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State of Illinois
2017 and 2018
HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION
CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT
HC0003 Introduced , by Rep. Scott Drury SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
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Proposes to amend the Legislature Article of the Illinois Constitution. Provides that a person who is a member of the General Assembly may not, during his or her term of office, hold any other elected public office. Effective upon being declared adopted.
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| 1 | | HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION
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| 2 | | CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT
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| 3 | | RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE ONE |
| 4 | | HUNDREDTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, THE SENATE |
| 5 | | CONCURRING HEREIN, that there shall be submitted to the |
| 6 | | electors of the State for adoption or rejection at the general |
| 7 | | election next occurring at least 6 months after the adoption of |
| 8 | | this resolution a proposition to amend Article IV of the |
| 9 | | Illinois Constitution by changing Section 2 as follows:
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| 10 | | ARTICLE IV
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| 11 | | THE LEGISLATURE
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| 12 | | (ILCON Art. IV, Sec. 2)
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| 13 | | SECTION 2. LEGISLATIVE COMPOSITION
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| 14 | | (a) One Senator shall be elected from each Legislative |
| 15 | | District.
Immediately following each decennial redistricting, |
| 16 | | the General Assembly
by law shall divide the Legislative |
| 17 | | Districts as equally as possible
into three groups. Senators |
| 18 | | from one group shall be elected for terms of
four years, four |
| 19 | | years and two years; Senators from the second group,
for terms |
| 20 | | of four years, two years and four years; and Senators from the
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| 21 | | third group, for terms of two years, four years and four years. |
| 22 | | The
Legislative Districts in each group shall be distributed |
| 23 | | substantially
equally over the State.
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| 1 | | (b) Each Legislative District shall be divided into two |
| 2 | | Representative
Districts. In 1982 and every two years |
| 3 | | thereafter one Representative shall
be elected from each |
| 4 | | Representative District for a term of two years.
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| 5 | | (c) To be eligible to serve as a member of the General |
| 6 | | Assembly, a
person must be a United States citizen, at least 21 |
| 7 | | years old, and for
the two years preceding his election or |
| 8 | | appointment a resident of the
district which he is to |
| 9 | | represent. In the general election following a
redistricting, a |
| 10 | | candidate for the General Assembly may be elected from
any |
| 11 | | district which contains a part of the district in which he |
| 12 | | resided
at the time of the redistricting and reelected if a |
| 13 | | resident of the new
district he represents for 18 months prior |
| 14 | | to reelection.
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| 15 | | (d) Within thirty days after a vacancy occurs, it shall be |
| 16 | | filled by
appointment as provided by law. If the vacancy is in |
| 17 | | a Senatorial office
with more than twenty-eight months |
| 18 | | remaining in the term, the appointed
Senator shall serve until |
| 19 | | the next general election, at which time a
Senator shall be |
| 20 | | elected to serve for the remainder of the term. If the
vacancy |
| 21 | | is in a Representative office or in any other Senatorial |
| 22 | | office,
the appointment shall be for the remainder of the term. |
| 23 | | An appointee to
fill a vacancy shall be a member of the same |
| 24 | | political party as the
person he succeeds.
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| 25 | | (e) No member of the General Assembly shall, during his or |
| 26 | | her term of office, hold any other elected public office. No |
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| 1 | | member of the General Assembly shall receive compensation as
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| 2 | | public officer or employee from any other governmental entity |
| 3 | | for time
during which he is in attendance as a member of the |
| 4 | | General Assembly.
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| 5 | | No member of the General Assembly during the term for which |
| 6 | | he was
elected or appointed shall be appointed to a public |
| 7 | | office which shall
have been created or the compensation for |
| 8 | | which shall have been
increased by the General Assembly during |
| 9 | | that term.
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| 10 | | (Source: Amendment adopted at general election November 4, |
| 11 | | 1980.)
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| 12 | | SCHEDULE
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| 13 | | This Constitutional Amendment takes effect upon being |
| 14 | | declared adopted in accordance with Section 7 of the Illinois |
| 15 | | Constitutional Amendment Act.
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