Full Text of HB1143 95th General Assembly
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Elementary & Secondary Education Committee
Filed: 3/14/2007
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| AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 1143
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| AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 1143 by replacing | 3 |
| everything after the enacting clause with the following:
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| "Section 5. The Election Code is amended by changing | 5 |
| Section 11-4.1 as follows:
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| (10 ILCS 5/11-4.1) (from Ch. 46, par. 11-4.1)
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| Sec. 11-4.1. (a) In appointing polling places under this | 8 |
| Article, the
county board or board of election commissioners | 9 |
| shall, insofar as they are
convenient and available, use | 10 |
| schools and other public buildings as polling
places.
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| (b) Upon request of the county board or board of election | 12 |
| commissioners,
the proper agency of government (including | 13 |
| school districts and units of
local government) shall make a | 14 |
| public building under its control available
for use as a | 15 |
| polling place on an election day and for a reasonably
necessary | 16 |
| time before and after election day, without charge.
If the |
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| county board or board of election commissioners chooses a | 2 |
| school
to be a polling place, then the school district must | 3 |
| make the school
available for use as a polling place.
However, | 4 |
| for the day of the election, a school district shall close the | 5 |
| school
may choose to (i)
keep the school open or (ii) hold a | 6 |
| teachers institute on that day .
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| (c) A government agency which makes a public building under | 8 |
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control available for use as a polling place shall ensure | 9 |
| the portion of
the building to be used as the polling place is | 10 |
| accessible to handicapped
and elderly voters.
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| (Source: P.A. 92-465, eff. 8-22-01.)
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| Section 10. The School Code is amended by changing Sections | 13 |
| 22-21 and 24-2 as follows:
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| (105 ILCS 5/22-21) (from Ch. 122, par. 22-21)
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| Sec. 22-21. Elections-Use of school buildings.
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| (a) Every school board shall offer to the appropriate | 17 |
| officer or board
having responsibility for providing polling | 18 |
| places for elections the use of
any and all buildings under its | 19 |
| jurisdiction for any and all elections to
be held, if so | 20 |
| requested by such appropriate officer or board.
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| (b) Election officers shall place 2 or more cones, small | 22 |
| United States
national flags, or some other marker a distance | 23 |
| of 100 horizontal feet from
each entrance to the room used by | 24 |
| voters to engage in voting, which shall be
known as the polling |
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| room. If
the polling room is located within a building that is | 2 |
| a public or private
school
and the
distance of 100 horizontal | 3 |
| feet ends within the interior of the
building, then the markers | 4 |
| shall be placed outside of the
building at each entrance used | 5 |
| by voters to enter that
building on the grounds adjacent to the | 6 |
| thoroughfare or walkway. If the polling
room is located within | 7 |
| a public or private school building with 2 or more
floors and
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| the polling room is located on the ground floor, then the | 9 |
| markers shall be
placed 100 horizontal feet from each entrance | 10 |
| to the polling room used by
voters to engage in voting. If the | 11 |
| polling room is located in a public or
private school building | 12 |
| with 2 or more floors and the polling room is located
on a
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| floor above or below the ground floor,
then the markers shall | 14 |
| be placed a distance of 100 feet from the nearest
elevator or | 15 |
| staircase used by voters on the ground floor to access the | 16 |
| floor
where the polling room is located. The area within where | 17 |
| the markers are placed
shall be known as a campaign free zone, | 18 |
| and electioneering is prohibited
pursuant to this subsection.
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| Notwithstanding any other provision of this Code, the area | 20 |
| on polling place
property beyond the campaign free zone,
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| whether
publicly or privately owned, is a public forum for the | 22 |
| time that the polls are
open on an election day. At the request | 23 |
| of election officers any publicly owned
building must be made | 24 |
| available for use as a polling place. A person shall have
the | 25 |
| right to congregate and engage in electioneering on any polling | 26 |
| place
property while the polls are open beyond the campaign |
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| free zone, including but
not limited to, the placement of | 2 |
| temporary signs.
This subsection shall be construed liberally | 3 |
| in favor of persons engaging in
electioneering
on all polling | 4 |
| place property beyond the campaign free zone for the time that
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| the polls are open on an election day.
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| (c) If a school is designated as a polling place, then the | 7 |
| school board shall close that school on the day of the election | 8 |
| and the school board may close any other schools that same day.
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| (Source: P.A. 93-574, eff. 8-21-03.)
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| (105 ILCS 5/24-2) (from Ch. 122, par. 24-2)
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| Sec. 24-2. Holidays. Teachers shall not be required
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| teach on Saturdays; nor shall teachers or other school
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| employees, other than noncertificated school employees whose | 14 |
| presence is
necessary because of an emergency or for the | 15 |
| continued operation and
maintenance of school facilities or | 16 |
| property, be
required to work on legal school
holidays, which | 17 |
| are January 1, New Year's Day; the third Monday in
January, the | 18 |
| Birthday of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.; February 12, the
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| Birthday of President Abraham Lincoln; the
first Monday in | 20 |
| March (to be known as Casimir Pulaski's birthday); Good
Friday; | 21 |
| the day designated as Memorial Day by federal law; July 4,
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| Independence Day; the first Monday in September, Labor Day; the | 23 |
| second Monday
in October, Columbus Day; November 11, Veteran's | 24 |
| Day; the Thursday in
November commonly called Thanksgiving Day; | 25 |
| and December 25, Christmas Day.
School boards may grant special |
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| holidays whenever in their judgment such
action is advisable , | 2 |
| except that no school board or board of education
may
designate | 3 |
| or observe as a special holiday on which teachers or
other | 4 |
| school
employees are not required to work the days on which | 5 |
| general elections for
members of the Illinois House of | 6 |
| Representatives are held . No deduction shall
be made from the | 7 |
| time or
compensation of a school employee on account of any | 8 |
| legal
or special holiday.
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| Commemorative holidays, which recognize specified | 10 |
| patriotic, civic,
cultural or historical persons, activities, | 11 |
| or events, are regular school
days. Commemorative
holidays are: | 12 |
| January 28 (to be known as Christa McAuliffe Day and
observed | 13 |
| as a commemoration of space exploration), February 15 (the
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| birthday of Susan B. Anthony), March 29 (Viet Nam War Veterans | 15 |
| Day),
September 11 (September 11th Day of Remembrance), the | 16 |
| school day
immediately preceding Veteran's Day (Korean War | 17 |
| Veterans
Day), October 1 (Recycling Day), December 7 (Pearl | 18 |
| Harbor Veterans Day) and
any day so appointed by the President | 19 |
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Governor. School boards may establish commemorative | 20 |
| holidays whenever in
their judgment such action is advisable.
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| School boards shall include instruction relative to | 22 |
| commemorated persons,
activities, or
events on the | 23 |
| commemorative holiday or at any other time during the school
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| year and at any point in the curriculum when such instruction | 25 |
| may be deemed
appropriate. The State Board of Education shall | 26 |
| prepare and make available
to school boards instructional |
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| materials relative to commemorated persons,
activities,
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| events which may be used by school boards in conjunction with | 3 |
| any
instruction provided pursuant to this paragraph.
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| City of Chicago School District 299 shall observe March 4 | 5 |
| of each year as
a commemorative holiday. This holiday shall be | 6 |
| known as Mayors' Day which
shall be a day to commemorate and be | 7 |
| reminded of the past Chief Executive
Officers of the City of | 8 |
| Chicago, and in particular the late Mayor Richard
J. Daley and | 9 |
| the late Mayor Harold Washington. If March 4 falls on a
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| Saturday or Sunday, Mayors' Day shall be observed on the | 11 |
| following Monday.
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| (Source: P.A. 92-704, eff. 7-19-02.)".
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