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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 Section 2
 9    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. Immediately following each decennial redistricting,
16    the  General  Assembly  by  law  shall divide the Legislative
17    Districts as equally as possible into three groups.  Senators
18    from one group shall be elected for terms of four years, four
19    years  and  two  years;  Senators  from the second group, for
20    terms of four years, two years and four years;  and  Senators
21    from  the third group, for terms of two years, four years and
22    four years. The Legislative Districts in each group shall  be
23    distributed substantially equally over the State.
24        (b)  Each  Legislative District shall be divided into two
25    Representative  Districts.  In  1982  and  every  two   years
26    thereafter  one  Representative  shall  be  elected from each
27    Representative District for a term of two years.
28        (c)  To be eligible to serve as a member of  the  General
29    Assembly,  a person must be a United States citizen, at least
30    21 years old, and for the two years preceding his election or
31    appointment a  resident  of  the  district  which  he  is  to
32    represent. In the general election following a redistricting,
 
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 1    a  candidate for the General Assembly may be elected from any
 2    district which contains a part of the district  in  which  he
 3    resided  at  the time of the redistricting and reelected if a
 4    resident of the new district  he  represents  for  18  months
 5    prior to reelection.
 6        (d)  If   a   vacancy   in   the  office  of  Senator  or
 7    Representative occurs 180  or  fewer  days  before  the  next
 8    general  election,  the  vacancy  shall be filled at the next
 9    general election. If a vacancy in the office  of  Senator  or
10    Representative  occurs  more  than  180  days before the next
11    general election, the vacancy shall be filled  at  a  special
12    election  as  provided  by  law.  A  person elected to fill a
13    vacancy in office shall serve for the remainder of the  term.
14    Within thirty days after a vacancy occurs, it shall be filled
15    by  appointment  as  provided  by law. If the vacancy is in a
16    Senatorial  office  with  more   than   twenty-eight   months
17    remaining  in  the  term,  the  appointed Senator shall serve
18    until the next general election,  at  which  time  a  Senator
19    shall  be  elected to serve for the remainder of the term. If
20    the vacancy is in a Representative office  or  in  any  other
21    Senatorial office, the appointment shall be for the remainder
22    of the term. An appointee to fill a vacancy shall be a member
23    of the same political party as the person he succeeds.
24        (e)  No  member  of  the  General  Assembly shall receive
25    compensation as a public officer or employee from  any  other
26    governmental entity for time during which he is in attendance
27    as a member of the General Assembly.
28        No  member  of  the  General Assembly during the term for
29    which he was elected or appointed shall  be  appointed  to  a
30    public   office   which   shall  have  been  created  or  the
31    compensation for which  shall  have  been  increased  by  the
32    General Assembly during that term.
33    (Source:  Amendment  adopted  at general election November 4,
34    1980.)
 
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 1                              SCHEDULE
 2        This Constitutional Amendment  takes  effect  upon  being
 3    declared adopted in accordance with Section 7 of the Illinois
 4    Constitutional Amendment Act.