Bill Amendment: IL SB0669 | 2017-2018 | 100th General Assembly

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Bill Title: LAKE COUNTY - BOARD CHAIRMAN

Status: 2017-11-08 - Total Veto Stands [SB0669 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2017-SB0669-Senate_Amendment_001.html

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Sen. Terry Link

Filed: 3/7/2017

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AMENDMENT TO SENATE BILL 669
AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend Senate Bill 669 by replacing
everything after the enacting clause with the following:
"Section 5. The Election Code is amended by changing
Section 2A-1.2 as follows:
(10 ILCS 5/2A-1.2) (from Ch. 46, par. 2A-1.2)
Sec. 2A-1.2. Consolidated Schedule of Elections - Offices
Designated.
(a) At the general election in the appropriate
even-numbered years, the following offices shall be filled or
shall be on the ballot as otherwise required by this Code:
(1) Elector of President and Vice President of the
United States;
(2) United States Senator and United States
Representative;
(3) State Executive Branch elected officers;

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(4) State Senator and State Representative;
(5) County elected officers, including State's
Attorney, County Board member, County Commissioners, and
elected President or elected Chairman of the County Board
or County Chief Executive;
(6) Circuit Court Clerk;
(7) Regional Superintendent of Schools, except in
counties or educational service regions in which that
office has been abolished;
(8) Judges of the Supreme, Appellate and Circuit
Courts, on the question of retention, to fill vacancies and
newly created judicial offices;
(9) (Blank);
(10) Trustee of the Metropolitan Sanitary District of
Chicago, and elected Trustee of other Sanitary Districts;
(11) Special District elected officers, not otherwise
designated in this Section, where the statute creating or
authorizing the creation of the district requires an annual
election and permits or requires election of candidates of
political parties.
(b) At the general primary election:
(1) in each even-numbered year candidates of political
parties shall be nominated for those offices to be filled
at the general election in that year, except where pursuant
to law nomination of candidates of political parties is
made by caucus.

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(2) in the appropriate even-numbered years the
political party offices of State central committeeman,
township committeeman, ward committeeman, and precinct
committeeman shall be filled and delegates and alternate
delegates to the National nominating conventions shall be
elected as may be required pursuant to this Code. In the
even-numbered years in which a Presidential election is to
be held, candidates in the Presidential preference primary
shall also be on the ballot.
(3) in each even-numbered year, where the municipality
has provided for annual elections to elect municipal
officers pursuant to Section 6(f) or Section 7 of Article
VII of the Constitution, pursuant to the Illinois Municipal
Code or pursuant to the municipal charter, the offices of
such municipal officers shall be filled at an election held
on the date of the general primary election, provided that
the municipal election shall be a nonpartisan election
where required by the Illinois Municipal Code. For partisan
municipal elections in even-numbered years, a primary to
nominate candidates for municipal office to be elected at
the general primary election shall be held on the Tuesday 6
weeks preceding that election.
(4) in each school district which has adopted the
provisions of Article 33 of the School Code, successors to
the members of the board of education whose terms expire in
the year in which the general primary is held shall be

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elected.
(c) At the consolidated election in the appropriate
odd-numbered years, the following offices shall be filled:
(1) Municipal officers, provided that in
municipalities in which candidates for alderman or other
municipal office are not permitted by law to be candidates
of political parties, the runoff election where required by
law, or the nonpartisan election where required by law,
shall be held on the date of the consolidated election; and
provided further, in the case of municipal officers
provided for by an ordinance providing the form of
government of the municipality pursuant to Section 7 of
Article VII of the Constitution, such offices shall be
filled by election or by runoff election as may be provided
by such ordinance;
(2) Village and incorporated town library directors;
(3) City boards of stadium commissioners;
(4) Commissioners of park districts;
(5) Trustees of public library districts;
(6) Special District elected officers, not otherwise
designated in this section, where the statute creating or
authorizing the creation of the district permits or
requires election of candidates of political parties;
(7) Township officers, including township park
commissioners, township library directors, and boards of
managers of community buildings, and Multi-Township

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Assessors;
(8) Highway commissioners and road district clerks;
(9) Members of school boards in school districts which
adopt Article 33 of the School Code;
(10) The directors and chairman of the Chain O Lakes -
Fox River Waterway Management Agency;
(11) Forest preserve district commissioners elected
under Section 3.5 of the Downstate Forest Preserve District
Act;
(12) Elected members of school boards, school
trustees, directors of boards of school directors,
trustees of county boards of school trustees (except in
counties or educational service regions having a
population of 2,000,000 or more inhabitants) and members of
boards of school inspectors, except school boards in school
districts that adopt Article 33 of the School Code;
(13) Members of Community College district boards;
(14) Trustees of Fire Protection Districts;
(15) Commissioners of the Springfield Metropolitan
Exposition and Auditorium Authority;
(16) Elected Trustees of Tuberculosis Sanitarium
Districts;
(17) Elected Officers of special districts not
otherwise designated in this Section for which the law
governing those districts does not permit candidates of
political parties.

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(d) At the consolidated primary election in each
odd-numbered year, candidates of political parties shall be
nominated for those offices to be filled at the consolidated
election in that year, except where pursuant to law nomination
of candidates of political parties is made by caucus, and
except those offices listed in paragraphs (12) through (17) of
subsection (c).
At the consolidated primary election in the appropriate
odd-numbered years, the mayor, clerk, treasurer, and aldermen
shall be elected in municipalities in which candidates for
mayor, clerk, treasurer, or alderman are not permitted by law
to be candidates of political parties, subject to runoff
elections to be held at the consolidated election as may be
required by law, and municipal officers shall be nominated in a
nonpartisan election in municipalities in which pursuant to law
candidates for such office are not permitted to be candidates
of political parties.
At the consolidated primary election in the appropriate
odd-numbered years, municipal officers shall be nominated or
elected, or elected subject to a runoff, as may be provided by
an ordinance providing a form of government of the municipality
pursuant to Section 7 of Article VII of the Constitution.
(e) (Blank).
(f) At any election established in Section 2A-1.1, public
questions may be submitted to voters pursuant to this Code and
any special election otherwise required or authorized by law or

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by court order may be conducted pursuant to this Code.
Notwithstanding the regular dates for election of officers
established in this Article, whenever a referendum is held for
the establishment of a political subdivision whose officers are
to be elected, the initial officers shall be elected at the
election at which such referendum is held if otherwise so
provided by law. In such cases, the election of the initial
officers shall be subject to the referendum.
Notwithstanding the regular dates for election of
officials established in this Article, any community college
district which becomes effective by operation of law pursuant
to Section 6-6.1 of the Public Community College Act, as now or
hereafter amended, shall elect the initial district board
members at the next regularly scheduled election following the
effective date of the new district.
(g) At any election established in Section 2A-1.1, if in
any precinct there are no offices or public questions required
to be on the ballot under this Code then no election shall be
held in the precinct on that date.
(h) There may be conducted a referendum in accordance with
the provisions of Division 6-4 of the Counties Code.
(Source: P.A. 89-5, eff. 1-1-96; 89-95, eff. 1-1-96; 89-626,
eff. 8-9-96; 90-358, eff. 1-1-98.)
Section 10. The Counties Code is amended by changing
Section 2-3007 and 2-3009 as follows:

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(55 ILCS 5/2-3007) (from Ch. 34, par. 2-3007)
Sec. 2-3007. Chairman of county board; election and term.
Any county board when providing for the reapportionment of its
county under this Division may provide that the chairman of the
county board shall be elected by the voters of the county
rather than by the members of the board, except that the Lake
County board shall provide for the selection of the chairman as
provided under subsection (c) of Section 2-3009 of this
Division. In that event, provision shall be made for the
election throughout the county of the chairman of the county
board, but in counties over 3,000,000 population no person may
be elected to serve as such chairman who has not been elected
as a county board member to serve during the same period as the
term of office as chairman of the county board to which he or
she seeks election. In counties over 300,000 population and
under 3,000,000 population, the chairman shall be elected as
chairman without having been first elected to the county board.
Such chairman shall not vote on any question except to break a
tie vote. In all other counties the chairman may either be
elected as a county board member or elected as the chairman
without having been first elected to the board. Except in
counties where the chairman of the county board is elected by
the voters of the county and is not required to be a county
board member, whether the chairman of the county board is
elected by the voters of the county or by the members of the

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board, he or she shall be elected to a 2 year term. In counties
where the chairman of the county board is elected by the voters
of the county and is not required to be a county board member,
the chairman shall be elected to a 4 year term. In all cases:
(i) the term of the chairman of the county board shall commence
on the first Monday of the month following the month in which
members of the county board are elected, and (ii) no person may
simultaneously serve as a member of a county board and the
chairman of the same board if the office of chairman is elected
by the voters of the county rather than by the members of the
board.
(Source: P.A. 99-924, eff. 1-20-17.)
(55 ILCS 5/2-3009) (from Ch. 34, par. 2-3009)
Sec. 2-3009. Terms of board members; vacancies; elections.
(a) County board member elections by county board
districts. In those counties subject to this Division which
elect county board members by county board districts the
members shall, no later than 45 days after December 15, 1982,
and thereafter no later than September 1 of the year of the
next general election following reapportionment, divide the
county board districts publicly by lot as equally as possible
into 2 groups. Board members or their successors from one group
shall be elected for successive terms of 2 years, 4 years and 4
years; and members or their successors from the second group
shall be elected for successive terms of 4 years, 4 years, and

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2 years. A county under this subsection may, by ordinance,
decide to divide the county board districts into 3 rather than
2 groups. If a county adopts an ordinance to this effect, the
members of the county board shall divide the county board
districts publicly by lot as equally as possible into 3 groups
no later than September 1 of the year of the next general
election following reapportionment. Board members or their
successors from one group shall be elected for successive terms
of 2 years, 4 years, and 4 years; members or their successors
from the second group shall be elected for successive terms of
4 years, 2 years, and 4 years; and members or their successors
from the third group shall be elected for successive terms of 4
years, 4 years, and 2 years. All terms shall commence on the
first Monday of the month following the month of election.
(b) County board member elections at large. In those
counties which elect county board members at large, under
Sections 2-3002 and 2-3006, the members elected in the general
election following reapportionment shall, no later than 45 days
after taking office, divide themselves publicly by lot as
equally as possible into 2 groups. Board members or their
successors from one group shall be elected for successive terms
of 2 years, 4 years and 4 years; and members or their
successors from the second group shall be elected for
successive terms of 4 years, 4 years and 2 years. A county
under this subsection may, by ordinance, decide to divide the
county board members into 3 rather than 2 groups. If a county

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adopts an ordinance to this effect, the members of the county
board elected in the general election following
reapportionment shall, no later than 45 days after taking
office, divide themselves publicly by lot as equally as
possible into 3 groups. Board members or their successors from
one group shall be elected for successive terms of 2 years, 4
years, and 4 years; members and their successors from the
second group shall be elected for successive terms of 4 years,
2 years, and 4 years; and members or their successors from the
third group shall be elected for successive terms of 4 years, 4
years, and 2 years. All terms shall commence on the first
Monday of the month following the month of election.
(c) Vacancies; time for elections. In counties under
subsection (a) or (b), if a vacancy occurs in the office of
chairman of the county board, the remaining members of the
board shall elect one of the members of the board to serve for
the balance of the unexpired term of the chairman.
In counties under subsection (a) or (b), the time for the
election of county board members and, if applicable, the county
board chairman shall be as provided by the general election law
for the election of such members.
For the 2018 election, a public question shall be submitted
to the voters of Lake County to determine whether the chairman
of the Lake County board shall be elected by the voters. If the
public question is approved by the voters of Lake County, then,
for the 2020 election and thereafter, the chairman of the Lake

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County board shall be elected by the voters of the county. An
individual seeking election as chairman of the Lake County
board may also seek election as a county board member.
(Source: P.A. 86-962; 87-924.)
Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
becoming law.".