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 1                       HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION
 2                      CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT

 3        RESOLVED,  BY  THE  HOUSE  OF  REPRESENTATIVES   OF   THE
 4    NINETY-THIRD  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 2
 9    and 5 of Article IV of the Illinois Constitution as follows:

10                             ARTICLE IV
11                           THE LEGISLATURE

12         (ILCON Art. IV, Sec. 2)
13    SECTION 2. LEGISLATIVE COMPOSITION
14        (a)    One Senator shall be elected from each Legislative
15    District. Senators elected in 2006 shall serve terms  of  six
16    years.   Senators  elected  in 2008 shall serve terms of four
17    years.  Senators elected in 2010 shall  serve  terms  of  two
18    years.  Immediately  following  each decennial redistricting,
19    the General Assembly by  law  shall  divide  the  Legislative
20    Districts  as  equally  as  possible  into  two three groups.
21    During each  ten-year  period,  beginning  with  the  general
22    election  in  2012,  Senators  from  one group shall first be
23    elected for terms of six years and then  for  terms  of  four
24    years,  four  years  and  two years; Senators from the second
25    group, for terms of four years, two years and four years; and
26    Senators from the other third group shall first  be  elected,
27    for  terms of two years, four years and then for terms of six
28    four years. The Legislative Districts in each group shall  be
29    distributed substantially equally over the State.
30        (b)  Each  Legislative District shall be divided into two
31    Representative  Districts.   In  1982  and  every  two  years
32    thereafter One Representative  shall  be  elected  from  each
 
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 1    Representative   District   for   a   term   of   two  years.
 2    Representatives elected in 2006 shall  serve  terms  of  four
 3    years.  Representatives  elected in 2010 shall serve terms of
 4    two years.  During each ten-year period, beginning  with  the
 5    general  election  in  2012,  Representatives  shall first be
 6    elected for terms of four years, then for terms of two years,
 7    and then for terms of four years.
 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
13    redistricting, a candidate for the General  Assembly  may  be
14    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.
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 or Representative office  with  more  than
21    twenty-eight  months  remaining  in  the  term, the appointed
22    Senator or Representative shall serve until the next  general
23    election,  at which time a Senator or Representative shall be
24    elected to serve for the  remainder  of  the  term.   If  the
25    vacancy is in any other Senatorial or a Representative office
26    or  in  any other Senatorial office, the appointment shall be
27    for the remainder of  the  term.   An  appointee  to  fill  a
28    vacancy  shall be a member of the same political party as the
29    person he succeeds.
30        (e)  No member of  the  General  Assembly  shall  receive
31    compensation  as  a public officer or employee from any other
32    governmental entity for time during which he is in attendance
33    as a member of the General Assembly.
34        No member of the General Assembly  during  the  term  for
 
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 1    which  he  was  elected  or appointed shall be appointed to a
 2    public  office  which  shall  have  been   created   or   the
 3    compensation  for  which  shall  have  been  increased by the
 4    General Assembly during that term.
 5    (Source: Amendment adopted at general  election  November  4,
 6    1980.)

 7         (ILCON Art. IV, Sec. 5)
 8    SECTION 5. SESSIONS
 9        (a)  The  General Assembly shall convene each year on the
10    second Wednesday of January.  The General Assembly shall be a
11    continuous body for a period beginning and ending at noon  on
12    the  second  Wednesday of January of consecutive odd-numbered
13    years. during the term for which  members  of  the  House  of
14    Representatives are elected.
15        (b)  The Governor may convene the General Assembly or the
16    Senate alone in special session by a proclamation stating the
17    purpose of the session; and only business encompassed by such
18    purpose,  together  with  any impeachments or confirmation of
19    appointments shall be transacted.  Special  sessions  of  the
20    General  Assembly  may also be convened by joint proclamation
21    of the presiding officers of both houses, issued as  provided
22    by law.
23        (c)  Sessions  of  each house of the General Assembly and
24    meetings of  committees,  joint  committees  and  legislative
25    commissions  shall  be  open  to  the  public.  Sessions  and
26    committee  meetings of a house may be closed to the public if
27    two-thirds of the members elected  to  that  house  determine
28    that  the  public interest so requires; and meetings of joint
29    committees and legislative commissions may be  so  closed  if
30    two-thirds of the members elected to each house so determine.
31    (Source: Illinois Constitution.)

32                              SCHEDULE
 
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 1        This  Constitutional  Amendment  takes  effect upon being
 2    declared adopted in accordance with Section 7 of the Illinois
 3    Constitutional Amendment Act and applies to the  election  of
 4    members  of  the General Assembly in 2006 and thereafter.  It
 5    does not affect the terms of members elected before 2006.