99TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2015 and 2016
SENATE JOINT RESOLUTION CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT
SC0023

 

Introduced 1/22/2016, by Sen. Heather A. Steans

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
ILCON Art. IV, Sec. 6
ILCON Art. V, Sec. 2

    Proposes to amend The Legislature and Executive Articles of the Illinois Constitution. Limits a person's total service in the office of Speaker of the House of Representatives or President of the Senate to a total of 10 years. Provides that a person may not serve more than 2 terms within the Office of the Governor. Effective upon being declared adopted.


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1
SENATE JOINT RESOLUTION
2
CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT

 
3    RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE NINETY-NINTH GENERAL
4ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
5CONCURRING HEREIN, that there shall be submitted to the
6electors of the State for adoption or rejection at the general
7election next occurring at least 6 months after the adoption of
8this resolution a proposition to amend Section 6 of Article IV
9and Section 2 of Article V of the Illinois Constitution as
10follows:
 
11
ARTICLE IV
12
THE LEGISLATURE

13    (ILCON Art. IV, Sec. 6)
14SECTION 6. ORGANIZATION
15    (a) A majority of the members elected to each house
16constitutes a quorum.
17    (b) On the first day of the January session of the General
18Assembly in odd-numbered years, the Secretary of State shall
19convene the House of Representatives to elect from its
20membership a Speaker of the House of Representatives as
21presiding officer, and the Governor shall convene the Senate to
22elect from its membership a President of the Senate as
23presiding officer. A person may not serve more than a total of

 

 

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110 years in the office of Speaker of the House of
2Representatives or President of the Senate; provided that
3service before the second Wednesday in January of 2017 shall
4not be considered in the calculation of a person's service.
5    (c) For purposes of powers of appointment conferred by this
6Constitution, the Minority Leader of either house is a member
7of the numerically strongest political party other than the
8party to which the Speaker or the President belongs, as the
9case may be.
10    (d) Each house shall determine the rules of its
11proceedings, judge the elections, returns and qualifications
12of its members and choose its officers. No member shall be
13expelled by either house, except by a vote of two-thirds of the
14members elected to that house. A member may be expelled only
15once for the same offense. Each house may punish by
16imprisonment any person, not a member, guilty of disrespect to
17the house by disorderly or contemptuous behavior in its
18presence. Imprisonment shall not extend beyond twenty-four
19hours at one time unless the person persists in disorderly or
20contemptuous behavior.
21(Source: Illinois Constitution.)
 
22
ARTICLE V
23
THE EXECUTIVE

24    (ILCON Art. V, Sec. 2)

 

 

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1SECTION 2. TERMS
2    (a) These elected officers of the Executive Branch shall
3hold office for four years beginning on the second Monday of
4January after their election and, except in the case of the
5Lieutenant Governor, until their successors are qualified.
6They shall be elected at the general election in 1978 and every
7four years thereafter.
8    (b) A person may not serve more than 2 terms within the
9office of the Governor.
10(Source: Illinois Constitution.)
 
11
SCHEDULE
12    This Constitutional Amendment takes effect upon being
13declared adopted in accordance with Section 7 of the Illinois
14Constitutional Amendment Act.