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90_HB1688
705 ILCS 305/10.2 from Ch. 78, par. 10.2
Amends the Jury Act. Provides that jury service shall be
deemed to impose an undue hardship on any person who is not
employed outside the home and is the sole care provider of a
child who is 4 years of age or younger.
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1 AN ACT to amend the Jury Act by changing Section 10.2.
2 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3 represented in the General Assembly:
4 Section 5. The Jury Act is amended by changing Section
5 10.2 as follows:
6 (705 ILCS 305/10.2) (from Ch. 78, par. 10.2)
7 Sec. 10.2. The county boards of the respective counties
8 or the jury commissioners for those counties which have been
9 appointed pursuant to "An Act in relation to jury
10 commissioners and authorizing judges to appoint such
11 commissioners and to make rules concerning their powers and
12 duties", approved June 15, 1887, as amended, shall have the
13 authority to submit questionnaires to prospective jurors to
14 inquire as to their qualifications for jury service and as to
15 the hardship that jury service would pose to the prospective
16 jurors. Upon prior approval by the chief judge of the
17 judicial circuits in which a county board of jury
18 commissioners are situated, the county board or jury
19 commissioners shall excuse a prospective juror from jury
20 service if the prospective juror shows that such service
21 would impose an undue hardship on account of the nature of
22 the prospective juror's occupation, business affairs,
23 physical health, family situation, active duty in the
24 Illinois National Guard or Illinois Naval Militia, or other
25 personal affairs, and cause his or her name to be returned to
26 the jury list or general jury list. For purposes of this
27 Section, jury service shall be deemed to impose an undue
28 hardship on any person who is not employed outside the home
29 and is the sole care provider of a child who is 4 years of
30 age or younger.
31 (Source: P.A. 85-407.)