093_HB2074eng

 
HB2074 Engrossed                     LRB093 02530 RLC 02540 b

 1        AN ACT concerning the courts.

 2        Be  it  enacted  by  the People of the State of Illinois,
 3    represented in the General Assembly:

 4        Section 5.  The Judicial  Vacancies  Act  is  amended  by
 5    changing Section 1.1 as follows:

 6        (705 ILCS 40/1.1) (from Ch. 37, par. 72.41-1)
 7        Sec.  1.1.  Definitions.  As  used  in this Act, the term
 8    "resident circuit judge" or  "resident  judge"  refers  to  a
 9    circuit  judge who, immediately prior to July 1, 1971, was an
10    associate judge and who became a circuit  judge  on  July  1,
11    1971  by  reason  of  paragraph  (a)  of  Section  4  of  the
12    Transition  Schedule of the Constitution of 1970 or a circuit
13    judge who was appointed after June 30, 1971  by  the  Supreme
14    Court  to  fill the vacancy existing prior to July 1, 1971 in
15    the office of a former associate judge and whose office  was,
16    prior  to  July  1,  1971,  filled  by election from a single
17    county or, in the case of Cook County,  from  one  of  the  2
18    units of the county, and not from the circuit at large.
19    (Source: P.A. 88-45.)