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 1        AN ACT concerning indigent senior citizens  and  disabled
 2    persons.

 3        WHEREAS,   adequate   housing,   quality   health   care,
 4    nutritional   food,  and  utilities  relief  is  becoming  of
 5    increasing concern to senior citizens  and  disabled  persons
 6    who are indigent; and

 7        WHEREAS,  insurance  and pharmaceutical industries should
 8    help to build a regional hospital  and  supply  some  of  the
 9    funding  to  this project so that each congressional district
10    will be able  to  supply  needed  medical  attention  to  the
11    indigent senior citizen and disabled person; and

12        WHEREAS,  general  construction  contractors and the food
13    industry should provide for the maintenance of this  regional
14    hospital and contribute the necessary funding; and

15        WHEREAS,  the  utility industry should provide the senior
16    citizen and disabled person a flat rate usage for light, gas,
17    and telephone service after requesting the necessary findings
18    sought from the Illinois Commerce Commission; and

19        WHEREAS, health care industries doing business  with  the
20    State   of   Illinois   should   also  support  this  Act  by
21    contributing 1 1/2% to 3% of their net  profit  so  that  the
22    indigent  senior citizen and disabled person would be able to
23    survive and live a longer life; therefore

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

26        Section  1.  Short  title.   This Act may be cited as the
27    Indigent Senior Citizen and Disabled Person Survival Act.

28        Section 5.  Definitions.  In this Act:
 
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 1        "Authority"  means  the  Indigent  Senior   Citizen   and
 2    Disabled Person Survival Authority.
 3        "Fund"  means  the  Indigent  Senior Citizen and Disabled
 4    Person Survival Authority Fund.

 5        Section 10.  The Indigent  Senior  Citizen  and  Disabled
 6    Person Survival Authority.
 7        (a)  There  is  created  the  Indigent Senior Citizen and
 8    Disabled Person Survival Authority that is constituted as  an
 9    instrumentally  and  an administrative agency of the State of
10    Illinois. The Authority shall consist of 11 members from each
11    Congressional district in the  State  of  Illinois.   Members
12    shall be selected in non-partisan elections held concurrently
13    with  the  State  of  Illinois  elections of the Governor and
14    other officials. The 11 candidates with  the  most  votes  in
15    each Congressional district shall be elected. The term of the
16    elected  Authority  shall be concurrent and commensurate with
17    the term of the  Governor  or  for  4  years.  These  elected
18    members shall select their own chair.
19        (b)  The  Authority  shall seek funds from the insurance,
20    general contractors,  pharmaceutical,  food,  utilities,  and
21    health  care  industries  doing  business  in  the  State  of
22    Illinois  and  from  block  grants  and other funds available
23    through the federal government.
24        (c)  The Authority shall oversee moneys distributed  from
25    the  Indigent  Senior  Citizen  and  Disabled Person Survival
26    Authority Fund established under the  provisions  of  Section
27    15.   The  Authority  shall establish procedures for managing
28    and accounting for the moneys distributed from the Fund.
29        (d)  The  Authority  shall  conduct   negotiations   with
30    utility companies, common carriers, communications companies,
31    and  other  service providers for discounted or flat rates to
32    assist indigent persons who are 62 years of age or  older  or
33    who are mentally disabled to obtain needed services.
 
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 1        Section  15.  The  Indigent  Senior  Citizen and Disabled
 2    Person Survival Authority Fund.
 3        (a)  The Indigent  Senior  Citizen  and  Disabled  Person
 4    Survival  Authority  Fund is created as a special fund in the
 5    State treasury.  All money in the Fund shall be  distributed,
 6    subject  to  appropriation  by  the  General Assembly, to the
 7    Authority.
 8        (b)  Annual   voluntary   contributions   from   housing,
 9    insurance, pharmaceutical,  food  distributing,  and  utility
10    companies  seeking licenses or license renewal to do business
11    in the State of Illinois shall be deposited  into  the  Fund.
12    The   specific   amounts  of  these  contributions  shall  be
13    determined by  the  Authority  and  shall  be  based  on  the
14    percentage  of  profits earned in Illinois reported each year
15    by each company for the year  preceding  license  or  license
16    renewal  applications.   When  the  company  is submitting an
17    application for the first time,  the  percentage  should  not
18    exceed  1  1/2%.   The  amount  of voluntary contributions by
19    other companies shall be based on their  scope  and  expected
20    profits but not to exceed overall 3% uniformly throughout the
21    State.    Contributions  should  be remitted to the Authority
22    within  60  days  of  notification  of  the  amount  by   the
23    Authority.
24        (c)  The  moneys  distributed from the Fund shall be used
25    exclusively for indigent  persons,  who  have  an  individual
26    income  of  less  than $10,000 per annum and are residents of
27    the State of Illinois and who are 62 years of age or older or
28    are  mentally  or  physically  disabled  as  defined  by  the
29    Americans  With  Disabilities  Act,  to  provide  them   with
30    hospital,  surgical  and  medical  care,  food,  and  utility
31    services  through supplemental vouchers under rules issued by
32    the Authority.

33        Section 70.  The Election Code  is  amended  by  changing
 
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 1    Section 2A-1.2 as follows:

 2        (10 ILCS 5/2A-1.2) (from Ch. 46, par. 2A-1.2)
 3        Sec.   2A-1.2.  Consolidated   Schedule  of  Elections  -
 4    Offices Designated.
 5        (a)  At  the  general   election   in   the   appropriate
 6    even-numbered years, the following offices shall be filled or
 7    shall be on the ballot as otherwise required by this Code:
 8             (1)  Elector  of President and Vice President of the
 9        United States;
10             (2)  United  States  Senator   and   United   States
11        Representative;
12             (3)  State Executive Branch elected officers;
13             (4)  State Senator and State Representative;
14             (5)  County   elected  officers,  including  State's
15        Attorney, County Board member, County Commissioners,  and
16        elected  President  of  the  County Board or County Chief
17        Executive;
18             (6)  Circuit Court Clerk;
19             (7)  Regional Superintendent of Schools,  except  in
20        counties  or  educational  service  regions in which that
21        office has been abolished;
22             (8)  Judges of the Supreme,  Appellate  and  Circuit
23        Courts,  on  the question of retention, to fill vacancies
24        and newly created judicial offices;
25             (9)  (Blank);
26             (10)  Trustee of the Metropolitan Sanitary  District
27        of   Chicago,  and  elected  Trustee  of  other  Sanitary
28        Districts;
29             (11)  Special   District   elected   officers,   not
30        otherwise designated in this Section, where  the  statute
31        creating  or  authorizing  the  creation  of the district
32        requires an  annual  election  and  permits  or  requires
33        election of candidates of political parties;.
 
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 1             (12)  In  2006 and every 4 years thereafter, members
 2        of  the  Indigent  Senior  Citizen  and  Disabled  Person
 3        Survival Authority.
 4        (b)  At the general primary election:
 5             (1)  in  each  even-numbered  year   candidates   of
 6        political parties shall be nominated for those offices to
 7        be  filled  at  the general election in that year, except
 8        where  pursuant  to  law  nomination  of  candidates   of
 9        political parties is made by caucus.
10             (2)  in  the  appropriate  even-numbered  years  the
11        political  party  offices  of State central committeeman,
12        township committeeman, ward  committeeman,  and  precinct
13        committeeman  shall be filled and delegates and alternate
14        delegates to the National nominating conventions shall be
15        elected as may be required pursuant to this Code.  In the
16        even-numbered years in which a Presidential  election  is
17        to  be  held,  candidates  in the Presidential preference
18        primary shall also be on the ballot.
19             (3)  in   each   even-numbered   year,   where   the
20        municipality has provided for annual elections  to  elect
21        municipal  officers pursuant to Section 6(f) or Section 7
22        of Article VII  of  the  Constitution,  pursuant  to  the
23        Illinois  Municipal  Code  or  pursuant  to the municipal
24        charter, the offices of such municipal officers shall  be
25        filled  at  an  election  held on the date of the general
26        primary election, provided that  the  municipal  election
27        shall  be  a  nonpartisan  election where required by the
28        Illinois  Municipal   Code.    For   partisan   municipal
29        elections  in  even-numbered years, a primary to nominate
30        candidates for municipal office  to  be  elected  at  the
31        general  primary  election shall be held on the Tuesday 6
32        weeks preceding that election.
33             (4)  in each school district which has  adopted  the
34        provisions  of  Article 33 of the School Code, successors
 
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 1        to the members of the  board  of  education  whose  terms
 2        expire  in  the year in which the general primary is held
 3        shall be elected.
 4        (c)  At the  consolidated  election  in  the  appropriate
 5    odd-numbered years, the following offices shall be filled:
 6             (1)  Municipal    officers,    provided    that   in
 7        municipalities in which candidates for alderman or  other
 8        municipal   office   are  not  permitted  by  law  to  be
 9        candidates of  political  parties,  the  runoff  election
10        where  required by law, or the nonpartisan election where
11        required by law,  shall  be  held  on  the  date  of  the
12        consolidated  election; and provided further, in the case
13        of  municipal  officers  provided  for  by  an  ordinance
14        providing the form  of  government  of  the  municipality
15        pursuant to Section 7 of Article VII of the Constitution,
16        such  offices  shall  be  filled by election or by runoff
17        election as may be provided by such ordinance;
18             (2)  Village   and   incorporated    town    library
19        directors;
20             (3)  City boards of stadium commissioners;
21             (4)  Commissioners of park districts;
22             (5)  Trustees of public library districts;
23             (6)  Special    District   elected   officers,   not
24        otherwise designated in this section, where  the  statute
25        creating  or  authorizing  the  creation  of the district
26        permits or requires election of candidates  of  political
27        parties;
28             (7)  Township   officers,  including  township  park
29        commissioners, township library directors, and boards  of
30        managers   of  community  buildings,  and  Multi-Township
31        Assessors;
32             (8)  Highway commissioners and road district clerks;
33             (9)  Members of school boards  in  school  districts
34        which adopt Article 33 of the School Code;
 
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 1             (10)  The  directors  and  chairman  of  the Chain O
 2        Lakes - Fox River Waterway Management Agency;
 3             (11)  Forest preserve district commissioners elected
 4        under  Section  3.5  of  the  Downstate  Forest  Preserve
 5        District Act;
 6             (12)  Elected  members  of  school  boards,   school
 7        trustees,   directors  of  boards  of  school  directors,
 8        trustees of county boards of school trustees  (except  in
 9        counties   or   educational   service  regions  having  a
10        population of 2,000,000 or more inhabitants) and  members
11        of  boards  of school inspectors, except school boards in
12        school districts that adopt  Article  33  of  the  School
13        Code;
14             (13)  Members of Community College district boards;
15             (14)  Trustees of Fire Protection Districts;
16             (15)  Commissioners  of the Springfield Metropolitan
17        Exposition and Auditorium Authority;
18             (16)  Elected Trustees  of  Tuberculosis  Sanitarium
19        Districts;
20             (17)  Elected  Officers  of  special  districts  not
21        otherwise  designated  in  this Section for which the law
22        governing those districts does not permit  candidates  of
23        political parties.
24        (d)  At   the   consolidated  primary  election  in  each
25    odd-numbered year, candidates of political parties  shall  be
26    nominated  for those offices to be filled at the consolidated
27    election  in  that  year,  except  where  pursuant   to   law
28    nomination  of  candidates  of  political  parties is made by
29    caucus, and except those offices listed  in  paragraphs  (12)
30    through (17) of subsection (c).
31        At  the  consolidated primary election in the appropriate
32    odd-numbered years, the mayor, clerk, treasurer, and aldermen
33    shall be elected in municipalities in  which  candidates  for
34    mayor, clerk, treasurer, or alderman are not permitted by law
 
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 1    to  be  candidates  of  political  parties, subject to runoff
 2    elections to be held at the consolidated election as  may  be
 3    required by law, and municipal officers shall be nominated in
 4    a nonpartisan election in municipalities in which pursuant to
 5    law  candidates  for  such  office  are  not  permitted to be
 6    candidates of political parties.
 7        At the consolidated primary election in  the  appropriate
 8    odd-numbered  years, municipal officers shall be nominated or
 9    elected, or elected subject to a runoff, as may  be  provided
10    by  an  ordinance  providing  a  form  of  government  of the
11    municipality pursuant to Section 7  of  Article  VII  of  the
12    Constitution.
13        (e)  (Blank).
14        (f)  At  any  election  established  in  Section  2A-1.1,
15    public  questions may be submitted to voters pursuant to this
16    Code  and  any  special  election   otherwise   required   or
17    authorized by law or by court order may be conducted pursuant
18    to this Code.
19        Notwithstanding   the   regular  dates  for  election  of
20    officers established in this Article, whenever  a  referendum
21    is  held  for  the  establishment  of a political subdivision
22    whose officers are to be elected, the initial officers  shall
23    be  elected  at the election at which such referendum is held
24    if otherwise so provided by law.  In such cases, the election
25    of the initial officers shall be subject to the referendum.
26        Notwithstanding  the  regular  dates  for   election   of
27    officials  established in this Article, any community college
28    district which becomes effective by operation of law pursuant
29    to Section 6-6.1 of the Public Community College Act, as  now
30    or  hereafter amended, shall elect the initial district board
31    members at the next regularly  scheduled  election  following
32    the effective date of the new district.
33        (g)  At any election established in Section 2A-1.1, if in
34    any  precinct  there  are  no  offices  or  public  questions
 
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 1    required to be on the ballot under this Code then no election
 2    shall be held in the precinct on that date.
 3        (h)  There  may  be  conducted a referendum in accordance
 4    with the provisions of Division 6-4 of the Counties Code.
 5    (Source: P.A. 89-5, eff. 1-1-96; 89-95, eff. 1-1-96;  89-626,
 6    eff. 8-9-96; 90-358, eff. 1-1-98.)

 7        Section  80.  The  State Finance Act is amended by adding
 8    Section 5.595 as follows:

 9        (30 ILCS 105/5.595 new)
10        Sec. 5.595.  The Indigent  Senior  Citizen  and  Disabled
11    Person Survival Authority Fund.

12        Section  99.  Effective date.  This Act takes effect upon
13    becoming law.