94TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2005 and 2006
SB1134

 

Introduced 2/18/2005, by Sen. John J. Cullerton - Emil Jones, Jr.

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
705 ILCS 40/1.1   from Ch. 37, par. 72.41-1

    Amends the Judicial Vacancies Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning definitions.


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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,
3 represented in the General Assembly:
 
4     Section 5. The Judicial Vacancies Act is amended by
5 changing Section 1.1 as follows:
 
6     (705 ILCS 40/1.1)  (from Ch. 37, par. 72.41-1)
7     Sec. 1.1. As used in this Act, the the term "resident
8 circuit judge" or "resident judge" refers to a circuit judge
9 who, immediately prior to July 1, 1971, was an associate judge
10 and who became a circuit judge on July 1, 1971 by reason of
11 paragraph (a) of Section 4 of the Transition Schedule of the
12 Constitution of 1970 or a circuit judge who was appointed after
13 June 30, 1971 by the Supreme Court to fill the vacancy existing
14 prior to July 1, 1971 in the office of a former associate judge
15 and whose office was, prior to July 1, 1971, filled by election
16 from a single county or, in the case of Cook County, from one
17 of the 2 units of the county, and not from the circuit at
18 large.
19 (Source: P.A. 88-45.)