SB1014 97TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

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97TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2011 and 2012
SB1014

Introduced 2/8/2011, by Sen. John J. Cullerton

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:

705 ILCS 40/1.1

from Ch. 37, par. 72.41-1

Amends the Judicial Vacancies Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning definitions.

A BILL FOR

AN ACT concerning courts.

Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly:

Section 5. The Judicial Vacancies Act is amended by changing Section 1.1 as follows:

(705 ILCS 40/1.1) (from Ch. 37, par. 72.41-1)

Sec. 1.1. As used in this Act, the the term "resident circuit judge" or "resident judge" refers to a circuit judge who, immediately prior to July 1, 1971, was an associate judge and who became a circuit judge on July 1, 1971 by reason of paragraph (a) of Section 4 of the Transition Schedule of the Constitution of 1970 or a circuit judge who was appointed after June 30, 1971 by the Supreme Court to fill the vacancy existing prior to July 1, 1971 in the office of a former associate judge and whose office was, prior to July 1, 1971, filled by election from a single county or, in the case of Cook County, from one of the 2 units of the county, and not from the circuit at large.

(Source: P.A. 88-45.)