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90_SB1702
10 ILCS 5/7-9 from Ch. 46, par. 7-9
Amends the Election Code. Provides that State
conventions shall be held on the first Friday after the
second Monday, next succeeding the general primary in
Presidential election years. Provides that in other
even-numbered years a State convention may be held at any
time after the proclamation of the results of the primary
(now all State conventions shall be held on the first Friday
after the second Monday next succeeding the primary at which
committeemen are elected). Provides that at least 33 days
before the date of a State convention (now the primary at
which committeemen are elected), a call for the State
convention shall be filed in the principal office of the
State Board of Elections (now the office of the county clerk
in each county of the State). Effective immediately.
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1 AN ACT to amend the Election Code by changing Section
2 7-9.
3 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
4 represented in the General Assembly:
5 Section 5. The Election Code is amended by changing
6 Section 7-9 as follows:
7 (10 ILCS 5/7-9) (from Ch. 46, par. 7-9)
8 Sec. 7-9. County central committee; county and State
9 conventions.
10 (a) On the second Monday next succeeding the primary at
11 which committeemen are elected, the county central committee
12 of each political party shall meet at the county seat of the
13 proper county and proceed to organize by electing from its
14 own number a chairman and either from its own number, or
15 otherwise, such other officers as such committee may deem
16 necessary or expedient. Such meeting of the county central
17 committee shall be known as the county convention.
18 The chairman of each county committee shall within 10
19 days after the organization, forward to the State Board of
20 Elections, the names and post office addresses of the
21 officers, precinct committeemen and representative
22 committeemen elected by his political party.
23 The county convention of each political party shall
24 choose delegates to the State convention of its party; but in
25 any county having within its limits any city having a
26 population of 200,000, or over the delegates from such city
27 shall be chosen by wards, the ward committeemen from the
28 respective wards choosing the number of delegates to which
29 such ward is entitled on the basis prescribed in paragraph
30 (e) of this Section such delegates to be members of the
31 delegation to the State convention from such county. In all
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1 counties containing a population of 2,000,000 or more outside
2 of cities having a population of 200,000 or more, the
3 delegates from each of the townships or parts of townships as
4 the case may be shall be chosen by townships or parts of
5 townships as the case may be, the township committeemen from
6 the respective townships or parts of townships as the case
7 may be choosing the number of delegates to which such
8 townships or parts of townships as the case may be are
9 entitled, on the basis prescribed in paragraph (e) of this
10 Section such delegates to be members of the delegation to the
11 State convention from such county.
12 Each member of the State Central Committee of a political
13 party which elects its members by Alternative B under
14 paragraph (a) of Section 7-8 shall be a delegate to the State
15 Convention, ex officio.
16 Each member of the State Central Committee of a political
17 party which elects its members by Alternative B under
18 paragraph (a) of Section 7-8 may appoint 2 delegates to the
19 State Convention who must be residents of the member's
20 Congressional District.
21 (b) All State conventions shall be held on the first
22 Friday after the second Monday next succeeding the general
23 primary in the year 2000 and every 4 years thereafter the
24 primary at which committeemen are elected. In the year 1998,
25 and every 4 years thereafter, the chairman of a State central
26 committee may issue a call for a State convention at any time
27 after the proclamation of the results of the primary.
28 The State convention of each political party has power to
29 make nominations of candidates of its political party for the
30 electors of President and Vice President of the United
31 States, and to adopt any party platform, and, to the extent
32 determined by the State central committee as provided in
33 Section 7-14, to choose and select delegates and alternate
34 delegates at large to national nominating conventions. The
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1 State Central Committee may adopt rules to provide for and
2 govern the procedures of the State convention.
3 (c) The chairman and secretary of each State convention
4 shall, within 2 days thereafter, transmit to the State Board
5 of Elections of this State a certificate setting forth the
6 names and addresses of all persons nominated by such State
7 convention for electors of President and Vice President of
8 the United States, and of any persons selected by the State
9 convention for delegates and alternate delegates at large to
10 national nominating conventions; and the names of such
11 candidates so chosen by such State convention for electors of
12 President and Vice President of the United States, shall be
13 caused by the State Board of Elections to be printed upon the
14 official ballot at the general election, in the manner
15 required by law, and shall be certified to the various county
16 clerks of the proper counties in the manner as provided in
17 Section 7-60 of this Article 7 for the certifying of the
18 names of persons nominated by any party for State offices. If
19 and as long as this Act prescribes that the names of such
20 electors be not printed on the ballot, then the names of such
21 electors shall be certified in such manner as may be
22 prescribed by the parts of this Act applicable thereto.
23 (d) Each convention may perform all other functions
24 inherent to such political organization and not inconsistent
25 with this Article.
26 (e) At least 33 days before the date of a State
27 convention primary at which committeemen are elected, the
28 chairman of the State central committee of each political
29 party shall file in the principal office of the State Board
30 of Elections county clerk in each county of the State a call
31 for the State convention. Such call shall state, among other
32 things, the time and place (designating the building or hall)
33 for holding the State convention. Such call shall be signed
34 by the chairman and attested by the secretary of the
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1 committee. In such convention each county shall be entitled
2 to one delegate for each 500 ballots voted by the primary
3 electors of the party in such county at the primary to be
4 held next after the issuance of such call; and if in such
5 county, less than 500 ballots are so voted or if the number
6 of ballots so voted is not exactly a multiple of 500, there
7 shall be one delegate for such group which is less than 500,
8 or for such group representing the number of votes over the
9 multiple of 500, which delegate shall have 1/500 of one vote
10 for each primary vote so represented by him. The call for
11 such convention shall set forth this paragraph (e) of Section
12 7-9 in full and shall direct that the number of delegates to
13 be chosen be calculated in compliance herewith and that such
14 number of delegates be chosen.
15 (f) All precinct, township and ward committeemen when
16 elected as provided in this Section shall serve as though
17 elected at large irrespective of any changes that may be made
18 in precinct, township or ward boundaries and the voting
19 strength of each committeeman shall remain as provided in
20 this Section for the entire time for which he is elected.
21 (g) The officers elected at any convention provided for
22 in this Section shall serve until their successors are
23 elected as provided in this Act.
24 (h) A special meeting of any central committee may be
25 called by the chairman, or by not less than 25% of the
26 members of such committee, by giving 5 days notice to members
27 of such committee in writing designating the time and place
28 at which such special meeting is to be held and the business
29 which it is proposed to present at such special meeting.
30 (i) Except as otherwise provided in this Act, whenever a
31 vacancy exists in the office of precinct committeeman because
32 no one was elected to that office or because the precinct
33 committeeman ceases to reside in the precinct or for any
34 other reason, the chairman of the county central committee of
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1 the appropriate political party may fill the vacancy in such
2 office by appointment of a qualified resident of the county
3 and the appointed precinct committeeman shall serve as though
4 elected; however, no such appointment may be made between the
5 general primary election and the 14th day after the general
6 primary election.
7 (j) If the number of Congressional Districts in the
8 State of Illinois is reduced as a result of reapportionment
9 of Congressional Districts following a federal decennial
10 census, the State Central Committeemen and Committeewomen of
11 a political party which elects its State Central Committee by
12 either Alternative A or by Alternative B under paragraph (a)
13 of Section 7-8 who were previously elected shall continue to
14 serve as if no reapportionment had occurred until the
15 expiration of their terms.
16 (Source: P.A. 89-5, eff. 1-1-96.)
17 Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
18 becoming law.