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| 1 | | SENATE RESOLUTION
| 2 | | RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE ONE HUNDREDTH GENERAL | 3 | | ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that the Rules of the Senate | 4 | | of the 100th General Assembly are amended by changing Rules | 5 | | 3-4, 3-6, 3-9, 3-14, 3-15, 5-1, 5-4, 5-7, 6-1, 9-1, and 10-2 as | 6 | | follows:
| 7 | | (Senate Rule 3-4)
| 8 | | 3-4. Standing Committees. The Standing Committees of the | 9 | | Senate are as
follows:
| 10 | | AGRICULTURE
| 11 | | APPROPRIATIONS I
| 12 | | APPROPRIATIONS II
| 13 | | COMMERCE AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT | 14 | | CRIMINAL LAW
| 15 | | EDUCATION
| 16 | | ENERGY AND PUBLIC UTILITIES
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| 1 | | ENVIRONMENT AND CONSERVATION
| 2 | | EXECUTIVE
| 3 | | EXECUTIVE APPOINTMENTS
| 4 | | FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS
| 5 | | GAMING | 6 | | GOVERNMENT REFORM | 7 | | HUMAN SERVICES
| 8 | | HIGHER EDUCATION
| 9 | | INSURANCE
| 10 | | JUDICIARY
| 11 | | LABOR
| 12 | | LICENSED ACTIVITIES AND PENSIONS
| 13 | | LOCAL GOVERNMENT
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| 1 | | PUBLIC HEALTH
| 2 | | REVENUE
| 3 | | STATE GOVERNMENT
| 4 | | TELECOMMUNICATIONS AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY | 5 | | TRANSPORTATION
| 6 | | VETERANS AFFAIRS | 7 | | (Source: S.R. 2, 100th G.A.)
| 8 | | (Senate Rule 3-6)
| 9 | | 3-6. Referrals of Resolutions, Messages, and | 10 | | Reorganization Orders.
| 11 | | (a) All resolutions, after being initially read by the | 12 | | Secretary, shall be
automatically referred to the Committee on | 13 | | Assignments unless the
Presiding Officer
determines that the | 14 | | resolution is a death resolution and
orders that the
resolution | 15 | | be placed on the
Resolutions Consent Calendar. Resolutions | 16 | | determined by the Committee on Assignments to
be of a | 17 | | non-substantive, commemorative, or congratulatory nature shall | 18 | | be
returned to the principal sponsor for action pursuant to | 19 | | Rule 6-4. No
resolution may be placed on the
Resolutions
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| 1 | | Consent Calendar if any member objects.
| 2 | | (b) All messages from the Governor or any other executive | 3 | | branch
Constitutional Officer or other appointing authority | 4 | | regarding appointments that require confirmation by the
Senate | 5 | | shall, after having been initially read by the Secretary,
| 6 | | automatically be referred to the Executive Appointments | 7 | | Committee on Assignments .
| 8 | | (c) All executive reorganization orders of the Governor | 9 | | issued pursuant to
Article V, Section 11 of the Constitution, | 10 | | after being read into the
record by the Secretary, shall | 11 | | automatically be referred to the Committee on Assignments
for
| 12 | | its referral to a committee, the latter of which may issue a
| 13 | | recommendation to the Senate with respect to the executive | 14 | | order.
The Senate may disapprove of any executive order only by | 15 | | resolution
adopted by a majority of those elected; no such | 16 | | resolution is in order
until a committee has reported to the | 17 | | Senate on the executive
reorganization, or until the executive | 18 | | order has been discharged pursuant to
Rule 7-9.
| 19 | | (Source: S.R. 2, 100th G.A.)
| 20 | | (Senate Rule 3-9)
| 21 | | 3-9. Re-Referrals to the Committee on Assignments.
| 22 | | (a) All legislative
measures, with the exception of | 23 | | resolutions to amend the State Constitution and Legislative |
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| 1 | | Petitions ,
that have
failed to meet the applicable deadline | 2 | | established in accordance with Rule 2-10
for reporting to the | 3 | | Senate by a standing committee shall automatically be
| 4 | | re-referred to the Committee on Assignments unless: (i) the | 5 | | deadline has been
suspended
pursuant to Rule 7-17, with | 6 | | re-referral to the Committee on Assignments to occur if the
| 7 | | bill has not been reported to the Senate in accordance with the | 8 | | revised
deadline; or (ii) the Committee on Assignments has | 9 | | issued a written exception to the
Secretary with respect to a | 10 | | particular bill prior to the reporting deadline,
with | 11 | | re-referral to occur, if at all, in accordance with the written
| 12 | | exception. Should the President in accordance with Rule 2-10 | 13 | | establish
deadlines for action on joint action motions or | 14 | | conference
committee reports, the foregoing re-referral
| 15 | | provisions and exceptions shall apply with respect to those | 16 | | legislative
measures
that fail to meet those deadlines.
| 17 | | (b) All legislative measures, with the exception of | 18 | | resolutions to amend the
State Constitution and Appointment | 19 | | Messages, pending before the Senate or any of its committees | 20 | | shall
automatically be re-referred to the Committee on | 21 | | Assignments on the 31st consecutive day
that the Senate has not | 22 | | convened for session unless: (i) this Rule has been
suspended | 23 | | in accordance with Rule 7-17; or (ii) the Committee on | 24 | | Assignments has issued
a written exception to the Secretary | 25 | | prior to that 31st day.
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| 1 | | (Source: S.R. 2, 100th G.A.) | 2 | | 3-14. (Blank). | 3 | | (Source: S.R. 2, 100th G.A.) | 4 | | 3-15. (Blank). | 5 | | (Source: S.R. 2, 100th G.A.)
| 6 | | (Senate Rule 5-1)
| 7 | | 5-1. Bills.
| 8 | | (a) A bill may be introduced in the Senate by sponsorship
| 9 | | of one or more members of the Senate, whose names shall be on | 10 | | the printed
copies of the bills, in the Senate Journal, and in | 11 | | the Legislative Digest. The
principal sponsor shall be the | 12 | | first name to appear on the bill and may be
joined by no more | 13 | | than four chief cosponsors with the approval of the
principal | 14 | | sponsor; other cosponsors shall be separated from the principal
| 15 | | sponsor and any chief cosponsors by a comma. By motion, the | 16 | | sponsorship of a
bill may be changed to that of another Senator | 17 | | (or Senators, as the case may
be), or to that of the standing | 18 | | committee to which the bill was referred or
from which the bill | 19 | | was reported. Such a motion may be made at any time the
bill is | 20 | | pending before the Senate or any of its committees. If the | 21 | | principal sponsor of a measure still pending before the General | 22 | | Assembly ceases to be a member of the Senate, sponsorship of | 23 | | such pending measures shall be automatically transferred to the |
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| 1 | | leader of that former member's party or the party with which | 2 | | the former member caucused, either the President or Minority | 3 | | Leader. If the principal sponsor is not a member of either the | 4 | | President or Minority Leader's party, then the sponsorship | 5 | | shall be transferred to the President.
| 6 | | (b) The principal sponsor of a bill shall control the bill | 7 | | and may allow a chief cosponsor (i) to present the bill on | 8 | | Third Reading with written approval or (ii) to move the bill | 9 | | from Second Reading to Third Reading. A
committee-sponsored | 10 | | bill shall be controlled by the Chairperson of the
committee, | 11 | | who for purposes of these Senate Rules shall be deemed the | 12 | | principal
sponsor. Committee-sponsored bills may not have | 13 | | individual cosponsors.
| 14 | | (c) (1) The House sponsor of a bill originating in the | 15 | | House may request
substitute
Senate sponsorship of that bill by | 16 | | filing a notice with the Secretary; that
notice shall | 17 | | automatically be referred to the Committee on Assignments and | 18 | | deemed
adopted if approved by the Committee on Assignments. | 19 | | (2) The notice shall include the bill number, the name of | 20 | | the Senate chief sponsor to be substituted, the signature of | 21 | | the House sponsor, the signature of the substitute Senate chief | 22 | | sponsor, and a statement that the original Senate sponsor was | 23 | | provided with notice of intent to request a substitute Senate |
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| 1 | | sponsor. | 2 | | (3) The Committee on Assignments shall act on any notice | 3 | | within three session days (excluding perfunctory session | 4 | | days). If the Committee on Assignments fails to act on that | 5 | | notice within three session days, then the notice shall be | 6 | | deemed approved and the Senate sponsorship of the House Bill | 7 | | will be substituted pursuant to the notice. The President of | 8 | | the Senate may suspend in writing the operation of the three | 9 | | session day automatic approval process set forth under this | 10 | | subsection (c) if the President determines that the Rules | 11 | | Committee of the House of Representatives has failed to act on | 12 | | any Senator's request to substitute House sponsorship of a | 13 | | Senate Bill.
| 14 | | (d) All bills introduced in the Senate shall be read by | 15 | | title a first time,
ordered printed, and automatically referred | 16 | | to the Committee on Assignments in
accordance with Rule 3-8. | 17 | | When a House Bill is received, it shall be taken up,
ordered | 18 | | printed, and placed on the order of House Bills on First
| 19 | | Reading; after having been read a first time, it shall | 20 | | automatically
be referred to the Committee on Assignments in | 21 | | accordance with Rule 3-8.
| 22 | | (e) A bill shall be introduced by filing six copies with | 23 | | the Secretary All bills introduced into the Senate shall be |
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| 1 | | accompanied by six
copies .
Any bill that amends a statute shall | 2 | | indicate the particular changes in the
following manner:
| 3 | | (1) All new matter shall be underscored.
| 4 | | (2) All matter that is to be omitted or superseded | 5 | | shall be shown crossed
with a line.
| 6 | | (f) No bill shall be passed by the Senate except on a roll | 7 | | call vote of a
majority of those elected. A bill that has lost | 8 | | and has not been reconsidered
may not thereafter be revived.
| 9 | | (Source: S.R. 2, 100th G.A.)
| 10 | | (Senate Rule 5-4)
| 11 | | 5-4. Amendments.
| 12 | | (a) An amendment to a bill may be adopted either by a
| 13 | | standing committee when the bill is before that committee, or | 14 | | by the Senate
when a bill is on the order of Second
Reading. | 15 | | The former shall be known as a "committee amendment" and the | 16 | | latter
as a "floor amendment". All amendments must be in | 17 | | writing. All amendments
still pending in a committee upon the | 18 | | passage or defeat of a bill on Third
Reading shall | 19 | | automatically be tabled.
| 20 | | (b) Committee amendments may only be offered by the | 21 | | principal sponsor or a
member of the
committee while the |
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| 1 | | affected bill is before the committee, and shall be
adopted by | 2 | | a majority of those appointed. Floor amendments may only be
| 3 | | offered by a Senator while the bill is on the order of Second
| 4 | | Reading, and shall be adopted by a majority vote of the Senate. | 5 | | An amendment
may be the subject of a motion to "do adopt" or | 6 | | "do not adopt", and may only be
adopted pursuant to a | 7 | | successful motion to "do adopt".
| 8 | | (c) Committee amendments and
floor amendments shall be | 9 | | filed with the Secretary, and shall
be in order only when six | 10 | | eight copies have been filed.
The Secretary shall provide | 11 | | copies of committee amendments to the Chairperson
and Minority | 12 | | Spokesperson of the appropriate committee as soon as | 13 | | practicable , such copies may be made available electronically .
| 14 | | (d) The Secretary shall have printed all adopted committee | 15 | | amendments that
come before
the Senate pursuant to Rule 3-12. | 16 | | The Secretary shall also have
printed all
adopted floor | 17 | | amendments. No floor amendment may be adopted by the
Senate | 18 | | unless it has been first reproduced and placed on the members' | 19 | | desks or made available electronically.
| 20 | | (e) No floor or committee amendment shall be in order | 21 | | unless approved or
referred by the
Committee on Assignments in | 22 | | accordance with Rule 3-8 or brought before the Senate pursuant | 23 | | to
Rule 7-9.
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| 1 | | (f) Amendments that propose to alter any existing law shall | 2 | | set forth
completely the statutory Sections amended, and shall | 3 | | conform to the
requirements of Rule 5-1(e).
| 4 | | (g) If a committee reports a bill "do pass as amended", the | 5 | | committee
amendments shall be deemed adopted by the committee | 6 | | action and shall be
reproduced and placed on the members' desks | 7 | | or made available electronically before the bill may be read a
| 8 | | second time.
| 9 | | (Source: S.R. 2, 100th G.A.) | 10 | | 5-7. (Blank). | 11 | | (Source: S.R. 2, 100th G.A.)
| 12 | | (Senate Rule 6-1)
| 13 | | 6-1. Resolutions.
| 14 | | (a) A resolution shall be introduced in the Senate
by
| 15 | | sponsorship of one or more members of the Senate, and the names | 16 | | of all sponsors
shall be printed in the Senate Journal and in | 17 | | the Legislative Digest. Each
resolution , except for a death | 18 | | resolution, introduced shall be introduced by filing six | 19 | | accompanied by eight copies ; each death resolution shall be | 20 | | introduced by filing three copies .
| 21 | | (b) Any resolution calling for the expenditure of State |
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| 1 | | funds may be
adopted only by a roll call vote of a majority of | 2 | | those elected.
| 3 | | (c) The Secretary shall periodically print a Resolutions | 4 | | Consent Calendar , the Secretary may provide the Resolutions | 5 | | Consent Calendar electronically ,
which the Secretary shall | 6 | | periodically distribute prior to its consideration by
the | 7 | | Senate (generally the last
daily session of the week). No | 8 | | debate is in order regarding any
resolution appearing on the | 9 | | Resolutions Consent Calendar. All resolutions
appearing on the | 10 | | Resolutions Consent Calendar may be adopted in one motion;
| 11 | | however, any Senator may vote "no" or "present" on any | 12 | | resolution appearing on
the Resolutions Consent Calendar by | 13 | | providing written notice of that intention
to the Secretary | 14 | | prior to the vote on the Resolutions Consent Calendar. Prior
to | 15 | | the adoption of any resolution on the Resolutions Consent | 16 | | Calendar, if any
three members file with the Secretary a | 17 | | written objection to the presence of a
resolution thereon, that | 18 | | resolution shall be removed from the Resolutions
Consent | 19 | | Calendar and is automatically referred to the Committee on | 20 | | Assignments.
| 21 | | (Source: S.R. 2, 100th G.A.)
| 22 | | (Senate Rule 9-1)
| 23 | | 9-1. Recording of Vetoes. Upon the receipt by the Senate of | 24 | | any bill
returned by the Governor under any of the provisions |
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| 1 | | of Article IV, Section 9
of the Constitution, the Secretary | 2 | | shall enter the objections of the Governor
on the Journal, and | 3 | | shall distribute copies of all veto messages to each
member's | 4 | | desk, together with copies of the vetoed bill or item, as soon | 5 | | as
practicable. Such copies may be made available | 6 | | electronically.
| 7 | | (Source: S.R. 2, 100th G.A.) | 8 | | (Senate Rule 10-2) | 9 | | 10-2. Appointment Messages. | 10 | | (a) Every nomination subject to the advice and consent of | 11 | | the Senate
shall be submitted to the Senate by an Appointment | 12 | | Message from
the appointing officer or appointing authority in | 13 | | accordance
with this Rule, using the Appointment Message form | 14 | | provided
in this Rule, containing all of the required | 15 | | information, and
accompanied by a cover letter signed by the | 16 | | appointing officer
or on behalf of the appointing authority. | 17 | | (b) All Appointment Messages shall be drafted by the
| 18 | | Legislative Reference Bureau, according to the form provided
in | 19 | | this Rule. | 20 | | (c) Appointment Messages submitted shall be assigned a
| 21 | | sequential number by the Secretary of the Senate, indicating
| 22 | | the order in which they were received and read into the Senate
| 23 | | record by the Secretary of the Senate at the direction of the
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| 1 | | President of the Senate. An Appointment Message is received by | 2 | | the
Senate when it is read into the Senate record and assigned | 3 | | a
sequential number. A perfunctory session day shall not be | 4 | | deemed to be a session day for the purpose of Article V, | 5 | | Section 9, subsection (a) of the Illinois Constitution. | 6 | | (d) An Appointment Message that does not conform to the
| 7 | | requirements of this Rule shall, at the direction of the | 8 | | President of the Senate, (i) be ruled non-compliant and of no | 9 | | legal effect and (ii) be returned by the Secretary of the | 10 | | Senate to the
appointing officer or authority that filed it. | 11 | | (e) The appointing officer or authority may file in
| 12 | | accordance with this Rule an Appointment Message that
| 13 | | supersedes a previously filed Appointment Message. A
| 14 | | superseding Appointment Message shall identify by sequential | 15 | | number the
Appointment Message that it supersedes. The filing | 16 | | of a
superseding Appointment Message shall automatically table | 17 | | the
Appointment Message that it supersedes, and that superseded | 18 | | Appointment Message shall
have no further legal effect. The | 19 | | filing of a
superseding Appointment Message shall not have the | 20 | | effect of restarting the 60 session day period within which the | 21 | | Senate must confirm or reject the appointee under Article V, | 22 | | Section 9, subsection (a) of the Illinois Constitution, Senate | 23 | | Rule 10-1, or any applicable law. |
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| 1 | | (f) Nothing in this Rule shall be construed to prohibit an | 2 | | appointing officer or authority from withdrawing in writing an | 3 | | Appointment Message that was previously submitted to or | 4 | | received by the Senate. An Appointment Message that has been | 5 | | withdrawn shall have no further legal effect. The filing of an | 6 | | Appointment Message appointing the same person to the same | 7 | | office and for a term ending on the same date as that of an | 8 | | Appointment Message that was previously filed and later | 9 | | withdrawn shall not have the effect of restarting the 60 | 10 | | session day period within which the Senate must confirm or | 11 | | reject the appointee under Article V, Section 9, subsection (a) | 12 | | of the Illinois Constitution, Senate Rule 10-1, or any | 13 | | applicable law. | 14 | | (g) An Appointment Message (i) shall be a | 15 | | committee-sponsored
legislative measure that is unamendable | 16 | | and (ii) shall be
controlled by the Chairperson of the | 17 | | Executive Appointments
Committee, who for purposes of these | 18 | | Senate Rules shall be
deemed the principal sponsor. In the | 19 | | absence of the
Chairperson, the Vice-Chairperson of the | 20 | | Executive
Appointments Committee shall be deemed the principal | 21 | | sponsor.
Messages may not have individual cosponsors. | 22 | | (h) Any Appointment Message pending when the Senate
| 23 | | adjourns sine die (i) shall carry over into the next General | 24 | | Assembly and (ii) shall be considered to have been received by |
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| 1 | | the Senate when originally read into the Senate record as | 2 | | provided for in subsection (c) of this Rule. An Appointment | 3 | | Message carrying over into the next General Assembly shall | 4 | | retain the sequential number assigned when originally read into | 5 | | the Senate record as provided for in subsection (c) of this | 6 | | Rule. | 7 | | (i) Form. | 8 | | APPOINTMENT MESSAGE | 9 | | To the Honorable Members of the Senate, One Hundredth | 10 | | Ninety-Ninth General Assembly: | 11 | | (I, (Name and Title of Appointing Officer), am)/(The (Name of | 12 | | the Appointing Authority) is) nominating and, by and with the | 13 | | advice and consent of the Senate, appointing the following | 14 | | named individual to the office enumerated below. The advice and | 15 | | consent of this Honorable Body is respectfully requested. | 16 | | Title of Office: (Insert Title and Position) | 17 | | Agency or Other Body: (Name of Agency, Board, Commission, or | 18 | | other Body to Which Nomination is Being Made) |
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| 1 | | Start Date: (Insert Start Date) | 2 | | End Date: (Insert End Date or Specify "Not Applicable") | 3 | | Name: (Name of Nominee) | 4 | | Residence: (Residential Address of Nominee) | 5 | | Annual Compensation: (Insert Dollar Amount or Specify | 6 | | "Unsalaried") | 7 | | Per diem: (Insert Dollar Amount or Specify "Not Applicable") | 8 | | Nominee's Senator: Senator (Name of Senator in whose District | 9 | | the Nominee Resides)
| 10 | | Most Recent Holder of Office: (Insert Name or Specify "New | 11 | | Position") | 12 | | Superseded Appointment Message: (Insert Sequence Number of | 13 | | Superseded Message or Specify "Not Applicable") | 14 | | (Source: S.R. 2, 100th G.A.)
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