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Rep. Michael Tryon
Filed: 4/6/2005
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| AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 654
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| AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 654 on page 5, by |
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| replacing lines 5 and 6 with the following:
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| "numerical order for the 3 subcircuits. The Supreme Court shall |
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| determine
That numerical order shall be the basis for the order |
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| in which resident judgeships"; and |
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| on page 5, immediately below line 33, by inserting the |
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| following: |
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| "Section 10. If and only if House Bill 949 of the 93rd |
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| General Assembly becomes law, the Circuit Courts Act is amended |
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| by changing Section 2f-5 (in addition to the changes made to |
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| that Section 2f-5 in Section 5 of this amendatory Act of the |
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| 94th General Assembly) as follows:
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| (705 ILCS 35/2f-5)
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| Sec. 2f-5. 22nd circuit; subcircuits; additional resident |
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| judgeship.
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| (a) The 22nd circuit shall be divided into 4 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 4 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) The 22nd circuit shall have one additional resident |
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| judgeship, as well as its 3 existing resident judgeships, for a |
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| total of 4 resident judgeships to be allotted to the 4 |
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| subcircuit resident judgeships. The additional resident |
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| judgeship created by this amendatory Act of the 93rd General |
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| Assembly shall be filled by election beginning at the general |
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| election in 2006 . After the subcircuits are created by law, the |
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| Supreme Court may fill by appointment the additional resident |
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| judgeship created under this subsection (b) until the 2006 |
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| general election.
and
shall not be filled by appointment before |
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| the general election in 2006.
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| (c) The Supreme Court shall allot (i)
all vacancies in
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| resident
judgeships of the 22nd circuit existing on or |
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| occurring on or after August 18, 2003 and not filled at the |
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| 2004 general election, (ii) the resident
judgeships of the 22nd |
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| circuit filled at the 2004 general election as
those judgeships |
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| thereafter become vacant,
and (iii) the additional resident |
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| judgeship of the 22nd circuit created by this amendatory Act of |
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| the 93rd General Assembly, for election from the
various
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| subcircuits until there is one resident judge to be elected |
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| from each
subcircuit.
No resident judge of the 22nd circuit |
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| serving on
August 18, 2003 shall be
required to change his or |
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| her residency in order to continue serving in office
or
to seek |
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| retention in office as resident judgeships are allotted by the
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| Supreme Court in 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 22nd circuit |