HB2624ham002 101ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY

Rep. Luis Arroyo

Filed: 3/26/2019

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AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 2624

AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 2624 by replacing everything after the enacting clause with the following:

"Section 5. The Metropolitan Water Reclamation District Act is amended by changing Section 3 and by adding Section 3.3 as follows:

(70 ILCS 2605/3) (from Ch. 42, par. 322)

Sec. 3. The corporate authority of the Sanitary District of Chicago shall consist of nine trustees. Such trustees shall be elected for staggered terms at the election provided by the general election law. Until the effective date of this amendatory Act of the 101st General Assembly, three Three trustees shall be elected at each such election to succeed the 3 trustees whose terms expire in such year. On and after the effective date of this amendatory Act of the 101st General Assembly, trustees shall be elected as provided for in Section 3.3.

Such trustees shall take office on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in the month following the month of their election and shall hold their offices for six years and until their successors shall be elected and qualified. Until the effective date of this amendatory Act of the 101st General Assembly, in In all elections for trustees each elector may vote for as many candidates as there are trustees to be elected, but no elector may give to such candidates more than one vote, it being the intent and purpose of this Act to prohibit cumulative voting in the selection of members of the board of the sanitary district. On and after the effective date of this amendatory Act of the 101st General Assembly, trustees shall be elected as provided for in Section 3.3.

The election of trustees shall be in accordance with the provisions of the general election law.

By reason of the importance and character of the services performed by the sanitary district, there is a great need and it is in the public interest that such services be performed in as near a non-partisan character as possible.

When a vacancy exists in the office of trustees of any sanitary district organized under the provisions hereof, the vacancy shall be filled by appointment by the Governor until the next regular election at which trustees of the Sanitary District of Chicago are elected, and thereafter until a successor shall be elected and qualified.

Such sanitary district shall from the time of the first election held by it under this Act be construed in all courts to be a body corporate and politic, and by the name and style of the sanitary district of...., and by such name and style may sue and be sued, contract and be contracted with, acquire and hold real estate and personal property necessary for corporate purposes, and adopt a common seal and alter the same at pleasure.

The board of trustees shall have the power to change the name of the Sanitary District of Chicago by ordinance and public notice without impairing the legal status of acts theretofore performed by said district. Thereafter any and all references to the Sanitary District of Chicago in this Act or otherwise shall mean and include the name under which such sanitary district is then operating. No rights, duties or privilege of such a sanitary district, or those of any person, existing before the change of name shall be affected by a change, in the name of a sanitary district. All proceedings pending in any court in favor of or against such sanitary district may continue to final consummation under the name in which they were commenced.

(Source: P.A. 83-345.)

(70 ILCS 2605/3.3 new)

Sec. 3.3. Districting required; election.

(a) The General Assembly shall: on or before July 1, 2021, divide the Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago into 9 commissioner districts and assign the commissioner districts to reflect the results of the most recent federal decennial census; and thereafter, in the year following each decennial census, redistrict the commissioner districts to reflect the results of the most recent census. Each commissioner district shall be compact, contiguous, and substantially equal in population to each other district. At the meeting of the board of commissioners next following the districting by the General Assembly, the board of commissioners shall, publicly by lot, divide the commissioner districts into 3 groups. In the 2022 general election, the commissioners from the first group shall be elected for a term of 2 years, the commissioners from the second group shall be elected for a term of 4 years, and the commissioners from the third group shall be elected for a term of 6 years. Thereafter, all the terms shall be 6 years and elected pursuant to Section 3 of this Act. One commissioner shall be elected from each commissioner district and the commissioner shall be a resident of the commissioner district from which he or she is elected.

(b) A districting or redistricting plan created pursuant to this Section shall be drawn to create crossover districts, coalition districts, or influence districts. The requirements imposed by this subsection are in addition and subordinate to any requirements or obligations imposed by the United States Constitution, any federal law regarding redistricting, including, but not limited to, the federal Voting Rights Act, and the Illinois Constitution. Nothing in this subsection shall be construed, applied, or implemented in a way that imposes any requirement or obligation that conflicts with the United States Constitution, any federal law regarding redistricting, or the Illinois Constitution.

If this subsection is violated, the districting or redistricting plan shall be redrawn to the least extent necessary to remedy the violation.

As used in this subsection, "crossover district", "coalition district", and "influence district" have the meanings given to those terms in Section 5-5 of the Illinois Voting Rights Act of 2011.

(c) If the corporate limits of the District expand between redistrictings, the board of commissioners shall determine which commissioner district or districts the expanded territory will join until the next redistricting.

(d) The terms of all commissioners serving at the time of the 2022 general election shall continue until the first Tuesday after the first Monday in the month following the 2022 general election or until the 9 new commissioners are elected and qualified under subsection (a), whichever is later.".