Bill Text: IL HB4426 | 2017-2018 | 100th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Election Code. Provides that on the day before election day, a permanent polling place for early voting must remain open no later than 5:00 p.m. Makes conforming and other changes. Effective immediately.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Failed) 2019-01-08 - Session Sine Die [HB4426 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2017-HB4426-Introduced.html

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100TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2017 and 2018 HB4426 Introduced , by Rep. Tim Butler SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
10 ILCS 5/19A-15
Amends the Election Code. Provides that on the day before election day, a permanent polling place for early voting must remain open no later than 5:00 p.m. Makes conforming and other changes. Effective immediately.
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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
19A-15 as follows:
(10 ILCS 5/19A-15)
Sec. 19A-15. Period for early voting; hours.
(a) The period for early voting by personal appearance
begins the 40th day preceding a general primary, consolidated
primary, consolidated, or general election and extends through
the end of the day before election day.
(b) Except as otherwise provided by this Section, a
permanent polling place for early voting must remain open
beginning the 15th day before an election through the end of
the 9th day before election day, a permanent polling place for
early voting must remain open during the hours of 8:30 a.m. to
4:30 p.m., or 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., on weekdays. Beginning ,
except that beginning 8 days before election day through the
end of the 2nd day before election day, a permanent polling
place for early voting must remain open during the hours of
8:30 a.m. to 7:00 p.m., or 9:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m., on weekdays,
and 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. on Saturdays and holidays, and
10:00 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Sundays. On the day before election

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day, a permanent polling place for early voting must remain
open no later than 5:00 p.m. In ; except that, in addition to
the hours required by this subsection, a permanent polling
place designated by an election authority under subsections
(c), (d), and (e) of Section 19A-10 must remain open for a
total of at least 8 hours on any holiday during the early
voting period and a total of at least 14 hours on the final
weekend during the early voting period.
(c) Notwithstanding subsection (b), an election authority
may close an early voting polling place if the building in
which the polling place is located has been closed by the State
or unit of local government in response to a severe weather
emergency or other force majeure. The election authority shall
notify the State Board of Elections of any closure and shall
make reasonable efforts to provide notice to the public of an
alternative location for early voting.
(d) (Blank).
(Source: P.A. 97-81, eff. 7-5-11; 97-766, eff. 7-6-12; 98-4,
eff. 3-12-13; 98-115, eff. 7-29-13; 98-691, eff. 7-1-14;
98-1171, eff. 6-1-15.)
Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
becoming law.