Full Text of HB0203 94th General Assembly
HB0203eng 94TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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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 | 5 |
| 19-13 as follows:
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| (10 ILCS 5/19-13) (from Ch. 46, par. 19-13)
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| Sec. 19-13. Any qualified voter who has been admitted to a | 8 |
| hospital , nursing home, or rehabilitation center
due to an | 9 |
| illness or physical injury not more than 5 days before an | 10 |
| election
shall be entitled to personal delivery of an absentee | 11 |
| ballot in the hospital , nursing home, or rehabilitation center
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| subject to the following conditions:
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| (1) The voter completes the Application for Physically | 14 |
| Incapacitated
Elector as provided in Section 19-3, stating as | 15 |
| reasons therein that he is
a patient in ............... (name | 16 |
| of hospital /home/center ), ............... located
at, | 17 |
| ............... (address of hospital /home/center ), | 18 |
| ............... (county,
city/village), was admitted
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| hospitalized for ............... (nature of illness or
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| physical injury), on ............... (date of admission), and | 21 |
| does not
expect to be released from the hospital /home/center on | 22 |
| or before the day of election.
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| (2) The voter's physician completes a Certificate of | 24 |
| Attending Physician
in a form substantially as follows:
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| CERTIFICATE OF ATTENDING PHYSICIAN
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| I state that I am a physician, duly licensed to practice in | 27 |
| the State of
.........; that .......... is a patient in | 28 |
| .......... (name of hospital /home/center ),
located at | 29 |
| ............. (address of hospital /home/center ), | 30 |
| ................. (county,
city/village); that such individual | 31 |
| was admitted
hospitalized for ............. (nature
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| or physical injury), on ............ (date of admission); and
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| that I have examined such individual in the State in which I am | 2 |
| licensed
to practice medicine and do not expect such individual | 3 |
| to be released from
the hospital /home/center on or before the | 4 |
| day of election.
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| Under penalties as provided by law pursuant to Section | 6 |
| 29-10 of The Election
Code, the undersigned certifies that the | 7 |
| statements set forth in this
certification are true and | 8 |
| correct.
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| (Signature) ...............
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| (Date licensed) ............
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| (3) Any person who is registered to vote in the same | 12 |
| precinct as the admitted
hospitalized voter or any legal | 13 |
| relative of the admitted
hospitalized voter may
present such | 14 |
| voter's absentee ballot application, completed as prescribed
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| in paragraph 1, accompanied by the physician's certificate, | 16 |
| completed as
prescribed in paragraph 2, to the election | 17 |
| authority.
Such precinct voter or relative shall execute and | 18 |
| sign an affidavit furnished
by the election authority attesting | 19 |
| that he is a registered voter in the
same precinct as the | 20 |
| admitted
hospitalized voter or that he is a legal relative of
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| the admitted
hospitalized voter and stating the nature of the
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| relationship. Such precinct voter or relative shall further | 23 |
| attest that
he has been authorized by the admitted
hospitalized | 24 |
| voter to obtain his absentee ballot
from the election authority | 25 |
| and deliver such ballot to him in the hospital , home, or | 26 |
| center .
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| Upon receipt of the admitted
hospitalized voter's | 28 |
| application, physician's
certificate, and the affidavit of the | 29 |
| precinct voter or the relative, the
election authority shall | 30 |
| examine the registration records to determine if
the applicant | 31 |
| is qualified to vote and, if found to be qualified, shall
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| provide the precinct voter or the relative the absentee ballot | 33 |
| for delivery
to the applicant in the hospital , home, or center .
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| Upon receipt of the absentee ballot, the admitted
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| hospitalized voter shall mark the
ballot in secret and | 36 |
| subscribe to the certifications on the absentee ballot
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| envelope. After depositing the ballot in the return envelope | 2 |
| and
securely sealing the envelope, such voter shall give the | 3 |
| envelope to the
precinct voter or the relative who shall | 4 |
| deliver it to the election authority
in sufficient time for the | 5 |
| ballot to be delivered by the election authority
to the proper | 6 |
| precinct polling place before 7 p.m. on election day.
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| Upon receipt of the admitted
hospitalized voter's absentee | 8 |
| ballot,
the ballot shall be counted in the manner prescribed in | 9 |
| Section 19-9.
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| (Source: P.A. 84-808.)
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| Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | 12 |
| becoming law.
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