100TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2017 and 2018
HB0525

 

Introduced , by Rep. Barbara Wheeler

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
10 ILCS 5/11-4.1  from Ch. 46, par. 11-4.1

    Amends the Election Code. Provides that school buildings shall not be used as polling places. Makes conforming changes.


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A BILL FOR

 

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1    AN ACT concerning elections.
 
2    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3represented in the General Assembly:
 
4    Section 5. The Election Code is amended by changing Section
511-4.1 as follows:
 
6    (10 ILCS 5/11-4.1)  (from Ch. 46, par. 11-4.1)
7    Sec. 11-4.1. (a) In appointing polling places under this
8Article, the county board or board of election commissioners
9shall, insofar as they are convenient and available, use
10schools and other public buildings as polling places. However,
11schools shall not be used as polling places.
12    (b) Upon request of the county board or board of election
13commissioners, the proper agency of government (including
14school districts and units of local government) shall make a
15public building under its control available for use as a
16polling place on an election day and for a reasonably necessary
17time before and after election day, without charge. If the
18county board or board of election commissioners chooses a
19school to be a polling place, then the school district must
20make the school available for use as a polling place. However,
21for the day of the election, a school district is encouraged to
22(i) close the school or (ii) hold a teachers institute on that
23day with students not in attendance.

 

 

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1    (c) A government agency which makes a public building under
2its control available for use as a polling place shall (i)
3ensure the portion of the building to be used as the polling
4place is accessible to voters with disabilities and elderly
5voters and (ii) allow the election authority to administer the
6election as authorized under this Code.
7    (d) (Blank). If a qualified elector's precinct polling
8place is a school and the elector will be unable to enter that
9polling place without violating Section 11-9.3 of the Criminal
10Code of 2012 because the elector is a child sex offender as
11defined in Section 11-9.3 of the Criminal Code of 2012, that
12elector may vote by a vote by mail ballot in accordance with
13Article 19 of this Code or may vote early in accordance with
14Article 19A of this Code.
15(Source: P.A. 98-773, eff. 7-18-14; 98-1171, eff. 6-1-15;
1699-143, eff. 7-27-15.)