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AMENDMENT TO SENATE JOINT RESOLUTION
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CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT 120

3     AMENDMENT NO. ___. Amend Senate Joint Resolution
4 Constitutional Amendment 120 by replacing everything after the
5 title with the following:
 
6     "RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE NINETY-SIXTH GENERAL
7 ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
8 CONCURRING HEREIN, that there shall be submitted to the
9 electors of the State for adoption or rejection at the general
10 election next occurring at least 6 months after the adoption of
11 this resolution a proposition to amend Article VI of the
12 Illinois Constitution by changing Section 11 as follows:
 
13
ARTICLE VI
14
THE JUDICIARY

15       (ILCON Art. VI, Sec. 11)

 

 

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1 SECTION 11. ELIGIBILITY FOR OFFICE
2     No person shall be eligible to be a Judge or Associate
3 Judge unless that person he is a United States citizen, a
4 licensed attorney-at-law of this State, and a resident of the
5 unit which selects him or her. A person must have been a
6 licensed attorney-at-law for a minimum of five years to be
7 eligible to serve as a Circuit Judge of a unit of a Judicial
8 Circuit established as a subcircuit by law, a minimum of ten
9 years to be eligible to serve as any other Circuit Judge, a
10 minimum of twelve years to be eligible to serve as an Appellate
11 Judge, and a minimum of fifteen years to be eligible to serve
12 as a Supreme Court Judge, except that this requirement does not
13 disqualify a person serving as a Judge on December 31, 2010
14 from completing the current term of office or seeking an
15 additional term for that office. No change in the boundaries of
16 a unit shall affect the tenure in office of a Judge or
17 Associate Judge incumbent at the time of such change.
18 (Source: Illinois Constitution.)
 
19
SCHEDULE
20     This Constitutional Amendment takes effect upon being
21 declared adopted in accordance with Section 7 of the Illinois
22 Constitutional Amendment Act.".