96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2009 and 2010
HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT
HC0038

 

Introduced , by Rep. Jack D. Franks

 

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

    Proposes to amend the Legislature Article of the Illinois Constitution. Prohibits a General Assembly member from holding any other elective public office. Effective upon being declared adopted, and applicable to members elected or appointed to terms beginning in or after 2013.


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A BILL FOR

 

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1
HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION
2
CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT

 
3     RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE
4 NINETY-SIXTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, THE
5 SENATE CONCURRING HEREIN, that there shall be submitted to the
6 electors of the State for adoption or rejection at the general
7 election next occurring at least 6 months after the adoption of
8 this resolution a proposition to amend Article IV of the
9 Illinois Constitution by changing Section 2 as follows:
 
10
ARTICLE IV
11
THE LEGISLATURE

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

 

 

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1     (b) Each Legislative District shall be divided into two
2 Representative Districts. In 1982 and every two years
3 thereafter one Representative shall be elected from each
4 Representative District for a term of two years.
5     (c) To be eligible to serve as a member of the General
6 Assembly, a person must be a United States citizen, at least 21
7 years old, and for the two years preceding his election or
8 appointment a resident of the district which he is to
9 represent. In the general election following a redistricting, a
10 candidate for the General Assembly may be elected from any
11 district which contains a part of the district in which he
12 resided at the time of the redistricting and reelected if a
13 resident of the new district he represents for 18 months prior
14 to reelection.
15     (d) Within thirty days after a vacancy occurs, it shall be
16 filled by appointment as provided by law. If the vacancy is in
17 a Senatorial office with more than twenty-eight months
18 remaining in the term, the appointed Senator shall serve until
19 the next general election, at which time a Senator shall be
20 elected to serve for the remainder of the term. If the vacancy
21 is in a Representative office or in any other Senatorial
22 office, the appointment shall be for the remainder of the term.
23 An appointee to fill a vacancy shall be a member of the same
24 political party as the person he succeeds.
25     (e) No member of the General Assembly shall hold elective
26 public office in any other governmental entity. No member of

 

 

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1 the General Assembly shall receive compensation as a public
2 officer or employee from any other governmental entity for time
3 during which he is in attendance as a member of the General
4 Assembly.
5     No member of the General Assembly during the term for which
6 he was elected or appointed shall be appointed to a public
7 office which shall have been created or the compensation for
8 which shall have been increased by the General Assembly during
9 that term.
10 (Source: Amendment adopted at general election November 4,
11 1980.)
 
12
SCHEDULE
13     This Constitutional Amendment takes effect upon being
14 declared adopted in accordance with Section 7 of the Illinois
15 Constitutional Amendment Act and applies to General Assembly
16 members elected or appointed to terms beginning in or after
17 2013.