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| | 104TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2025 and 2026
SENATE JOINT RESOLUTION
CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT
SC0002 Introduced 1/27/2025, by Sen. Neil Anderson SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
| | | Proposes to amend the Legislature Article of the Illinois Constitution. Provides that the General Assembly shall pass a bill containing the State budget and present it to the Governor before the General Assembly considers any other bill. |
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| 1 | | SENATE JOINT RESOLUTION |
| 2 | | CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT
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| 3 | | RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE ONE HUNDRED FOURTH GENERAL |
| 4 | | ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, THE HOUSE OF |
| 5 | | REPRESENTATIVES CONCURRING HEREIN, that there shall be |
| 6 | | submitted to the electors of the State for adoption or |
| 7 | | rejection at the general election next occurring at least 6 |
| 8 | | months after the adoption of this resolution a proposition to |
| 9 | | amend Section 7 of Article III of the Illinois Constitution as |
| 10 | | follows:
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| 11 | | ARTICLE IV |
| 12 | | THE LEGISLATURE
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| 13 | | (ILCON Art. IV, Sec. 8) |
| 14 | | SECTION 8. PASSAGE OF BILLS |
| 15 | | (a) The enacting clause of the laws of this State shall be: |
| 16 | | "Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, |
| 17 | | represented in the General Assembly." |
| 18 | | (b) The General Assembly shall enact laws only by bill. |
| 19 | | Bills may originate in either house, but may be amended or |
| 20 | | rejected by the other. |
| 21 | | (c) No bill shall become a law without the concurrence of a |
| 22 | | majority of the members elected to each house. Final passage |
| 23 | | of a bill shall be by record vote. In the Senate at the request |
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| 1 | | of two members, and in the House at the request of five |
| 2 | | members, a record vote may be taken on any other occasion. A |
| 3 | | record vote is a vote by yeas and nays entered on the journal. |
| 4 | | (d) A bill shall be read by title on three different days |
| 5 | | in each house. A bill and each amendment thereto shall be |
| 6 | | reproduced and placed on the desk of each member before final |
| 7 | | passage. |
| 8 | | Bills, except bills for appropriations and for the |
| 9 | | codification, revision or rearrangement of laws, shall be |
| 10 | | confined to one subject. Appropriation bills shall be limited |
| 11 | | to the subject of appropriations. |
| 12 | | A bill expressly amending a law shall set forth completely |
| 13 | | the sections amended. |
| 14 | | The General Assembly shall pass a bill containing the |
| 15 | | State budget and present it to the Governor before the General |
| 16 | | Assembly considers any other bill. |
| 17 | | The Speaker of the House of Representatives and the |
| 18 | | President of the Senate shall sign each bill that passes both |
| 19 | | houses to certify that the procedural requirements for passage |
| 20 | | have been met. |
| 21 | | (Source: Illinois Constitution.)
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| 22 | | SCHEDULE |
| 23 | | This Constitutional Amendment takes effect upon being |
| 24 | | declared adopted in accordance with Section 7 of the Illinois |
| 25 | | Constitutional Amendment Act. |
