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 1        AN ACT concerning gubernatorial appointments.

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

 4        Section  1.  Short  title.  This  Act may be cited as the
 5    Gubernatorial Late Term Appointment Act.

 6        Section 5. Definition. As used in this Act:
 7        "Late term appointee" means a person (i) appointed to  an
 8    office  by a Governor who does not succeed himself or herself
 9    as Governor, (ii) whose appointment requires the  advice  and
10    consent  of  the  Senate,  and  (iii)  whose  appointment  is
11    confirmed  by  the  Senate 60 or fewer days before the end of
12    the appointing Governor's term. "Succeeding  Governor"  means
13    the Governor in office immediately after a Governor who makes
14    a late term appointment.

15        Section  10. Late term appointee's term of office. A late
16    term appointee shall serve no longer than the sixtieth day of
17    the term of office of the succeeding Governor.

18        Section 15. Vacancy created.  Upon  the  earlier  of  the
19    resignation of a late term appointee or the conclusion of the
20    sixtieth  day  of  the  term of the succeeding Governor, that
21    appointed office shall be considered vacant.  The  succeeding
22    Governor  may  then make an appointment to fill that vacancy,
23    regardless of whether the statute that creates the  appointed
24    office  provides for appointment to fill a vacancy. All other
25    requirements of law applicable to that appointed office shall
26    apply to the succeeding Governor's appointee,  including  but
27    not  limited to eligibility, qualifications, and confirmation
28    by the Senate.
 
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 1        Section 20. Term of appointee. The term of office  of  an
 2    appointee  filling  a vacancy created under this Act shall be
 3    the term of any appointee filling a vacancy  as  provided  by
 4    the statute that creates the appointed office. If the statute
 5    that  creates  the appointed office does not specify the term
 6    to be served by an appointee filling a vacancy, the  term  of
 7    the appointee shall be for the remainder of the term the late
 8    term appointee would have otherwise been entitled to fill.

 9        Section  25. Reappointment. Nothing in this Act prohibits
10    a  succeeding  Governor  from   reappointing   an   otherwise
11    qualified  late  term  appointee  to fill the vacancy created
12    under this Act.