Bill Text: IL HB4528 | 2013-2014 | 98th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Election Code. Provides that, if a political subdivision that is choosing candidates or submitting a public question is located within the jurisdiction of 2 or more election authorities and has its principal office located in the territorial jurisdiction of a city board of election commissioners, then the election authority in which a majority of the territory of the city board of election commissioners is located shall have jurisdiction, and the city board of election commissioners shall not have jurisdiction.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Failed) 2014-12-03 - Session Sine Die [HB4528 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2013-HB4528-Introduced.html

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98TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2013 and 2014 HB4528 Introduced , by Rep. Joe Sosnowski SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
10 ILCS 5/1-8
Amends the Election Code. Provides that, if a political subdivision that is choosing candidates or submitting a public question is located within the jurisdiction of 2 or more election authorities and has its principal office located in the territorial jurisdiction of a city board of election commissioners, then the election authority in which a majority of the territory of the city board of election commissioners is located shall have jurisdiction, and the city board of election commissioners shall not have jurisdiction.
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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
1-8 as follows:
(10 ILCS 5/1-8)
Sec. 1-8. Canvassing boards abolished. Notwithstanding any
other provision of this Code, local canvassing boards are
abolished. In this Code or any other law a reference to a local
or county canvassing board means (i) for elections in which the
political subdivision that is choosing candidates or
submitting a public question is located entirely within the
jurisdiction of a single election authority, that election
authority and (ii) for elections for offices and public
questions not listed in Section 22-1 of this Code in which the
political subdivision that is choosing candidates or
submitting a public question is located within the jurisdiction
of 2 or more election authorities, the election authority
having jurisdiction over the location at which the political
subdivision has its principal office; however if a political
subdivision that is choosing candidates or submitting a public
question is located within the jurisdiction of 2 or more
election authorities and has its principal office located in

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the territorial jurisdiction of a city board of election
commissioners, then the city board of election commissioners
shall not have jurisdiction. In that case, the election
authority in which a majority of the territory of the city
board of election commissioners is located shall have
jurisdiction.
(Source: P.A. 94-647, eff. 1-1-06.)