97TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2011 and 2012
HB1511

 

Introduced 2/14/2011, by Rep. Thomas Holbrook

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
705 ILCS 310/1  from Ch. 78, par. 24

    Amends the Jury Commission Act. Provides that counties with a population of at least 200,000 but less than 300,000 may have 4 (rather than 3) jury commissioners. Effective immediately.


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A BILL FOR

 

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1    AN ACT concerning courts.
 
2    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3represented in the General Assembly:
 
4    Section 5. The Jury Commission Act is amended by changing
5Section 1 as follows:
 
6    (705 ILCS 310/1)  (from Ch. 78, par. 24)
7    Sec. 1. (a) In every county of this State now containing,
8or which may hereafter contain more than 75,000 inhabitants,
9and in any other county with a population less than 3,000,000
10in which the county board by resolution determines that jury
11commissioners shall be appointed, the circuit judges in the
12circuit of which the county is a part, or a majority of them,
13shall choose 3 competent and discreet electors, who shall not
14be so chosen on account of party affiliations, who shall be
15known as jury commissioners. Such commissioners shall, in
16counties now containing the required number of inhabitants, be
17chosen on the first Monday of July, 1897, and in counties
18hereafter containing the required number of inhabitants such
19commissioners shall be chosen on the first Monday of July,
20after it shall have been determined by the last preceding
21national census that the inhabitants of such county are of the
22number required or after the county board by resolution
23determines that jury commissioners shall be appointed, as the

 

 

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1case may be. Of the first 3 so chosen, one shall hold his
2office for one year, one for 2 years and one for 3 years, to be
3determined by lot, and every year thereafter one such officer
4shall be chosen for the term of 3 years. Each of such
5commissioners, before entering upon the duties of his office,
6shall take and subscribe to an oath of office before one of
7such judges, and shall execute a bond to the People of the
8State of Illinois in such sums and with such sureties as shall
9be required by such judge and be, by him, approved, conditioned
10for the faithful discharge of his duties as such commissioner
11during his term of office. The majority of the Circuit judges
12herein referred to may remove either of such commissioners,
13assigning reasons therefor, and fill all vacancies occurring in
14the office of any such commissioners by death, resignation or
15removal.
16    In a county with a population of at least 200,000 but less
17than 300,000, the circuit judges in the circuit of which the
18county is a part, or a majority of them, may choose to appoint
194, rather than 3, jury commissioners.
20    (b) In counties with a population of at least 3,000,000,
21the chief judge of the circuit of that county may discontinue
22the appointment of jury commissioners for that county. If the
23chief judge of a circuit in a county with a population of at
24least 3,000,000 discontinues the appointments of the jury
25commissioners, the functions of the jury commissioners may be
26performed by a jury administrator. The jury commissioners in

 

 

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1office at the time of the discontinuance shall complete their
2terms of office and shall discharge their duties and
3responsibilities as assigned by the chief judge of that
4circuit.
5(Source: P.A. 90-481, eff. 1-1-98.)
 
6    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
7becoming law.