Date	Chamber	Action
1/8/2019	House	Session Sine Die

Statutes Amended In Order of Appearance

10 ILCS 5/17-14.1 new

Synopsis As Introduced
Amends the Election Code. Requires each election authority to report to the State Board of Elections all census tracts within its jurisdiction in which more than 10% of the persons who speak the same foreign language have been identified as having limited English proficiency, as reported in the American Community Survey. Provides that those reports shall be made in 2018 and then each year ending in a 1 or a 6. Provides that, beginning with the general election held in 2018, any election authority reporting that more than 10% of persons residing within a census tract speaking the same foreign language have been identified as having limited English proficiency shall make certain election information available in the primary non-English language of those persons having limited English proficiency. Effective immediately.

Actions 

Date	Chamber	Action
2/7/2017	House	Filed with the Clerk by Rep. Lawrence Walsh, Jr.
2/8/2017	House	First Reading
2/8/2017	House	Referred to Rules Committee
2/22/2017	House	Assigned to Elections & Campaign Finance Committee
3/10/2017	House	To Ballot Access Subcommittee
3/30/2017	House	Recommends Do Pass Subcommittee/ Elections & Campaign Finance Committee; 005-000-000
3/30/2017	House	Reported Back To Elections & Campaign Finance Committee;
3/30/2017	House	Do Pass / Short Debate Elections & Campaign Finance Committee; 010-006-000
3/30/2017	House	Placed on Calendar 2nd Reading - Short Debate
4/26/2017	House	Second Reading - Short Debate
4/26/2017	House	Held on Calendar Order of Second Reading - Short Debate
4/28/2017	House	Rule 19(a) / Re-referred to Rules Committee
1/8/2019	House	Session Sine Die

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