102ND GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2021 and 2022
SB1865
 
Introduced 2/26/2021, by Sen. Jason A. Barickman
 
SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 

 
  
10 ILCS 5/1A-3  from Ch. 46, par. 1A-3

     Amends the Election Code. In provisions requiring the Governor to appoint 2 members to the State Board of Elections from a list of nominees submitted by certain  State executive officers from the opposing political party as the Governor, provides that when all State executive officers are affiliated with the same political party as the Governor, the highest ranking State Senator of the political party not affiliated with the Governor shall be considered the nominating State officer to submit the list of nominees (rather than all members to be appointed to the Board that year from both designated political parties shall be appointed by the Governor without nomination).
  


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A BILL FOR
 

  
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1    AN ACT concerning elections.
  
 
2    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
 
3represented in the General Assembly:
  
 
 
4    Section 5. The Election Code is amended  by changing 
5Section 1A-3 as follows:
 



6    (10 ILCS 5/1A-3)  (from Ch. 46, par. 1A-3)



7    Sec. 1A-3. 
Subject to the confirmation requirements of 
8Section 1A-4, 4
members of the State Board of Elections shall 
9be appointed in each odd-numbered
year as follows:

10        (1) The Governor shall appoint 2 members of the same 
11    political party with
which he is affiliated, one from each 
12    area of required residence.

13        (2) The Governor shall appoint 2 members of the 
14    political party whose
candidate for Governor in the most 
15    recent general election received the
second highest number 
16    of votes, one from each area of required residence,
from a 
17    list of nominees submitted by the first state executive 
18    officer in
the order indicated herein affiliated with such 
19    political party:  Attorney
General, Secretary of State, 
20    Comptroller, and Treasurer.
If none of the State executive 
21    officers listed herein is affiliated with
such political 
22    party, the nominating State officer shall be the first 
23    State
executive officer in the order indicated herein 
 
 
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1    affiliated with an
established political party other than 
2    that of the Governor.

3        (3) The nominating state officer shall submit in 
4    writing to the Governor
3 names of qualified persons for 
5    each membership on the State Board of Elections Election 
6    to be
appointed from the political party of that officer.  
7    The Governor may reject
any or all of the nominees on any 
8    such list and may request an additional
list.  The second 
9    list shall be submitted by the nominating officer and

10    shall contain 3 new names of qualified persons for each 
11    remaining appointment,
except that if the Governor 
12    expressly reserves any nominee's name from the
first list, 
13    that nominee shall not be replaced on the second list.  The

14    second list shall be final.

15        (4) Whenever all the state executive officers 
16    designated in paragraph
(2) are affiliated with the same 
17    political party as that of the Governor, the highest 
18    ranking State Senator of the political party not 
19    affiliated with the Governor shall be considered the 
20    nominating State officer designated in paragraph (3). ,

21    all 4 members of the Board to be appointed that year, from 
22    both designated
political parties, shall be appointed by 
23    the Governor without nominations.

24        (5) The Governor shall submit in writing to the 
25    President of the Senate
the name of each person appointed 
26    to the State Board of Elections, and shall
designate the 
 
 
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1    term for which the appointment is made and the name of the

2    member whom the appointee is to succeed.

3        (6) The appointments shall be made and submitted by 
4    the Governor no later
than April 1 and a nominating state 
5    officer required to submit a list of
nominees to the 
6    Governor pursuant to paragraph (3) shall submit a list no

7    later than March 1. For appointments occurring in 2019, 
8    the appointments shall be made and submitted by the 
9    Governor no later than May 15. 

10        (7) In the appointment of the initial members of the 
11    Board pursuant to
this amendatory Act of 1978, the 
12    provisions of paragraphs (1), (2), (3),
(5), and (6) of 
13    this Section shall apply except that the Governor shall 
14    appoint
all 8 members, 2 from each of the designated 
15    political parties from each
area of required residence.

16(Source: P.A. 101-5, eff. 5-15-19; revised 9-9-19.)