Bill Text: IL HJRCA0003 | 2019-2020 | 101st General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Proposes to amend the Legislature Article of the Illinois Constitution. Provides that no person may serve more than eight years in the General Assembly. Provides that no person may be elected or appointed as Senator or Representative if, upon completion of the term of office, that person will have been a member of the General Assembly for more than eight years. Provides that time served in the General Assembly before the session beginning in January 2021 shall not count toward the eight-year service limitation.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-01-10 - Referred to Rules Committee [HJRCA0003 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2019-HJRCA0003-Introduced.html
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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 | HUNDRED FIRST GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, THE | |||||||||||||||||||
| 5 | SENATE 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 Section 2 of Article IV | |||||||||||||||||||
| 9 | of the Illinois Constitution 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 receive | ||||||
| 26 | compensation as
a public officer or employee from any other | ||||||
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| 1 | governmental entity for time
during which he is in attendance | ||||||
| 2 | as a member of the General Assembly.
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| 3 | No member of the General Assembly during the term for which | ||||||
| 4 | he was
elected or appointed shall be appointed to a public | ||||||
| 5 | office which shall
have been created or the compensation for | ||||||
| 6 | which shall have been
increased by the General Assembly during | ||||||
| 7 | that term.
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| 8 | (f) No person may serve more than eight years in the | ||||||
| 9 | General Assembly. No person may be elected or appointed as | ||||||
| 10 | Senator or Representative if, upon completion of the term of | ||||||
| 11 | office, that person will have been a member of the General | ||||||
| 12 | Assembly for more than eight years. Time served in the General | ||||||
| 13 | Assembly before the session beginning in January 2021 shall not | ||||||
| 14 | count toward the eight-year service limitation. | ||||||
| 15 | (Source: Amendment adopted at general election November 4, | ||||||
| 16 | 1980.)
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| 17 | SCHEDULE
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| 18 | This Constitutional Amendment takes effect upon being | ||||||
| 19 | declared adopted in accordance with Section 7 of the Illinois | ||||||
| 20 | Constitutional Amendment Act.
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