102ND GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2021 and 2022
HB0100
 
Introduced 1/14/2021, by Rep. Jonathan Carroll
 
SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 

 
  
10 ILCS 5/1-21 new
10 ILCS 5/11-4.1  from Ch. 46, par. 11-4.1

     Amends the Election Code. Provides that regardless of whether a school is used as a polling place, school districts shall close all schools on the day of a general election. Removes language encouraging a school district to close a school or hold a teachers institute day on election day for a school that is used as a polling place.
  


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A BILL FOR
 

  
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1    AN ACT concerning elections.
  
 
2    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
 
3represented in the General Assembly:
  
 
 
4    Section 5. The Election Code is amended  by changing 
5Section 11-4.1 and  by adding Section 1-21 as follows:
 
6    (10 ILCS 5/1-21 new)
7    Sec. 1-21. Schools closed on election day. Regardless of 
8whether a school is used as a polling place under Section 
911-4.1, school districts shall close all schools on the day of 
10a general election.
 


11    (10 ILCS 5/11-4.1)  (from Ch. 46, par. 11-4.1)




12    Sec. 11-4.1. (a) In appointing polling places under this 
13Article, the
county board or board of election commissioners 
14shall, insofar as they are
convenient and available, use 
15schools and other public buildings as polling
places.

16    (b) Upon request of the county board or board of election 
17commissioners,
the proper agency of government (including 
18school districts and units of
local government) shall make a 
19public building under its control available
for use as a 
20polling place on an election day and for a reasonably

21necessary time before and after election day, without charge.
 
22If the county board or board of election commissioners chooses 
 
 
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1a school
to be a polling place, then the school district must 
2make the school
available for use as a polling place.
However, 
3for the day of the election, a school district is encouraged to 
4(i) close the school or (ii) hold a teachers institute on that 
5day with students not in attendance.

6    (c) A government agency which makes a public building 
7under its
control available for use as a polling place shall 
8(i) ensure the portion of
the building to be used as the 
9polling place is accessible to voters with disabilities
and 
10elderly voters and (ii) allow the election authority to 
11administer the election as authorized under this Code.

12    (d) If a qualified elector's precinct polling place is a 
13school and the elector will be unable to enter that polling 
14place without violating Section 11-9.3 of the Criminal Code of 
152012 because the elector is a child sex offender as defined in 
16Section 11-9.3 of the Criminal Code of 2012, that elector may 
17vote by a vote by mail ballot in accordance with Article 19 of 
18this Code or may vote early in accordance with Article 19A of 
19this Code.
20(Source: P.A. 98-773, eff. 7-18-14; 98-1171, eff. 6-1-15; 
2199-143, eff. 7-27-15.)