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| | 103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2023 and 2024
HB4503 Introduced 1/31/2024, by Rep. Katie Stuart SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
| | | Amends the Election Code. Provides that, if a unit of local government receives a request to make the unit's public buildings within the election authority's jurisdiction available as permanent or temporary early voting polling place, the unit may demonstrate to the election authority that the use would interfere with scheduled programming, and, if so, the election authority and the unit shall work cooperatively to find an alternative location to serve as the permanent or temporary early voting polling place. Effective immediately. |
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| | HB4503 | | LRB103 36070 AWJ 66158 b |
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| 1 | | AN ACT concerning elections.
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| 2 | | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, |
| 3 | | represented in the General Assembly:
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| 4 | | Section 5. The Election Code is amended by changing |
| 5 | | Section 19A-21 as follows:
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| 6 | | (10 ILCS 5/19A-21) |
| 7 | | Sec. 19A-21. Use of local public buildings for early |
| 8 | | voting polling places. Upon request by an election authority, |
| 9 | | a unit of local government (as defined in Section 1 of Article |
| 10 | | VII of the Illinois Constitution, which does not include |
| 11 | | school districts) shall make the unit's public buildings |
| 12 | | within the election authority's jurisdiction available as |
| 13 | | permanent or temporary early voting polling places without |
| 14 | | charge. Availability of a building shall include reasonably |
| 15 | | necessary time before and after the period early voting is |
| 16 | | conducted at that building. If, upon receiving the election |
| 17 | | authority's request, the unit of local government demonstrates |
| 18 | | to the election authority that the use would interfere with |
| 19 | | scheduled programming, the election authority and the unit of |
| 20 | | local government shall work cooperatively to find an |
| 21 | | alternative location to serve as the permanent or temporary |
| 22 | | early voting polling place. |
| 23 | | A unit of local government making its public building |