100TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2017 and 2018
HB4553

 

Introduced , by Rep. Luis Arroyo

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
705 ILCS 35/2f  from Ch. 37, par. 72.2f

    Amends the Circuit Courts Act to provide that: in 2021, the General Assembly shall redraw the boundaries of the subcircuits of Circuit of Cook County to reflect the results of the 2020 federal decennial census; a resident judgeship assigned to a subcircuit shall continue to be assigned to that subcircuit; and a vacancy in a resident judgeship existing on or occurring after the effective date of a law redrawing the boundaries of the subcircuits shall be filled by a resident of the redrawn subcircuit.


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A BILL FOR

 

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1    AN ACT concerning courts.
 
2    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3represented in the General Assembly:
 
4    Section 5. The Circuit Courts Act is amended by changing
5Section 2f as follows:
 
6    (705 ILCS 35/2f)  (from Ch. 37, par. 72.2f)
7    Sec. 2f. (a) The Circuit of Cook County shall be divided
8into 15 units to be known as subcircuits. The subcircuits shall
9be compact, contiguous, and substantially equal in population.
10The General Assembly shall create the subcircuits by law on or
11before July 1, 1991, using population data as determined by the
121990 Federal census.
13    (a-5) In 2021, the General Assembly shall redraw the
14boundaries of the subcircuits to reflect the results of the
152020 federal decennial census. In accordance with subsection
16(d), a resident judgeship assigned to a subcircuit shall
17continue to be assigned to that subcircuit. Any vacancy in a
18resident judgeship existing on or occurring after the effective
19date of a law redrawing the boundaries of the subcircuits shall
20be filled by a resident of the redrawn subcircuit.
21    (b) The 165 resident judges to be elected from the Circuit
22of Cook County shall be determined under paragraph (4) of
23subsection (a) of Section 2 of the Judicial Vacancies Act.

 

 

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1    (c) The Supreme Court shall allot (i) the additional
2resident judgeships provided by paragraph (4) of subsection (a)
3of Section 2 of the Judicial Vacancies Act and (ii) all
4vacancies in resident judgeships existing on or occurring on or
5after the effective date of this amendatory Act of 1990, with
6respect to the other resident judgeships of the Circuit of Cook
7County, for election from the various subcircuits until there
8are 11 resident judges to be elected from each of the 15
9subcircuits (for a total of 165). A resident judgeship
10authorized before the effective date of this amendatory Act of
111990 that became vacant and was filled by appointment by the
12Supreme Court before that effective date shall be filled by
13election at the general election in November of 1992 from the
14unit of the Circuit of Cook County within Chicago or the unit
15of that Circuit outside Chicago, as the case may be, in which
16the vacancy occurred.
17    (d) As soon as practicable after the subcircuits are
18created by law, the Supreme Court shall determine by lot a
19numerical order for the 15 subcircuits. That numerical order
20shall be the basis for the order in which resident judgeships
21are assigned to the subcircuits. After the first round of
22assignments, the second and all later rounds shall be based on
23the same numerical order. Once a resident judgeship is assigned
24to a subcircuit, it shall continue to be assigned to that
25subcircuit for all purposes.
26    (e) A resident judge elected from a subcircuit shall

 

 

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1continue to reside in that subcircuit as long as he or she
2holds that office. A resident judge elected from a subcircuit
3after January 1, 2008, must retain residency as a registered
4voter in the subcircuit to run for retention from the circuit
5at large thereafter.
6(Source: P.A. 95-610, eff. 9-11-07.)