House Sponsors: MADIGAN,MJ-CURRIE-MURPHY-GILES-COLLINS, LYONS,JOSEPH, FRANKS, MCCARTHY, SCHOENBERG, FRITCHEY, FLOWERS, OSTERMAN, GRANBERG, ACEVEDO, MENDOZA, SOTO, ERWIN, STROGER, LANG, DELGADO, DAVIS,MONIQUE, JONES,LOU, MCGUIRE, HOWARD, SMITH,MICHAEL, JONES,SHIRLEY, MAY, CURRY,JULIE, O'BRIEN, HOFFMAN, SLONE, TURNER,ART AND MCKEON. Senate Sponsors: HENDON Short description: ELEC CD-VOTING EQUIPMENT Synopsis of Bill as introduced: Amends the Election Code. Beginning with elections in 2002, requires election authorities to use in-precinct automatic vote counting equipment that rejects uncountable ballots. Requires that the ballots be inserted into the equipment by the voters. Requires the State Board of Elections to adopt rules for the testing and use of in-precinct automatic counting equipment. Provides specific procedures for the use of the equipment in election jurisdictions using electronic or optical scan voting systems. Authorizes election authorities to develop and implement procedures to fully utilize electronic voting systems. Requires the State, through a program administered by the State Board of Elections, to reimburse election authorities up to 50% of their costs for acquiring, leasing, or upgrading in-precinct automatic counting equipment. Effective immediately. HOUSE AMENDMENT NO. 1. Deletes reference to: 10 ILCS 5/17-12 10 ILCS 5/17-18 10 ILCS 5/24-22 Deletes everything. Amends the Election Code. Permits election authorities to use in-precinct automatic tabulating equipment. Requires that such equipment have voting defect identification capability and that voter insertion of ballots must be required if such equipment is used. Authorizes the State Board of Elections, from appropriations for this purpose, to make grants to election authorities that apply for reimbursement of up to 100% of the cost of in-precinct automatic tabulating equipment. Makes other changes. Effective immediately. HOUSE AMENDMENT NO. 2. In the provisions requiring the use of voting defect identification capability, requires the counting equipment to be set to return an undervoted ballot to the extent the equipment has that capability. HOUSE AMENDMENT NO. 3. Adds reference to: 10 ILCS 5/17-14 from Ch. 46, par. 17-14 Deletes everything. Reinserts the provisions of House Amendments Nos. 1 and 2 with the following changes: Corrects a technical error. Changes the State Board of Elections' grant program to include reimbursement of the cost of training an election authority's employees in the use of the in-precinct automatic tabulating equipment and to exclude reimbursement of any costs reimbursed or paid by federal funds. If the first fiscal year's appropriation is insufficient to fully fund all grants, requires that fiscal year's appropriation be shared pro rata by approved applicants and that each subsequent year's appropriation be shared pro rata by the previous year's or years' applicants whose approved costs remain unreimbursed and then shared pro rata by new applicants. Defines "in-precinct automatic tabulating equipment" and changes references from "in-precinct counting equipment" to "in-precinct automatic tabulating equipment". Provides that persons otherwise entitled to assistance marking their ballots may have assistance with inserting their ballots into in-precinct automatic tabulating equipment. Effective immediately. Last action on Bill: SESSION SINE DIE Last action date: JAN-07-2003 Location: House Amendments to Bill: AMENDMENTS ADOPTED: HOUSE - 3 SENATE - 0 END OF INQUIRY Full Text Bill Status