Bill Text: IL HB3857 | 2025-2026 | 104th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Election Code. Provides that no image, symbol, or slogan shall appear in the heading of a petition for nomination other than the required information. Provides that any emblem or label indicating that the petition for nomination was printed by a union printer shall not be considered an image, symbol, or slogan.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2025-02-18 - Referred to Rules Committee [HB3857 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2025-HB3857-Introduced.html

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104TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2025 and 2026 HB3857 Introduced , by Rep. Marcus C. Evans, Jr. SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
10 ILCS 5/10-4 from Ch. 46, par. 10-4
Amends the Election Code. Provides that no image, symbol, or slogan shall appear in the heading of a petition for nomination other than the required information. Provides that any emblem or label indicating that the petition for nomination was printed by a union printer shall not be considered an image, symbol, or slogan.
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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 10-4 as follows:
(10 ILCS 5/10-4) (from Ch. 46, par. 10-4)
Sec. 10-4. Form of petition for nomination. All petitions
for nomination under this Article 10 for candidates for public
office in this State, shall in addition to other requirements
provided by law, be as follows: Such petitions shall consist
of sheets of uniform size and each sheet shall contain, above
the space for signature, an appropriate heading, giving only
the information as to name of candidate or candidates in whose
behalf such petition is signed; the office; the party; place
of residence; and such other information or wording as
required to make same valid, and the heading of each sheet
shall be the same. No image, symbol, or slogan shall appear in
the heading of a petition for nomination other than the
information required under this Section. Any emblem or label
indicating that the petition for nomination was printed by a
union printer shall not be considered an image, symbol, or
slogan. Such petition shall be signed by the qualified voters
in their own proper persons only, and opposite the signature

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of each signer his residence address shall be written or
printed. The residence address required to be written or
printed opposite each qualified primary elector's name shall
include the street address or rural route number of the
signer, as the case may be, as well as the signer's county, and
city, village or town, and state. However, the county or city,
village or town, and state of residence of such electors may be
printed on the petition forms where all of the electors
signing the petition reside in the same county or city,
village or town, and state. Standard abbreviations may be used
in writing the residence address, including street number, if
any. Except as otherwise provided in this Code, no signature
shall be valid or be counted in considering the validity or
sufficiency of such petition unless the requirements of this
Section are complied with. At the bottom of each sheet of such
petition shall be added a circulator's statement, signed by a
person 18 years of age or older who is a citizen of the United
States; stating the street address or rural route number, as
the case may be, as well as the county, city, village or town,
and state; certifying that the signatures on that sheet of the
petition were signed in his or her presence; certifying that
the signatures are genuine; and either (1) indicating the
dates on which that sheet was circulated, or (2) indicating
the first and last dates on which the sheet was circulated, or
(3) certifying that none of the signatures on the sheet were
signed more than 90 days preceding the last day for the filing

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of the petition; and certifying that to the best of his
knowledge and belief the persons so signing were at the time of
signing the petition duly registered voters under Article 4,
5, or 6 of this Code of the political subdivision or district
for which the candidate or candidates shall be nominated, and
certifying that their respective residences are correctly
stated therein. Such statement shall be sworn to before some
officer authorized to administer oaths in this State. Except
as otherwise provided in this Code, no petition sheet shall be
circulated more than 90 days preceding the last day provided
in Section 10-6 for the filing of such petition. Such sheets,
before being presented to the electoral board or filed with
the proper officer of the electoral district or division of
the state or municipality, as the case may be, shall be neatly
fastened together in book form, by placing the sheets in a pile
and fastening them together at one edge in a secure and
suitable manner, and the sheets shall then be numbered
consecutively. The sheets shall not be fastened by pasting
them together end to end, so as to form a continuous strip or
roll. All petition sheets which are filed with the proper
local election officials, election authorities or the State
Board of Elections shall be the original sheets which have
been signed by the voters and by the circulator, and not
photocopies or duplicates of such sheets. A petition, when
presented or filed, shall not be withdrawn, altered, or added
to, and no signature shall be revoked except by revocation in

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writing presented or filed with the officers or officer with
whom the petition is required to be presented or filed, and
before the presentment or filing of such petition. Whoever
forges any name of a signer upon any petition shall be deemed
guilty of a forgery, and on conviction thereof, shall be
punished accordingly. The word "petition" or "petition for
nomination", as used herein, shall mean what is sometimes
known as nomination papers, in distinction to what is known as
a certificate of nomination. The words "political division for
which the candidate is nominated", or its equivalent, shall
mean the largest political division in which all qualified
voters may vote upon such candidate or candidates, as the
state in the case of state officers; the township in the case
of township officers et cetera. Provided, further, that no
person shall circulate or certify petitions for candidates of
more than one political party, or for an independent candidate
or candidates in addition to one political party, to be voted
upon at the next primary or general election, or for such
candidates and parties with respect to the same political
subdivision at the next consolidated election.
(Source: P.A. 102-15, eff. 6-17-21; 102-687, eff. 12-17-21.)