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Rep. Kelly M. Cassidy
Filed: 3/4/2014
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| 1 | | AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 5755
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| 2 | | AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 5755 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 11-4.1 as follows:
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| 6 | | (10 ILCS 5/11-4.1) (from Ch. 46, par. 11-4.1)
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| 7 | | Sec. 11-4.1. |
| 8 | | (a) (Blank). In appointing polling places under this |
| 9 | | Article, the
county board or board of election commissioners |
| 10 | | shall, insofar as they are
convenient and available, use |
| 11 | | schools and other public buildings as polling
places.
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| 12 | | (b) Upon request of the county board or board of election |
| 13 | | commissioners,
the proper agency of government (including |
| 14 | | school districts and units of
local government) shall make a |
| 15 | | public building under its control available
for use as a |
| 16 | | polling place on an election day and for a reasonably
necessary |
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| 1 | | time before and after election day, without charge.
If the |
| 2 | | county board or board of election commissioners chooses a |
| 3 | | school
to be a polling place, then the school district must |
| 4 | | make the school
available for use as a polling place.
However, |
| 5 | | for the day of the election, a school district is encouraged to |
| 6 | | (i) close the school or (ii) hold a teachers institute on that |
| 7 | | day with students not in attendance may choose to (i)
keep the |
| 8 | | school open or (ii) hold a teachers institute on that day.
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| 9 | | (c) A government agency which makes a public building under |
| 10 | | its
control available for use as a polling place shall (i) |
| 11 | | ensure the portion of
the building to be used as the polling |
| 12 | | place is accessible to handicapped
and elderly voters and (ii) |
| 13 | | allow the election authority to administer the election as |
| 14 | | authorized under this Code.
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| 15 | | (d) If a qualified elector's precinct polling place is a |
| 16 | | school and the elector will be unable to enter that polling |
| 17 | | place without violating Section 11-9.3 of the Criminal Code of |
| 18 | | 2012 because the elector is a child sex offender as defined in |
| 19 | | Section 11-9.3 of the Criminal Code of 2012, that elector may |
| 20 | | vote by absentee ballot in accordance with Article 19 of this |
| 21 | | Code or may vote early in accordance with Article 19A of this |
| 22 | | Code. |
| 23 | | (Source: P.A. 97-1150, eff. 1-25-13.)".
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