HB2997 96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

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96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2009 and 2010
HB2997

Introduced 2/24/2009, by Rep. Tom Cross

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:

10 ILCS 5/21-3

from Ch. 46, par. 21-3

Amends the Election Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the publication of the results of an election to choose presidential and vice-presidential electors.

A BILL FOR

AN ACT concerning elections.

Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly:

Section 5. The Election Code is amended by changing Section 21-3 as follows:

(10 ILCS 5/21-3) (from Ch. 46, par. 21-3)

Sec. 21-3. Within five days after the the votes shall have been canvassed and the results declared or the result declared by lot as provided for in Section 21-2 above, the Governor shall cause the result of said election to be published, and shall proclaim the persons electors of President and Vice-President so chosen composing the list so elected, by transmitting by mail to the several persons so chosen and composing the list or set elected, electors of President and Vice-President certificates in triplicate, under the Seal of State of their appointment, and shall also transmit under the Seal of State to the Secretary of State of the United States the certificate of the election of said electors as required by the laws of Congress.

(Source: Laws 1943, vol. 2, p. 1.)