Rep. Luis Arroyo

Filed: 3/26/2019

 

 


 

 


 
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AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 2624

2    AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 2624 by replacing
3everything after the enacting clause with the following:
 
4    "Section 5. The Metropolitan Water Reclamation District
5Act is amended by changing Section 3 and by adding Section 3.3
6as follows:
 
7    (70 ILCS 2605/3)  (from Ch. 42, par. 322)
8    Sec. 3. The corporate authority of the Sanitary District of
9Chicago shall consist of nine trustees. Such trustees shall be
10elected for staggered terms at the election provided by the
11general election law. Until the effective date of this
12amendatory Act of the 101st General Assembly, three Three
13trustees shall be elected at each such election to succeed the
143 trustees whose terms expire in such year. On and after the
15effective date of this amendatory Act of the 101st General
16Assembly, trustees shall be elected as provided for in Section

 

 

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13.3.
2    Such trustees shall take office on the first Tuesday after
3the first Monday in the month following the month of their
4election and shall hold their offices for six years and until
5their successors shall be elected and qualified. Until the
6effective date of this amendatory Act of the 101st General
7Assembly, in In all elections for trustees each elector may
8vote for as many candidates as there are trustees to be
9elected, but no elector may give to such candidates more than
10one vote, it being the intent and purpose of this Act to
11prohibit cumulative voting in the selection of members of the
12board of the sanitary district. On and after the effective date
13of this amendatory Act of the 101st General Assembly, trustees
14shall be elected as provided for in Section 3.3.
15    The election of trustees shall be in accordance with the
16provisions of the general election law.
17    By reason of the importance and character of the services
18performed by the sanitary district, there is a great need and
19it is in the public interest that such services be performed in
20as near a non-partisan character as possible.
21    When a vacancy exists in the office of trustees of any
22sanitary district organized under the provisions hereof, the
23vacancy shall be filled by appointment by the Governor until
24the next regular election at which trustees of the Sanitary
25District of Chicago are elected, and thereafter until a
26successor shall be elected and qualified.

 

 

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1    Such sanitary district shall from the time of the first
2election held by it under this Act be construed in all courts
3to be a body corporate and politic, and by the name and style
4of the sanitary district of...., and by such name and style may
5sue and be sued, contract and be contracted with, acquire and
6hold real estate and personal property necessary for corporate
7purposes, and adopt a common seal and alter the same at
8pleasure.
9    The board of trustees shall have the power to change the
10name of the Sanitary District of Chicago by ordinance and
11public notice without impairing the legal status of acts
12theretofore performed by said district. Thereafter any and all
13references to the Sanitary District of Chicago in this Act or
14otherwise shall mean and include the name under which such
15sanitary district is then operating. No rights, duties or
16privilege of such a sanitary district, or those of any person,
17existing before the change of name shall be affected by a
18change, in the name of a sanitary district. All proceedings
19pending in any court in favor of or against such sanitary
20district may continue to final consummation under the name in
21which they were commenced.
22(Source: P.A. 83-345.)
 
23    (70 ILCS 2605/3.3 new)
24    Sec. 3.3. Districting required; election.
25    (a) The General Assembly shall: on or before July 1, 2021,

 

 

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1divide the Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago into 9
2commissioner districts and assign the commissioner districts
3to reflect the results of the most recent federal decennial
4census; and thereafter, in the year following each decennial
5census, redistrict the commissioner districts to reflect the
6results of the most recent census. Each commissioner district
7shall be compact, contiguous, and substantially equal in
8population to each other district. At the meeting of the board
9of commissioners next following the districting by the General
10Assembly, the board of commissioners shall, publicly by lot,
11divide the commissioner districts into 3 groups. In the 2022
12general election, the commissioners from the first group shall
13be elected for a term of 2 years, the commissioners from the
14second group shall be elected for a term of 4 years, and the
15commissioners from the third group shall be elected for a term
16of 6 years. Thereafter, all the terms shall be 6 years and
17elected pursuant to Section 3 of this Act. One commissioner
18shall be elected from each commissioner district and the
19commissioner shall be a resident of the commissioner district
20from which he or she is elected.
21    (b) A districting or redistricting plan created pursuant to
22this Section shall be drawn to create crossover districts,
23coalition districts, or influence districts. The requirements
24imposed by this subsection are in addition and subordinate to
25any requirements or obligations imposed by the United States
26Constitution, any federal law regarding redistricting,

 

 

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1including, but not limited to, the federal Voting Rights Act,
2and the Illinois Constitution. Nothing in this subsection shall
3be construed, applied, or implemented in a way that imposes any
4requirement or obligation that conflicts with the United States
5Constitution, any federal law regarding redistricting, or the
6Illinois Constitution.
7    If this subsection is violated, the districting or
8redistricting plan shall be redrawn to the least extent
9necessary to remedy the violation.
10    As used in this subsection, "crossover district",
11"coalition district", and "influence district" have the
12meanings given to those terms in Section 5-5 of the Illinois
13Voting Rights Act of 2011.
14    (c) If the corporate limits of the District expand between
15redistrictings, the board of commissioners shall determine
16which commissioner district or districts the expanded
17territory will join until the next redistricting.
18    (d) The terms of all commissioners serving at the time of
19the 2022 general election shall continue until the first
20Tuesday after the first Monday in the month following the 2022
21general election or until the 9 new commissioners are elected
22and qualified under subsection (a), whichever is later.".