Rep. Michael Tryon

Filed: 4/6/2005

 

 


 

 


 
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AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 654

2     AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 654 on page 5, by
3 replacing lines 5 and 6 with the following:
 
4 "numerical order for the 3 subcircuits. The Supreme Court shall
5 determine That numerical order shall be the basis for the order
6 in which resident judgeships"; and
 
7 on page 5, immediately below line 33, by inserting the
8 following:
 
 
9     "Section 10. If and only if House Bill 949 of the 93rd
10 General Assembly becomes law, the Circuit Courts Act is amended
11 by changing Section 2f-5 (in addition to the changes made to
12 that Section 2f-5 in Section 5 of this amendatory Act of the
13 94th General Assembly) as follows:
 
14     (705 ILCS 35/2f-5)
15     Sec. 2f-5. 22nd circuit; subcircuits; additional resident
16 judgeship.
17     (a) The 22nd circuit shall be divided into 4 subcircuits.
18 The subcircuits shall be compact, contiguous, and
19 substantially equal in population. The General Assembly by law
20 shall create the subcircuits, using population data as
21 determined by the 2000 federal census, and shall determine a

 

 

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1 numerical order for the 4 subcircuits. That numerical order
2 shall be the basis for the order in which resident judgeships
3 are assigned to the subcircuits. Once a resident judgeship is
4 assigned to a subcircuit, it shall continue to be assigned to
5 that subcircuit for all purposes.
6     (b) The 22nd circuit shall have one additional resident
7 judgeship, as well as its 3 existing resident judgeships, for a
8 total of 4 resident judgeships to be allotted to the 4
9 subcircuit resident judgeships. The additional resident
10 judgeship created by this amendatory Act of the 93rd General
11 Assembly shall be filled by election beginning at the general
12 election in 2006. After the subcircuits are created by law, the
13 Supreme Court may fill by appointment the additional resident
14 judgeship created under this subsection (b) until the 2006
15 general election. and shall not be filled by appointment before
16 the general election in 2006.
17     (c) The Supreme Court shall allot (i) all vacancies in
18 resident judgeships of the 22nd circuit existing on or
19 occurring on or after August 18, 2003 and not filled at the
20 2004 general election, (ii) the resident judgeships of the 22nd
21 circuit filled at the 2004 general election as those judgeships
22 thereafter become vacant, and (iii) the additional resident
23 judgeship of the 22nd circuit created by this amendatory Act of
24 the 93rd General Assembly, for election from the various
25 subcircuits until there is one resident judge to be elected
26 from each subcircuit. No resident judge of the 22nd circuit
27 serving on August 18, 2003 shall be required to change his or
28 her residency in order to continue serving in office or to seek
29 retention in office as resident judgeships are allotted by the
30 Supreme Court in accordance with this Section.
31     (d) A resident judge elected from a subcircuit shall
32 continue to reside in that subcircuit as long as he or she
33 holds that office.
34     (e) Vacancies in resident judgeships of the 22nd circuit

 

 

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1 shall be filled in the manner provided in Article VI of the
2 Illinois Constitution.
3 (Source: P.A. 93-541, eff. 8-18-03; 93-1040, eff. 9-28-04;
4 93HB949enr.)".