Bill Text: IL HB2624 | 2019-2020 | 101st General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Reinserts the introduced bill with the following changes: Provides that the General Assembly (rather than the board of commissioners of the Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago) shall divide the Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago into 9 commissioner districts on or before July 1, 2021 and redistrict after each federal decennial census. Provides that a redistricting plan created shall be drawn to create crossover districts, coalition districts, or influence districts. Makes conforming changes.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-04-12 - Rule 19(a) / Re-referred to Rules Committee [HB2624 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2019-HB2624-Introduced.html

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101ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2019 and 2020 HB2624 Introduced , by Rep. Luis Arroyo SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
70 ILCS 2605/3 from Ch. 42, par. 322
70 ILCS 2605/3.3 new
Amends the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District Act. Provides that the board of commissioners of the Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago shall: on or before July 1, 2021, divide the Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago into 9 commissioner districts and assign the commissioner districts to reflect the results of the most recent federal decennial census; and thereafter, in the year following each federal decennial census, redistrict the commissioner districts to reflect the results of the most recent census. Provides that the commissioner districts shall be compact, contiguous, and substantially equal in population to each other district. Provides that one commissioner shall be elected from each commissioner district for a term of 6 years and that the commissioner shall be a resident of the commissioner district from which he or she was elected. Provides that if the corporate limits of the District expands between redistrictings, the board of commissioners shall determine which commissioner district or districts the expanded territory will join until the next redistricting. Provides that the terms of all commissioners serving at the time of the 2022 general election shall continue until the first Tuesday after the first Monday in the month following the 2022 general election or until the 9 new commissioners are elected and qualified, whichever is later. Makes conforming changes.
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A BILL FOR
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AN ACT concerning local government.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The Metropolitan Water Reclamation District Act
is amended by changing Section 3 and by adding Section 3.3 as
follows:
(70 ILCS 2605/3) (from Ch. 42, par. 322)
Sec. 3. The corporate authority of the Sanitary District of
Chicago shall consist of nine trustees. Such trustees shall be
elected for staggered terms at the election provided by the
general election law. Except as provided by Section 3.3, three
Three trustees shall be elected at each such election to
succeed the 3 trustees whose terms expire in such year.
Such trustees shall take office on the first Tuesday after
the first Monday in the month following the month of their
election and shall hold their offices for six years and until
their successors shall be elected and qualified. Except for
elections of the commissioners of the Metropolitan Water
Reclamation District of Greater Chicago on and after the 2022
general election, in In all elections for trustees each elector
may vote for as many candidates as there are trustees to be
elected, but no elector may give to such candidates more than
one vote, it being the intent and purpose of this Act to

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prohibit cumulative voting in the selection of members of the
board of the sanitary district.
The election of trustees shall be in accordance with the
provisions of the general election law.
By reason of the importance and character of the services
performed by the sanitary district, there is a great need and
it is in the public interest that such services be performed in
as near a non-partisan character as possible.
When a vacancy exists in the office of trustees of any
sanitary district organized under the provisions hereof, the
vacancy shall be filled by appointment by the Governor until
the next regular election at which trustees of the Sanitary
District of Chicago are elected, and thereafter until a
successor shall be elected and qualified.
Such sanitary district shall from the time of the first
election held by it under this Act be construed in all courts
to be a body corporate and politic, and by the name and style
of the sanitary district of...., and by such name and style may
sue and be sued, contract and be contracted with, acquire and
hold real estate and personal property necessary for corporate
purposes, and adopt a common seal and alter the same at
pleasure.
The board of trustees shall have the power to change the
name of the Sanitary District of Chicago by ordinance and
public notice without impairing the legal status of acts
theretofore performed by said district. Thereafter any and all

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references to the Sanitary District of Chicago in this Act or
otherwise shall mean and include the name under which such
sanitary district is then operating. No rights, duties or
privilege of such a sanitary district, or those of any person,
existing before the change of name shall be affected by a
change, in the name of a sanitary district. All proceedings
pending in any court in favor of or against such sanitary
district may continue to final consummation under the name in
which they were commenced.
(Source: P.A. 83-345.)
(70 ILCS 2605/3.3 new)
Sec. 3.3. Districting required; election.
(a) The board of commissioners of the Water Reclamation
District of Greater Chicago shall: on or before July 1, 2021,
divide the Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago into 9
commissioner districts and assign the commissioner districts
to reflect the results of the most recent federal decennial
census; and thereafter, in the year following each decennial
census, redistrict the commissioner districts to reflect the
results of the most recent census. Each commissioner district
shall be compact, contiguous, and substantially equal in
population to each other district. The division of the Water
Reclamation District of Greater Chicago into commissioner
districts must be completed and formally approved by a majority
of the members of the board of commissioners. At the same

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meeting of the board of commissioners held on or before July 1,
2021, the board shall, publicly by lot, divide the commissioner
districts into 3 groups. In the 2022 general election, the
commissioners from the first group shall be elected for a term
of 2 years, the commissioners from the second group shall be
elected for a term of 4 years, and the commissioners from the
third group shall be elected for a term of 6 years. Thereafter,
all the terms shall be 6 years and elected pursuant to Section
3 of this Act. One commissioner shall be elected from each
commissioner district and the commissioner shall be a resident
of the commissioner district from which he or she is elected.
(b) If the corporate limits of the District expand between
redistrictings, the board of commissioners shall determine
which commissioner district or districts the expanded
territory will join until the next redistricting.
(c) The terms of all commissioners serving at the time of
the 2022 general election shall continue until the first
Tuesday after the first Monday in the month following the 2022
general election or until the 9 new commissioners are elected
and qualified under subsection (a), whichever is later.