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90_SB0394
New Act
10 ILCS 5/2A-1.2 from Ch. 46, par. 2A-1.2
30 ILCS 105/5.449 new
Creates the Indigent Senior Citizen and Disabled Person
Survival Act. Creates the Indigent Senior Citizen and
Disabled Person Survival Authority to seek funds from the
insurance, general contractors, pharmaceutical, food,
utilities, and health care industries and the federal
government to be used to provide indigent senior citizens and
disabled persons with hospital, surgical and medical care,
food, and utility services. Provides for the election of 11
members from each congressional district. Provides that the
Authority shall negotiate with utility companies, common
carriers, communication companies, and other service
providers for discounted or flat rates to assist indigent
senior citizens and disabled persons to obtain needed
services. Effective immediately.
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1 AN ACT concerning indigent senior citizens and disabled
2 persons.
3 WHEREAS, adequate housing, quality health care,
4 nutritional food, and utilities relief is becoming of
5 increasing concern to senior citizens and disabled persons
6 who are indigent; and
7 WHEREAS, insurance and pharmaceutical industries should
8 help to build a regional hospital and supply some of the
9 funding to this project so that each congressional district
10 will be able to supply needed medical attention to the
11 indigent senior citizen and disabled person; and
12 WHEREAS, general construction contractors and the food
13 industry should provide for the maintenance of this regional
14 hospital and contribute the necessary funding; and
15 WHEREAS, the utility industry should provide the senior
16 citizen and disabled person a flat rate usage for light, gas,
17 and telephone service after requesting the necessary findings
18 sought from the Illinois Commerce Commission; and
19 WHEREAS, health care industries doing business with the
20 State of Illinois should also support this Act by
21 contributing 1 1/2% to 3% of their net profit so that the
22 indigent senior citizen and disabled person would be able to
23 survive and live a longer life; therefore
24 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
25 represented in the General Assembly:
26 Section 1. Short title. This Act may be cited as the
27 Indigent Senior Citizen and Disabled Person Survival Act.
28 Section 5. Definitions. In this Act:
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1 "Authority" means the Indigent Senior Citizen and
2 Disabled Person Survival Authority.
3 "Fund" means the Indigent Senior Citizen and Disabled
4 Person Survival Authority Fund.
5 Section 10. The Indigent Senior Citizen and Disabled
6 Person Survival Authority.
7 (a) There is created the Indigent Senior Citizen and
8 Disabled Person Survival Authority that is constituted an
9 instrumentally and an administrative agency of the State of
10 Illinois. The Authority shall consist of 11 members from each
11 Congressional district in the State of Illinois. Members
12 shall be selected in non-partisan elections held concurrently
13 with the State of Illinois elections of the Governor and
14 other officials. The 11 candidates with the most votes in
15 each Congressional district shall be elected. The term of the
16 elected Authority shall be concurrent and commensurate with
17 the term of the Governor or for 4 years. These elected
18 members shall select their own chair.
19 (b) The Authority shall seek funds from the insurance,
20 general contractors, pharmaceutical, food, utilities, and
21 health care industries doing business in the State of
22 Illinois and from block grants and other funds available
23 through the federal government.
24 (c) The Authority shall oversee moneys distributed from
25 the Indigent Senior Citizen and Disabled Person Survival
26 Authority Fund established under the provisions of Section
27 15. The Authority shall establish procedures for managing
28 and accounting for the moneys distributed from the Fund.
29 (d) The Authority shall conduct negotiations with
30 utility companies, common carriers, communications companies,
31 and other service providers for discounted or flat rates to
32 assist indigent persons who are 62 years of age or older or
33 who are mentally disabled to obtain needed services.
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1 Section 15. The Indigent Senior Citizen and Disabled
2 Person Survival Authority Fund.
3 (a) The Indigent Senior Citizen and Disabled Person
4 Survival Authority Fund is created as a special fund in the
5 State treasury. All money in the Fund shall be distributed,
6 subject to appropriation by the General Assembly, to the
7 Authority.
8 (b) Annual voluntary contributions from housing,
9 insurance, pharmaceutical, food distributing, and utility
10 companies seeking licenses or license renewal to do business
11 in the State of Illinois shall be deposited into the Fund.
12 The specific amounts of these contributions shall be
13 determined by the Authority and shall be based on the
14 percentage of profits earned in Illinois reported each year
15 by each company for the year preceding license or license
16 renewal applications. When the company is submitting an
17 application for the first time, the percentage should not
18 exceed 1 1/2%. The amount of voluntary contributions by
19 other companies shall be based on their scope and expected
20 profits but not to exceed overall 3% uniformly throughout the
21 State. Contributions should be remitted to the Authority
22 within 60 days of notification of the amount by the
23 Authority.
24 (c) The moneys distributed from the Fund shall be used
25 exclusively for indigent persons, who have an individual
26 income of less than $10,000 per anum and are residents of the
27 State of Illinois and who are 62 years of age or older or are
28 mentally or physically disabled as defined by the Americans
29 With Disabilities Act, to provide them with hospital,
30 surgical and medical care, food, and utility services through
31 supplemental vouchers under rules issued by the Authority.
32 Section 70. The Election Code is amended by changing
33 Section 2A-1.2 as follows:
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1 (10 ILCS 5/2A-1.2) (from Ch. 46, par. 2A-1.2)
2 Sec. 2A-1.2. Consolidated Schedule of Elections -
3 Offices Designated.
4 (a) At the general election in the appropriate
5 even-numbered years, the following offices shall be filled or
6 shall be on the ballot as otherwise required by this Code:
7 (1) Elector of President and Vice President of the
8 United States;
9 (2) United States Senator and United States
10 Representative;
11 (3) State Executive Branch elected officers;
12 (4) State Senator and State Representative;
13 (5) County elected officers, including State's
14 Attorney, County Board member, County Commissioners, and
15 elected President of the County Board or County Chief
16 Executive;
17 (6) Circuit Court Clerk;
18 (7) Regional Superintendent of Schools, except in
19 counties or educational service regions in which that
20 office has been abolished;
21 (8) Judges of the Supreme, Appellate and Circuit
22 Courts, on the question of retention, to fill vacancies
23 and newly created judicial offices;
24 (9) (Blank);
25 (10) Trustee of the Metropolitan Sanitary District
26 of Chicago, and elected Trustee of other Sanitary
27 Districts;
28 (11) Special District elected officers, not
29 otherwise designated in this Section, where the statute
30 creating or authorizing the creation of the district
31 requires an annual election and permits or requires
32 election of candidates of political parties.
33 (12) In 1998 and every 4 years thereafter, members
34 of the Indigent Senior Citizen and Disabled Person
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1 Survival Authority.
2 (b) At the general primary election:
3 (1) in each even-numbered year candidates of
4 political parties shall be nominated for those offices to
5 be filled at the general election in that year, except
6 where pursuant to law nomination of candidates of
7 political parties is made by caucus.
8 (2) in the appropriate even-numbered years the
9 political party offices of State central committeeman,
10 township committeeman, ward committeeman, and precinct
11 committeeman shall be filled and delegates and alternate
12 delegates to the National nominating conventions shall be
13 elected as may be required pursuant to this Code. In the
14 even-numbered years in which a Presidential election is
15 to be held, candidates in the Presidential preference
16 primary shall also be on the ballot.
17 (3) in each even-numbered year, where the
18 municipality has provided for annual elections to elect
19 municipal officers pursuant to Section 6(f) or Section 7
20 of Article VII of the Constitution, pursuant to the
21 Illinois Municipal Code or pursuant to the municipal
22 charter, the offices of such municipal officers shall be
23 filled at an election held on the date of the general
24 primary election, provided that the municipal election
25 shall be a nonpartisan election where required by the
26 Illinois Municipal Code. For partisan municipal
27 elections in even-numbered years, a primary to nominate
28 candidates for municipal office to be elected at the
29 general primary election shall be held on the Tuesday 6
30 weeks preceding that election.
31 (4) in each school district which has adopted the
32 provisions of Article 33 of the School Code, successors
33 to the members of the board of education whose terms
34 expire in the year in which the general primary is held
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1 shall be elected.
2 (c) At the consolidated election in the appropriate
3 odd-numbered years, the following offices shall be filled:
4 (1) Municipal officers, provided that in
5 municipalities in which candidates for alderman or other
6 municipal office are not permitted by law to be
7 candidates of political parties, the runoff election
8 where required by law, or the nonpartisan election where
9 required by law, shall be held on the date of the
10 consolidated election; and provided further, in the case
11 of municipal officers provided for by an ordinance
12 providing the form of government of the municipality
13 pursuant to Section 7 of Article VII of the Constitution,
14 such offices shall be filled by election or by runoff
15 election as may be provided by such ordinance;
16 (2) Village and incorporated town library
17 directors;
18 (3) City boards of stadium commissioners;
19 (4) Commissioners of park districts;
20 (5) Trustees of public library districts;
21 (6) Special District elected officers, not
22 otherwise designated in this section, where the statute
23 creating or authorizing the creation of the district
24 permits or requires election of candidates of political
25 parties;
26 (7) Township officers, including township park
27 commissioners, township library directors, and boards of
28 managers of community buildings, and Multi-Township
29 Assessors;
30 (8) Highway commissioners and road district clerks;
31 (9) Members of school boards in school districts
32 which adopt Article 33 of the School Code;
33 (10) The directors and chairman of the Chain O
34 Lakes - Fox River Waterway Management Agency;
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1 (11) Forest preserve district commissioners elected
2 under Section 3.5 of the Downstate Forest Preserve
3 District Act.
4 (d) At the consolidated primary election in each
5 odd-numbered year, candidates of political parties shall be
6 nominated for those offices to be filled at the consolidated
7 election in that year, except where pursuant to law
8 nomination of candidates of political parties is made by
9 caucus.
10 At the consolidated primary election in the appropriate
11 odd-numbered years, the mayor, clerk, treasurer, and aldermen
12 shall be elected in municipalities in which candidates for
13 mayor, clerk, treasurer, or alderman are not permitted by law
14 to be candidates of political parties, subject to runoff
15 elections to be held at the consolidated election as may be
16 required by law, and municipal officers shall be nominated in
17 a nonpartisan election in municipalities in which pursuant to
18 law candidates for such office are not permitted to be
19 candidates of political parties.
20 At the consolidated primary election in the appropriate
21 odd-numbered years, municipal officers shall be nominated or
22 elected, or elected subject to a runoff, as may be provided
23 by an ordinance providing a form of government of the
24 municipality pursuant to Section 7 of Article VII of the
25 Constitution.
26 (e) At the nonpartisan election in each odd-numbered
27 year the following offices shall be filled in nonpartisan
28 elections:
29 (1) Elected members of school boards, school
30 trustees, directors of boards of school directors,
31 trustees of county boards of school trustees (except in
32 counties or educational service regions having a
33 population of 2,000,000 or more inhabitants), and members
34 of boards of school inspectors, except school boards in
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1 school districts which adopt Article 33 of the School
2 Code;
3 (2) Member of Community College district boards;
4 (3) Trustee of Fire Protection Districts;
5 (4) Commissioner of Springfield Metropolitan
6 Exposition and Auditorium Authority;
7 (5) Elected Trustees of Tuberculosis Sanitarium
8 Districts;
9 (6) Elected Officers of special districts not
10 otherwise designated in this Section for which the law
11 governing such districts does not permit candidates of
12 political parties.
13 (f) At any election established in Section 2A-1.1,
14 public questions may be submitted to voters pursuant to this
15 Code and any special election otherwise required or
16 authorized by law or by court order may be conducted pursuant
17 to this Code.
18 Notwithstanding the regular dates for election of
19 officers established in this Article, whenever a referendum
20 is held for the establishment of a political subdivision
21 whose officers are to be elected, the initial officers shall
22 be elected at the election at which such referendum is held
23 if otherwise so provided by law. In such cases, the election
24 of the initial officers shall be subject to the referendum.
25 Notwithstanding the regular dates for election of
26 officials established in this Article, any community college
27 district which becomes effective by operation of law pursuant
28 to Section 6-6.1 of the Public Community College Act, as now
29 or hereafter amended, shall elect the initial district board
30 members at the next regularly scheduled election following
31 the effective date of the new district.
32 (g) At any election established in Section 2A-1.1, if in
33 any precinct there are no offices or public questions
34 required to be on the ballot under this Code then no election
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1 shall be held in the precinct on that date.
2 (h) Except at the nonpartisan election in 1981, there
3 may be conducted a referendum in accordance with the
4 provisions of Division 6-4 of the Counties Code.
5 (Source: P.A. 88-89; 88-443; 88-670, eff. 12-2-94; 89-5, eff.
6 1-1-96; 89-95, eff. 1-1-96; 89-626, eff. 8-9-96.)
7 Section 80. The State Finance Act is amended by adding
8 Section 5.449 as follows:
9 (30 ILCS 105/5.449 new)
10 Sec. 5.449. The Indigent Senior Citizen and Disabled
11 Person Survival Authority Fund.
12 Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
13 becoming law.