Bill Amendment: IL SB2563 | 2015-2016 | 99th General Assembly

NOTE: For additional amemendments please see the Bill Drafting List

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Bill Title: JURORS-ARMED FORCES MEMBERS

Status: 2016-07-31 - Pursuant to Senate Rule 3-9(b) / Referred to Assignments [SB2563 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2015-SB2563-Senate_Amendment_001.html

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Sen. Thomas Cullerton

Filed: 3/8/2016

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AMENDMENT TO SENATE BILL 2563
AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend Senate Bill 2563 by replacing
everything after the enacting clause with the following:
"Section 5. The Jury Act is amended by changing Section
10.2 and by adding Section 10.5 as follows:
(705 ILCS 305/10.2) (from Ch. 78, par. 10.2)
Sec. 10.2. Excusing prospective jurors; hardship.
(a) The county boards of the respective counties, the jury
commissioners for those counties which have been appointed
under the Jury Commission Act, or a jury administrator shall
submit questionnaires to prospective jurors to inquire as to
their qualifications for jury service and as to the hardship
that jury service would pose to the prospective jurors. Upon
prior approval by the chief judge of the judicial circuits in
which a county board, jury administrator, or jury commissioners
are situated, the county board, jury administrator, or jury

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commissioners shall excuse a prospective juror from jury
service if the prospective juror shows that such service would
impose an undue hardship on account of the nature of the
prospective juror's occupation, business affairs, physical
health, family situation, active duty in the Illinois National
Guard or Illinois Naval Militia, or other personal affairs, and
cause his or her name to be returned to the jury list or
general jury list.
(b) When an undue hardship caused by a family situation is
due to the prospective juror being the primary care giver of a
person with a mental or physical disability, a person with a
medically diagnosed behavior problem, or a child under age 12,
then the county board, jury commissioners or jury administrator
shall excuse such a prospective juror, if it finds that no
reasonable alternative care is feasible which would not impose
an undue hardship on the prospective juror or the person for
whom the prospective juror is providing care, or both.
(Source: P.A. 90-482, eff. 1-1-98; 91-264, eff. 7-23-99.)
(705 ILCS 305/10.5 new)
Sec. 10.5. Servicemembers. Any active member of the United
States Armed Forces, Illinois National Guard, or Illinois Naval
Militia shall, upon request, be excused from jury service.
Section 10. The Jury Commission Act is amended by adding
Section 10.6 as follows:

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(705 ILCS 310/10.6 new)
Sec. 10.6. Servicemembers. Any active member of the United
States Armed Forces, Illinois National Guard, or Illinois Naval
Militia shall, upon request, be excused from jury service.".