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| | 104TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2025 and 2026
SB0204 Introduced 1/22/2025, by Sen. Chapin Rose SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
| | | Amends the Circuit Courts Act. Deletes language providing that certain at-large judgeships of the 6th judicial circuit shall be converted, as they become vacant, to resident judgeships elected from Champaign County and resident judgeships elected from Macon County. |
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| | SB0204 | | LRB104 03748 JRC 13772 b |
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| 1 | | AN ACT concerning courts.
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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 Circuit Courts Act is amended by changing |
| 5 | | Section 2f-14 as follows:
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| 6 | | (705 ILCS 35/2f-14) |
| 7 | | Sec. 2f-14. 6th judicial circuit; resident judgeships. |
| 8 | | (a) The at-large judgeships of the 6th judicial circuit |
| 9 | | existing on January 7, 2022 shall be converted to resident |
| 10 | | judgeships as provided in this subsection as those judgeships |
| 11 | | are or become vacant. The first 3 that become vacant after |
| 12 | | January 7, 2022 (the effective date of Public Act 102-693) |
| 13 | | shall be converted to resident judgeships elected from |
| 14 | | Champaign County. The remaining two at-large judgeships that |
| 15 | | become vacant shall be converted to resident judgeships |
| 16 | | elected from Macon County. Thereafter, persons elected to |
| 17 | | those resident judgeships shall be residents of the county |
| 18 | | which elects them. |
| 19 | | (b) It is the intent of the General Assembly not to create |
| 20 | | any additional judgeships in the 6th judicial circuit by |
| 21 | | Public Act 102-693 and this amendatory Act of the 102nd |
| 22 | | General Assembly. Notwithstanding any other provision of law |
| 23 | | to the contrary, the conversion of at-large judgeships to |