Public Act 101-0005
 
SB0196 EnrolledLRB101 07306 RJF 52346 b

    AN ACT concerning government.
 
    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
 
    Section 5. The Election Code is amended by changing Section
1A-3 as follows:
 
    (10 ILCS 5/1A-3)  (from Ch. 46, par. 1A-3)
    Sec. 1A-3. Subject to the confirmation requirements of
Section 1A-4, 4 members of the State Board of Elections shall
be appointed in each odd-numbered year as follows:
    (1) The Governor shall appoint 2 members of the same
political party with which he is affiliated, one from each area
of required residence.
    (2) The Governor shall appoint 2 members of the political
party whose candidate for Governor in the most recent general
election received the second highest number of votes, one from
each area of required residence, from a list of nominees
submitted by the first state executive officer in the order
indicated herein affiliated with such political party:
Attorney General, Secretary of State, Comptroller, and
Treasurer. If none of the State executive officers listed
herein is affiliated with such political party, the nominating
State officer shall be the first State executive officer in the
order indicated herein affiliated with an established
political party other than that of the Governor.
    (3) The nominating state officer shall submit in writing to
the Governor 3 names of qualified persons for each membership
on the Board of Election to be appointed from the political
party of that officer. The Governor may reject any or all of
the nominees on any such list and may request an additional
list. The second list shall be submitted by the nominating
officer and shall contain 3 new names of qualified persons for
each remaining appointment, except that if the Governor
expressly reserves any nominee's name from the first list, that
nominee shall not be replaced on the second list. The second
list shall be final.
    (4) Whenever all the state executive officers designated in
paragraph (2) are affiliated with the same political party as
that of the Governor, all 4 members of the Board to be
appointed that year, from both designated political parties,
shall be appointed by the Governor without nominations.
    (5) The Governor shall submit in writing to the President
of the Senate the name of each person appointed to the State
Board of Elections, and shall designate the term for which the
appointment is made and the name of the member whom the
appointee is to succeed.
    (6) The appointments shall be made and submitted by the
Governor no later than April 1 and a nominating state officer
required to submit a list of nominees to the Governor pursuant
to paragraph (3) shall submit a list no later than March 1. For
appointments occurring in 2019, the appointments shall be made
and submitted by the Governor no later than May 15.
    (7) In the appointment of the initial members of the Board
pursuant to this amendatory Act of 1978, the provisions of
paragraphs (1), (2), (3), (5) and (6) of this Section shall
apply except that the Governor shall appoint all 8 members, 2
from each of the designated political parties from each area of
required residence.
(Source: P.A. 85-958.)
 
    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
becoming law.