103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2023 and 2024
HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT
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Introduced 3/15/2023, by Rep. Charles Meier

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
ILCON Art. IV, Sec. 2

    Proposes to amend the Legislature Article of the Illinois Constitution. Provides that each Legislative District shall be composed of three contiguous counties, with a separate additional Legislative District for each municipality with a population over one million. Provides that Representative Districts shall be drawn independently of Legislative Districts.


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1
HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION
2
CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT

 
3    RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE ONE
4HUNDRED THIRD GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, THE
5SENATE CONCURRING 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
8of this resolution a proposition to amend Article IV of the
9Illinois Constitution by changing Sections 2 as follows:
 
10
ARTICLE IV
11
THE LEGISLATURE

12    (ILCON Art. IV, Sec. 2)
13SECTION 2. LEGISLATIVE COMPOSITION
14    (a) One Senator shall be elected from each Legislative
15District. Immediately following each decennial redistricting,
16the General Assembly by law shall divide the Legislative
17Districts as equally as possible into three groups. Senators
18from one group shall be elected for terms of four years, four
19years and two years; Senators from the second group, for terms
20of four years, two years and four years; and Senators from the
21third group, for terms of two years, four years and four years.
22The Legislative Districts in each group shall be distributed
23substantially equally over the State.

 

 

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1    (b) Each Legislative District shall be composed of three
2contiguous counties, with a separate additional Legislative
3District for each municipality with a population over one
4million divided into two Representative Districts. In 1982 and
5every two years thereafter one Representative shall be elected
6from each Representative District for a term of two years.
7Representative Districts shall be drawn independently of
8Legislative Districts.
9    (c) To be eligible to serve as a member of the General
10Assembly, a person must be a United States citizen, at least 21
11years old, and for the two years preceding his election or
12appointment a resident of the district which he is to
13represent. In the general election following a redistricting,
14a candidate for the General Assembly may be elected from any
15district which contains a part of the district in which he
16resided at the time of the redistricting and reelected if a
17resident of the new district he represents for 18 months prior
18to reelection.
19    (d) Within thirty days after a vacancy occurs, it shall be
20filled by appointment as provided by law. If the vacancy is in
21a Senatorial office with more than twenty-eight months
22remaining in the term, the appointed Senator shall serve until
23the next general election, at which time a Senator shall be
24elected to serve for the remainder of the term. If the vacancy
25is in a Representative office or in any other Senatorial
26office, the appointment shall be for the remainder of the

 

 

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1term. An appointee to fill a vacancy shall be a member of the
2same political party as the person he succeeds.
3    (e) No member of the General Assembly shall receive
4compensation as a public officer or employee from any other
5governmental entity for time during which he is in attendance
6as a member of the General Assembly.
7    No member of the General Assembly during the term for
8which he was elected or appointed shall be appointed to a
9public office which shall have been created or the
10compensation for which shall have been increased by the
11General Assembly during that term.
12(Source: Amendment adopted at general election November 4,
131980.)
 
14
SCHEDULE
15    This Constitutional Amendment takes effect upon being
16declared adopted in accordance with Section 7 of the Illinois
17Constitutional Amendment Act.