Elections & Campaign Reform Committee
Filed: 4/18/2007
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1 | AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 1872
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2 | AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 1872 on page 1, | ||||||
3 | immediately below line 3, by inserting the following:
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4 | "Section 3. The School Code is amended by changing Section | ||||||
5 | 9-10 as follows:
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6 | (105 ILCS 5/9-10) (from Ch. 122, par. 9-10)
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7 | Sec. 9-10. Candidates for office - Nominating petitions. | ||||||
8 | Candidates for
the office of school director shall be nominated | ||||||
9 | by petition signed by at
least 25 voters or 5% of the voters, | ||||||
10 | whichever is less, residing within
the district and filed with | ||||||
11 | the secretary of the board of school directors
or with a person | ||||||
12 | designated by the board to receive nominating petitions.
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13 | Nominations for members of boards of education, including | ||||||
14 | non-high school
boards of education shall be made by a petition | ||||||
15 | signed by at least 50 voters
or 10% of the voters, whichever is | ||||||
16 | less, residing within the district and
shall be filed with the |
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1 | secretary of the board of education or with a
person designated | ||||||
2 | by the board to receive nominating petitions. In addition
to | ||||||
3 | the requirements of the general election law, the form of such | ||||||
4 | petitions
shall be substantially as follows:
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5 | NOMINATING PETITIONS
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6 | (LEAVE OUT THE INAPPLICABLE PART.)
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7 | To the secretary of the board of education (or board of | ||||||
8 | directors)
of district number .... in .... County:
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9 | We the undersigned, being (.... or more) (or 10% or more) | ||||||
10 | (or 5% or more)
of the voters residing within said district, | ||||||
11 | hereby petition that .... who
resides at .... in the (city or | ||||||
12 | village) of .... in Township .... (or who
resides outside any | ||||||
13 | city, village or incorporated town and in Township ....) in
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14 | said district shall be a candidate for the office of .... of | ||||||
15 | the board of
education (or board of directors) (full term) | ||||||
16 | (vacancy) to be voted for at the
election to be held on (insert | ||||||
17 | date).
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18 | Name: .................. Address: ...................
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19 | In the designation of the name of a candidate on a petition | ||||||
20 | for
nomination, the candidate's given name or names, initial or | ||||||
21 | initials, a nickname by which the candidate is commonly known, | ||||||
22 | or a combination thereof may be used in addition to the | ||||||
23 | candidate's surname. If a candidate has changed his or her | ||||||
24 | name, whether by a statutory or common law procedure in | ||||||
25 | Illinois or any other jurisdiction, within 3 years before the |
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1 | last day for filing the petition, then (i) the candidate's name | ||||||
2 | on the petition must be followed by "formerly known as (list | ||||||
3 | all prior names during the 3-year period) until name changed on | ||||||
4 | (list date of each such name change)" and (ii) the petition | ||||||
5 | must be accompanied by the candidate's affidavit stating the | ||||||
6 | candidate's previous names during the period specified in | ||||||
7 | clause (i) and the date or dates each of those names was | ||||||
8 | changed; failure to meet these requirements shall be grounds | ||||||
9 | for denying certification of the candidate's name for the | ||||||
10 | ballot, but these requirements do not apply to name changes | ||||||
11 | resulting from adoption to assume an adoptive parent's or | ||||||
12 | parents' surname, marriage to assume a spouse's surname, or | ||||||
13 | dissolution of marriage or declaration of invalidity of | ||||||
14 | marriage to assume a former surname. No other designation, such | ||||||
15 | as a political slogan, as defined by Section 7-17 of the | ||||||
16 | Election Code, title or degree, or nickname suggesting or | ||||||
17 | implying possession of a title, degree or professional status, | ||||||
18 | or similar information may be used in connection with the | ||||||
19 | candidate's surname.
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20 | Nomination papers filed under this Section are not valid | ||||||
21 | unless the candidate
named therein files with the secretary of | ||||||
22 | the board of education or a
person designated by the board to | ||||||
23 | receive nominating petitions a receipt
from the county clerk | ||||||
24 | showing that the candidate has filed a statement of
economic | ||||||
25 | interests as required by the Illinois Governmental Ethics Act.
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26 | Such receipt shall be so filed either previously during the |
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1 | calendar year
in which his nomination papers were filed or | ||||||
2 | within the period for the filing
of nomination papers in | ||||||
3 | accordance with the general election law.
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4 | All petitions for the nomination of members of a board of | ||||||
5 | education shall
be filed with the secretary of the board or a | ||||||
6 | person designated by the
board to receive nominating petitions | ||||||
7 | within the time provided for
by the general election law. The | ||||||
8 | secretary shall receive and file only
those petitions which | ||||||
9 | include a statement of candidacy, the required number
of voter | ||||||
10 | signatures, the notarized signature of the petition circulator
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11 | and a receipt from the County Clerk showing that the candidate | ||||||
12 | has filed
a statement of economic interest on or before the | ||||||
13 | last day to file as required
by the Illinois Governmental | ||||||
14 | Ethics Act. The secretary may have petition
forms available
for | ||||||
15 | issuance to potential candidates, and may give notice of the | ||||||
16 | petition
filing period by publication in a newspaper of general | ||||||
17 | circulation within
the school district not less than 10 days | ||||||
18 | prior to the first day of filing.
Said secretary shall make | ||||||
19 | certification to the proper election authorities
in accordance | ||||||
20 | with the general election law.
If the secretary is an incumbent | ||||||
21 | school board member seeking re-election,
a disinterested | ||||||
22 | person must be a witness to the filing of his petition.
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23 | The secretary of the board of education shall notify the | ||||||
24 | candidates
for whom a petition for nomination is filed or the | ||||||
25 | appropriate committee
of the obligations under the Campaign | ||||||
26 | Financing Act as provided in the general
election law. Such |
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1 | notice
shall be given on a form prescribed by the State Board | ||||||
2 | of Elections and
in accordance with the requirements of the | ||||||
3 | general election law. The secretary
shall within 7 days of | ||||||
4 | filing or on the last day for filing, whichever is
earlier, | ||||||
5 | acknowledge to the petitioner in writing his acceptance of the
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6 | petition.
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7 | A candidate for membership on the board of education or for | ||||||
8 | office as a
school director, who has petitioned for nomination | ||||||
9 | to fill a full term and
to fill a vacant term to be voted upon | ||||||
10 | at the same election, must withdraw
his or her petition for | ||||||
11 | nomination from either the full term or the vacant
term by | ||||||
12 | written declaration.
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13 | In all newly organized districts the petition for the | ||||||
14 | nomination of
candidates
for members of the board of education | ||||||
15 | at the first election shall be addressed
to and filed with the | ||||||
16 | regional superintendent of schools in the manner herein
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17 | specified for the petitions for
members of a board of | ||||||
18 | education. For such election the regional superintendent
shall | ||||||
19 | fulfill all duties otherwise assigned to the secretary of the | ||||||
20 | board
of education.
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21 | (Source: P.A. 91-357, eff. 7-29-99.)".
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