102ND GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2021 and 2022
HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION
CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT
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Introduced 2/22/2021, by Rep. Keith R. Wheeler
 
SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 

 



ILCON Art. IV, Sec. 8

     Amends the Legislature Article of the Illinois Constitution. Provides that any bill voted upon in either house on  or after January 1, but prior to the beginning of a new session of the General Assembly on the second Wednesday in January, in odd-numbered years, shall pass only by a three-fifths majority vote of the members elected to each house. Effective upon being declared adopted.
  


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1
HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION

  
2
CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT

  
 
  
3    RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE ONE 
4HUNDRED SECOND GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, THE 
5SENATE CONCURRING HEREIN, that there shall be submitted to the 
6electors of the State for adoption or rejection at the general 
7election next occurring at least 6 months after the adoption 
8of this resolution a proposition to amend the Illinois 
9Constitution in Article IV by changing Section 8 as follows:
  
 

10
ARTICLE IV 


11
THE LEGISLATURE






12    (ILCON Art. IV, Sec. 8)



13SECTION 8. PASSAGE OF BILLS 

14    (a) The enacting clause of the laws of this State shall be: 
15"Be it
enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, 
16represented in the
General Assembly."

17    (b) The General Assembly shall enact laws only by bill. 
18Bills may
originate in either house, but may be amended or 
19rejected by the other.

20    (c) No bill shall become a law without the concurrence of a 
21majority
of the members elected to each house. Final passage 
22of a bill shall be
by record vote. In the Senate at the request 
23of two members, and in the
House at the request of five 
 
 
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1members, a record vote may be taken on any
other occasion. A 
2record vote is a vote by yeas and nays entered on the
journal.

3    (d) A bill shall be read by title on three different days 
4in each
house. A bill and each amendment thereto shall be 
5reproduced and placed
on the desk of each member before final 
6passage.

7    Bills, except bills for appropriations and for the 
8codification,
revision or rearrangement of laws, shall be 
9confined to one subject.
Appropriation bills shall be limited 
10to the subject of appropriations.

11    A bill expressly amending a law shall set forth completely 
12the
sections amended.

13    The Speaker of the House of Representatives and the 
14President of the
Senate shall sign each bill that passes both 
15houses to certify that the
procedural requirements for passage 
16have been met.

17    (e) Any bill voted upon in either house on  or after January 
181, but prior to the beginning of a new session of the General 
19Assembly on the second Wednesday in January, in odd-numbered 
20years, shall pass only by a three-fifths majority vote of the 
21members elected to each house. 
22(Source: Illinois Constitution.)

 
  
23
SCHEDULE

  
24    This Constitutional Amendment takes effect upon being 
25declared adopted in accordance with Section 7 of the Illinois 
 
 
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1Constitutional Amendment Act.