Bill Text: IL HB0915 | 2009-2010 | 96th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Election Code. Authorizes the submission of public questions to voters in less than all precincts of a municipality of any size (now, more than 1,000,000 population).

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-03-15 - Rule 19(a) / Re-referred to Rules Committee [HB0915 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2009-HB0915-Introduced.html

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96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2009 and 2010 HB0915 Introduced 2/10/2009, by Rep. Mike Boland SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
10 ILCS 5/28-6 from Ch. 46, par. 28-6
Amends the Election Code. Authorizes the submission of public questions to voters in less than all precincts of a municipality of any size (now, more than 1,000,000 population).
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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
28-6 as follows:
(10 ILCS 5/28-6) (from Ch. 46, par. 28-6)
Sec. 28-6. Petitions; filing.
(a) On a written petition signed by a number of voters
equal to (i) through the general election in 2008, at least 8%
of the total votes cast for candidates for Governor in the
preceding gubernatorial election by the registered voters of
the municipality, township, county or school district and (ii)
beginning with elections in 2009 and thereafter, at least 11%
of the total ballots cast by the registered voters of the
municipality, township, county, or school district in the last
regular election conducted in the municipality, township,
county, or school district, it shall be the duty of the proper
election officers to submit any question of public policy so
petitioned for, to the electors of such political subdivision
at any regular election named in the petition at which an
election is scheduled to be held throughout such political
subdivision under Article 2A. Such petitions shall be filed
with the local election official of the political subdivision

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or election authority, as the case may be. Where such a
question is to be submitted to the voters of a municipality
which has adopted Article 6, or a township or school district
located entirely within the jurisdiction of a municipal board
of election commissioners, such petitions shall be filed with
the board of election commissioners having jurisdiction over
the political subdivision.
(b) In a municipality with more than 1,000,000 inhabitants,
when a question of public policy exclusively concerning a
contiguous territory included entirely within but not
coextensive with the municipality is initiated by resolution or
ordinance of the corporate authorities of the municipality, or
by a petition which may be signed by registered voters who
reside in any part of any precinct all or part of which
includes all or part of the territory and who equal in number
(i) through the general election in 2008 at least 8% of the
total votes cast for candidates for Governor in the preceding
gubernatorial election by the voters of the precinct or
precincts in the territory where the question is to be
submitted to the voters and (ii) beginning with elections in
2009 and thereafter, at least 11% of the total ballots cast at
the last regular election conducted in the precinct or
precincts in the territory where the question is to be
submitted to the voters, it shall be the duty of the election
authority having jurisdiction over such municipality to submit
such question to the electors throughout each precinct all or

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part of which includes all or part of the territory at the
regular election specified in the resolution, ordinance or
petition initiating the public question. A petition initiating
a public question described in this subsection shall be filed
with the election authority having jurisdiction over the
municipality. A resolution, ordinance or petition initiating a
public question described in this subsection shall specify the
election at which the question is to be submitted.
(c) Local questions of public policy authorized by this
Section and statewide questions of public policy authorized by
Section 28-9 shall be advisory public questions, and no legal
effects shall result from the adoption or rejection of such
propositions.
(d) This Section does not apply to a petition filed
pursuant to Article IX of the Liquor Control Act of 1934.
(Source: P.A. 95-699, eff. 11-9-07.)