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95TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2007 and 2008
HB0165
Introduced 1/19/2007, by Rep. JoAnn D. Osmond SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
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10 ILCS 5/11-4.1 |
from Ch. 46, par. 11-4.1 |
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Amends the Election Code. When a school is chosen for use as a polling place, requires that the school district close that school to students on election day (now, may choose to keep the school open).
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A BILL FOR
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HB0165 |
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LRB095 04027 JAM 24064 b |
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| AN ACT concerning elections.
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| Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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| represented in the General Assembly:
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| Section 5. The Election Code is amended by changing Section |
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| 11-4.1 as follows:
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| (10 ILCS 5/11-4.1) (from Ch. 46, par. 11-4.1)
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| Sec. 11-4.1. (a) In appointing polling places under this |
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| Article, the
county board or board of election commissioners |
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| shall, insofar as they are
convenient and available, use |
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| schools and other public buildings as polling
places.
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| (b) Upon request of the county board or board of election |
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| commissioners,
the proper agency of government (including |
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| school districts and units of
local government) shall make a |
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| public building under its control available
for use as a |
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| polling place on an election day and for a reasonably
necessary |
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| time before and after election day, without charge.
If the |
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| county board or board of election commissioners chooses a |
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| school
to be a polling place, then the school district must |
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| make the school
available for use as a polling place.
For
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| However, for the day of the election, that
a school district |
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| must close that
may choose to (i)
keep the school to students |
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| but may
open or (ii) hold a teachers institute on that day.
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| (c) A government agency which makes a public building under |