104TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2025 and 2026
SENATE JOINT RESOLUTION
CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT
SC0002
 
Introduced 1/27/2025, by Sen. Neil Anderson
 
SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
ILCON Art. IV, Sec. 8
    Proposes to amend the Legislature Article of the Illinois Constitution. Provides that the General Assembly shall pass a bill containing the State budget and present it to the Governor before the General Assembly considers any other bill.


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SENATE JOINT RESOLUTION
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CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT

 
3    RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE ONE HUNDRED FOURTH GENERAL 
4ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, THE HOUSE OF 
5REPRESENTATIVES CONCURRING HEREIN, that there shall be 
6submitted to the electors of the State for adoption or 
7rejection at the general election next occurring at least 6 
8months after the adoption of this resolution a proposition to 
9amend Section 7 of Article III of the Illinois Constitution as 
10follows:
 
11
ARTICLE IV 
12
THE LEGISLATURE

13    (ILCON Art. IV, Sec. 8)
14SECTION 8. PASSAGE OF BILLS 
15    (a) The enacting clause of the laws of this State shall be: 
16"Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, 
17represented in the General Assembly."
18    (b) The General Assembly shall enact laws only by bill. 
19Bills may originate in either house, but may be amended or 
20rejected by the other.
21    (c) No bill shall become a law without the concurrence of a 
22majority of the members elected to each house. Final passage 
23of a bill shall be by record vote. In the Senate at the request 
 
 
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1of two members, and in the House at the request of five 
2members, a record vote may be taken on any other occasion. A 
3record vote is a vote by yeas and nays entered on the journal.
4    (d) A bill shall be read by title on three different days 
5in each house. A bill and each amendment thereto shall be 
6reproduced and placed on the desk of each member before final 
7passage.
8    Bills, except bills for appropriations and for the 
9codification, revision or rearrangement of laws, shall be 
10confined to one subject. Appropriation bills shall be limited 
11to the subject of appropriations.
12    A bill expressly amending a law shall set forth completely 
13the sections amended.
14    The General Assembly shall pass a bill containing the 
15State budget and present it to the Governor before the General 
16Assembly considers any other bill.
17    The Speaker of the House of Representatives and the 
18President of the Senate shall sign each bill that passes both 
19houses to certify that the procedural requirements for passage 
20have been met.
21(Source: Illinois Constitution.)
 
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SCHEDULE
23    This Constitutional Amendment takes effect upon being 
24declared adopted in accordance with Section 7 of the Illinois 
25Constitutional Amendment Act.