Full Text of HJRCA0042 97th General Assembly
HC0042 97TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY |
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State of Illinois
2011 and 2012 HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION
CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT HC0042 Introduced , by Rep. Mike Fortner SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED: |
| ILCON Art. IV, Sec. 2 | ILCON Art. IV, Sec. 5 |
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Proposes to amend the Legislature Article of the Illinois Constitution.
Provides that, beginning in 2022, in each
ten-year period, Senators shall be divided into two groups. Provides that
Senators in the first group shall first be elected for terms of 6 years and
then for terms of 4 years. Provides that Senators in the other group shall
first be elected for terms of 4 years and then for terms of 6 years.
Provides that, beginning in 2022,
Representatives shall first be
elected for terms of 4 years, then for terms of 2 years, and then for
terms of 4 years.
Provides that the General Assembly shall be a continuous body for a period
beginning and ending at noon on the second Wednesday of January of consecutive
odd-numbered years. Specifies that Representatives elected in 2012 shall serve two-year terms and that Representatives elected in 2014 and 2018 shall serve four-year terms. Specifies that Senators elected in 2014 shall serve two-year terms and that Senators elected in 2016 shall serve six-year terms. Effective upon being declared adopted. Applies to the
election of General Assembly members in 2014 and thereafter; does
not affect the terms of members elected before 2014.
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| 1 | | HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION
| 2 | | CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT
| 3 | | RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE | 4 | | NINETY-SEVENTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, THE | 5 | | SENATE CONCURRING HEREIN, that there shall be submitted to the | 6 | | electors of the State for adoption or rejection at the general | 7 | | election next occurring at least 6 months after the adoption of | 8 | | this resolution a proposition to amend Sections 2 and 5 of | 9 | | Article IV of the Illinois Constitution as follows:
| 10 | | ARTICLE IV
| 11 | | THE LEGISLATURE
| 12 | | (ILCON Art. IV, Sec. 2)
| 13 | | SECTION 2. LEGISLATIVE COMPOSITION
| 14 | | (a) One Senator shall be elected from each Legislative | 15 | | District.
Senators elected in 2014 shall serve two-year terms. | 16 | | Senators elected in 2016 shall serve six-year terms. | 17 | | Immediately following each decennial redistricting,
the | 18 | | General Assembly
by law shall divide the Legislative Districts | 19 | | as equally as possible
into two
three groups. During each | 20 | | ten-year period, beginning with
the general election in 2022, | 21 | | Senators from one group shall first be
elected for
terms of
six | 22 | | years and then for terms of four years
four years, four years | 23 | | and two
years; Senators from the second group,
for terms of | 24 | | four years, two years and four years; and Senators from the
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| 1 | | other
third group shall first be elected , for terms of two
| 2 | | years, four years and then for terms of six
four years. The
| 3 | | Legislative Districts in each group shall be distributed | 4 | | substantially
equally over the State.
| 5 | | (b) Each Legislative District shall be divided into two | 6 | | Representative
Districts. In 1982 and every two years | 7 | | thereafter One Representative shall
be elected from each | 8 | | Representative District for a term of two years .
| 9 | | Representatives elected in 2012 shall serve two-year terms. | 10 | | Representatives elected in 2014 shall serve four-year terms. | 11 | | Representatives elected in 2018 shall serve 4 year terms. | 12 | | During each ten-year period, beginning with the general | 13 | | election in 2022,
Representatives shall first be elected for | 14 | | terms of four years, then for terms
of
two years, and then for | 15 | | terms of four years.
| 16 | | (c) To be eligible to serve as a member of the General | 17 | | Assembly, a
person must be a United States citizen, at least 21 | 18 | | years old, and for
the two years preceding his election or | 19 | | appointment a resident of the
district which he is to | 20 | | represent. In the general election following a
redistricting, a | 21 | | candidate for the General Assembly may be elected from
any | 22 | | district which contains a part of the district in which he | 23 | | resided
at the time of the redistricting and reelected if a | 24 | | resident of the new
district he represents for 18 months prior | 25 | | to reelection.
| 26 | | (d) Within thirty days after a vacancy occurs, it shall be |
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| 1 | | filled by
appointment as provided by law. If the vacancy is in | 2 | | a Senatorial office
with more than twenty-eight months | 3 | | remaining in the term, the appointed
Senator shall serve until | 4 | | the next general election, at
which time a
Senator shall be | 5 | | elected to serve for the remainder of
the term. If the
vacancy | 6 | | is in
a Representative office or in
any other Senatorial | 7 | | office,
the appointment shall be for the remainder of the term. | 8 | | An appointee to
fill a vacancy shall be a member of the same | 9 | | political party as the
person he succeeds.
| 10 | | (e) No member of the General Assembly shall receive | 11 | | compensation as
a public officer or employee from any other | 12 | | governmental entity for time
during which he is in attendance | 13 | | as a member of the General Assembly.
| 14 | | No member of the General Assembly during the term for which | 15 | | he was
elected or appointed shall be appointed to a public | 16 | | office which shall
have been created or the compensation for | 17 | | which shall have been
increased by the General Assembly during | 18 | | that term.
| 19 | | (Source: Amendment adopted at general election November 4, | 20 | | 1980.)
| 21 | | (ILCON Art. IV, Sec. 5)
| 22 | | SECTION 5. SESSIONS
| 23 | | (a) The General Assembly shall convene each year on the | 24 | | second
Wednesday of January. The General Assembly shall be a | 25 | | continuous body
for a period beginning and ending at noon on |
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| 1 | | the second Wednesday of January
of consecutive odd-numbered | 2 | | years.
during the term for which members of the
House of | 3 | | Representatives are elected.
| 4 | | (b) The Governor may convene the General Assembly or the | 5 | | Senate
alone in special session by a proclamation stating the | 6 | | purpose of the
session; and only business encompassed by such | 7 | | purpose, together with
any impeachments or confirmation of | 8 | | appointments shall be transacted.
Special sessions of the | 9 | | General Assembly may also be convened by joint
proclamation of | 10 | | the presiding officers of both houses, issued as
provided by | 11 | | law.
| 12 | | (c) Sessions of each house of the General Assembly and | 13 | | meetings of
committees, joint committees and legislative | 14 | | commissions shall be open
to the public. Sessions and committee | 15 | | meetings of a house may be closed
to the public if two-thirds | 16 | | of the members elected to that house
determine that the public | 17 | | interest so requires; and meetings of joint
committees and | 18 | | legislative commissions may be so closed if two-thirds of
the | 19 | | members elected to each house so determine.
| 20 | | (Source: Illinois Constitution.)
| 21 | | SCHEDULE
| 22 | | This Constitutional Amendment takes effect upon being | 23 | | declared adopted in
accordance with Section 7 of the Illinois | 24 | | Constitutional Amendment Act and
applies to
the election of | 25 | | members of the General Assembly in 2014 and thereafter. It
does |
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| 1 | | not affect the terms of members elected before 2014.
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