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1 HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION
2 CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT
3 RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE
4 NINETY-FIRST GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, THE
5 SENATE CONCURRING HEREIN, that there shall be submitted to
6 the electors of the State for adoption or rejection at the
7 general election next occurring at least 6 months after the
8 adoption of this resolution a proposition to amend Section 8
9 of Article IV of the Illinois Constitution as follows:
10 ARTICLE IV
11 THE LEGISLATURE
12 (ILCON Art. IV, Sec. 8)
13 SECTION 8. PASSAGE OF BILLS
14 (a) The enacting clause of the laws of this State shall
15 be: "Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
16 represented in the General Assembly."
17 (b) The General Assembly shall enact laws only by bill.
18 Bills may originate in either house, but may be amended or
19 rejected by the other.
20 (c) No bill shall become a law without the concurrence
21 of a majority of the members elected to each house. Final
22 passage of a bill shall be by record vote. In the Senate at
23 the request of two members, and in the House at the request
24 of five members, a record vote may be taken on any other
25 occasion. A record vote is a vote by yeas and nays entered on
26 the journal.
27 (d) A bill shall be read by title on three different
28 days in each house. A bill and each amendment thereto shall
29 be reproduced and placed on the desk of each member before
30 final passage.
31 Bills, except bills for appropriations and for the
32 codification, revision or rearrangement of laws, shall be
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1 confined to one subject. Appropriation bills shall be limited
2 to the subject of appropriations.
3 A bill expressly amending a law shall set forth
4 completely the sections amended.
5 The Speaker of the House of Representatives and the
6 President of the Senate shall sign each bill that passes both
7 houses to certify that the procedural requirements for
8 passage have been met.
9 (e) When a court determines that a Public Act is invalid
10 because it violates the requirement of subsection (d) that
11 bills, except bills for appropriations and for the
12 codification, revision, or rearrangement of laws, shall be
13 confined to one subject, the court shall certify the
14 invalidity to the house in which the Public Act originated as
15 a bill. If recess or adjournment of the General Assembly
16 prevents certification of invalidity, the invalidity shall be
17 certified to the Secretary of State. The Secretary of State
18 shall present the certification to the originating house
19 promptly upon the next meeting of the General Assembly.
20 The house to which the invalidity of a Public Act is
21 certified shall immediately enter the certification upon its
22 journal. If within 15 calendar days after entry that house
23 passes one or more bills that re-enact all or a portion of
24 the Public Act, the bill or bills shall be delivered
25 immediately to the second house. If within 15 calendar days
26 after that delivery the second house passes the bill or
27 bills, the bill or bills upon becoming law shall be effective
28 retroactively to the effective date or dates of the original
29 Public Act.
30 A court's determination that a Public Act is invalid
31 because it violates the requirement of subsection (d) that
32 bills shall be confined to one subject shall be stayed and
33 without effect (i) until the conclusion of the last calendar
34 day by which the General Assembly may re-enact the Public Act
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1 under this subsection and fails to do so and (ii)
2 permanently, with respect to any portion of the Public Act
3 re-enacted by the General Assembly in accordance with this
4 subsection.
5 As used in this subsection, "court" means a circuit
6 court, an appellate court, or the Supreme Court of Illinois.
7 (Source: Illinois Constitution.)
8 SCHEDULE
9 This Constitutional Amendment takes effect upon being
10 declared adopted in accordance with Section 7 of the Illinois
11 Constitutional Amendment Act.