96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2009 and 2010
SENATE JOINT RESOLUTION CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT
SC0085

 

Introduced 1/13/2010, by Sen. Tim Bivins

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
ILCON Art. IV, Sec. 6

    Proposes to amend the Legislature Article of the Illinois Constitution. Limits a person's total service in the office of Speaker of the House of Representatives, President of the Senate, Minority Leader of the House, or Minority Leader of the Senate to a total of 8 years in any one of those offices or combination of presiding and minority leader offices in the same house of the General Assembly. Effective upon being declared adopted and applies to service on or after the second Wednesday in January, 2011.


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A BILL FOR

 

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1
SENATE JOINT RESOLUTION
2
CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT

 
3     RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE NINETY-SIXTH GENERAL
4 ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
5 CONCURRING HEREIN, that there shall be submitted to the
6 electors of the State for adoption or rejection at the general
7 election next occurring at least 6 months after the adoption of
8 this resolution a proposition to amend Article IV of the
9 Illinois Constitution by changing Section 6 as follows:
 
10
ARTICLE IV
11
THE LEGISLATURE

12     (ILCON Art. IV, Sec. 6)
13 SECTION 6. ORGANIZATION
14     (a) A majority of the members elected to each house
15 constitutes a quorum.
16     (b) On the first day of the January session of the General
17 Assembly in odd-numbered years, the Secretary of State shall
18 convene the House of Representatives to elect from its
19 membership a Speaker of the House of Representatives as
20 presiding officer, and the Governor shall convene the Senate to
21 elect from its membership a President of the Senate as
22 presiding officer. A person may serve no more than a total of 8
23 years in any of the following offices or combinations of

 

 

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1 offices: Speaker of the House of Representatives, President of
2 the Senate, Minority Leader of the House of Representatives,
3 Minority Leader of the Senate, Speaker and Minority Leader of
4 the House of Representatives, or President and Minority Leader
5 of the Senate; provided that service before the second
6 Wednesday in January of 2011 shall not be considered in the
7 calculation of a person's service.
8     (c) For purposes of powers of appointment conferred by this
9 Constitution, the Minority Leader of either house is a member
10 of the numerically strongest political party other than the
11 party to which the Speaker or the President belongs, as the
12 case may be.
13     (d) Each house shall determine the rules of its
14 proceedings, judge the elections, returns and qualifications
15 of its members and choose its officers. No member shall be
16 expelled by either house, except by a vote of two-thirds of the
17 members elected to that house. A member may be expelled only
18 once for the same offense. Each house may punish by
19 imprisonment any person, not a member, guilty of disrespect to
20 the house by disorderly or contemptuous behavior in its
21 presence. Imprisonment shall not extend beyond twenty-four
22 hours at one time unless the person persists in disorderly or
23 contemptuous behavior.
24 (Source: Illinois Constitution.)
 
25
SCHEDULE

 

 

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1     This Constitutional Amendment takes effect upon being
2 declared adopted in accordance with Section 7 of the Illinois
3 Constitutional Amendment Act.