Bill Text: IL HB1957 | 2009-2010 | 96th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Judicial Vacancies Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning definitions.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2009-04-03 - Rule 19(a) / Re-referred to Rules Committee [HB1957 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2009-HB1957-Introduced.html

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96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2009 and 2010 HB1957 Introduced 2/18/2009, by Rep. Michael J. Madigan - Barbara Flynn Currie - Constance A. Howard SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
705 ILCS 40/1.1 from Ch. 37, par. 72.41-1
Amends the Judicial Vacancies Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning definitions.
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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 Judicial Vacancies Act is amended by
changing Section 1.1 as follows:
(705 ILCS 40/1.1) (from Ch. 37, par. 72.41-1)
Sec. 1.1. As used in this Act, the the term "resident
circuit judge" or "resident judge" refers to a circuit judge
who, immediately prior to July 1, 1971, was an associate judge
and who became a circuit judge on July 1, 1971 by reason of
paragraph (a) of Section 4 of the Transition Schedule of the
Constitution of 1970 or a circuit judge who was appointed after
June 30, 1971 by the Supreme Court to fill the vacancy existing
prior to July 1, 1971 in the office of a former associate judge
and whose office was, prior to July 1, 1971, filled by election
from a single county or, in the case of Cook County, from one
of the 2 units of the county, and not from the circuit at
large.
(Source: P.A. 88-45.)