Full Text of HB5112 95th General Assembly
HB5112 95TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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95TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2007 and 2008 HB5112
Introduced , by Rep. Mike Boland SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED: |
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10 ILCS 5/28-6 |
from Ch. 46, par. 28-6 |
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Amends the Election Code. Makes the minimum petition signature requirement for local public questions 6% of the total votes cast for all gubernatorial candidates at the most recent gubernatorial election by the voters of the political subdivision (now, 8% of such votes with respect to questions at elections in 2008 and, with respect to questions at elections in 2009 and later, 11% of the total ballots cast by voters in the political subdivision at the most recent regular election).
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A BILL FOR
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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 |
| 28-6 as follows:
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| (10 ILCS 5/28-6) (from Ch. 46, par. 28-6)
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| Sec. 28-6. Petitions; filing.
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| (a) On a written petition signed by a number of voters | 9 |
| equal to (i) through the general election in 2008, at least 6%
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| 8% of the total votes cast for candidates for Governor in the | 11 |
| preceding gubernatorial
election by the registered
voters of | 12 |
| the municipality, township, county or school district and (ii) | 13 |
| beginning with elections in 2009 and thereafter, at least 11% | 14 |
| of the total ballots cast by the registered voters of the | 15 |
| municipality, township, county, or school district in the last | 16 |
| regular election conducted in the municipality, township, | 17 |
| county, or school district ,
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shall be
the duty of the proper | 18 |
| election officers to submit any question of
public policy so | 19 |
| petitioned for, to the electors of such political subdivision
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| at any regular election named in the
petition at which an | 21 |
| election is scheduled to be held throughout such political
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| subdivision under Article 2A. Such petitions shall be filed | 23 |
| with the local
election official of the political subdivision
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| or election authority, as the case may be.
Where such a | 2 |
| question is to be submitted to the voters of a municipality
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| which has adopted Article 6, or a township or school district | 4 |
| located
entirely within the jurisdiction of a municipal board | 5 |
| of election
commissioners, such petitions shall be filed with | 6 |
| the board of election
commissioners having jurisdiction over | 7 |
| the political subdivision.
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| (b) In a municipality with more than 1,000,000
inhabitants, | 9 |
| when a question of public policy exclusively concerning
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| contiguous territory included entirely within but not | 11 |
| coextensive with the
municipality is initiated by resolution or | 12 |
| ordinance of the corporate
authorities of the municipality, or | 13 |
| by a petition which may be signed by
registered voters who | 14 |
| reside in any part of any precinct all or part of
which | 15 |
| includes all or part of the territory and who equal in number
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| (i) through the general election in 2008 at least 6% 8% of the | 17 |
| total votes cast for candidates for Governor in the
preceding | 18 |
| gubernatorial election by the voters of
the precinct or | 19 |
| precincts in the territory where the question is to be | 20 |
| submitted to the voters and (ii) beginning with elections in | 21 |
| 2009 and thereafter, at least 11% of the total ballots cast at | 22 |
| the last regular election conducted in the precinct or | 23 |
| precincts in the territory where the question is to be | 24 |
| submitted to the voters , it shall
be the duty of the election | 25 |
| authority having jurisdiction over such
municipality to submit | 26 |
| such question to the electors throughout each
precinct all or |
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| part of which includes all or part of the
territory at the | 2 |
| regular election specified in the resolution, ordinance
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| petition initiating the public question. A petition initiating | 4 |
| a public
question described in this
subsection shall be filed | 5 |
| with the election authority having jurisdiction
over the | 6 |
| municipality. A resolution, ordinance or petition initiating a | 7 |
| public
question described in this subsection shall specify the | 8 |
| election at which
the question is to be submitted.
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| (c) Local questions of public policy authorized by this
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| Section and statewide questions of public policy authorized by | 11 |
| Section 28-9
shall be advisory public questions, and no legal | 12 |
| effects shall result
from the adoption or rejection of such | 13 |
| propositions.
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| (d) This Section does not apply to a petition filed | 15 |
| pursuant to
Article IX of the Liquor Control Act of 1934.
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| (Source: P.A. 95-699, eff. 11-9-07.)
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