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96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2009 and 2010
HB0567
Introduced 2/6/2009, by Rep. Careen M Gordon SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
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10 ILCS 5/3-3 |
from Ch. 46, par. 3-3 |
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Amends the Election Code. Provides that a resident of a community-integrated living arrangement, as defined by rule of the State Board of Elections, is a resident, for voting purposes, of the election jurisdiction in which the arrangement is located.
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A BILL FOR
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HB0567 |
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LRB096 05787 JAM 15862 b |
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| AN ACT concerning elections.
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| Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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| represented in the General Assembly:
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| Section 5. The Election Code is amended by changing Section |
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| 3-3 as follows:
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| (10 ILCS 5/3-3) (from Ch. 46, par. 3-3)
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| Sec. 3-3.
Every honorably discharged soldier or sailor who |
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| is an
inmate of any soldiers' and sailors' home within the |
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| State of Illinois, or
any person who is a resident of a |
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| facility licensed or certified pursuant to the
Nursing Home |
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| Care Act, or any person who is a resident of a |
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| community-integrated living arrangement, as defined by rule of |
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| the State Board of Elections,
for 30 days or longer, and who is |
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| a citizen of the United States and has
resided in this State |
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| and in the election district 30 days next
preceding any |
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| election shall be entitled to vote in the election
district in |
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| which any such home or community-integrated living arrangement |
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| in which he is an
inmate or resident is located, for all |
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| officers that now are or hereafter may be
elected by the |
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| people, and upon all questions that may be submitted to
the |
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| vote of the people: Provided, that he shall declare upon oath, |
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| that it
was his bona fide intention at the time he entered said |
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| home or community-integrated living arrangement to become a
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