Full Text of HB0348 100th General Assembly
HB0348ham002 100TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY | Rep. Barbara Flynn Currie Filed: 3/30/2017
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| 1 | | AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 348
| 2 | | AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 348 by replacing | 3 | | everything after the enacting clause with the following:
| 4 | | "Section 5. The Illinois Constitutional Amendment Act is | 5 | | amended by changing Section 2 as follows:
| 6 | | (5 ILCS 20/2) (from Ch. 1, par. 103)
| 7 | | Sec. 2.
| 8 | | (a) The General Assembly in submitting an amendment to the
| 9 | | Constitution to the electors , or the proponents of an amendment | 10 | | to Article
IV of the Constitution submitted by petition, shall | 11 | | prepare a brief explanation of such
amendment, a brief argument | 12 | | in favor of the same, and the form in which
such amendment will | 13 | | appear on the separate ballot as provided by Section
16-6 of | 14 | | the Election Code, as
amended . The minority of the General | 15 | | Assembly, or if there is no minority,
anyone designated by the | 16 | | General Assembly shall prepare a brief argument
against such |
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| 1 | | amendment. The explanation, the arguments for and against each | 2 | | constitutional amendment, and the form in which the amendment | 3 | | will appear on the ballot (with striking and underscoring) | 4 | | shall be filed in the Office of the Secretary of State no later | 5 | | than July 1 of the year in which the amendment shall appear on | 6 | | the ballot. | 7 | | (b) In the case of an
amendment to Article IV of the | 8 | | Constitution initiated pursuant to Section
3 of Article XIV of | 9 | | the Constitution, the proponents of the amendment shall prepare | 10 | | a brief explanation of such amendment and a brief argument in | 11 | | favor of the same. For purposes of this subsection (b), the | 12 | | proponents shall be those persons
so designated at the time of | 13 | | the filing of the petition as provided in Section
10-8 of the | 14 | | Election Code . A brief argument against such amendment shall be | 15 | | prepared by , and the opponents shall be those members of the
| 16 | | General Assembly opposing such amendment, or if there are none, | 17 | | anyone
designated by the General Assembly and such opponents | 18 | | shall prepare a brief
argument against such amendment . The | 19 | | proponent's explanation and
argument in favor of and the | 20 | | opponents argument against an amendment
to Article IV initiated | 21 | | by petition must
be submitted to the Attorney General by July | 22 | | 1 , who may rewrite them for accuracy
and fairness. The Attorney | 23 | | General is not authorized to accept an amended or supplemental | 24 | | filing of the explanation or the arguments for or against a | 25 | | constitutional amendment. The Attorney General shall prepare | 26 | | the form in which such amendment will appear on the ballot |
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| 1 | | (with striking and underscoring). The explanation,
the | 2 | | arguments for and against each constitutional amendment, and | 3 | | the form in which the
amendment will appear on the separate | 4 | | ballot (with striking and underscoring) shall be filed by the | 5 | | Attorney General in the
Office office of the Secretary of State | 6 | | no later than 30 days after the State Board of Elections has | 7 | | certified the with the proposed amendment. | 8 | | (c) Within 30 days of receipt of the information related to | 9 | | the amendment, the Office of the Secretary of State shall | 10 | | publish the materials on a publicly accessible Internet website | 11 | | controlled by the Office of the Secretary of State, including | 12 | | an electronic version that may be downloaded. Additionally, the | 13 | | Office shall provide an electronic copy to the State Board of | 14 | | Elections and each election authority in the State. | 15 | | (d) No later than one month before the general election, | 16 | | each election authority shall publish the information related | 17 | | to the amendment that was received from the Secretary of State | 18 | | on their Internet website and shall electronically mail the | 19 | | information to any registered voter who has provided the Board | 20 | | or the election authority with an electronic mail address. | 21 | | (e) At least one
month before the general next election at | 22 | | which the amendment appears on the ballot of members of the | 23 | | General Assembly,
following the passage of the proposed | 24 | | amendment , the Secretary of State
shall publish the explanation | 25 | | of the amendment , the arguments for and against the amendment, | 26 | | the form in which the amendment will appear on the ballot (with |
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| 1 | | striking and underscoring), and a link to the information | 2 | | published on the website , in full in 8 point type, or the | 3 | | equivalent
thereto, in at least one secular newspaper of | 4 | | general circulation in
every county in this State in which a | 5 | | newspaper is published. In
counties in which 2 or more | 6 | | newspapers are published, the Secretary of
State shall cause | 7 | | such amendment to be published in at least 2 newspapers. In
| 8 | | counties having a population of 500,000 or more, such amendment | 9 | | shall be
published in not less than 6 newspapers of general | 10 | | circulation. After
the first publication, the publication of | 11 | | such amendment shall be
repeated once each week for 2 | 12 | | consecutive weeks. In selecting newspapers
in which to publish | 13 | | such amendment the Secretary of State shall have
regard solely | 14 | | to the circulation of such newspapers, selecting secular
| 15 | | newspapers in every case having the largest circulation. The | 16 | | proposed
amendment shall have a notice prefixed thereto in said | 17 | | publications,
that at such election the proposed amendment will | 18 | | be submitted to the
electors for adoption or rejection, and at | 19 | | the end of the official
publication, he shall also publish the | 20 | | form in which the proposed
amendment will appear on the | 21 | | separate ballot. The Secretary of State
shall fix the | 22 | | publication fees to be paid newspapers for making such
| 23 | | publication, but in no case shall such publication fee exceed | 24 | | the amount
charged by such newspapers to private individuals | 25 | | for a like
publication. | 26 | | (f) The General Assembly may, by resolution, direct the |
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| 1 | | Secretary of State to distribute to the electors a pamphlet | 2 | | containing In addition to the notice hereby required to be | 3 | | published,
the Secretary of State shall also cause the existing | 4 | | form of the
constitutional provision proposed to be amended, | 5 | | the proposed amendment (with striking and underscoring) ,
the | 6 | | explanation of the same, the arguments for and against the | 7 | | same, and
the form in which such amendment will appear on the | 8 | | separate ballot , to
be published in pamphlet form in 8 point | 9 | | type or the equivalent thereto;
and the Secretary of State | 10 | | shall mail such pamphlet to every mailing
address in the State, | 11 | | addressed to the attention of the Postal Patron . The Secretary | 12 | | of State He
shall also maintain a reasonable supply of such | 13 | | pamphlets so as to make
them available to any person requesting | 14 | | one.
| 15 | | (Source: P.A. 98-463, eff. 8-16-13.)".
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