Full Text of HB4080 96th General Assembly
HB4080 96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2009 and 2010 HB4080
Introduced 2/27/2009, by Rep. Ronald A. Wait SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED: |
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705 ILCS 35/2f-6 |
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705 ILCS 35/2k new |
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Amends the Circuit Courts Act. Creates an additional Boone County resident judgeship in the 17th judicial circuit (Boone and Winnebago counties), to be elected first in 2010. Requires the judge to continue to reside in Boone County. Authorizes the Illinois Supreme Court to fill the judgeship by appointment until then. Specifies that the judgeship is not a subcircuit judgeship. Effective July 1, 2009.
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| AN ACT concerning courts.
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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 Circuit Courts Act is amended by changing | 5 |
| Section 2f-6 and by adding Section 2k as follows: | 6 |
| (705 ILCS 35/2f-6) | 7 |
| Sec. 2f-6. 17th judicial circuit; subcircuits. | 8 |
| (a) The 17th circuit shall be divided into 4 subcircuits. | 9 |
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subcircuits shall be
compact, contiguous, and | 10 |
| substantially equal in population. The General
Assembly by law | 11 |
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create the subcircuits, using population
data as
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| determined by the 2000 federal census, and
shall determine a | 13 |
| numerical order for the 4 subcircuits. That
numerical order | 14 |
| shall be the basis for the order in which resident judgeships
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| are assigned to
the subcircuits. Once a resident judgeship is | 16 |
| assigned to a subcircuit, it
shall continue to be assigned to | 17 |
| that subcircuit for all purposes.
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| (a-10) Of the 17th circuit's 9 existing circuit judgeships | 19 |
| existing on April 7, 2005 (6 at large and
3 resident), but not | 20 |
| including the one resident judgeship added by this amendatory | 21 |
| Act of the 96th General Assembly, the 3 resident judgeships | 22 |
| shall be allotted as 17th circuit resident judgeships under
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| subsection (c) as those resident judgeships
are or become |
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| vacant on or after the effective date of this amendatory Act of | 2 |
| the 93rd General Assembly. Of the 17th circuit's associate | 3 |
| judgeships, the first associate judgeship that is or becomes | 4 |
| vacant on or after the effective date of this amendatory Act of | 5 |
| the 93rd General Assembly shall become a resident judgeship of | 6 |
| the 17th circuit to be allotted by the Supreme Court under | 7 |
| subsection (c) as a resident subcircuit judgeship. These | 8 |
| resident judgeships , and the one resident judgeship added by | 9 |
| this amendatory Act of the 96th General Assembly, shall | 10 |
| constitute all of the resident judgeships of the 17th circuit. | 11 |
| As used in this subsection, a vacancy does not include the
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| expiration of a term of a resident judge who seeks
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| that office at the next term. A vacancy does not exist or occur | 14 |
| at the expiration of an associate judge's term if the associate | 15 |
| judge is reappointed.
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| (b) The 17th circuit shall have a total of 4 judgeships (3 | 17 |
| resident judgeships existing on April 7, 2005 and one associate | 18 |
| judgeship ) , but not including the one resident judgeship added | 19 |
| by this amendatory Act of the 96th General Assembly, available | 20 |
| to be allotted to the 4 subcircuit resident judgeships.
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| (c) The Supreme Court shall allot (i) the 3 resident
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| judgeships of the 17th circuit existing on April 7, 2005 as | 23 |
| they are or become vacant as provided in subsection (a-10) and | 24 |
| (ii) the one associate judgeship converted into a resident | 25 |
| judgeship of the 17th circuit as it is or becomes vacant as | 26 |
| provided in subsection (a-10),
for election from the
various
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| subcircuits until there is one resident judge to be elected | 2 |
| from each
subcircuit.
No resident or associate judge of the | 3 |
| 17th circuit serving on
the effective date of this amendatory | 4 |
| Act of the 93rd General Assembly shall be
required to change | 5 |
| his or her residency in order to continue serving in office
or
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| to seek retention or reappointment in office as resident | 7 |
| judgeships are allotted by the
Supreme Court in accordance with | 8 |
| this Section.
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| (d) A resident judge elected from a subcircuit shall | 10 |
| continue to reside in
that
subcircuit as long as he or she | 11 |
| holds that office.
A resident judge elected from a subcircuit | 12 |
| after January 1, 2008, must retain residency as a registered | 13 |
| voter in the subcircuit to run for retention from the circuit | 14 |
| at large thereafter.
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| (e) Vacancies in resident judgeships of the 17th circuit | 16 |
| shall be
filled
in the manner provided in Article VI of the | 17 |
| Illinois Constitution.
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| (Source: P.A. 95-610, eff. 9-11-07.) | 19 |
| (705 ILCS 35/2k new) | 20 |
| Sec. 2k. Additional 17th circuit resident judge. In | 21 |
| addition to the number of circuit judges otherwise authorized | 22 |
| by this Act, there shall be one additional judge elected in the | 23 |
| 17th judicial circuit who shall be a resident of and elected | 24 |
| from Boone County. The additional resident circuit judgeship | 25 |
| created by this Section may be filled by appointment by the |
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| Illinois Supreme Court until the judgeship is filled by | 2 |
| election beginning at the 2010 general election. The judgeship | 3 |
| provided by this Section shall not be a subcircuit judgeship. A | 4 |
| resident judge elected from Boone County under this Section | 5 |
| must continue to reside in Boone County as long as he or she | 6 |
| holds that office.
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| Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect July 1, | 8 |
| 2009.
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