94TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2005 and 2006
HB4130

 

Introduced 10/19/2005, by Rep. Bill Mitchell

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
10 ILCS 5/17-30   from Ch. 46, par. 17-30

    Amends the Election Code. Requires home rule municipalities within counties with a population less than 120,000 to reimburse the county for all of the costs and expenses of a consolidated primary election (now, counties required to pay). Provides that if the county contains more than one home rule municipality, then those municipalities shall share the reimbursement proportionately based on population of the municipalities.


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FISCAL NOTE ACT MAY APPLY
STATE MANDATES ACT MAY REQUIRE REIMBURSEMENT

 

 

A BILL FOR

 

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1     AN ACT concerning elections.
 
2     Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3 represented in the General Assembly:
 
4     Section 5. The Election Code is amended by changing Section
5 17-30 as follows:
 
6     (10 ILCS 5/17-30)  (from Ch. 46, par. 17-30)
7     Sec. 17-30. Except as provided herein, each county shall
8 provide for and pay the costs and expenses of all elections
9 within the county other than within the jurisdiction of a
10 municipal Board of Election Commissioners, as well as the costs
11 expended within the jurisdiction of a municipal Board of
12 Election Commissioners for the registration and canvassing of
13 voters in even-numbered years. Each municipality with the first
14 Board of Election Commissioners established within a county
15 shall provide for and pay the costs and expenses of all
16 elections within the jurisdiction of the Board of Election
17 Commissioners. The State shall reimburse each county and
18 municipality in the amount of the increase in compensation
19 provided in Public Acts 81-850 and 81-1149 and by this
20 amendatory Act of 1998.
21     For each emergency referendum and each special election not
22 conducted at the time of a regular election, each county and
23 municipality responsible for paying for the costs and expenses
24 shall directly pay for or be reimbursed by every other
25 political subdivision for which officers or public questions
26 are on the ballot within the jurisdiction of the election
27 authority of such county or municipality except such costs and
28 expenses as are required to be reimbursed by the State. For
29 each primary election for the nomination of municipal officers
30 held in a municipality with a population of 5000 or less in
31 accordance with Article 7, the county in which such
32 municipality is located shall be reimbursed by the municipality

 

 

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1 for all costs and expenses attributable to such primary
2 election, except for those costs and expenses required to be
3 reimbursed by the State. Each such political subdivision shall
4 provide for and shall promptly pay such reimbursement of the
5 total costs and expenses of that election attributable to its
6 offices or propositions as the case may be, not including such
7 costs and expenses as are required to be reimbursed by the
8 State.
9     In counties with a population less than 120,000, any home
10 rule municipalities within the county shall reimburse the
11 county for all of the costs and expenses of a consolidated
12 primary election. If the county contains more than one home
13 rule municipality, then those municipalities shall share the
14 reimbursement proportionately based on population of the
15 municipalities.
16 (Source: P.A. 90-672, eff. 7-31-98.)