101ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2019 and 2020
SENATE JOINT RESOLUTION
CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT
SC0007
 
Introduced 2/13/2019, by Sen. Dan McConchie
 
SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 

 



ILCON Art. IV, Sec. 8

     Proposes to amend the Legislature Article of the Illinois Constitution. Provides that appropriation bills shall require passage by a three-fifths vote in each house of the General Assembly. Effective upon being declared adopted.
  


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1
SENATE JOINT RESOLUTION

  
2
CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT

  
 
  
3    RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE ONE HUNDRED FIRST 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 8 of Article IV 
9of the Illinois Constitution as follows:
  
 

10
ARTICLE IV 


11
THE LEGISLATURE






12    (ILCON Art. IV, Sec. 8)



13SECTION 8. PASSAGE OF BILLS 

14    (a) The enacting clause of the laws of this State shall be: 
15"Be it
enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, 
16represented in the
General Assembly."

17    (b) The General Assembly shall enact laws only by bill. 
18Bills may
originate in either house, but may be amended or 
19rejected by the other.

20    (c) No bill shall become a law without the concurrence of a 
21majority
of the members elected to each house. Final passage of 
22a bill shall be
by record vote. In the Senate at the request of 
23two members, and in the
House at the request of five members, a 
 
 
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1record vote may be taken on any
other occasion. A record vote 
2is a vote by yeas and nays entered on the
journal.

3    (d) A bill shall be read by title on three different days 
4in each
house. A bill and each amendment thereto shall be 
5reproduced and placed
on the desk of each member before final 
6passage.

7    Bills, except bills for appropriations and for the 
8codification,
revision or rearrangement of laws, shall be 
9confined to one subject.
Appropriation bills shall be limited 
10to the subject of appropriations, and shall require passage by 
11a three-fifths vote in each house of the General Assembly.

12    A bill expressly amending a law shall set forth completely 
13the
sections amended.

14    The Speaker of the House of Representatives and the 
15President of the
Senate shall sign each bill that passes both 
16houses to certify that the
procedural requirements for passage 
17have been met.

18(Source: Illinois Constitution.)

 
  
19
SCHEDULE

  
20    This Constitutional Amendment takes effect upon being 
21declared adopted in accordance with Section 7 of the Illinois 
22Constitutional Amendment Act.