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 1                       HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION
 2                      CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT

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

10                             ARTICLE VII
11                          LOCAL GOVERNMENT

12         (ILCON Art. VII, Sec. 3)
13    SECTION 3. COUNTY BOARDS
14        (a)  A county board shall be elected in each county.  The
15    number  of  members  of  the  county  board shall be fixed by
16    county-wide referendum or ordinance  in  each  county  within
17    limitations provided by law.
18        (b)  The  General  Assembly  by law shall provide methods
19    available to all counties for the election  of  county  board
20    members.  No  county,  other than Cook County, may change its
21    method of  electing  board  members  except  as  approved  by
22    county-wide referendum.
23        (c)  Members  of  the  Cook County Board shall be elected
24    from two districts, Chicago and  that  part  of  Cook  County
25    outside Chicago, unless (1) a different method of election is
26    approved  by  a  majority  of  votes  cast in each of the two
27    districts in a county-wide referendum or (2) the Cook  County
28    Board  by  ordinance  divides  the  county into single member
29    districts from which members of the County Board resident  in
30    each  district are elected. If a different method of election
31    is adopted pursuant to option (1) the method of election  may
32    thereafter  be  altered  only  pursuant  to  option (2) or by
 
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 1    county-wide referendum. A different method of election may be
 2    adopted pursuant to option (2) only once and  the  method  of
 3    election  may  thereafter  be  altered  only  by  county-wide
 4    referendum.
 5    (Source: Illinois Constitution.)

 6                              SCHEDULE
 7        This  Constitutional  Amendment  takes  effect upon being
 8    declared adopted in accordance with Section 7 of the Illinois
 9    Constitutional Amendment Act.