Bill Text: IL HB0711 | 2017-2018 | 100th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Circuit Courts Act. Provides that in the year following each federal decennial census, the General Assembly shall redraw the boundaries of the subcircuits of the Circuit of Cook County to reflect the results of the census.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Failed) 2019-01-08 - Session Sine Die [HB0711 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2017-HB0711-Introduced.html

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100TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2017 and 2018 HB0711 Introduced , by Rep. Luis Arroyo SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
705 ILCS 35/2f from Ch. 37, par. 72.2f
Amends the Circuit Courts Act. Provides that in the year following each federal decennial census, the General Assembly shall redraw the boundaries of the subcircuits of the Circuit of Cook County to reflect the results of the census.
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A BILL FOR
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AN ACT concerning courts.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The Circuit Courts Act is amended by changing
Section 2f as follows:
(705 ILCS 35/2f) (from Ch. 37, par. 72.2f)
Sec. 2f. (a) The Circuit of Cook County shall be divided
into 15 units to be known as subcircuits. The subcircuits shall
be compact, contiguous, and substantially equal in population.
The General Assembly shall create the subcircuits by law on or
before July 1, 1991, using population data as determined by the
1990 Federal census. In the year following each federal
decennial census, the General Assembly shall redraw the
boundaries of the subcircuits to reflect the results of the
census.
(b) The 165 resident judges to be elected from the Circuit
of Cook County shall be determined under paragraph (4) of
subsection (a) of Section 2 of the Judicial Vacancies Act.
(c) The Supreme Court shall allot (i) the additional
resident judgeships provided by paragraph (4) of subsection (a)
of Section 2 of the Judicial Vacancies Act and (ii) all
vacancies in resident judgeships existing on or occurring on or
after the effective date of this amendatory Act of 1990, with

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respect to the other resident judgeships of the Circuit of Cook
County, for election from the various subcircuits until there
are 11 resident judges to be elected from each of the 15
subcircuits (for a total of 165). A resident judgeship
authorized before the effective date of this amendatory Act of
1990 that became vacant and was filled by appointment by the
Supreme Court before that effective date shall be filled by
election at the general election in November of 1992 from the
unit of the Circuit of Cook County within Chicago or the unit
of that Circuit outside Chicago, as the case may be, in which
the vacancy occurred.
(d) As soon as practicable after the subcircuits are
created by law, the Supreme Court shall determine by lot a
numerical order for the 15 subcircuits. That numerical order
shall be the basis for the order in which resident judgeships
are assigned to the subcircuits. After the first round of
assignments, the second and all later rounds shall be based on
the same numerical order. Once a resident judgeship is assigned
to a subcircuit, it shall continue to be assigned to that
subcircuit for all purposes.
(e) A resident judge elected from a subcircuit shall
continue to reside in that subcircuit as long as he or she
holds that office. A resident judge elected from a subcircuit
after January 1, 2008, must retain residency as a registered
voter in the subcircuit to run for retention from the circuit
at large thereafter.

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(Source: P.A. 95-610, eff. 9-11-07.)