Full Text of HB2624 101st General Assembly
HB2624ham002 101ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY | Rep. Luis Arroyo Filed: 3/26/2019
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| 1 | | AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 2624
| 2 | | AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 2624 by replacing | 3 | | everything after the enacting clause with the following:
| 4 | | "Section 5. The Metropolitan Water Reclamation District | 5 | | Act is amended by changing Section 3 and by adding Section 3.3 | 6 | | as follows:
| 7 | | (70 ILCS 2605/3) (from Ch. 42, par. 322)
| 8 | | Sec. 3. The corporate authority of the Sanitary District of | 9 | | Chicago shall
consist of nine trustees. Such trustees shall be | 10 | | elected for staggered
terms at the election provided by the | 11 | | general election law. Until the effective date of this | 12 | | amendatory Act of the 101st General Assembly, three Three | 13 | | trustees
shall be elected at each such election to succeed the | 14 | | 3 trustees whose terms
expire in such year. On and after the | 15 | | effective date of this amendatory Act of the 101st General | 16 | | Assembly, trustees shall be elected as provided for in Section |
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| 1 | | 3.3.
| 2 | | Such trustees shall take office on the first Tuesday after | 3 | | the first Monday
in the month following the month of their | 4 | | election and shall hold their
offices for six years and until | 5 | | their successors shall be elected and qualified. Until the | 6 | | effective date of this amendatory Act of the 101st General | 7 | | Assembly, in
In all elections for trustees each elector may | 8 | | vote for as many candidates
as there are trustees to be | 9 | | elected, but no elector may give to such candidates
more than | 10 | | one vote, it being the intent and purpose of this Act to | 11 | | prohibit
cumulative voting in the selection of members of the | 12 | | board of the sanitary district. On and after the effective date | 13 | | of this amendatory Act of the 101st General Assembly, trustees | 14 | | shall be elected as provided for in Section 3.3.
| 15 | | The election of trustees shall be in accordance with the | 16 | | provisions of
the general election law.
| 17 | | By reason of the importance and character of the services | 18 | | performed by
the sanitary district, there is a great need and | 19 | | it is in the public interest
that such services be performed in | 20 | | as near a non-partisan character as possible.
| 21 | | When a vacancy exists in the office of trustees of any | 22 | | sanitary district
organized under the provisions hereof, the | 23 | | vacancy shall be filled by appointment
by the Governor until | 24 | | the next regular election at which trustees of the
Sanitary | 25 | | District of Chicago are elected, and thereafter until a | 26 | | successor
shall be elected and qualified.
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| 1 | | Such sanitary district shall from the time of the first | 2 | | election held by
it under this Act be construed in all courts | 3 | | to be
a body corporate and politic, and by the name and style | 4 | | of the sanitary
district of...., and by such name and style may | 5 | | sue and be sued, contract
and be contracted with, acquire and | 6 | | hold real estate and personal property
necessary for corporate | 7 | | purposes,
and adopt a common seal and alter the same at | 8 | | pleasure.
| 9 | | The board of trustees shall have the power to change the | 10 | | name of the Sanitary
District of Chicago by ordinance and | 11 | | public notice without impairing the
legal status of acts | 12 | | theretofore performed by said district. Thereafter
any and all | 13 | | references to the Sanitary District of Chicago in this Act or
| 14 | | otherwise shall mean and include the name under which such | 15 | | sanitary district
is then operating. No rights, duties or | 16 | | privilege of such a sanitary district,
or those of any person, | 17 | | existing before the change of name shall be affected
by a | 18 | | change, in the name of a sanitary district. All proceedings | 19 | | pending
in any court in favor of or against such sanitary | 20 | | district may continue
to final consummation under the name in | 21 | | which they were commenced.
| 22 | | (Source: P.A. 83-345.)
| 23 | | (70 ILCS 2605/3.3 new) | 24 | | Sec. 3.3. Districting required; election. | 25 | | (a) The General Assembly shall: on or before July 1, 2021, |
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| 1 | | divide the Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago into 9 | 2 | | commissioner districts and assign the commissioner districts | 3 | | to reflect the results of the most recent federal decennial | 4 | | census; and thereafter, in the year following each decennial | 5 | | census, redistrict the commissioner districts to reflect the | 6 | | results of the most recent census. Each commissioner district | 7 | | shall be compact, contiguous, and substantially equal in | 8 | | population to each other district. At the meeting of the board | 9 | | of commissioners next following the districting by the General | 10 | | Assembly, the board of commissioners shall, publicly by lot, | 11 | | divide the commissioner districts into 3 groups. In the 2022 | 12 | | general election, the commissioners from the first group shall | 13 | | be elected for a term of 2 years, the commissioners from the | 14 | | second group shall be elected for a term of 4 years, and the | 15 | | commissioners from the third group shall be elected for a term | 16 | | of 6 years. Thereafter, all the terms shall be 6 years and | 17 | | elected pursuant to Section 3 of this Act. One commissioner | 18 | | shall be elected from each commissioner district and the | 19 | | commissioner shall be a resident of the commissioner district | 20 | | from which he or she is elected. | 21 | | (b) A districting or redistricting plan created pursuant to | 22 | | this Section shall be drawn to create crossover districts, | 23 | | coalition districts, or influence districts. The requirements | 24 | | imposed by this subsection are in addition and subordinate to | 25 | | any requirements or obligations imposed by the United States | 26 | | Constitution, any federal law regarding redistricting, |
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| 1 | | including, but not limited to, the federal Voting Rights Act, | 2 | | and the Illinois Constitution. Nothing in this subsection shall | 3 | | be construed, applied, or implemented in a way that imposes any | 4 | | requirement or obligation that conflicts with the United States | 5 | | Constitution, any federal law regarding redistricting, or the | 6 | | Illinois Constitution. | 7 | | If this subsection is violated, the districting or | 8 | | redistricting plan shall be redrawn to the least extent | 9 | | necessary to remedy the violation. | 10 | | As used in this subsection, "crossover district", | 11 | | "coalition district", and "influence district" have the | 12 | | meanings given to those terms in Section 5-5 of the Illinois | 13 | | Voting Rights Act of 2011. | 14 | | (c) If the corporate limits of the District expand between | 15 | | redistrictings, the board of commissioners shall determine | 16 | | which commissioner district or districts the expanded | 17 | | territory will join until the next redistricting. | 18 | | (d) The terms of all commissioners serving at the time of | 19 | | the 2022 general election shall continue until the first | 20 | | Tuesday after the first Monday in the month following the 2022 | 21 | | general election or until the 9 new commissioners are elected | 22 | | and qualified under subsection (a), whichever is later. ".
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