SB2081 94TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

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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.

FISCAL NOTE ACT MAY APPLY

STATE MANDATES ACT MAY REQUIRE REIMBURSEMENT

A BILL FOR

AN ACT concerning citizenship.

Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly:

Section 1. Short title. This Act may be cited as the State Employee Proof of Citizenship Act.

Section 5. Proof of citizenship for State employment. No person may begin State employment on or after the effective date of this Act without providing the employing State officer or agency satisfactory proof of United States citizenship. Satisfactory proof of citizenship consists of those forms of proof enumerated in subsection (b) of Section 1A-30 of the Election Code.

Section 90. The Election Code is amended by adding Section 1A-30 as follows:

(10 ILCS 5/1A-30 new)

Sec. 1A-30. Citizenship.

(a) In addition to the other requirements of this Code, each voter registration application must include a statement that the applicant shall submit evidence of United States citizenship with the application and that the registrar shall reject the application if no evidence of citizenship is attached.

(b) The election authority shall reject any application for registration that is not accompanied by satisfactory evidence of United States citizenship. Satisfactory evidence of citizenship shall include any of the following:

(1) The number of the applicant's driver license or non-driver identification card issued after October 1, 1996 by the Secretary of State or the equivalent governmental agency of another state within the United States if the agency indicates on the applicant's driver license or non-driver identification card that the person has provided satisfactory proof of United States citizenship.

(2) A legible photocopy of the applicant's birth certificate that verifies citizenship to the satisfaction of the election authority.

(3) A legible photocopy of pertinent pages of the applicant's United States passport identifying the applicant and the applicant's passport number or presentation to the election authority of the applicant's United States passport.

(4) A presentation to the election authority of the applicant's United States naturalization documents or the number of the certificate of naturalization. If only the number of the certificate of naturalization is provided, the applicant shall not be included in the registration rolls until the number of the certificate of naturalization is verified with the United States Immigration and Naturalization Service by the election authority.

(5) Other documents or methods of proof that are established pursuant to the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986.

(6) The applicant's Bureau of Indian Affairs card number, tribal treaty card number, or tribal enrollment number.

(c) Notwithstanding subsection (b) of this Section, any person who is registered in this State on the effective date of this amendatory Act of the 94th General Assembly is deemed to have provided satisfactory evidence of citizenship and shall not be required to resubmit evidence of citizenship unless the person is changing voter registration from one election jurisdiction to another.

(d) For the purposes of this Section, proof of voter registration from another state or election jurisdiction in this State is not satisfactory evidence of citizenship.

(e) A person who changes address within an election jurisdiction shall not be required to submit evidence of citizenship. After citizenship has been demonstrated to the election authority, the person is not required to resubmit satisfactory evidence of citizenship in that election jurisdiction.

(f) After a person has submitted satisfactory evidence of citizenship, the election authority shall indicate this information in the person's permanent voter file. After 2 years the election authority may destroy all documents that were submitted as evidence of citizenship.

(g) When requesting a ballot at a polling place or as an absentee voter, each voter shall present one form of identification that bears the name, address, and photograph of the elector or 2 different forms of identification that bear the name and address of the elector.