Bill Text: IL HB1205 | 2025-2026 | 104th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Election Code. Provides that the county board or board of county commissioners of a county with a population of less than 100,000 may, by ordinance or resolution, dissolve a municipal board of election commissioners within that county and transfer its functions to the county clerk.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2025-01-09 - Referred to Rules Committee [HB1205 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2025-HB1205-Introduced.html

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104TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2025 and 2026 HB1205 Introduced , by Rep. David Friess SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
10 ILCS 5/6-17 from Ch. 46, par. 6-17
Amends the Election Code. Provides that the county board or board of county commissioners of a county with a population of less than 100,000 may, by ordinance or resolution, dissolve a municipal board of election commissioners within that county and transfer its functions to the county clerk.
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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 6-17 as follows:
(10 ILCS 5/6-17) (from Ch. 46, par. 6-17)
Sec. 6-17. Dissolution.
(a) Except as provided in subsection (b), whenever
Whenever 1,000 of the legal voters in a city of 250,000
population or less where this Article 6 and Articles 14 and 18
of this Act or the Act of which they are a continuation have
been adopted shall petition the circuit court in the county in
which such city is located to submit to a vote of the electors
of such city the proposition as to whether such city and the
electors thereof shall reject the Articles, the court shall
enter an order of record approving such petition and thereupon
the court shall submit such proposition to the legal voters of
such city at the next succeeding general, state, county or
municipal election to be held in such county in not less than
30 days after the entry of such order. If 1,000 shall exceed
one-eighth of the legal voters of any such city then such
petition need not be signed or made by more than one-eighth of
the legal voters of such city. Notice of election shall be

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given by the court at least 20 days prior to such election by
publication in one or more newspapers of general circulation
published within such city.
(b) The county board or board of county commissioners of a
county with a population of less than 100,000 may, by
ordinance or resolution, dissolve a municipal board of
election commissioners within that county and transfer its
functions to the county clerk.
(Source: P.A. 83-1362.)