Bill Text: IL SJRCA0007 | 2023-2024 | 103rd General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Proposes to amend the Legislature Article of the Illinois Constitution. Provides that final passage of a bill or amendment, except bills for appropriations, may not occur until at least 24 hours after being introduced. Provides that final passage of bills for appropriations may not occur until at least 72 hours after being introduced. Effective upon being declared adopted.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2023-03-07 - Referred to Assignments [SJRCA0007 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2023-SJRCA0007-Introduced.html

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103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2023 and 2024 SENATE JOINT RESOLUTION CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT SC0007 Introduced 3/7/2023, by Sen. Jason Plummer SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
ILCON Art. IV, Sec. 8
Proposes to amend the Legislature Article of the Illinois Constitution. Provides that final passage of a bill or amendment, except bills for appropriations, may not occur until at least 24 hours after being introduced. Provides that final passage of bills for appropriations may not occur until at least 72 hours after being introduced. Effective upon being declared adopted.
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SENATE JOINT RESOLUTION
CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT
RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE ONE HUNDRED THIRD 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 8 as follows:
ARTICLE IV
THE LEGISLATURE
(ILCON Art. IV, Sec. 8)
SECTION 8. PASSAGE OF BILLS
(a) The enacting clause of the laws of this State shall be:
"Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly."
(b) The General Assembly shall enact laws only by bill.
Bills may originate in either house, but may be amended or
rejected by the other.
(c) No bill shall become a law without the concurrence of a
majority of the members elected to each house. Final passage
of a bill shall be by record vote. In the Senate at the request

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of two members, and in the House at the request of five
members, a record vote may be taken on any other occasion. A
record vote is a vote by yeas and nays entered on the journal.
(d) A bill shall be read by title on three different days
in each house. A bill and each amendment thereto shall be
reproduced and placed on the desk of each member before final
passage. Final passage of a bill or amendment, except bills
for appropriations, may not occur until at least 24 hours
after being introduced. Final passage of bills for
appropriations may not occur until at least 72 hours after
being introduced.
Bills, except bills for appropriations and for the
codification, revision or rearrangement of laws, shall be
confined to one subject. Appropriation bills shall be limited
to the subject of appropriations.
A bill expressly amending a law shall set forth completely
the sections amended.
The Speaker of the House of Representatives and the
President of the Senate shall sign each bill that passes both
houses to certify that the procedural requirements for passage
have been met.
(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.