101ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2019 and 2020
SENATE JOINT RESOLUTION CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT
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Introduced 2/13/2019, by Sen. Dan McConchie

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
ILCON Art. IV, Sec. 8

    Proposes to amend the Legislature Article of the Illinois Constitution. Provides that appropriation bills shall require passage by a three-fifths vote in each house of the General Assembly. Effective upon being declared adopted.


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1
SENATE JOINT RESOLUTION
2
CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT

 
3    RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE ONE HUNDRED FIRST GENERAL
4ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
5CONCURRING HEREIN, that there shall be submitted to the
6electors of the State for adoption or rejection at the general
7election next occurring at least 6 months after the adoption of
8this resolution a proposition to amend Section 8 of Article IV
9of the Illinois Constitution as follows:
 
10
ARTICLE IV
11
THE LEGISLATURE

12    (ILCON Art. IV, Sec. 8)
13SECTION 8. PASSAGE OF BILLS
14    (a) The enacting clause of the laws of this State shall be:
15"Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
16represented in the General Assembly."
17    (b) The General Assembly shall enact laws only by bill.
18Bills may originate in either house, but may be amended or
19rejected by the other.
20    (c) No bill shall become a law without the concurrence of a
21majority of the members elected to each house. Final passage of
22a bill shall be by record vote. In the Senate at the request of
23two members, and in the House at the request of five members, a

 

 

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1record vote may be taken on any other occasion. A record vote
2is a vote by yeas and nays entered on the journal.
3    (d) A bill shall be read by title on three different days
4in each house. A bill and each amendment thereto shall be
5reproduced and placed on the desk of each member before final
6passage.
7    Bills, except bills for appropriations and for the
8codification, revision or rearrangement of laws, shall be
9confined to one subject. Appropriation bills shall be limited
10to the subject of appropriations, and shall require passage by
11a three-fifths vote in each house of the General Assembly.
12    A bill expressly amending a law shall set forth completely
13the sections amended.
14    The Speaker of the House of Representatives and the
15President of the Senate shall sign each bill that passes both
16houses to certify that the procedural requirements for passage
17have been met.
18(Source: Illinois Constitution.)
 
19
SCHEDULE
20    This Constitutional Amendment takes effect upon being
21declared adopted in accordance with Section 7 of the Illinois
22Constitutional Amendment Act.