Full Text of HB0499 96th General Assembly
HB0499 96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2009 and 2010 HB0499
Introduced 2/4/2009, by Rep. Keith Farnham SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED: |
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10 ILCS 5/20-1 |
from Ch. 46, par. 20-1 |
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Amends the Election Code. Specifies that the spouse or dependent of a member of the armed forces or merchant marine, residing with or accompanying the member, need not have resided in Illinois in order to vote a military or overseas absentee ballot.
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A BILL FOR
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| AN ACT concerning elections.
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| Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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| represented in the General Assembly:
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| Section 5. The Election Code is amended by changing Section | 5 |
| 20-1 as follows:
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| (10 ILCS 5/20-1) (from Ch. 46, par. 20-1)
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| Sec. 20-1.
The following words and phrases contained in | 8 |
| this Article
shall be construed as follows:
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| 1. "Territorial limits of the United States" means each of | 10 |
| the several
States of the United States and includes the | 11 |
| District of Columbia, the
Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, Guam and | 12 |
| the Virgin Islands; but does not
include American Samoa, the | 13 |
| Canal Zone, the Trust Territory of the Pacific
Islands or any | 14 |
| other territory or possession of the United States.
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| 2. "Member of the United States Service" means (a) members | 16 |
| of the Armed
Forces while on active duty and their spouses and | 17 |
| dependents of voting
age when residing with or accompanying | 18 |
| them, (b) members of the Merchant
Marine of the United States | 19 |
| and their spouses and dependents when residing
with or | 20 |
| accompanying them and (c) United States government employees | 21 |
| serving
outside the territorial limits of the United States. | 22 |
| For the purposes of this definition, nothing in this Code shall | 23 |
| be construed to require that the spouse or voting age dependent |
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| of a member of the Armed Forces or Merchant Marine must have | 2 |
| ever resided in Illinois.
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| 3. "Citizens of the United States temporarily residing | 4 |
| outside the
territorial limits of the United States" means | 5 |
| civilian citizens of the
United States and their spouses and | 6 |
| dependents of voting age when residing
with or accompanying | 7 |
| them, who maintain a precinct residence in a county in
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| State and whose intent to return may be ascertained.
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| 4. "Non-Resident Civilian Citizens" means civilian | 10 |
| citizens of the United
States (a) who reside outside the | 11 |
| territorial limits of the United States,
(b) who had maintained | 12 |
| a precinct residence in a county in this State
immediately | 13 |
| prior to their departure from the United States, (c) who do not
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| maintain a residence and are not registered to vote in any | 15 |
| other State, and
(d) whose intent to return to this State may | 16 |
| be uncertain.
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| 5. "Official postcard" means the postcard application for | 18 |
| registration
to vote or for an absentee ballot in the form | 19 |
| provided in Section 204(c)
of the Federal Voting Rights Act of | 20 |
| 1955, as amended (42 U.S.C. 1973cc-14(c)).
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| 6. "Federal office" means the offices of President and | 22 |
| Vice-President
of the United States, United States Senator, | 23 |
| Representative in Congress,
delegates and alternate delegates | 24 |
| to the national nominating conventions
and candidates for the | 25 |
| Presidential Preference Primary.
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| 7. "Federal election" means any general, primary or special |
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| election at
which candidates are nominated or elected to | 2 |
| Federal office.
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| 8. "Dependent", for purposes of this Article, shall mean a | 4 |
| father, mother,
brother, sister, son or daughter.
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| (Source: P.A. 81-953.)
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