Full Text of SB3209 101st General Assembly
SB3209 101ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY |
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State of Illinois
2019 and 2020 SB3209 Introduced 2/11/2020, by Sen. Bill Cunningham SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED: |
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10 ILCS 5/7-12 | from Ch. 46, par. 7-12 |
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Amends the Election Code. Provides that petitions for nomination shall be filed not more than 143 and not less than 127 days before the primary (rather than not more than 113 days and not less than 106 days before the primary) for the following offices: State, congressional, judicial, county officer, sanitary district, precinct committeeperson, township, committeeperson, ward committeeperson, or an office that comprises more than one county or that is partly in multiple counties. Effective immediately.
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| 1 | | AN ACT concerning elections.
| 2 | | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
| 3 | | represented in the General Assembly:
| 4 | | Section 5. The Election Code is amended by changing Section | 5 | | 7-12 as follows:
| 6 | | (10 ILCS 5/7-12) (from Ch. 46, par. 7-12)
| 7 | | Sec. 7-12. All petitions for nomination shall be filed by | 8 | | mail or
in person as follows: | 9 | | (1) Where the nomination is to be made for a State, | 10 | | congressional, or
judicial office, or for any office a | 11 | | nomination for which is made for a
territorial division or | 12 | | district which comprises more than one county or
is partly | 13 | | in one county and partly in another county or counties | 14 | | (including the Fox Metro Water Reclamation District), | 15 | | then,
except as otherwise provided in this Section, such | 16 | | petition for nomination
shall be filed in the principal | 17 | | office of the State Board of Elections not
more than 134 | 18 | | 113 and not less than 127 106 days prior to the date of the | 19 | | primary,
but, in the case of petitions for nomination to | 20 | | fill a vacancy by special
election in the office of | 21 | | representative in Congress from this State, such
petition | 22 | | for nomination shall be filed in the principal office of | 23 | | the State
Board of Elections not more than 85 days and not |
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| 1 | | less than 82 days prior to
the date of the primary.
| 2 | | Where a vacancy occurs in the office of Supreme, | 3 | | Appellate or Circuit
Court Judge within the 3-week period | 4 | | preceding the 106th day before a
general primary election, | 5 | | petitions for nomination for the office in which
the | 6 | | vacancy has occurred shall be filed in the principal office | 7 | | of the
State Board of Elections not more than 92 nor less | 8 | | than 85 days prior to
the date of the general primary | 9 | | election.
| 10 | | Where the nomination is to be made for delegates or | 11 | | alternate
delegates to a national nominating convention, | 12 | | then such petition for
nomination shall be filed in the | 13 | | principal office of the State Board of
Elections not more | 14 | | than 113 and not less than 106 days prior to the date of
| 15 | | the primary; provided, however, that if the rules or | 16 | | policies of a national
political party conflict with such | 17 | | requirements for filing petitions for
nomination for | 18 | | delegates or alternate delegates to a national nominating
| 19 | | convention, the chair of the State central committee of | 20 | | such national
political party shall notify the Board in | 21 | | writing, citing by reference the
rules or policies of the | 22 | | national political party in conflict, and in such
case the | 23 | | Board shall direct such petitions to be filed in accordance | 24 | | with the delegate selection plan adopted by the state | 25 | | central committee of such national political party.
| 26 | | (2) Where the nomination is to be made for a county |
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| 1 | | office or trustee
of a sanitary district then such petition | 2 | | shall be filed in the office
of the county clerk not more | 3 | | than 134 113 nor less than 127 106 days prior to the
date | 4 | | of the primary.
| 5 | | (3) Where the nomination is to be made for a municipal | 6 | | or township
office, such petitions for nomination shall be | 7 | | filed in the office of
the local election official, not | 8 | | more than 99 nor less than 92 days
prior to the date of the | 9 | | primary; provided, where a municipality's or
township's | 10 | | boundaries are coextensive with or are entirely within the
| 11 | | jurisdiction of a municipal board of election | 12 | | commissioners, the petitions
shall be filed in the office | 13 | | of such board; and provided, that petitions
for the office | 14 | | of multi-township assessor shall be filed with the election
| 15 | | authority.
| 16 | | (4) The petitions of candidates for State central | 17 | | committeeperson shall
be filed in the principal office of | 18 | | the State Board of Elections not
more than 113 nor less | 19 | | than 106 days prior to the date of the primary.
| 20 | | (5) Petitions of candidates for precinct, township or | 21 | | ward committeepersons
shall be filed in the office of the | 22 | | county clerk not more
than 134 113 nor less than 127 106 | 23 | | days prior to the date of the primary.
| 24 | | (6) The State Board of Elections and the various | 25 | | election authorities
and local election officials with | 26 | | whom such petitions for nominations
are filed shall specify |
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| 1 | | the place where filings shall be made and upon
receipt | 2 | | shall endorse thereon the day and hour on which each | 3 | | petition
was filed. All petitions filed by persons waiting | 4 | | in line as of 8:00
a.m. on the first day for filing, or as | 5 | | of the normal opening hour of
the office involved on such | 6 | | day, shall be deemed filed as of 8:00 a.m.
or the normal | 7 | | opening hour, as the case may be. Petitions filed by mail
| 8 | | and received after midnight of the first day for filing and | 9 | | in the first
mail delivery or pickup of that day shall be | 10 | | deemed as filed as of 8:00
a.m. of that day or as of the | 11 | | normal opening hour of such day, as the
case may be. All | 12 | | petitions received thereafter shall be deemed as filed
in | 13 | | the order of actual receipt. However, 2 or more petitions | 14 | | filed within the last hour of the filing deadline shall be | 15 | | deemed filed simultaneously. Where 2 or more petitions are | 16 | | received
simultaneously, the State Board of Elections or | 17 | | the various election
authorities or local election | 18 | | officials with whom such petitions are
filed shall break | 19 | | ties and determine the order of filing, by means of a
| 20 | | lottery or other fair and impartial method of random | 21 | | selection approved
by the State Board of Elections. Such | 22 | | lottery shall be conducted within
9 days following the last | 23 | | day for petition filing and shall be open to the
public. | 24 | | Seven days written notice of the time and place of | 25 | | conducting such
random selection shall be given by the | 26 | | State Board of Elections to the chair
of the State central |
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| 1 | | committee of each established political
party, and by each | 2 | | election authority or local election official, to the
| 3 | | County Chair of each established political party, and to | 4 | | each
organization of citizens within the election | 5 | | jurisdiction which was
entitled, under this Article, at the | 6 | | next preceding election, to have
pollwatchers present on | 7 | | the day of election. The State Board of Elections,
election | 8 | | authority or local election official shall post in a | 9 | | conspicuous,
open and public place, at the entrance of the | 10 | | office, notice of the time
and place of such lottery. The | 11 | | State Board of Elections shall adopt rules
and regulations | 12 | | governing the procedures for the conduct of such lottery.
| 13 | | All candidates shall be certified in the order in which | 14 | | their petitions
have been filed. Where candidates have | 15 | | filed simultaneously, they shall be
certified in the order | 16 | | determined by lot and prior to candidates who filed
for the | 17 | | same office at a later time.
| 18 | | (7) The State Board of Elections or the appropriate | 19 | | election
authority or local election official with whom | 20 | | such a petition for
nomination is filed shall notify the | 21 | | person for whom a petition for
nomination has been filed of | 22 | | the obligation to file statements of
organization, reports | 23 | | of campaign contributions, and annual reports of
campaign | 24 | | contributions and expenditures under Article 9 of this Act.
| 25 | | Such notice shall be given in the manner prescribed by | 26 | | paragraph (7) of
Section 9-16 of this Code.
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| 1 | | (8) Nomination papers filed under this Section are not | 2 | | valid if the
candidate named therein fails to file a | 3 | | statement of economic interests
as required by the Illinois | 4 | | Governmental Ethics Act in relation to his
candidacy with | 5 | | the appropriate officer by the end of the period for the
| 6 | | filing of nomination papers unless he has filed a statement | 7 | | of economic
interests in relation to the same governmental | 8 | | unit with that officer
within a year preceding the date on | 9 | | which such nomination papers were
filed. If the nomination | 10 | | papers of any candidate and the statement of
economic | 11 | | interest of that candidate are not required to be filed | 12 | | with
the same officer, the candidate must file with the | 13 | | officer with whom the
nomination papers are filed a receipt | 14 | | from the officer with whom the
statement of economic | 15 | | interests is filed showing the date on which such
statement | 16 | | was filed. Such receipt shall be so filed not later than | 17 | | the
last day on which nomination papers may be filed.
| 18 | | (9) Any person for whom a petition for nomination, or | 19 | | for committeeperson or
for delegate or alternate delegate | 20 | | to a national nominating convention has
been filed may | 21 | | cause his name to be withdrawn by request in writing, | 22 | | signed
by him and duly acknowledged before an officer | 23 | | qualified to take
acknowledgments of deeds, and filed in | 24 | | the principal or permanent branch
office of the State Board | 25 | | of Elections or with the appropriate election
authority or | 26 | | local election official, not later than the date of
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| 1 | | certification of candidates for the consolidated primary | 2 | | or general primary
ballot. No names so withdrawn shall be | 3 | | certified or printed on the
primary ballot. If petitions | 4 | | for nomination have been filed for the
same person with | 5 | | respect to more than one political party, his name
shall | 6 | | not be certified nor printed on the primary ballot of any | 7 | | party.
If petitions for nomination have been filed for the | 8 | | same person for 2 or
more offices which are incompatible so | 9 | | that the same person could not
serve in more than one of | 10 | | such offices if elected, that person must
withdraw as a | 11 | | candidate for all but one of such offices within the
5 | 12 | | business days following the last day for petition filing. A | 13 | | candidate in a judicial election may file petitions for | 14 | | nomination for only one vacancy in a subcircuit and only | 15 | | one vacancy in a circuit in any one filing period, and if | 16 | | petitions for nomination have been filed for the same | 17 | | person for 2 or more vacancies in the same circuit or | 18 | | subcircuit in the same filing period, his or her name shall | 19 | | be certified only for the first vacancy for which the | 20 | | petitions for nomination were filed. If he fails to
| 21 | | withdraw as a candidate for all but one of such offices | 22 | | within such time
his name shall not be certified, nor | 23 | | printed on the primary ballot, for any
office. For the | 24 | | purpose of the foregoing provisions, an office in a
| 25 | | political party is not incompatible with any other office.
| 26 | | (10)(a) Notwithstanding the provisions of any other |
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| 1 | | statute, no primary
shall be held for an established | 2 | | political party in any township,
municipality, or ward | 3 | | thereof, where the nomination of such
party for every | 4 | | office to be voted upon by the electors of such
township, | 5 | | municipality, or ward thereof, is uncontested. Whenever a
| 6 | | political party's nomination of candidates is uncontested | 7 | | as to one or
more, but not all, of the offices to be voted | 8 | | upon by the electors of a
township, municipality, or ward | 9 | | thereof, then a primary shall
be held for that party in | 10 | | such township, municipality, or ward thereof;
provided | 11 | | that the primary ballot shall not include those offices
| 12 | | within such township, municipality, or ward thereof, for | 13 | | which the
nomination is uncontested. For purposes of this | 14 | | Article, the nomination
of an established political party | 15 | | of a candidate for election to an office
shall be deemed to | 16 | | be uncontested where not more than the number of persons
to | 17 | | be nominated have timely filed valid nomination papers | 18 | | seeking the
nomination of such party for election to such | 19 | | office.
| 20 | | (b) Notwithstanding the provisions of any other | 21 | | statute, no primary
election shall be held for an | 22 | | established political party for any special
primary | 23 | | election called for the purpose of filling a vacancy in the | 24 | | office
of representative in the United States Congress | 25 | | where the nomination of
such political party for said | 26 | | office is uncontested. For the purposes of
this Article, |
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| 1 | | the nomination of an established political party of a
| 2 | | candidate for election to said office shall be deemed to be | 3 | | uncontested
where not more than the number of persons to be | 4 | | nominated have timely filed
valid nomination papers | 5 | | seeking the nomination of such established party
for | 6 | | election to said office. This subsection (b) shall not | 7 | | apply if such
primary election is conducted on a regularly | 8 | | scheduled election day.
| 9 | | (c) Notwithstanding the provisions in subparagraph (a) | 10 | | and (b) of this
paragraph (10), whenever a person who has | 11 | | not timely filed valid nomination
papers and who intends to | 12 | | become a write-in candidate for a political
party's | 13 | | nomination for any office for which the nomination is | 14 | | uncontested
files a written statement or notice of that | 15 | | intent with the State Board of
Elections or the local | 16 | | election official with whom nomination papers for
such | 17 | | office are filed, a primary ballot shall be prepared and a | 18 | | primary
shall be held for that office. Such statement or | 19 | | notice shall be filed on
or before the date established in | 20 | | this Article for certifying candidates
for the primary | 21 | | ballot. Such statement or notice shall contain (i) the
name | 22 | | and address of the person intending to become a write-in | 23 | | candidate,
(ii) a statement that the person is a qualified | 24 | | primary elector of the
political party from whom the | 25 | | nomination is sought, (iii) a statement that
the person | 26 | | intends to become a write-in candidate for the party's
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| 1 | | nomination, and (iv) the office the person is seeking as a | 2 | | write-in
candidate. An election authority shall have no | 3 | | duty to conduct a primary
and prepare a primary ballot for | 4 | | any office for which the nomination is
uncontested unless a | 5 | | statement or notice meeting the requirements of this
| 6 | | Section is filed in a timely manner.
| 7 | | (11) If multiple sets of nomination papers are filed | 8 | | for a candidate to
the same office, the State Board of | 9 | | Elections, appropriate election
authority or local | 10 | | election official where the petitions are filed shall
| 11 | | within 2 business days notify the candidate of his or her | 12 | | multiple petition
filings and that the candidate has 3 | 13 | | business days after receipt of the
notice to notify the | 14 | | State Board of Elections, appropriate election
authority | 15 | | or local election official that he or she may cancel prior | 16 | | sets
of petitions. If the candidate notifies the State | 17 | | Board of Elections,
appropriate election authority or | 18 | | local election official, the last set of
petitions filed | 19 | | shall be the only petitions to be considered valid by the
| 20 | | State Board of Elections, election authority or local | 21 | | election official. If
the candidate fails to notify the | 22 | | State Board of Elections, election authority
or local
| 23 | | election official then only the first set of petitions | 24 | | filed shall be valid
and all subsequent petitions shall be | 25 | | void.
| 26 | | (12) All nominating petitions shall be available for |
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| 1 | | public inspection
and shall be preserved for a period of | 2 | | not less than 6 months.
| 3 | | (Source: P.A. 100-1027, eff. 1-1-19; 101-523, eff. 8-23-19.)
| 4 | | Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | 5 | | becoming law.
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