Bill Text: IL SB2815 | 2023-2024 | 103rd General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Election Code. Provides that the question of whether a unit of local government shall continue to be a home rule unit (rather than shall cease to be a home rule unit) shall be submitted in a form as specified. Makes conforming changes.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-05-25 - Rule 2-10 Committee/3rd Reading Deadline Established As May 26, 2024 [SB2815 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2023-SB2815-Introduced.html

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103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2023 and 2024 SB2815 Introduced 1/17/2024, by Sen. Patrick J. Joyce SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
10 ILCS 5/28-8 from Ch. 46, par. 28-8
Amends the Election Code. Provides that the question of whether a unit of local government shall continue to be a home rule unit (rather than shall cease to be a home rule unit) shall be submitted in a form as specified. Makes conforming changes.
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A BILL FOR
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AN ACT concerning elections.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The Election Code is amended by changing
Section 28-8 as follows:
(10 ILCS 5/28-8) (from Ch. 46, par. 28-8)
Sec. 28-8. If a referendum held in accordance with Section
28-7 of this Act involved the question of whether a unit of
local government shall become a home rule unit or shall
continue cease to be a home rule unit and if that referendum
passed, then the clerk of that unit of local government shall,
within 45 days after the referendum, file with the Secretary
of State a certified statement showing the results of the
referendum and the resulting status of the unit of local
government as a home rule unit or a non-home rule unit. The
Secretary of State shall maintain such certified statements in
his office as a public record.
The question of whether a unit of local government shall
become a home rule unit shall be submitted in substantially
the following form:
Shall (name of the unit of local government) become a home
rule unit?
Votes must be recorded as "yes" or "no".

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