95TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2007 and 2008
HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT
HC0015

 

Introduced 2/8/2007, by Rep. Dr. Patricia Reid Lindner

 

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

    Proposes to amend the Legislature Article of the Illinois Constitution. Limits a person's total service in either or both of the offices of Speaker of the House of Representatives and President of the Senate to a total of 10 years. Effective upon being declared adopted and applies to service on or after the second Wednesday in January, 2010.


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A BILL FOR

 

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1
HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION
2
CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT

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

12     (ILCON Art. IV, Sec. 6)
13 SECTION 6. ORGANIZATION
14     (a) A majority of the members elected to each house
15 constitutes a quorum.
16     (b) On the first day of the January session of the General
17 Assembly in odd-numbered years, the Secretary of State shall
18 convene the House of Representatives to elect from its
19 membership a Speaker of the House of Representatives as
20 presiding officer, and the Governor shall convene the Senate to
21 elect from its membership a President of the Senate as
22 presiding officer. A person may not serve more than a total of
23 10 years in either or both of the offices of Speaker of the

 

 

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1 House of Representatives and President of the Senate; provided
2 that service before the second Wednesday in January of 2010
3 shall not be considered in the calculation of a person's
4 service.
5     (c) For purposes of powers of appointment conferred by this
6 Constitution, the Minority Leader of either house is a member
7 of the numerically strongest political party other than the
8 party to which the Speaker or the President belongs, as the
9 case may be.
10     (d) Each house shall determine the rules of its
11 proceedings, judge the elections, returns and qualifications
12 of its members and choose its officers. No member shall be
13 expelled by either house, except by a vote of two-thirds of the
14 members elected to that house. A member may be expelled only
15 once for the same offense. Each house may punish by
16 imprisonment any person, not a member, guilty of disrespect to
17 the house by disorderly or contemptuous behavior in its
18 presence. Imprisonment shall not extend beyond twenty-four
19 hours at one time unless the person persists in disorderly or
20 contemptuous behavior.
21 (Source: Illinois Constitution.)
 
22
SCHEDULE
23     This Constitutional Amendment takes effect upon being
24 declared adopted in accordance with Section 7 of the Illinois
25 Constitutional Amendment Act.