Bill Text: IL SB2935 | 2021-2022 | 102nd General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the School Code. In provisions related to voter eligibility in elections for a regional superintendent of schools or for members of the regional board of school trustees, replaces the term "unit school district" with "school district" throughout the provisions. Effective immediately.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-02-10 - Rule 3-9(a) / Re-referred to Assignments [SB2935 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2021-SB2935-Introduced.html

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102ND GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2021 and 2022 SB2935 Introduced 10/19/2021, by Sen. Meg Loughran Cappel SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
105 ILCS 5/3-1.1 from Ch. 122, par. 3-1.1
105 ILCS 5/6-5 from Ch. 122, par. 6-5
Amends the School Code. In provisions related to voter eligibility in elections for a regional superintendent of schools or for members of the regional board of school trustees, replaces the term "unit school district" with "school district" throughout the provisions. Effective immediately.
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A BILL FOR
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AN ACT concerning education.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The School Code is amended by changing Sections
3-1.1 and 6-5 as follows:
(105 ILCS 5/3-1.1) (from Ch. 122, par. 3-1.1)
Sec. 3-1.1. Eligible voters. Whenever a unit school
district is located in more than one educational service
region, a qualified elector residing in that unit school
district but outside of the educational service region
administered by the regional superintendent of schools having
supervision and control over that unit school district shall
be eligible to vote in any election held to elect the regional
superintendent of schools of the educational service region
that is administered by the regional superintendent of schools
who has supervision and control over that unit school
district, but the elector shall not also be eligible to vote in
the election held to elect the regional superintendent of
schools of the educational service region in which the elector
resides.
Not less than 100 days before each general primary
election, the regional superintendent of schools shall certify
to the State Board of Elections a list of each unit school

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district under his or her supervision and control and each
county in which all or any part of each of those districts is
located. The State Board of Elections shall certify each of
those unit school districts and counties to the appropriate
election authorities within 20 days after receiving the list
certified by the regional superintendent of schools.
The election authority in a single county educational
service region whose regional superintendent of schools
exercises supervision and control over a unit school district
that is located in that single county educational service
region and in one or more other educational service regions
shall certify to the election authority of each of those other
educational service regions in which the unit school district
is located the candidates for the office of the regional
superintendent of schools exercising supervision and control
over that unit school district.
(Source: P.A. 87-328; 88-535.)
(105 ILCS 5/6-5) (from Ch. 122, par. 6-5)
Sec. 6-5. Qualifications and eligibility of voters. A
person is qualified to vote at an election for members of the
regional board of school trustees who is a registered voter as
provided in the Election Code and has resided within the State
and in the voting precinct for 28 days immediately preceding
the election, and who is a citizen of the United States and has
attained the age of 18 years.

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Whenever a unit school district is located in more than
one educational service region, a qualified elector residing
in that unit school district but outside of the educational
service region administered by the regional superintendent of
schools having supervision and control over that unit school
district shall be eligible to vote in any election held to
elect members of the regional board of school trustees for the
educational service that is administered by the regional
superintendent of schools who has supervision and control over
that unit school district, but the elector shall not also be
eligible to vote in the election held to elect the members of
the regional board of school trustees for the educational
service region in which the elector resides.
Not less than 100 days before each nonpartisan election,
the regional superintendent of schools shall certify to the
State Board of Elections a list of each unit school district
under his or her supervision and control and each county in
which all or any part of each of those districts is located.
The State Board of Elections shall certify each of those unit
school districts and counties to the appropriate election
authorities within 20 days after receiving the list certified
by the regional superintendent of schools.
The election authority in a single county educational
service region whose regional superintendent of schools
exercises supervision and control over a unit school district
that is located in that single county educational service

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region and in one or more other educational service regions
shall certify to the election authority of each of those other
educational service regions in which the unit school district
is located the candidates for members of the regional board of
school trustees for the educational service region that is
administered by the regional superintendent of schools
exercising supervision and control over that unit school
district.
(Source: P.A. 88-535.)
Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
becoming law.