Sen. Terry Link
Filed: 12/16/2008
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1 | AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 611
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2 | AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 611 by replacing | ||||||
3 | everything after the enacting clause with the following:
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4 | "Section 5. The Election Code is amended by changing | ||||||
5 | Section 25-8 as follows:
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6 | (10 ILCS 5/25-8) (from Ch. 46, par. 25-8)
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7 | Sec. 25-8.
When a vacancy shall occur in the office of | ||||||
8 | United States
Senator from this state, the Governor shall make | ||||||
9 | temporary appointment to
fill such vacancy until the next | ||||||
10 | election of representatives in Congress ; except that the | ||||||
11 | Secretary of State, with the advice and consent of the Illinois | ||||||
12 | Senate, shall make temporary appointment to fill any such | ||||||
13 | vacancy that occurred between November 1, 2008, and December 1, | ||||||
14 | 2008, until the next election of representatives in Congress. | ||||||
15 | The ,
at which time such vacancy shall be filled by election at | ||||||
16 | the next election of representatives in Congress , and the |
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1 | senator so
elected shall take office as soon thereafter as he | ||||||
2 | shall receive his
certificate of election.
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3 | (Source: Laws 1943, vol. 2, p. 1.)
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4 | Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | ||||||
5 | becoming law.".
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