Bill Text: IL HB0567 | 2009-2010 | 96th General Assembly | Enrolled

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Bill Title: Amends the Election Code. Provides that a resident of a community-integrated living arrangement, as defined by rule of the State Board of Elections, is a resident, for voting purposes, of the election jurisdiction in which the arrangement is located.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-1)

Status: (Passed) 2009-08-18 - Public Act . . . . . . . . . 96-0563 [HB0567 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2009-HB0567-Enrolled.html

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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
3-3 as follows:
(10 ILCS 5/3-3) (from Ch. 46, par. 3-3)
Sec. 3-3. Every honorably discharged soldier or sailor who
is an inmate of any soldiers' and sailors' home within the
State of Illinois, or any person who is a resident of a
facility licensed or certified pursuant to the Nursing Home
Care Act, or any person who is a resident of a
community-integrated living arrangement, as defined in Section
3 of the Community-Integrated Living Arrangements Licensure
and Certification Act, for 30 days or longer, and who is a
citizen of the United States and has resided in this State and
in the election district 30 days next preceding any election
shall be entitled to vote in the election district in which any
such home or community-integrated living arrangement in which
he is an inmate or resident is located, for all officers that
now are or hereafter may be elected by the people, and upon all
questions that may be submitted to the vote of the people:
Provided, that he shall declare upon oath, that it was his bona
fide intention at the time he entered said home or

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community-integrated living arrangement to become a resident
thereof.
(Source: P.A. 86-820.)