Rep. Debbie Meyers-Martin

Filed: 2/27/2019

 

 


 

 


 
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AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 2301

2    AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 2301 on page 3 by
3inserting immediately below line 9 the following:
 
4    "Section 7. The Coal Mining Act is amended by changing
5Sections 8.02 and 8.03 as follows:
 
6    (225 ILCS 705/8.02)  (from Ch. 96 1/2, par. 802)
7    Sec. 8.02. There is created in the Department of Natural
8Resources, Office of Mines and Minerals, a Miners' Examining
9Board which shall consist of 4 four miners' examining officers
10to be appointed by the Governor, 2 of which must be from a
11labor organization recognized under the National Labor
12Relations Act, for a term of 2 years and until their successors
13are appointed and qualified. Terms of office shall commence on
14the third Monday in January in each odd-numbered year. Three of
15such officers shall constitute a quorum.
16    This amendatory Act of 1995 does not affect the terms of

 

 

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1members of the Miners' Examining Board holding office on the
2effective date of this amendatory Act of 1995.
3    A complete record of the proceedings and acts of the
4Miners' Examining Board shall be kept and preserved. Said
5officers shall hold no other lucrative office or employment
6under the government of the United States, State of Illinois,
7or any political division thereof or any municipal corporation
8therein and each such officer before entering upon the duties
9of his office shall subscribe and take the oath prescribed by
10the Constitution of this State, and shall before entering upon
11the duties of his office give a bond with sufficient surety to
12be approved by the Governor, payable to the People of the State
13of Illinois in the penal sum of $5,000, conditioned for the
14faithful discharge of the duties of office and the delivery of
15all records, books, moneys, and other property pertaining to
16his successor in office, which said bond shall be deposited in
17the office of the Secretary of State. Vacancies shall be filled
18by appointment as provided herein for the balance of the
19unexpired term.
20(Source: P.A. 89-445, eff. 2-7-96.)
 
21    (225 ILCS 705/8.03)  (from Ch. 96 1/2, par. 803)
22    Sec. 8.03. No person shall be appointed to the Miners'
23Examining Board who has not had at least 5 years' practical and
24continuous experience as a coal miner, and who has not been
25actually engaged in coal mining as a miner in the State of

 

 

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1Illinois continuously for 12 months next preceding his
2appointment; except that a miners' examining officer may be
3appointed to succeed himself.
4(Source: Laws 1953, p. 701.)".