HC0026 98TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

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98TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2013 and 2014
HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION
CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT
HC0026

Introduced , by Rep. Deborah Conroy

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:

ILCON Art. IV, Sec. 11

Proposes to amend the Legislature Article of the Illinois Constitution. Provides that, for a term of office beginning on or after the date the amendment is declared adopted, a General Assembly member shall receive a salary in an amount equal to the salary that a General Assembly member was entitled to receive on the date the amendment is declared adopted. Prohibits that amount from being increased thereafter except by constitutional amendment or initiative. Effective upon being declared adopted in accordance with Section 7 of the Illinois Constitutional Amendment Act.

HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION

CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT

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

ARTICLE IV

THE LEGISLATURE

(ILCON Art. IV, Sec. 11)

SECTION 11. COMPENSATION AND ALLOWANCES

(a) A member shall receive a salary and allowances as provided by law, but changes in the salary of a member shall not take effect during the term for which he has been elected.

(b) Notwithstanding subsection (a), for a term of office beginning on or after the date this subsection (b) is declared adopted, a member shall receive a salary in an amount equal to the salary that a member was entitled to receive on the date this subsection (b) is declared adopted, and that amount shall not thereafter be increased unless by the affirmative vote of the People of the State in accordance with Section 2 or 3 of Article XIV.

(Source: Illinois Constitution.)

SCHEDULE

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