99TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2015 and 2016
SENATE JOINT RESOLUTION CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT
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Introduced 4/19/2016, by Sen. Neil Anderson

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
ILCON Art. IV, Sec. 10

    Proposes to amend the Legislature Article of the Illinois Constitution. Provides no substantive bill that may result in the expenditure of public funds, may become effective before all necessary appropriations bills for the ensuing fiscal year become effective. This subsection shall not apply if a vote by both houses of the General Assembly by the vote of two-thirds of the members elected to each house, for a resolution declaring that the provisions of this subsection shall not be applicable in that house to a particular bill, which shall be specified in the resolution by number and title, and the bill so specified may proceed to final passage therein. Effective upon being declared adopted in accordance with the Illinois Constitutional Amendment Act.


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SENATE JOINT RESOLUTION
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CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT

 
3    RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE NINETY-NINTH GENERAL
4ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
5CONCURRING HEREIN, that there shall be submitted to the
6electors of the State for adoption or rejection at the general
7election next occurring at least 6 months after the adoption of
8this resolution a proposition to amend Section 10 of Article IV
9of the Illinois Constitution as follows:
 
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ARTICLE IV
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THE LEGISLATURE

12    (ILCON Art. IV, Sec. 10)
13SECTION 10. EFFECTIVE DATE OF LAWS
14    (a) The General Assembly shall provide by law for a uniform
15effective date for laws passed prior to June 1 of a calendar
16year. The General Assembly may provide for a different
17effective date in any law passed prior to June 1. A bill passed
18after May 31 shall not become effective prior to June 1 of the
19next calendar year unless the General Assembly by the vote of
20three-fifths of the members elected to each house provides for
21an earlier effective date.
22    (b) No substantive bill that may result in the expenditure
23of public funds, may become effective before all necessary

 

 

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1appropriations bills for the ensuing fiscal year become
2effective. This subsection shall not apply if a vote by both
3houses of the General Assembly by the vote of two-thirds of the
4members elected to each house, for a resolution declaring that
5the provisions of this subsection shall not be applicable in
6that house to a particular bill, which shall be specified in
7the resolution by number and title, and the bill so specified
8may proceed to final passage therein.
9(Source: Amendment adopted at general election November 8,
101994.)
 
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SCHEDULE
12    This Constitutional Amendment takes effect upon being
13declared adopted in accordance with Section 7 of the Illinois
14Constitutional Amendment Act.