Date	Chamber	Action
1/12/2011	Senate	Session Sine Die

ILCON Art. VI, Sec. 11

Synopsis As Introduced
Proposes to amend the Judiciary Article of the Illinois Constitution. Provides that a person must have been a licensed attorney-at-law for a minimum of ten years to be eligible to serve as a Circuit Judge, a minimum of twelve years to be eligible to serve as an Appellate Judge, and a minimum of fifteen years to be eligible to serve as a Supreme Court Judge, except that a person serving as a Judge on December 31, 2010 is not disqualified from completing the current term of office or seeking an additional term. Effective upon being declared adopted.

Senate Floor Amendment No. 1
Replaces everything after the title. Reinserts the provisions of the introduced amendment with the following change: provides that to be eligible to serve as a Circuit Judge of a unit of a Judicial Circuit established as a subcircuit by law, a person must have been a licensed attorney-at-law for a minimum of 5 years (instead of 10 years).

Actions 

Date	Chamber	Action
4/6/2010	Senate	Filed with Secretary
4/6/2010	Senate	Referred to Assignments
4/6/2010	Senate	Assigned to Executive
4/6/2010	Senate	To Executive Subcommittee on Constitutional Amendments
4/12/2010	Senate	Reported Back To Executive
4/15/2010	Senate	Be Adopted Executive; 007-004-000
4/15/2010	Senate	Placed on Calendar Order of First Reading April 20, 2010; Constitutional Amendments
4/15/2010	Senate	Senate Floor Amendment No. 1 Filed with Secretary by Sen. Don Harmon
4/15/2010	Senate	Senate Floor Amendment No. 1 Referred to Assignments
4/20/2010	Senate	Senate Floor Amendment No. 1 Assignments Refers to Executive
4/21/2010	Senate	Senate Floor Amendment No. 1 Recommend Do Adopt Executive; 012-000-000
4/22/2010	Senate	Senate Floor Amendment No. 1 Adopted; Harmon
4/22/2010	Senate	Read in Full a First Time - As Amended
4/22/2010	Senate	Placed on Calendar Order of 2nd Reading April 23, 2010; Constitutional Amendments
4/22/2010	Senate	Added as Chief Co-Sponsor Sen. Kwame Raoul
4/23/2010	Senate	Read in Full a Second Time - As Amended
4/23/2010	Senate	Placed on Calendar Order of 3rd Reading April 27, 2010; Constitutional Amendments
1/12/2011	Senate	Session Sine Die

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