Bill Text: IL SJRCA0003 | 2019-2020 | 101st General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Proposes to amend the Legislature Article of the Illinois Constitution. Limits a person's service in the office of Speaker of the House of Representatives, President of the Senate, Minority Leader of the House, or Minority Leader of the Senate to ten years in any one office. Effective upon being declared adopted and applies to service on or after the second Wednesday in January, 2021.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 9-0)

Status: (Failed) 2021-01-13 - Session Sine Die [SJRCA0003 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2019-SJRCA0003-Introduced.html

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101ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2019 and 2020 SENATE JOINT RESOLUTION CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT SC0003 Introduced 1/28/2019, by Sen. Jennifer Bertino-Tarrant SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
ILCON Art. IV, Sec. 6
Proposes to amend the Legislature Article of the Illinois Constitution. Limits a person's service in the office of Speaker of the House of Representatives, President of the Senate, Minority Leader of the House, or Minority Leader of the Senate to ten years in any one office. Effective upon being declared adopted and applies to service on or after the second Wednesday in January, 2021.
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SENATE JOINT RESOLUTION
CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT
RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE ONE HUNDRED FIRST GENERAL
ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
CONCURRING HEREIN, that there shall be submitted to the
electors of the State for adoption or rejection at the general
election next occurring at least 6 months after the adoption of
this resolution a proposition to amend Article IV of the
Illinois Constitution by changing Section 6 as follows:
ARTICLE IV
THE LEGISLATURE
(ILCON Art. IV, Sec. 6)
SECTION 6. ORGANIZATION
(a) A majority of the members elected to each house
constitutes a quorum.
(b) On the first day of the January session of the General
Assembly in odd-numbered years, the Secretary of State shall
convene the House of Representatives to elect from its
membership a Speaker of the House of Representatives as
presiding officer, and the Governor shall convene the Senate to
elect from its membership a President of the Senate as
presiding officer. A person may serve no more than ten years in
any one of the following offices: Speaker of the House of

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Representatives, President of the Senate, Minority Leader of
the House of Representatives, or Minority Leader of the Senate;
provided that service before the second Wednesday in January of
2021 shall not be considered in the calculation of a person's
service.
(c) For purposes of powers of appointment conferred by this
Constitution, the Minority Leader of either house is a member
of the numerically strongest political party other than the
party to which the Speaker or the President belongs, as the
case may be.
(d) Each house shall determine the rules of its
proceedings, judge the elections, returns and qualifications
of its members and choose its officers. No member shall be
expelled by either house, except by a vote of two-thirds of the
members elected to that house. A member may be expelled only
once for the same offense. Each house may punish by
imprisonment any person, not a member, guilty of disrespect to
the house by disorderly or contemptuous behavior in its
presence. Imprisonment shall not extend beyond twenty-four
hours at one time unless the person persists in disorderly or
contemptuous behavior.
(Source: Illinois Constitution.)
SCHEDULE
This Constitutional Amendment takes effect upon being
declared adopted in accordance with Section 7 of the Illinois

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Constitutional Amendment Act.