Bill Text: IL HB1732 | 2019-2020 | 101st General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Counties Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning county board elections.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-04-12 - Rule 19(a) / Re-referred to Rules Committee [HB1732 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2019-HB1732-Introduced.html

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101ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2019 and 2020 HB1732 Introduced , by Rep. Jim Durkin SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
55 ILCS 5/2-3002.5
Amends the Counties Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning county board elections.
LRB101 05626 AWJ 50642 b
A BILL FOR
HB1732 LRB101 05626 AWJ 50642 b
AN ACT concerning local government.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The Counties Code is amended by changing Section
2-3002.5 as follows:
(55 ILCS 5/2-3002.5)
Sec. 2-3002.5. Beginning with members elected at the the
general election in 2002, counties having a population between
800,000 and 3,000,000 according to 2000 decennial census shall
have no more than 18 members on their county board. If the
chairman of the county board is elected at-large by the voters
of the county as provided in Section 2-3007, the chairman shall
not be counted as a member of the county board for the purpose
of the limitations on the size of the county board provided in
this Section. Neither a member nor the chairman of that county
board shall serve simultaneously as commissioner or president
of the board of commissioners of the forest preserve district.
No person shall seek election to both the county board and the
forest preserve commission at the same election.
(Source: P.A. 91-933, eff. 12-30-00.)