for | ||||||
8 | which he was
elected or appointed shall be appointed to a | ||||||
9 | public office which shall
have been created or the | ||||||
10 | compensation for which shall have been
increased by the | ||||||
11 | General Assembly during that term.
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12 | (Source: Amendment adopted at general election November 4, | ||||||
13 | 1980.)
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14 | SCHEDULE
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15 | This Constitutional Amendment takes effect upon being | ||||||
16 | declared adopted in accordance with Section 7 of the Illinois | ||||||
17 | Constitutional Amendment Act.
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