94TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2005 and 2006
SB2081

 

Introduced 2/25/2005, by Sen. Chris Lauzen

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
New Act
10 ILCS 5/1A-30 new

    Creates the State Employee Proof of Citizenship Act. Specifies proof of citizenship necessary to begin State employment. Amends the Election Code. Specifies the proof of citizenship necessary to register to vote and requires presentation of identification documents when a person votes.


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FISCAL NOTE ACT MAY APPLY
STATE MANDATES ACT MAY REQUIRE REIMBURSEMENT

 

 

A BILL FOR

 

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1     AN ACT concerning citizenship.
 
2     Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3 represented in the General Assembly:
 
4     Section 1. Short title. This Act may be cited as the State
5 Employee Proof of Citizenship Act.
 
6     Section 5. Proof of citizenship for State employment. No
7 person may begin State employment on or after the effective
8 date of this Act without providing the employing State officer
9 or agency satisfactory proof of United States citizenship.
10 Satisfactory proof of citizenship consists of those forms of
11 proof enumerated in subsection (b) of Section 1A-30 of the
12 Election Code.
 
13     Section 90. The Election Code is amended by adding Section
14 1A-30 as follows:
 
15     (10 ILCS 5/1A-30 new)
16     Sec. 1A-30. Citizenship.
17     (a) In addition to the other requirements of this Code,
18 each voter registration application must include a statement
19 that the applicant shall submit evidence of United States
20 citizenship with the application and that the registrar shall
21 reject the application if no evidence of citizenship is
22 attached.
23     (b) The election authority shall reject any application for
24 registration that is not accompanied by satisfactory evidence
25 of United States citizenship. Satisfactory evidence of
26 citizenship shall include any of the following:
27         (1) The number of the applicant's driver license or
28     non-driver identification card issued after October 1,
29     1996 by the Secretary of State or the equivalent
30     governmental agency of another state within the United

 

 

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1     States if the agency indicates on the applicant's driver
2     license or non-driver identification card that the person
3     has provided satisfactory proof of United States
4     citizenship.
5         (2) A legible photocopy of the applicant's birth
6     certificate that verifies citizenship to the satisfaction
7     of the election authority.
8         (3) A legible photocopy of pertinent pages of the
9     applicant's United States passport identifying the
10     applicant and the applicant's passport number or
11     presentation to the election authority of the applicant's
12     United States passport.
13         (4) A presentation to the election authority of the
14     applicant's United States naturalization documents or the
15     number of the certificate of naturalization. If only the
16     number of the certificate of naturalization is provided,
17     the applicant shall not be included in the registration
18     rolls until the number of the certificate of naturalization
19     is verified with the United States Immigration and
20     Naturalization Service by the election authority.
21         (5) Other documents or methods of proof that are
22     established pursuant to the Immigration Reform and Control
23     Act of 1986.
24         (6) The applicant's Bureau of Indian Affairs card
25     number, tribal treaty card number, or tribal enrollment
26     number.
27     (c) Notwithstanding subsection (b) of this Section, any
28 person who is registered in this State on the effective date of
29 this amendatory Act of the 94th General Assembly is deemed to
30 have provided satisfactory evidence of citizenship and shall
31 not be required to resubmit evidence of citizenship unless the
32 person is changing voter registration from one election
33 jurisdiction to another.
34     (d) For the purposes of this Section, proof of voter
35 registration from another state or election jurisdiction in
36 this State is not satisfactory evidence of citizenship.

 

 

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1     (e) A person who changes address within an election
2 jurisdiction shall not be required to submit evidence of
3 citizenship. After citizenship has been demonstrated to the
4 election authority, the person is not required to resubmit
5 satisfactory evidence of citizenship in that election
6 jurisdiction.
7     (f) After a person has submitted satisfactory evidence of
8 citizenship, the election authority shall indicate this
9 information in the person's permanent voter file. After 2 years
10 the election authority may destroy all documents that were
11 submitted as evidence of citizenship.
12     (g) When requesting a ballot at a polling place or as an
13 absentee voter, each voter shall present one form of
14 identification that bears the name, address, and photograph of
15 the elector or 2 different forms of identification that bear
16 the name and address of the elector.