Full Text of HB4579 93rd General Assembly
HB4579 93RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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93RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2003 and 2004 HB4579
Introduced 02/04/04, by Tom Cross SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED: |
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10 ILCS 5/7-9 |
from Ch. 46, par. 7-9 |
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Amends the Election Code. Changes the date of the county convention from the second Monday after the general primary election to the 29th day after the general primary election. Requires that the convention be held within the county (now, at the county seat). Effective immediately.
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A BILL FOR
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| AN ACT concerning elections.
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| Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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| represented in the General Assembly:
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| Section 5. The Election Code is amended by changing | 5 |
| Section 7-9 as follows:
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| (10 ILCS 5/7-9)
(from Ch. 46, par. 7-9)
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| Sec. 7-9. County central committee; county and State | 8 |
| conventions.
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| (a) On the 29th day
second Monday next succeeding the | 10 |
| primary at
which
committeemen are elected, the county central | 11 |
| committee of each political
party shall meet within
at the | 12 |
| county seat of the proper county and proceed to
organize by | 13 |
| electing from its own number a chairman and either from its
own | 14 |
| number, or otherwise, such other officers as such committee may | 15 |
| deem
necessary or expedient. Such meeting of the county central | 16 |
| committee
shall be known as the county convention.
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| The chairman of each county committee shall within 10 days | 18 |
| after the
organization, forward to the State Board of | 19 |
| Elections, the names and
post office addresses of the officers, | 20 |
| precinct committeemen and
representative committeemen elected | 21 |
| by his political party.
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| The county convention of each political party shall choose | 23 |
| delegates
to the State convention of its party; but in any | 24 |
| county having within
its limits any city having a population of | 25 |
| 200,000, or over the
delegates from such city shall be chosen | 26 |
| by wards, the ward committeemen
from the respective wards | 27 |
| choosing the number of delegates to which such
ward is entitled | 28 |
| on the basis prescribed in paragraph (e) of this
Section such | 29 |
| delegates to be members of the delegation to the State
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| convention from such county. In all counties containing a | 31 |
| population of
2,000,000 or more outside of cities having a | 32 |
| population of 200,000 or
more, the delegates from each of the |
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| townships or parts of townships as
the case may be shall be | 2 |
| chosen by townships or parts of townships as
the case may be, | 3 |
| the township committeemen from the respective townships
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| parts of townships as the case may be choosing the number of
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| delegates to which such townships or parts of townships as the | 6 |
| case may
be are entitled, on the basis prescribed in paragraph | 7 |
| (e) of this
Section such delegates to be members of the | 8 |
| delegation to the State
convention from such county.
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| Each member of the State Central Committee of a political | 10 |
| party which
elects its members by Alternative B under paragraph | 11 |
| (a) of Section 7-8
shall be a delegate to the State Convention, | 12 |
| ex officio.
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| Each member of the State Central Committee of a political | 14 |
| party which
elects its members by Alternative B under paragraph | 15 |
| (a) of Section 7-8 may
appoint 2 delegates to the State | 16 |
| Convention who must be residents of the
member's Congressional | 17 |
| District.
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| (b) State conventions shall be held within 180 days after | 19 |
| the
general primary in the year 2000 and every 4 years | 20 |
| thereafter. In the year 1998, and every 4 years thereafter,
the | 21 |
| chairman of a State central committee may issue a call for a | 22 |
| State
convention within 180 days after the general primary.
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| The State
convention of each political party has power to | 24 |
| make
nominations of candidates of its political party for the | 25 |
| electors of
President and Vice President of the United States, | 26 |
| and to adopt any party
platform, and, to the
extent determined | 27 |
| by the State central committee as provided in Section
7-14, to | 28 |
| choose and select delegates and alternate delegates at large to
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| national nominating conventions. The State Central Committee | 30 |
| may adopt
rules to provide for and govern the procedures of the | 31 |
| State convention.
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| (c) The chairman and secretary of each State convention | 33 |
| shall,
within 2 days thereafter, transmit to the State Board of | 34 |
| Elections of
this State a certificate setting forth the names | 35 |
| and addresses of all
persons nominated by such State convention | 36 |
| for electors of President and
Vice President of the United |
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| States, and of any persons selected by the State
convention for
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| delegates and alternate delegates at large to national | 3 |
| nominating
conventions; and the names of such candidates so | 4 |
| chosen by such State
convention for electors of President and | 5 |
| Vice President of the United
States, shall be caused by
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| State Board of Elections to be printed upon the official ballot | 7 |
| at
the general election, in the manner required by law, and | 8 |
| shall be
certified to the various county clerks of the proper | 9 |
| counties in the
manner as provided in Section 7-60 of this | 10 |
| Article 7 for the certifying
of the names of persons nominated | 11 |
| by any party for State offices. If and
as long as this Act | 12 |
| prescribes that the names of such electors be not
printed on | 13 |
| the ballot, then the names of such electors shall be
certified | 14 |
| in such manner as may be prescribed by the parts of this Act
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| applicable thereto.
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| (d) Each convention may perform all other functions | 17 |
| inherent to such
political organization and not inconsistent | 18 |
| with this Article.
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| (e) At least 33 days before the date of a State convention, | 20 |
| the chairman of the State central committee of each political
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| party shall file in the principal office of the State Board of
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| Elections a call for the State convention. Such call shall | 23 |
| state, among
other things, the time and place (designating the | 24 |
| building or hall) for
holding the State convention. Such call | 25 |
| shall be signed by the chairman
and attested by the secretary | 26 |
| of the committee. In such convention each
county shall be | 27 |
| entitled to one delegate for each 500 ballots voted by
the | 28 |
| primary electors of the party in such county at the primary to | 29 |
| be
held next after the issuance of such call; and if in such | 30 |
| county, less
than 500 ballots are so voted or if the number of | 31 |
| ballots so voted is
not exactly a multiple of 500, there shall | 32 |
| be one delegate for such
group which is less than 500, or for | 33 |
| such group representing the number
of votes over the multiple | 34 |
| of 500, which delegate shall have 1/500 of
one vote for each | 35 |
| primary vote so represented by him. The call for such
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| convention shall set forth this paragraph (e) of Section 7-9 in |
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| full and
shall direct that the number of delegates to be chosen | 2 |
| be calculated in
compliance herewith and that such number of | 3 |
| delegates be chosen.
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| (f) All precinct, township and ward committeemen when | 5 |
| elected as
provided in this Section shall serve as though | 6 |
| elected at large
irrespective of any changes that may be made | 7 |
| in precinct, township or
ward boundaries and the voting | 8 |
| strength of each committeeman shall
remain as provided in this | 9 |
| Section for the entire time for which he is
elected.
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| (g) The officers elected at any convention provided for in | 11 |
| this
Section shall serve until their successors are elected as | 12 |
| provided in
this Act.
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| (h) A special meeting of any central committee may be | 14 |
| called by the
chairman, or by not less than 25% of the members | 15 |
| of such committee, by
giving 5 days notice to members of such | 16 |
| committee in writing designating
the time and place at which | 17 |
| such special meeting is to be held and the
business which it is | 18 |
| proposed to present at such special meeting.
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| (i) Except as otherwise provided in this Act, whenever a | 20 |
| vacancy
exists in the office of precinct committeeman because | 21 |
| no one was elected
to that office or because the precinct | 22 |
| committeeman ceases to reside in
the precinct or for any other | 23 |
| reason, the chairman of the county
central committee of the | 24 |
| appropriate political party may fill the
vacancy in such office | 25 |
| by appointment of a qualified resident of the
county and the | 26 |
| appointed precinct committeeman shall serve as though
elected; | 27 |
| however, no such appointment may be made between the general
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| primary election and the 14th day after the general primary | 29 |
| election.
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| (j) If the number of Congressional Districts in the State | 31 |
| of Illinois
is reduced as a result of reapportionment of | 32 |
| Congressional Districts
following a federal decennial census, | 33 |
| the State Central Committeemen and
Committeewomen of a | 34 |
| political
party which elects its State Central
Committee by | 35 |
| either Alternative A or by Alternative B under paragraph (a)
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| Section 7-8 who were
previously elected shall continue to serve |
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| as if no reapportionment had
occurred until the expiration of | 2 |
| their terms.
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| (Source: P.A. 89-5, eff. 1-1-96; 90-627, eff. 7-10-98.)
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| Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | 5 |
| becoming law.
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