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Judiciary I - Civil Law Committee
Adopted in House Comm. on Jun 20, 2007
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| AMENDMENT TO SENATE BILL 119
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| AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend Senate Bill 119 by replacing |
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| everything after the enacting clause with the following:
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| "Section 5. The Circuit Courts Act is amended by changing |
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| Section 2f-9 and by adding Section 2k and 2l as follows:
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| (705 ILCS 35/2f-9) |
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| Sec. 2f-9. 16th judicial circuit; subcircuits. |
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| (a) The 16th circuit shall be divided into 5 subcircuits. |
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| The
subcircuits shall be
compact, contiguous, and |
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| substantially equal in population. The General
Assembly by law |
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| shall
create the subcircuits, using population
data as
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| determined by the 2000 federal census, and
shall determine a |
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| numerical order for the 5 subcircuits. That
numerical order |
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| shall be the basis for the order in which resident judgeships
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| are assigned to
the subcircuits. Once a resident judgeship is |
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| assigned to a subcircuit, it
shall continue to be assigned to |
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| that subcircuit for all purposes.
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| (b) Of the 16th circuit's 16 existing circuit judgeships |
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| existing on April 7, 2005 (7 at large and
9 resident), but not |
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| including the one resident judgeship added by this amendatory |
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| Act of the 95th General Assembly, 5 of the 9 resident |
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| judgeships shall be allotted as 16th circuit resident |
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| judgeships under
subsection (c) as (i) the first resident |
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| judgeship of DeKalb County, (ii) the first resident judgeship |
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| of Kendall County, and (iii) the first 2 resident judgeships
of |
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| Kane County are or become vacant on or after the effective date |
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| of this amendatory Act of the 93rd General Assembly, and (iv) |
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| the first resident judgeship of Kane County (in addition to the |
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| 2 vacancies under item (iii)) is or becomes vacant after the |
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| effective date of this amendatory Act of the 94th General |
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| Assembly. These 5 resident subcircuit judgeships and the |
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| remaining 5
4 resident judgeships shall constitute all of the |
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| resident judgeships of the 16th circuit. As used in this |
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| subsection, a vacancy does not include the
expiration of a term |
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| of a resident judge who seeks
retention in that office at the |
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| next term.
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| (c) The Supreme Court shall allot the first DeKalb County |
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| vacancy, the first eligible Kendall County vacancy, and the |
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| first 3 Kane County vacancies in resident judgeships of the |
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| 16th circuit as provided in subsection (b),
for election from |
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| the
various
subcircuits. The judgeships shall be assigned to |
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| the subcircuits based upon the numerical order of the 5 |
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| subcircuits. No resident judge of the 16th circuit serving on
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| the effective date of this amendatory Act of the 93rd General |
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| Assembly shall be
required to change his or her residency in |
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| order to continue serving in office
or
to seek retention in |
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| office as judgeships are allotted by the
Supreme Court in |
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| accordance with this Section.
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| (d) A resident judge elected from a subcircuit shall |
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| continue to reside in
that
subcircuit as long as he or she |
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| holds that office.
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| (e) Vacancies in resident judgeships of the 16th circuit |
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| shall be
filled
in the manner provided in Article VI of the |
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| Illinois Constitution.
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| (Source: P.A. 93-1102, eff. 4-7-05; 94-3, eff. 5-31-05.)
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| (705 ILCS 35/2k new) |
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| Sec. 2k. Additional 16th circuit resident judge. In |
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| addition to the number of circuit judges otherwise authorized |
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| by this Act, there shall be one additional judge elected in the |
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| 16th judicial circuit who shall be a resident of and elected |
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| from Kendall County. The additional resident circuit judgeship |
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| created by this Section may be filled by appointment by the |
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| Illinois Supreme Court until the judgeship is filled by |
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| election beginning at the 2008 general election. The judgeship |
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| provided by this Section shall not be a subcircuit judgeship.
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| (705 ILCS 35/2l new)
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| Sec. 2l. Additional 13th circuit judge. In addition to the |
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| number of circuit judges otherwise authorized by this Act, |
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| there shall be one additional judge elected in the 13th |
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| judicial circuit who shall be a resident of and elected from |
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| Grundy County. The additional judgeship created by this Section |
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| may be filled by appointment by the Illinois Supreme Court |
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| until the judgeship is filled by election beginning at the 2008 |
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| general election.
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| Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon |
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| becoming law.".
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