Full Text of SB3182 97th General Assembly
SB3182ham001 97TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY | Rep. Dave Winters Filed: 4/17/2012
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| 1 | | AMENDMENT TO SENATE BILL 3182
| 2 | | AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend Senate Bill 3182 by replacing | 3 | | everything after the enacting clause with the following:
| 4 | | "Section 5. The Election Code is amended by changing | 5 | | Section 25-11 as follows:
| 6 | | (10 ILCS 5/25-11) (from Ch. 46, par. 25-11)
| 7 | | Sec. 25-11.
When a vacancy occurs in any elective county | 8 | | office, or in a
county of less than 3,000,000 population in the | 9 | | office of clerk of the circuit
court, in a county which is not | 10 | | a home rule unit, the county board or board
of county | 11 | | commissioners shall at their next meeting declare that such | 12 | | vacancy exists and
notification thereof
shall be given to the | 13 | | county central committee or the appropriate county board
or | 14 | | board of county commissioners district committee of each | 15 | | established
political party within 3 days of the
occurrence of | 16 | | the county board meeting where a vacancy was declared . The |
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| 1 | | vacancy shall be filled
within 60 days of the notification by | 2 | | appointment of the chairman of the county board
or board of | 3 | | county commissioners with the advice and consent of the county
| 4 | | board or board of county commissioners.
In counties in which | 5 | | forest preserve district commissioners are
elected by | 6 | | districts and are not also members of the county board, | 7 | | however,
vacancies in the office of forest preserve district | 8 | | commissioner shall be
filled within 60 days by appointment of | 9 | | the president of the forest preserve
district board of | 10 | | commissioners with the advice and consent of the forest
| 11 | | preserve district board of commissioners. In counties in which | 12 | | the forest
preserve district president is not also a member of | 13 | | the county board, vacancies
in
the office of forest preserve | 14 | | district president shall be filled within 60 days
by the forest | 15 | | preserve district board of commissioners by appointing one of | 16 | | the
commissioners to serve as president.
The appointee
shall be | 17 | | a member of the same political party as the person he
succeeds | 18 | | was at the time of his election and shall be otherwise
eligible | 19 | | to serve.
The appointee shall serve the remainder of the | 20 | | unexpired term. However, if
more than 28 months remain in the | 21 | | term, the appointment shall be until the
next general election | 22 | | at which time the vacated office shall be
filled by election | 23 | | for the remainder of the term. In the
case of a vacancy in a | 24 | | seat on a county board or board of county
commissioners which
| 25 | | has been divided into districts under Section 2-3003 or | 26 | | 2-4006.5 of
the Counties Code, the appointee must also be a |
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| 1 | | resident of the
county board or county commission district.
If | 2 | | a county commissioner ceases to reside in the district that he | 3 | | or
she represents, a vacancy in that office exists.
| 4 | | Except as otherwise provided by county ordinance or by law, | 5 | | in
any county which is a home rule unit, vacancies in elective
| 6 | | county offices, other than the office of chief executive | 7 | | officer,
and vacancies in the office of clerk of the circuit | 8 | | court in a county of
less than 3,000,000 population, shall be | 9 | | filled
by the county board or board of county commissioners.
| 10 | | (Source: P.A. 92-189, eff. 8-1-01; 92-583, eff. 6-26-02.)
| 11 | | Section 10. The Public Officer Prohibited Activities Act is | 12 | | amended by changing Section 1.2 as follows:
| 13 | | (50 ILCS 105/1.2)
| 14 | | Sec. 1.2. County board member; education office. A member | 15 | | of the county
board
in any a county having fewer than 40,000 | 16 | | inhabitants , during the term of
office for which he or she is | 17 | | elected, may also hold the office of member of
the board of | 18 | | education, regional board of school trustees, board of school
| 19 | | directors, board of a community college district, or board of | 20 | | school inspectors.
| 21 | | (Source: P.A. 97-460, eff. 8-19-11.)
| 22 | | Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | 23 | | becoming law.".
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