Public Act 098-0773
 
HB3199 EnrolledLRB098 10096 OMW 40255 b


  
    AN ACT concerning local government.
  
 
    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
 
represented in the General Assembly:
  




 
 
    Section 5. The Election Code is amended  by changing Section 
11-4.1 as follows:
 



    (10 ILCS 5/11-4.1)  (from Ch. 46, par. 11-4.1)



    Sec. 11-4.1. 
    (a) In appointing polling places under this Article, the

county board or board of election commissioners shall, insofar 
as they are
convenient and available, use schools and other 
public buildings as polling
places.

    (b) Upon request of the county board or board of election 
commissioners,
the proper agency of government (including 
school districts and units of
local government) shall make a 
public building under its control available
for use as a 
polling place on an election day and for a reasonably
necessary 
time before and after election day, without charge.
 If the 
county board or board of election commissioners chooses a 
school
to be a polling place, then the school district must 
make the school
available for use as a polling place.
However, 
for the day of the election, a school district is encouraged to 
(i) close the school or (ii) hold a teachers institute on that 
day with students not in attendance may choose to (i)
keep the 
school open or (ii) hold a teachers institute on that day.

    (c) A government agency which makes a public building under 
its
control available for use as a polling place shall (i) 
ensure the portion of
the building to be used as the polling 
place is accessible to handicapped
and elderly voters and (ii) 
allow the election authority to administer the election as 
authorized under this Code.

    (d) If a qualified elector's precinct polling place is a 
school and the elector will be unable to enter that polling 
place without violating Section 11-9.3 of the Criminal Code of 
2012 because the elector is a child sex offender as defined in 
Section 11-9.3 of the Criminal Code of 2012, that elector may 
vote by absentee ballot in accordance with Article 19 of this 
Code or may vote early in accordance with Article 19A of this 
Code.
(Source: P.A. 97-1150, eff. 1-25-13.)




 
    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon 
becoming law.