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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 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
4 | NINETY-SIXTH 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 Article IV of the | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
9 | Illinois Constitution by changing Sections 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
10 | 8, 9, 10, 11, and 14 and by repealing Section 15 as follows:
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11 | ARTICLE IV
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12 | THE LEGISLATURE
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13 | (ILCON Art. IV, Sec. 1)
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14 | SECTION 1. LEGISLATURE - POWER AND STRUCTURE
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15 | The legislative power is vested in a General Assembly | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
16 | consisting of a
Senate comprised of 177 Senators and a House of | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
17 | Representatives , elected by the electors from 59
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18 | Districts and 118 Representative Districts .
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19 | (Source: Amendment adopted at general election November 4, | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
20 | 1980.)
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21 | (ILCON Art. IV, Sec. 2)
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22 | SECTION 2. LEGISLATIVE COMPOSITION
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1 | (a) Three Senators shall be elected from each Legislative | ||||||
2 | District for terms of 4 years each. No Senator may serve for | ||||||
3 | more than 3 terms after 2012. No political party shall limit | ||||||
4 | its primary nomination process to fewer than 2 candidates for | ||||||
5 | Senator in any Legislative District, but this provision shall | ||||||
6 | not prevent a primary ballot from containing the name of a | ||||||
7 | single candidate in a Legislative District if only one | ||||||
8 | candidate runs for that office of Senator in that party. In | ||||||
9 | elections for Senators, including those for nomination, each | ||||||
10 | elector may cast 3 votes for one candidate or distribute them | ||||||
11 | equally among no more than 3 candidates. The candidates with | ||||||
12 | the highest number of votes shall be declared elected. One | ||||||
13 | Senator shall be elected from each Legislative District.
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14 | Immediately following each decennial redistricting, the | ||||||
15 | General Assembly
by law shall divide the Legislative Districts | ||||||
16 | as equally as possible
into three groups. Senators from one | ||||||
17 | group shall be elected for terms of
four years, four years and | ||||||
18 | two years; Senators from the second group,
for terms of four | ||||||
19 | years, two years and four years; and Senators from the
third | ||||||
20 | group, for terms of two years, four years and four years. The
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21 | Legislative Districts in each group shall be distributed | ||||||
22 | substantially
equally over the State.
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23 | (b) Each Legislative District shall be divided into two | ||||||
24 | Representative
Districts. In 1982 and every two years | ||||||
25 | thereafter one Representative shall
be elected from each | ||||||
26 | Representative District for a term of two years.
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1 | (c) To be eligible to serve as a member of the Senate | ||||||
2 | General Assembly , a
person must be a United States citizen and , | ||||||
3 | at least 21 years old . A candidate for the Senate must be a | ||||||
4 | resident of the district he or she is to represent for the 2 | ||||||
5 | years preceding his or her election. In the general election | ||||||
6 | following a redistricting, a candidate for the Senate may be | ||||||
7 | elected from any district that contains a part of the district | ||||||
8 | in which he or she resided at the time of the redistricting and | ||||||
9 | reelected if a resident of the new district he or she | ||||||
10 | represents for 18 months prior to reelection. , and for
the two | ||||||
11 | years preceding his election or appointment a resident of the
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12 | district which he is to represent. In the general election | ||||||
13 | following a
redistricting, a candidate for the General Assembly | ||||||
14 | may be elected from
any district which contains a part of the | ||||||
15 | district in which he resided
at the time of the redistricting | ||||||
16 | and reelected if a resident of the new
district he represents | ||||||
17 | for 18 months prior to reelection.
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18 | (c) (d) Within 30 thirty days after a vacancy occurs, it | ||||||
19 | shall be filled by
appointment as provided by law. The If the | ||||||
20 | vacancy is in a Senatorial office
with more than twenty-eight | ||||||
21 | months remaining in the term, the appointed
Senator shall serve | ||||||
22 | until the next general election , at which time a
Senator shall | ||||||
23 | be elected to serve for the remainder of the term. If the
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24 | vacancy is in a Representative office or in any other | ||||||
25 | Senatorial office,
the appointment shall be for the remainder | ||||||
26 | of the term . An appointee to
fill a vacancy shall be a member |
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1 | of the same political party as the
person he or she succeeds | ||||||
2 | and must meet all other requirements to serve as a member of | ||||||
3 | the Senate as listed in subsection (b). For the purposes of | ||||||
4 | subsection (a), a person who fills a vacancy shall be | ||||||
5 | considered to have served a full term .
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6 | (d) (e) No member of the Senate General Assembly shall | ||||||
7 | receive compensation as
a public officer or employee from any | ||||||
8 | other governmental entity for time
during which he or she is in | ||||||
9 | attendance as a member of the Senate General Assembly .
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10 | No member of the Senate General Assembly during the term | ||||||
11 | for which he or she was
elected or appointed shall be appointed | ||||||
12 | to a public office which shall
have been created or the | ||||||
13 | compensation for which shall have been
increased by the Senate | ||||||
14 | General Assembly during that term.
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15 | (Source: Amendment adopted at general election November 4, | ||||||
16 | 1980.)
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17 | (ILCON Art. IV, Sec. 3)
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18 | SECTION 3. LEGISLATIVE REDISTRICTING
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19 | (a) Legislative Districts shall be compact, be contiguous, | ||||||
20 | be substantially equal in population, reflect minority voting | ||||||
21 | strengths, promote competition, and consider political | ||||||
22 | boundaries. The General Assembly shall establish by law a | ||||||
23 | method to determine a score for any map for Legislative | ||||||
24 | Districts. | ||||||
25 | (b) A Legislative Redistricting Commission shall be |
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1 | constituted by March 1 of the year following each federal | ||||||
2 | decennial census year. The Commission shall consist of 8 | ||||||
3 | members, no more than 4 of whom shall be members of the same | ||||||
4 | political party. The Senate President and Senate Minority | ||||||
5 | Leader shall each appoint 4 persons to the Commission. For the | ||||||
6 | redistricting process in 2011 only, 4 members of the Commission | ||||||
7 | must be members of the Illinois House of Representatives. | ||||||
8 | (c) The members of the Commission shall be certified to the | ||||||
9 | Secretary of State by the appointing authorities. A vacancy on | ||||||
10 | the Commission shall be filled within 5 days by the authority | ||||||
11 | that made the original appointment. A Chairman and Vice | ||||||
12 | Chairman shall be chosen by a majority of all members of the | ||||||
13 | Commission. The Commission shall provide to the public data and | ||||||
14 | tools to create Legislative Districts not later than April 7. | ||||||
15 | The Commission shall accept maps for the redistricting of | ||||||
16 | Legislative Districts through May 7. | ||||||
17 | (d) The Commission shall evaluate all submitted maps | ||||||
18 | according to the criteria set forth in subsection (a) as | ||||||
19 | implemented by law and assign each map a score. The Commission | ||||||
20 | shall eliminate maps that fail to meet federal and State law | ||||||
21 | and shall eliminate maps that are substantially the same | ||||||
22 | geographically as other maps of equal or better score. Not | ||||||
23 | later than May 22, the Commission shall give to the Senate the | ||||||
24 | maps for Legislative Districts with the 3 best scores. | ||||||
25 | (e) The Senate, by a record vote of three-fifths of the | ||||||
26 | members elected, may adopt a redistricting resolution from the |
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1 | 3 maps for Legislative Districts submitted by the Commission. | ||||||
2 | If the Senate has failed to file a redistricting resolution by | ||||||
3 | June 30, the Secretary of State shall certify the redistricting | ||||||
4 | map for Legislative Districts that received the best score from | ||||||
5 | the Commission. In the event of multiple maps with the same | ||||||
6 | best high score, the map to be certified shall be selected at | ||||||
7 | random. | ||||||
8 | (f) A redistricting resolution or redistricting map filed | ||||||
9 | with the Secretary of State shall be presumed valid, shall have | ||||||
10 | the force and effect of law, and shall be published promptly by | ||||||
11 | the Secretary of State. | ||||||
12 | (g) The Illinois Supreme Court shall have original and | ||||||
13 | exclusive jurisdiction over actions concerning redistricting | ||||||
14 | the General Assembly. Aggrieved individuals shall be entitled | ||||||
15 | to file objections with the Legislative Redistricting | ||||||
16 | Commission (i) for the Commission's failure to perform duties | ||||||
17 | associated with any portion of this Section or (ii) if their | ||||||
18 | maps were scored inconsistently with this Section or eliminated | ||||||
19 | unfairly. The aggrieved individual shall be entitled to | ||||||
20 | judicial review of any complaint filed with the Commission. (a) | ||||||
21 | Legislative Districts shall be compact, contiguous and
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22 | substantially equal in population. Representative Districts | ||||||
23 | shall be compact,
contiguous, and substantially equal in | ||||||
24 | population.
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25 | (b) In the year following each Federal decennial census | ||||||
26 | year, the
General Assembly by law shall redistrict the |
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1 | Legislative Districts and the
Representative Districts.
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2 | If no redistricting plan becomes effective by June 30 of | ||||||
3 | that year, a
Legislative Redistricting Commission shall be | ||||||
4 | constituted not later than
July 10. The Commission shall | ||||||
5 | consist of eight members, no more than
four of whom shall be | ||||||
6 | members of the same political party.
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7 | The Speaker and Minority Leader of the House of | ||||||
8 | Representatives shall
each appoint to the Commission one | ||||||
9 | Representative and one person who is
not a member of the | ||||||
10 | General Assembly. The President and Minority Leader
of the | ||||||
11 | Senate shall each appoint to the Commission one Senator and one
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12 | person who is not a member of the General Assembly.
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13 | The members shall be certified to the Secretary of State by | ||||||
14 | the
appointing authorities. A vacancy on the Commission shall | ||||||
15 | be filled
within five days by the authority that made the | ||||||
16 | original appointment. A
Chairman and Vice Chairman shall be | ||||||
17 | chosen by a majority of all members
of the Commission.
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18 | Not later than August 10, the Commission shall file with | ||||||
19 | the
Secretary of State a redistricting plan approved by at | ||||||
20 | least five
members.
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21 | If the Commission fails to file an approved redistricting | ||||||
22 | plan, the
Supreme Court shall submit the names of two persons, | ||||||
23 | not of the same
political party, to the Secretary of State not | ||||||
24 | later than September 1.
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25 | Not later than September 5, the Secretary of State publicly | ||||||
26 | shall
draw by random selection the name of one of the two |
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1 | persons to serve as
the ninth member of the Commission.
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2 | Not later than October 5, the Commission shall file with | ||||||
3 | the
Secretary of State a redistricting plan approved by at | ||||||
4 | least five
members.
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5 | An approved redistricting plan filed with the Secretary of | ||||||
6 | State
shall be presumed valid, shall have the force and effect | ||||||
7 | of law and
shall be published promptly by the Secretary of | ||||||
8 | State.
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9 | The Supreme Court shall have original and exclusive | ||||||
10 | jurisdiction over
actions concerning redistricting the House | ||||||
11 | and Senate, which shall be
initiated in the name of the People | ||||||
12 | of the State by the Attorney
General.
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13 | (Source: Amendment adopted at general election November 4, | ||||||
14 | 1980.)
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15 | (ILCON Art. IV, Sec. 4)
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16 | SECTION 4. ELECTION
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17 | (a) At the general election in 2012, odd-numbered | ||||||
18 | Legislative Districts shall have elections for 2-year terms and | ||||||
19 | even-numbered Legislative Districts shall have elections for | ||||||
20 | 4-year terms. Thereafter, all Senators shall be elected for | ||||||
21 | 4-year terms. | ||||||
22 | (b) The requirements for a person to be listed on the | ||||||
23 | ballot for election as Senator shall be the same regardless of | ||||||
24 | political affiliation or non-affiliation. Members of the | ||||||
25 | General Assembly shall be elected at the general election
in |
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1 | even-numbered years.
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2 | (Source: Illinois Constitution.)
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3 | (ILCON Art. IV, Sec. 5)
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4 | SECTION 5. SESSIONS
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5 | (a) The Senate General Assembly shall convene each year on | ||||||
6 | the second
Wednesday of January following each general | ||||||
7 | election . The Senate General Assembly shall be a continuous | ||||||
8 | body
during the succeeding 2-year term for which members of the | ||||||
9 | House of Representatives are
elected .
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10 | (b) The Governor may convene the General Assembly or the | ||||||
11 | Senate
alone in special session by a proclamation stating the | ||||||
12 | purpose of the
session; and only business encompassed by such | ||||||
13 | purpose, together with
any impeachments or confirmation of | ||||||
14 | appointments shall be transacted.
Special sessions of the | ||||||
15 | Senate General Assembly may also be convened by a joint
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16 | proclamation of the presiding officer of the Senate officers of | ||||||
17 | both houses , issued as
provided by law.
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18 | (c) Sessions of the Senate each house of the General | ||||||
19 | Assembly and meetings of
committees , joint committees and | ||||||
20 | legislative commissions shall be open
to the public. Sessions | ||||||
21 | of the Senate and meetings of Senate committees and legislative | ||||||
22 | commissions and committee meetings of a house may be closed
to | ||||||
23 | the public if two-thirds of the members elected to that house
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24 | determine that the public interest so requires ; and meetings of | ||||||
25 | joint
committees and legislative commissions may be so closed |
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1 | if two-thirds of
the members elected to each house so | ||||||
2 | determine .
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3 | (Source: Illinois Constitution.)
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4 | (ILCON Art. IV, Sec. 6)
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5 | SECTION 6. ORGANIZATION
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6 | (a) A majority of the members elected to the Senate each | ||||||
7 | house constitutes a
quorum.
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8 | (b) On the first day of the January session following each | ||||||
9 | general election, of the General Assembly
in odd-numbered | ||||||
10 | years, the Secretary of State shall convene the House of
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11 | Representatives to elect from its membership a Speaker of the | ||||||
12 | House of
Representatives as presiding officer, and the Governor | ||||||
13 | shall convene the
Senate to elect from its membership a | ||||||
14 | President of the Senate as
presiding officer. No person may | ||||||
15 | hold the same leadership position for more than 2 terms. A | ||||||
16 | "leadership position" is defined as President of the Senate, | ||||||
17 | Majority Leader, Minority Leader, Committee Chairperson, or | ||||||
18 | Committee Minority Spokesperson.
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19 | (c) For purposes of powers of appointment conferred by this
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20 | Constitution, the Minority Leader of either house is a member | ||||||
21 | of the
numerically strongest political party other than the | ||||||
22 | party to which the
Speaker or the President belongs , as the | ||||||
23 | case may be .
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24 | (d) The Senate Each house shall determine the rules of its | ||||||
25 | proceedings, judge
the elections, returns , and qualifications |
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1 | of its members , and choose its
officers. No member shall be | ||||||
2 | expelled by the Senate either house , except by a vote
of | ||||||
3 | two-thirds of the members elected to that house . A member may | ||||||
4 | be
expelled only once for the same offense. The Senate Each | ||||||
5 | house may punish by
imprisonment any person, not a member, | ||||||
6 | guilty of disrespect to the Senate house
by disorderly or | ||||||
7 | contemptuous behavior in its presence. Imprisonment
shall not | ||||||
8 | extend beyond 24 twenty-four hours at one time unless the | ||||||
9 | person
persists in disorderly or contemptuous behavior.
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10 | (Source: Illinois Constitution.)
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11 | (ILCON Art. IV, Sec. 7)
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12 | SECTION 7. TRANSACTION OF BUSINESS
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13 | (a) Committees of each house, joint committees of the two | ||||||
14 | houses and
legislative commissions of the Senate shall give | ||||||
15 | reasonable public notice of meetings,
including a statement of | ||||||
16 | subjects to be considered.
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17 | (b) The Senate Each house shall keep a journal of its | ||||||
18 | proceedings and a
transcript of its debates. The journal shall | ||||||
19 | be published and the
transcript shall be available to the | ||||||
20 | public.
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21 | (c) The Senate Either house or any committee thereof as | ||||||
22 | provided by law may
compel by subpoena the attendance and | ||||||
23 | testimony of witnesses and the
production of books, records , | ||||||
24 | and papers.
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25 | (Source: Illinois Constitution.)
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1 | (ILCON Art. IV, Sec. 8)
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2 | SECTION 8. PASSAGE OF BILLS
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3 | (a) The enacting clause of the laws of this State shall be: | ||||||
4 | "Be it
enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, | ||||||
5 | represented in the
Senate General Assembly ."
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6 | (b) The Senate General Assembly shall enact laws only by | ||||||
7 | bill. Bills may
originate in either house, but may be amended | ||||||
8 | or rejected by the other.
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9 | (c) No bill shall become a law without the concurrence of a | ||||||
10 | majority
of the members elected to the Senate each house . Final | ||||||
11 | passage of a bill shall be
by record vote. At In the Senate at | ||||||
12 | the request of 2 two members, and in the
House at the request | ||||||
13 | of five members, a record vote may be taken on any
other | ||||||
14 | occasion. A record vote is a vote by yeas , and nays , and | ||||||
15 | abstentions entered on the
journal. Abstentions shall not count | ||||||
16 | towards the total number of votes.
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17 | (d) A bill shall be read by title on 3 three different days | ||||||
18 | in each
house . A bill and each amendment thereto shall be | ||||||
19 | reproduced and placed
on the desk of each member before final | ||||||
20 | passage.
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21 | (e) No bill shall receive its final vote unless it has been | ||||||
22 | public in its final form for 7 calendar days, which includes | ||||||
23 | posting of the bill on the General Assembly's website. | ||||||
24 | (f) Each bill must be substantially similar to its | ||||||
25 | condition when introduced. If amendments have significantly |
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1 | altered the nature of the bill, it must be reintroduced as a | ||||||
2 | new bill and meet all of the requirements of a new bill. | ||||||
3 | (g) Bills, except bills for appropriations and for the | ||||||
4 | codification,
revision , or rearrangement of laws, shall be | ||||||
5 | confined to one subject.
Appropriation bills shall be limited | ||||||
6 | to the subject of appropriations.
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7 | (h) A bill expressly amending a law shall set forth | ||||||
8 | completely the
sections amended.
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9 | (i) Any bill shall be called for a vote within 14 calendar | ||||||
10 | days upon the motion of at least 25 Senators. | ||||||
11 | (j) The Speaker of the House of Representatives and the | ||||||
12 | President of the
Senate shall sign each bill that passes both | ||||||
13 | houses to certify that the
procedural requirements for passage | ||||||
14 | have been met.
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15 | (Source: Illinois Constitution.)
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16 | (ILCON Art. IV, Sec. 9)
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17 | SECTION 9. VETO PROCEDURE
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18 | (a) Every bill passed by the Senate General Assembly shall | ||||||
19 | be presented to the
Governor within 30 calendar days after its | ||||||
20 | passage. The foregoing
requirement shall be judicially | ||||||
21 | enforceable. If the Governor approves
the bill, he or she shall | ||||||
22 | sign it and it shall become law.
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23 | (b) If the Governor does not approve the bill, he or she | ||||||
24 | shall veto it by
returning it with his or her objections to the | ||||||
25 | Senate house in which it originated .
Any bill not so returned |
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1 | by the Governor within 60 calendar days after
it is presented | ||||||
2 | to him or her shall become law. If recess or adjournment of the
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3 | Senate General Assembly prevents the return of a bill, the bill | ||||||
4 | and the
Governor's objections shall be filed with the Secretary | ||||||
5 | of State within
such 60 calendar days. The Secretary of State | ||||||
6 | shall return the bill and
objections to the Senate originating | ||||||
7 | house promptly upon the next meeting of
the Senate same General | ||||||
8 | Assembly at which the bill can be considered .
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9 | (c) The Senate house to which a bill is returned shall | ||||||
10 | immediately enter
the Governor's objections upon its journal. | ||||||
11 | If within 15 calendar days
after such entry the Senate that | ||||||
12 | house by a record vote of three-fifths of the
members elected | ||||||
13 | passes the bill, it shall be delivered immediately to
the | ||||||
14 | second house. If within 15 calendar days after such delivery | ||||||
15 | the
second house by a record vote of three-fifths of the | ||||||
16 | members elected
passes the bill, it shall become law.
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17 | (d) The Governor may reduce or veto any item of | ||||||
18 | appropriations in a
bill presented to him or her, using the | ||||||
19 | line-item veto power . Portions of a bill not reduced or vetoed | ||||||
20 | shall
become law. An item vetoed shall be returned to the | ||||||
21 | Senate house in which it
originated and may become law in the | ||||||
22 | same manner as a vetoed bill. An
item reduced in amount shall | ||||||
23 | be returned to the Senate house in which it
originated and may | ||||||
24 | be restored to its original amount in the same manner
as a | ||||||
25 | vetoed bill except that the required record vote shall be a
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26 | majority of the members elected to the Senate each house . If a |
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1 | reduced item is not
so restored, it shall become law in the | ||||||
2 | reduced amount.
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3 | (e) The Governor shall have no power of veto over | ||||||
4 | initiative or referendum proposed by the citizens of the State. | ||||||
5 | The Governor may return a bill together with specific
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6 | recommendations for change to the house in which it originated. | ||||||
7 | The bill
shall be considered in the same manner as a vetoed | ||||||
8 | bill but the specific
recommendations may be accepted by a | ||||||
9 | record vote of a majority of the
members elected to each house. | ||||||
10 | Such bill shall be presented again to the
Governor and if he | ||||||
11 | certifies that such acceptance conforms to his
specific | ||||||
12 | recommendations, the bill shall become law. If he does not so
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13 | certify, he shall return it as a vetoed bill to the house in | ||||||
14 | which it
originated.
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15 | (Source: Illinois Constitution.)
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16 | (ILCON Art. IV, Sec. 10)
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17 | SECTION 10. EFFECTIVE DATE OF LAWS
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18 | The Senate General Assembly shall provide by law for a | ||||||
19 | uniform effective date for
laws passed prior to June 1 of a | ||||||
20 | calendar year. The Senate General Assembly may
provide for a | ||||||
21 | different effective date in any law passed prior to June 1. A
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22 | bill passed after May 31 shall not become effective prior to | ||||||
23 | June 1 of the next
calendar year unless the Senate General | ||||||
24 | Assembly by the vote of three-fifths of the
members elected to | ||||||
25 | each house provides for an earlier effective date.
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1 | (Source: Amendment adopted at general election November 8, | ||||||
2 | 1994.)
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3 | (ILCON Art. IV, Sec. 11)
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4 | SECTION 11. COMPENSATION AND ALLOWANCES
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5 | A member shall receive a salary and allowances as provided | ||||||
6 | by law, but
changes in the salary of a member shall not take | ||||||
7 | effect during the term
for which he or she has been elected. | ||||||
8 | Salary and allowances for Senators cannot be changed without a | ||||||
9 | bill passing the Senate consistent with this Article.
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10 | (Source: Illinois Constitution.)
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11 | (ILCON Art. IV, Sec. 14)
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12 | SECTION 14. IMPEACHMENT
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13 | (a) The Senate shall have the sole power of impeachment, | ||||||
14 | but a majority of the members elected must concur therein. | ||||||
15 | Proceedings may be initiated in either a regular session or a | ||||||
16 | special session of the Senate. | ||||||
17 | (b) A resolution of impeachment shall give reasonable | ||||||
18 | notice of the acts or omissions alleged to constitute | ||||||
19 | impeachable offenses but need not conform to any particular | ||||||
20 | style. Upon the adoption of a resolution of impeachment, a | ||||||
21 | notice of an impeachment of any officer, other than a Judge of | ||||||
22 | the Supreme Court, shall be served upon the Chief Justice by | ||||||
23 | the Secretary of the Senate. The Chief Justice shall call a | ||||||
24 | session of the Supreme Court to meet at the Capitol in an |
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1 | expeditious fashion after receiving such notice to try the | ||||||
2 | impeachment. A notice of an impeachment of any Judge of the | ||||||
3 | Supreme Court shall be served by the Secretary of the Senate | ||||||
4 | upon the clerk of the judicial district within which the | ||||||
5 | Capitol is located. The clerk of the judicial district shall | ||||||
6 | choose at random seven Judges of the District Courts in the | ||||||
7 | State to meet within 30 days at the Capitol to sit as a Court to | ||||||
8 | try such impeachment. This Court shall organize by electing one | ||||||
9 | of its number to preside. | ||||||
10 | (c) The case against the impeached civil officer shall be | ||||||
11 | brought in the name of the General Assembly and shall be | ||||||
12 | managed by 2 Senators appointed by the Senate. The 2 Senators | ||||||
13 | may make technical or procedural amendments to the articles of | ||||||
14 | impeachment, as they deem necessary. The trial shall be | ||||||
15 | conducted in the manner of a civil proceeding, and the | ||||||
16 | impeached civil officer shall not be allowed to invoke a | ||||||
17 | privilege against self-incrimination, except as otherwise | ||||||
18 | applicable in a general civil case. | ||||||
19 | (d) No person shall be convicted without the concurrence of | ||||||
20 | two-thirds of the members of the Court of impeachment that | ||||||
21 | clear and convincing evidence exists indicating that the person | ||||||
22 | committed one or more impeachable offenses. Judgment in cases | ||||||
23 | of impeachment shall not extend further than removal from | ||||||
24 | office and disqualification to hold and enjoy any office of | ||||||
25 | honor, profit, or trust in this State. The person impeached, | ||||||
26 | whether convicted or acquitted, may still be subject to |
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1 | separate prosecution and punishment according to law. No | ||||||
2 | officer may exercise official duties after impeachment and | ||||||
3 | notice until the officer is acquitted. The House of | ||||||
4 | Representatives has the sole power to conduct legislative
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5 | investigations to determine the existence of cause for | ||||||
6 | impeachment and,
by the vote of a majority of the members | ||||||
7 | elected, to impeach Executive
and Judicial officers. | ||||||
8 | Impeachments shall be tried by the Senate. When
sitting for | ||||||
9 | that purpose, Senators shall be upon oath, or affirmation,
to | ||||||
10 | do justice according to law. If the Governor is tried, the | ||||||
11 | Chief
Justice of the Supreme Court shall preside. No person | ||||||
12 | shall be convicted
without the concurrence of two-thirds of the | ||||||
13 | Senators elected. Judgment
shall not extend beyond removal from | ||||||
14 | office and disqualification to hold
any public office of this | ||||||
15 | State. An impeached officer, whether convicted
or acquitted, | ||||||
16 | shall be liable to prosecution, trial, judgment and
punishment | ||||||
17 | according to law.
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18 | (Source: Illinois Constitution.)
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19 | (ILCON Art. IV, Sec. 15)
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20 | SECTION 15. ADJOURNMENT (REPEALED)
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21 | (a) When the General Assembly is in session, neither house | ||||||
22 | without the
consent of the other shall adjourn for more than | ||||||
23 | three days or to a
place other than where the two houses are | ||||||
24 | sitting.
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25 | (b) If either house certifies that a disagreement exists |
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1 | between the
houses as to the time for adjourning a session, the | ||||||
2 | Governor may adjourn
the General Assembly to a time not later | ||||||
3 | than the first day of the next
annual session.
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4 | (Source: Illinois Constitution.)
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5 | SCHEDULE
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6 | This Constitutional Amendment takes effect upon being | ||||||
7 | declared adopted in accordance with Section 7 of the Illinois | ||||||
8 | Constitutional Amendment Act and applies to redistricting | ||||||
9 | beginning in 2011, to the election of General Assembly members | ||||||
10 | beginning in 2012, and to the operation of the General Assembly | ||||||
11 | beginning on the second Wednesday in January 2013. | ||||||
12 | Should any part of this Amendment be rendered or declared | ||||||
13 | invalid by a court of competent jurisdiction of the State of | ||||||
14 | Illinois or the United States, that invalidation of the part or | ||||||
15 | portion of this Amendment should not invalidate the remaining | ||||||
16 | portions of this Amendment, and they shall remain in full force | ||||||
17 | and effect.
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