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93RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2003 and 2004
HB6280
Introduced 02/06/04, by Tom Cross SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
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705 ILCS 40/1.1 |
from Ch. 37, par. 72.41-1 |
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Amends the Judicial Vacancies Act. Makes a stylistic change in provisions
concerning definitions.
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A BILL FOR
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HB6280 |
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LRB093 14615 LCB 40123 b |
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| AN ACT concerning the courts.
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| Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, |
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| represented in the General Assembly:
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| Section 5. The Judicial Vacancies Act is amended by |
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| changing Section 1.1 as
follows:
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| (705 ILCS 40/1.1) (from Ch. 37, par. 72.41-1)
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| Sec. 1.1. Definitions. As used in this Act, the term |
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| "resident circuit
judge" or "resident
judge" refers to a |
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| circuit judge who, immediately prior to July 1, 1971,
was an |
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| associate judge and who became a circuit judge on July 1, 1971 |
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| by
reason of paragraph (a) of Section 4 of the Transition |
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| Schedule of the
Constitution of 1970 or a circuit judge who was |
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| appointed after June 30,
1971 by the Supreme Court to fill the |
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| vacancy existing prior to July 1,
1971 in the office of a |
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| former associate judge and whose office was, prior
to July 1, |
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| 1971, filled by election from a single county or, in the case |
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| of
Cook County, from one of the 2 units of the county, and not |
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| from the
circuit at large.
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| (Source: P.A. 88-45.)
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