Rep. Kelly M. Cassidy

Filed: 3/4/2014

 

 


 

 


 
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AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 5755

2    AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 5755 by replacing
3everything after the enacting clause with the following:
 
4    "Section 5. The Election Code is amended by changing
5Section 11-4.1 as follows:
 
6    (10 ILCS 5/11-4.1)  (from Ch. 46, par. 11-4.1)
7    Sec. 11-4.1.
8    (a) (Blank). In appointing polling places under this
9Article, the county board or board of election commissioners
10shall, insofar as they are convenient and available, use
11schools and other public buildings 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

 

 

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1time before and after election day, without charge. If the
2county board or board of election commissioners chooses a
3school to be a polling place, then the school district must
4make the school available for use as a polling place. However,
5for the day of the election, a school district is encouraged to
6(i) close the school or (ii) hold a teachers institute on that
7day with students not in attendance may choose to (i) keep the
8school open or (ii) hold a teachers institute on that day.
9    (c) A government agency which makes a public building under
10its control available for use as a polling place shall (i)
11ensure the portion of the building to be used as the polling
12place is accessible to handicapped and elderly voters and (ii)
13allow the election authority to administer the election as
14authorized under this Code.
15    (d) If a qualified elector's precinct polling place is a
16school and the elector will be unable to enter that polling
17place without violating Section 11-9.3 of the Criminal Code of
182012 because the elector is a child sex offender as defined in
19Section 11-9.3 of the Criminal Code of 2012, that elector may
20vote by absentee ballot in accordance with Article 19 of this
21Code or may vote early in accordance with Article 19A of this
22Code.
23(Source: P.A. 97-1150, eff. 1-25-13.)".