Rep. Barbara Flynn Currie

Filed: 3/29/2017

 

 


 

 


 
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AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 348

2    AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 348 by replacing
3everything after the enacting clause with the following:
 
4    "Section 5. The Illinois Constitutional Amendment Act is
5amended by changing Section 2 as follows:
 
6    (5 ILCS 20/2)  (from Ch. 1, par. 103)
7    Sec. 2.
8    (a) The General Assembly in submitting an amendment to the
9Constitution to the electors, or the proponents of an amendment
10to Article IV of the Constitution submitted by petition, shall
11prepare a brief explanation of such amendment, a brief argument
12in favor of the same, and the form in which such amendment will
13appear on the separate ballot as provided by Section 16-6 of
14the Election Code, as amended. The minority of the General
15Assembly, or if there is no minority, anyone designated by the
16General Assembly shall prepare a brief argument against such

 

 

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1amendment. The explanation, the arguments for and against each
2constitutional amendment, and the form in which the amendment
3will appear on the ballot (with striking and underscoring)
4shall be filed in the Office of the Secretary of State no later
5than July 1 of the year in which the amendment shall appear on
6the ballot.
7    (b) In the case of an amendment to Article IV of the
8Constitution initiated pursuant to Section 3 of Article XIV of
9the Constitution, the proponents of the amendment shall prepare
10a brief explanation of such amendment and a brief argument in
11favor of the same. For purposes of this subsection (b), the
12proponents shall be those persons so designated at the time of
13the filing of the petition as provided in Section 10-8 of the
14Election Code. A brief argument against such amendment shall be
15prepared by , and the opponents shall be those members of the
16General Assembly opposing such amendment, or if there are none,
17anyone designated by the General Assembly and such opponents
18shall prepare a brief argument against such amendment. The
19proponent's explanation and argument in favor of and the
20opponents argument against an amendment to Article IV initiated
21by petition must be submitted to the Attorney General by July
221, who may rewrite them for accuracy and fairness. The Attorney
23General shall prepare the form in which such amendment will
24appear on the ballot (with striking and underscoring). The
25explanation, the arguments for and against each constitutional
26amendment, and the form in which the amendment will appear on

 

 

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1the separate ballot (with striking and underscoring) shall be
2filed in the Office office of the Secretary of State no later
3than 30 days after the State Board of Elections has certified
4the with the proposed amendment.
5    (c) Within 30 days of receipt of the information related to
6the amendment, the Office of the Secretary of State shall
7publish the materials on a publicly accessible Internet website
8controlled by the Office of the Secretary of State, including
9an electronic version that may be downloaded. Additionally, the
10Office shall provide an electronic copy to the State Board of
11Elections and each election authority in the State.
12    (d) No later than one month before the general election,
13each election authority shall publish the information received
14from the Secretary of State on their Internet website and shall
15electronically mail the information to any registered voter who
16has provided the Board or the election authority with an
17electronic mail address.
18    (e) At least one month before the general next election at
19which the amendment appears on the ballot of members of the
20General Assembly, following the passage of the proposed
21amendment, the Secretary of State shall publish the explanation
22of the amendment, the arguments for and against the amendment,
23the form in which the amendment will appear on the ballot (with
24striking and underscoring), and a link to the information
25published on the website, in full in 8 point type, or the
26equivalent thereto, in at least one secular newspaper of

 

 

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1general circulation in every county in this State in which a
2newspaper is published. In counties in which 2 or more
3newspapers are published, the Secretary of State shall cause
4such amendment to be published in at least 2 newspapers. In
5counties having a population of 500,000 or more, such amendment
6shall be published in not less than 6 newspapers of general
7circulation. After the first publication, the publication of
8such amendment shall be repeated once each week for 2
9consecutive weeks. In selecting newspapers in which to publish
10such amendment the Secretary of State shall have regard solely
11to the circulation of such newspapers, selecting secular
12newspapers in every case having the largest circulation. The
13proposed amendment shall have a notice prefixed thereto in said
14publications, that at such election the proposed amendment will
15be submitted to the electors for adoption or rejection, and at
16the end of the official publication, he shall also publish the
17form in which the proposed amendment will appear on the
18separate ballot. The Secretary of State shall fix the
19publication fees to be paid newspapers for making such
20publication, but in no case shall such publication fee exceed
21the amount charged by such newspapers to private individuals
22for a like publication.
23    (f) The General Assembly may, by resolution, direct the
24Secretary of State to distribute to the electors a pamphlet
25containing In addition to the notice hereby required to be
26published, the Secretary of State shall also cause the existing

 

 

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1form of the constitutional provision proposed to be amended,
2the proposed amendment (with striking and underscoring), the
3explanation of the same, the arguments for and against the
4same, and the form in which such amendment will appear on the
5separate ballot, to be published in pamphlet form in 8 point
6type or the equivalent thereto; and the Secretary of State
7shall mail such pamphlet to every mailing address in the State,
8addressed to the attention of the Postal Patron. The Secretary
9of State He shall also maintain a reasonable supply of such
10pamphlets so as to make them available to any person requesting
11one.
12(Source: P.A. 98-463, eff. 8-16-13.)".