Public Act 099-0520
 
SB0185 EnrolledLRB099 03363 RLC 23371 b



    AN ACT concerning courts.

 
    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, 
represented in the General Assembly: 



 
    Section 5. The Associate Judges Act is amended  by changing 
Section 2 as follows:
 



    (705 ILCS 45/2)  (from Ch. 37, par. 160.2)



    Sec. 2. (a) The maximum number of associate judges 
authorized for each
circuit is the greater of the applicable 
minimum number specified in this
Section or one for each 35,000 
or fraction thereof in population as
determined
by the last 
preceding Federal census, except for circuits with a population 
of
more than 3,000,000 where the maximum number of associate 
judges is one for
each 29,000 or fraction thereof in population 
as determined by the last
preceding federal census, reduced in 
circuits of less than 200,000 inhabitants
by the number of 
resident circuit judges elected in the circuit in excess of
one 
per county.  In addition, in circuits of 1,000,000 or more 
inhabitants,
there shall be one additional associate judge 
authorized for each
municipal
district of the circuit court. 
The number of associate judges to be appointed
in each circuit, 
not to exceed the maximum authorized, shall be
determined from

time to time by the Circuit Court. The minimum number of 
associate judges
authorized for any circuit consisting of a 
single county shall be
14, except that the minimum in the 22nd 
circuit shall be 8   and except that the minimum in the 19th 
circuit on and after December 4, 2006 shall be 20.  The
minimum 
number of associate judges authorized for any circuit 
consisting of 2
counties with a combined population of at least 
275,000 but less than 300,000
shall be 10.  The minimum number 
of associate judges authorized
for any circuit
with a 
population of at least 303,000 but not more than 309,000 shall

be 10.
The minimum number of associate judges authorized for 
any circuit with a
population of at least 329,000, but not more 
than 349,999 335,000 shall be
11. The
minimum number of 
associate judges authorized for any circuit with a population

of at least 173,000 shall be 5.  As
used in this
Section, the 
term "resident circuit judge" has the meaning given it in the

Judicial Vacancies Act.

    (b) The maximum number of associate judges authorized under 
subsection
(a) for a circuit with a population of more than 
3,000,000 shall
be reduced
as provided in this subsection (b).  
For each vacancy that exists on or
occurs on or after the 
effective date of this amendatory Act of 1990, that
maximum 
number shall be reduced by one until the total number of

associate
judges authorized under subsection (a) is reduced by 
60.  A vacancy exists
or occurs when an associate judge dies, 
resigns, retires, is removed, or is
not reappointed upon 
expiration of his or her term; a vacancy does not
exist or 
occur at the expiration of a term if the associate judge is

reappointed.
    (c) The maximum number of associate judges authorized under 
subsection (a) for the 17th judicial circuit shall be reduced 
as provided in this subsection (c). Due to the vacancy that 
exists on or after the effective date of this amendatory Act of 
the 93rd General Assembly in the associate judgeship that is 
converted into a resident judgeship under subsection (a-10) of 
Section 2f-6 of the Circuit Courts Act, the maximum number of 
judges authorized under subsection (a) of this Section shall be 
reduced by one. A vacancy exists
or occurs when an associate 
judge dies, resigns, retires, is removed, or is
not reappointed 
upon expiration of his or her term; a vacancy does not
exist or 
occur at the expiration of a term if the associate judge is

reappointed.


    (d) The maximum number of associate judges authorized under

subsection (a) for the 23rd judicial circuit shall be reduced

as provided in this subsection (d). Due to the vacancy that

exists on or after the effective date of this amendatory Act of

the 98th General Assembly in the associate judgeship that is

converted into a resident judgeship under subsection (k) of

Section 2f-10 of the Circuit Courts Act, the maximum number of

judges authorized under subsection (a) of this Section shall be

reduced by one. 
(Source: P.A. 98-744, eff. 7-16-14.)

 

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