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1 AN ACT concerning limitations on asserting a violation of
2 the single subject rule.
3 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
4 represented in the General Assembly:
5 Section 5. The Statute on Statutes is amended by adding
6 Section 9 as follows:
7 (5 ILCS 70/9 new)
8 Sec. 9. Limitations; alleged violation of the single
9 subject rule.
10 (a) In any proceeding, whether civil, criminal,
11 quasi-criminal, administrative, or otherwise, an assertion by
12 a party that a Public Act violates the single subject rule
13 must be alleged in a pleading or motion filed (i) within 6
14 months after the Public Act's effective date, (ii) within 60
15 days after the action arises, or (iii) within the time period
16 established, without extension, by law or by Supreme Court
17 Rule for filing the first pleading or motion after the issue
18 is raised to which an allegation of violation of the single
19 subject rule is responsive, whichever is later.
20 (b) Notwithstanding subsection (a), no pleading or motion
21 relying on an allegation that a Public Act violates the
22 single subject rule may be filed more than 3 years after the
23 Public Act's effective date.
24 (c) No pleading or motion may be amended or otherwise
25 allowed to have retroactive effect (nunc pro tunc) in such a
26 way that would avoid the limitations imposed by this Section.
27 (d) In this Section, "violates the single subject rule"
28 means that a Public Act violates the requirement in
29 subsection (d) of Section 8 of Article IV of the Illinois
30 Constitution that bills (except bills for appropriations and
31 for the codification, revision, or rearrangement of laws)
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1 shall be confined to one subject.
2 (e) For the purposes of this Section, if a Public Act has
3 more than one effective date, then "Public Act's effective
4 date" means the effective date of the provision that is the
5 basis for the allegation.
6 (f) In this Section, "pleading" includes, without
7 limitation, complaints, counterclaims, third-party claims,
8 answers, replies, petitions, cross-petitions, responses,
9 indictments, criminal informations, and criminal complaints.
10 (g) This Section applies to Public Acts that take effect
11 on or after the effective date of this amendatory Act of the
12 91st General Assembly.
13 Section 95. Severability. The provisions of this Act
14 are severable under Section 1.31 of the Statute on Statutes.
15 Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
16 becoming law.