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1 HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION
2 CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT
3 RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE
4 NINETY-FIRST GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, THE
5 SENATE CONCURRING HEREIN, that there shall be submitted to
6 the electors of the State for adoption or rejection at the
7 general election next occurring at least 6 months after the
8 adoption of this resolution a proposition to amend Sections 1
9 and 2 of Article IV of the Illinois Constitution as follows:
10 ARTICLE IV
11 THE LEGISLATURE
12 (ILCON Art. IV, Sec. 1)
13 SECTION 1. LEGISLATURE - POWER AND STRUCTURE
14 The legislative power is vested in a General Assembly
15 consisting of a Senate and a House of Representatives,
16 elected by the electors from 59 Legislative Districts and 39
17 118 Representative Districts.
18 (Source: Amendment adopted at general election November 4,
19 1980.)
20 (ILCON Art. IV, Sec. 2)
21 SECTION 2. LEGISLATIVE COMPOSITION
22 (a) One Senator shall be elected from each Legislative
23 District. Immediately following each decennial redistricting,
24 the General Assembly by law shall divide the Legislative
25 Districts as equally as possible into three groups. Senators
26 from one group shall be elected for terms of four years, four
27 years and two years; Senators from the second group, for
28 terms of four years, two years and four years; and Senators
29 from the third group, for terms of two years, four years and
30 four years. The Legislative Districts in each group shall be
31 distributed substantially equally over the State.
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1 (b) In 2002 and every two years thereafter, three
2 Representatives Each Legislative District shall be divided
3 into two Representative Districts. In 1982 and every two
4 years thereafter one Representative shall be elected from
5 each Representative District for a term of two years.
6 Representatives shall be elected in accordance with a system
7 of proportional representation provided by law.
8 (c) To be eligible to serve as a member of the General
9 Assembly, a person must be a United States citizen, at least
10 21 years old, and for the two years preceding his election or
11 appointment a resident of the district which he is to
12 represent. In the general election following a redistricting,
13 a candidate for the General Assembly may be elected from any
14 district which contains a part of the district in which he
15 resided at the time of the redistricting and reelected if a
16 resident of the new district he represents for 18 months
17 prior to reelection.
18 (d) Within thirty days after a vacancy occurs, it shall
19 be filled by appointment as provided by law. If the vacancy
20 is in a Senatorial office with more than twenty-eight months
21 remaining in the term, the appointed Senator shall serve
22 until the next general election, at which time a Senator
23 shall be elected to serve for the remainder of the term. If
24 the 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
27 of the same political party as the person he succeeds.
28 (e) No member of the General Assembly shall receive
29 compensation as a public officer or employee from any other
30 governmental entity for time during which he is in attendance
31 as a member of the General Assembly.
32 No member of the General Assembly during the term for
33 which he was elected or appointed shall be appointed to a
34 public office which shall have been created or the
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1 compensation for which shall have been increased by the
2 General Assembly during that term.
3 (Source: Amendment adopted at general election November 4,
4 1980.)
5 SCHEDULE
6 This Constitutional Amendment takes effect beginning with
7 redistricting in 2001 and applies to the election of
8 Representatives in 2002 and thereafter.