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 1                    AMENDMENT TO SENATE BILL 200
 2        AMENDMENT NO.     .  Amend Senate Bill  200  on  page  1,
 3    line 6, by inserting "2A-54," after "2A-52,"; and
 4    on page 13, by inserting below line 14 the following:
 5        "(10 ILCS 5/2A-54) (from Ch. 46, par. 2A-54)
 6        Sec.  2A-54.  In  those cases in which the election to an
 7    office is changed by the consolidation  of  elections  to  an
 8    earlier  or  later  month  in the same year or to a different
 9    year, the term of any incumbent serving on December  1,  1980
10    is  extended to the first Monday in the first month following
11    the election of his successor and  until  the  successor  has
12    qualified,  and  the  term  of  the successor in office shall
13    commence on that first Monday.
14        The term of office of a person elected at  a  nonpartisan
15    election  whose term begins before the effective date of this
16    amendatory Act of 1997 shall expire on the date that  his  or
17    her  term  would have expired had this amendatory Act of 1997
18    not been enacted.  The term of office of a person elected  at
19    a  consolidated  election held on or after the effective date
20    of this amendatory Act of 1997 to succeed to a term of office
21    of a person elected at a  nonpartisan  election  shall  begin
22    upon the termination of the predecessor's term of office. The
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 1    term  of  office  of a person elected to succeed to a term of
 2    office of a person elected at a  nonpartisan  election  shall
 3    end after the next consolidated election at which a successor
 4    is elected and at the regularly scheduled time for the ending
 5    of terms of office as provided in the Act or Acts creating or
 6    governing that unit of local government or school district.
 7        However,  this  general  provision  for the transition of
 8    terms of office in relation to  the  adoption  of  a  uniform
 9    schedule  of  elections  shall  be  subject  to  the specific
10    provisions for the transition  of  terms  of  office  in  the
11    several  Acts  creating  or governing the creation of various
12    units of local government and school districts, as amended.
13    (Source: P.A. 81-1433.)"; and
14    on page  20,  by  inserting  between  lines  30  and  31  the
15    following:
16        "Section  6.  The Springfield Metropolitan Exposition and
17    Auditorium Authority Act is amended by changing Section 17 as
18    follows:
19        (70 ILCS 345/17) (from Ch. 85, par. 1267)
20        Sec. 17.  As  soon  as  practicably  possible  after  the
21    appointment of the initial members and, thereafter, within 15
22    days  of  each  election of members, the Board shall organize
23    for  the  transaction  of  business,   select   a   chairman,
24    vice-chairman, and a temporary secretary from its own number,
25    and  adopt by-laws and regulations to govern its proceedings.
26    The initial chairman and his successors shall be  elected  by
27    the  Board  from time to time for the term of his office as a
28    member of the Board.     Terms  of  members  are  subject  to
29    Section 2A-54 of the Election Code.
30    (Source: P.A. 79-529.)"; and
31    on  page 20, line 32, by changing "Section 4.02" to "Sections
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 1    4.02 and 4a"; and
 2    on page 22, by inserting below line 7 the following:
 3        "(70 ILCS 705/4a) (from Ch. 127 1/2, par. 24.1)
 4        Sec. 4a.  Any fire protection  district  organized  under
 5    this  Act  may  determine,  in  either manner provided in the
 6    following items (1) and (2)  of  this  Section,  to  have  an
 7    elected, rather than an appointed, board of trustees.
 8             (1)  If  the  district  lies  wholly within a single
 9        township  but  does  not  also  lie   wholly   within   a
10        municipality,   the   township   board  of  trustees  may
11        determine, by ordinance, to  have  an  elected  board  of
12        trustees.
13             (2)  Upon presentation to the board of trustees of a
14        petition,  signed by not less than 10% of the electors of
15        the district,  requesting  that  a  proposition  for  the
16        election  of trustees be submitted to the electors of the
17        district, the secretary of the board  of  trustees  shall
18        certify  the  proposition  to  the  appropriate  election
19        authorities who shall submit the proposition at a regular
20        election  in  accordance  with  the general election law.
21        The general election law shall apply to and  govern  such
22        election.   The proposition shall be in substantially the
23        following form:
24    -------------------------------------------------------------
25             Shall the trustees of......       YES
26             Fire Protection District be     --------------------
27             elected, rather than appointed?   NO
28    -------------------------------------------------------------
29             If a majority of the votes cast on such  proposition
30        are  in  the  affirmative,  the  trustees of the district
31        shall thereafter be elected as provided by this Section.
32        At the next regular election for trustees as provided  by
33    the  general  election  law,  a district that has approved by
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 1    ordinance or referendum to have its trustees  elected  rather
 2    than appointed shall elect 3, 5, or 7 trustees, as previously
 3    determined   by  the  organization  of  the  district  or  as
 4    increased under Section 4.01 or 4.02.   The  initial  elected
 5    trustees  shall  be elected for 2, 4, and 6 year terms.  In a
 6    district with 3 trustees, one trustee shall be elected for  a
 7    term  of  2  years,  one for a term of 4 years, and one for a
 8    term of 6 years.  In a district with 5 trustees,  2 shall  be
 9    elected for terms of 2 years, 2 for terms of 4 years, and one
10    for  a  term  of  6  years.  In a district with 7 trustees, 3
11    shall be elected for terms of 2  years,  2  for  terms  of  4
12    years,  and  2  for  terms  of  6  years. Except as otherwise
13    provided in Section 2A-54 of the Election Code, the  term  of
14    each  elected  trustee  shall commence on the first Monday of
15    the month following the month of his election and  until  his
16    successor  is elected and qualified.  The length of the terms
17    of the trustees first elected shall be determined by  lot  at
18    their first meeting.  Except as otherwise provided in Section
19    2A-54 of the Election Code, thereafter, each trustee shall be
20    elected  to  serve  for  a  term of 6 years commencing on the
21    first Monday of the month following the month of his election
22    and until his successor is elected and qualified.
23        No party designation  shall  appear  on  the  ballot  for
24    election  of trustees. The provisions of the general election
25    law shall apply to and govern the nomination and election  of
26    trustees.
27        The  provisions  of  Section  4  relating to eligibility,
28    powers and disabilities of trustees shall  apply  equally  to
29    elected trustees.
30        Whenever  a  fire protection district determines to elect
31    trustees as provided in this Section, the trustees  appointed
32    pursuant  to Section 4 shall continue to constitute the board
33    of trustees until the first Monday of the month following the
34    month of the first election of trustees.    If  the  term  of
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 1    office  of  any  appointed  trustees expires before the first
 2    election of trustees,  the  authority  which  appointed  that
 3    trustee under Section 4 of this Act shall appoint a successor
 4    to serve until a successor is elected and has qualified.  The
 5    terms of all appointed trustees in such district shall expire
 6    on  the  first Monday of the month following the month of the
 7    first  election  of  trustees  under  this  Section  or  when
 8    successors have been elected and  have  qualified,  whichever
 9    occurs later.
10    (Source: P.A. 88-440.)
11        Section  11.  The  School  Code  is  amended  by changing
12    Sections 6-17, 10-5, and 10-10 as follows:
13        (105 ILCS 5/6-17) (from Ch. 122, par. 6-17)
14        Sec. 6-17. Election of  president  -  Terms  of  members.
15    Except as otherwise provided in Section 2A-54 of the Election
16    Code, on the first Monday in May January, following the first
17    election,  or if such day is a holiday then the next day, the
18    regional  superintendent  of  schools  who   shall   be   the
19    ex-officio  secretary  of  the  board shall convene the newly
20    elected regional board of school trustees for the purpose  of
21    organization.   Except  as  provided  in Section 2A-54 of the
22    Election Code, at this meeting the members shall     elect  a
23    president   from  among  their  number  who  shall  serve  as
24    president for a term of 2 years and shall  determine  by  lot
25    the  length  of the term of each member so that 2 shall serve
26    for a term of 2 years, 2 for 4 years and 3 for 6  years  from
27    the  first  Monday  of  the month following the date of their
28    election. Except as provided in Section 2A-54 of the Election
29    Code, thereafter members shall be elected to serve for a term
30    of 6 years from the first Monday of the month  following  the
31    date  of their election or until their successors are elected
32    and qualified.
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 1        All succeeding meetings for the purpose  of  organization
 2    shall  be  held  on the first Monday in May January following
 3    the election; however,  in  case  the  first  Monday  in  May
 4    January  is  a holiday the organization meeting shall be held
 5    on the next day.
 6        If educational service  regions  are  consolidated  under
 7    Section 3A-3 or 3A-4 of this Act, however, the expiring terms
 8    of members of each regional board of school trustees in those
 9    regions  being  consolidated  shall  be    extended  so as to
10    terminate on the first Monday of  August  of  the  year  that
11    consolidation  takes  effect,  as  defined in Section 3A-5 of
12    this Act, and, on such day, the  Regional  Superintendent  of
13    the consolidated region shall convene all the members of each
14    regional board of school trustees in the consolidated region,
15    and  shall  by lot select from among such trustees an interim
16    regional board of school trustees for the consolidated region
17    in accord  with  the  specifications  as  to  membership  and
18    residency  in  Section  6-2.   The  interim board so selected
19    shall  serve  until  their  successors  are  elected  at  the
20    succeeding regular election of regional school  trustees  and
21    have  qualified.  A  single regional board of school trustees
22    shall be elected at such succeeding regular election to  take
23    office  on  the  first  Monday  of  the  month following such
24    election.  The board  elected  for  the  consolidated  region
25    shall be convened on such first Monday of the month following
26    such   election  for  organizational  purposes,  to  elect  a
27    president and determine terms  for  its  members  by  lot  as
28    provided  in  this Section. The respective regional boards of
29    school trustees of educational service  regions  involved  in
30    consolidations  under  Section  3A-3  or  3A-4 shall cease to
31    exist at the time the  board  elected  for  the  consolidated
32    region is so organized.
33    (Source: P.A. 80-231; 80-1469; 80-1494.)
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 1        (105 ILCS 5/10-5) (from Ch. 122, par. 10-5)
 2        Sec.  10-5.  Organization  of board - Report to treasurer
 3    and regional superintendent of schools. Within 7  days  after
 4    the  regular  election of directors, the directors shall meet
 5    and organize by appointing one of their number president  and
 6    another  as  clerk.  The  clerk  shall  at once report to the
 7    treasurer and regional superintendent of schools the names of
 8    the president and clerk so appointed. Terms  of  members  are
 9    subject to Section 2A-54 of the Election Code.
10    (Source: P.A. 81-1490.)
11        (105 ILCS 5/10-10) (from Ch. 122, par. 10-10)
12        Sec.  10-10.  Board  of education - Term - Vacancy.   All
13    school districts having a population of not fewer than  1,000
14    and  not more than 500,000 inhabitants, as ascertained by any
15    special or general census, and not governed by special  Acts,
16    shall  be  governed  by  a board of education consisting of 7
17    members,  serving  without  compensation  except  as   herein
18    provided.   Each  member  shall  be  elected  for a term of 4
19    years.  If 5 members are elected  in  1983  pursuant  to  the
20    extension  of  terms  provided  by  law for transition to the
21    consolidated election schedule  under  the  general  election
22    law,  2 of those members shall be elected to serve terms of 2
23    years and 3 shall be elected to serve terms of 4 years; their
24    successors shall serve for a 4 year term.  When the voters of
25    a district have voted  to  elect  members  of  the  board  of
26    education  for  6 year terms, as provided in Section 9-5, the
27    terms of office of members of the board of education of  that
28    district  expire  when their successors assume office but not
29    later than 7 days after such  election.  If  at  the  regular
30    school election held in the first odd-numbered year after the
31    determination to elect members for 6 year terms 2 members are
32    elected,  they  shall  serve  for  a  6 year term; and of the
33    members elected at the next regular school election  3  shall
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 1    serve  for  a  term  of 6 years and 2 shall serve a term of 2
 2    years.  Thereafter members elected in such districts shall be
 3    elected to a 6 year term.  If at the regular school  election
 4    held  in  the first odd-numbered year after the determination
 5    to elect members for 6 year terms 3 members are elected, they
 6    shall serve for a 6 year term; and of the members elected  at
 7    the  next regular school election 2 shall serve for a term of
 8    2 years and 2 shall serve for a term of 6 years.   Thereafter
 9    members  elected  in  such  districts shall be elected to a 6
10    year term.  If at the regular school  election  held  in  the
11    first  odd-numbered  year  after  the  determination to elect
12    members for 6 year terms 4 members are elected, 3 shall serve
13    for a term of 6 years and one shall serve for  a  term  of  2
14    years;  and of the members elected at the next regular school
15    election 2 shall serve for terms of 6 years and 2 shall serve
16    for terms of 2 years.  Thereafter  members  elected  in  such
17    districts  shall  be  elected  to  a  6 year term.  If at the
18    regular school election held in the first  odd-numbered  year
19    after  the determination to elect members for a 6 year term 5
20    members are elected, 3 shall serve for a term of 6 years  and
21    2  shall  serve  for  a  term  of 2 years; and of the members
22    elected at the next regular school election 2 shall serve for
23    terms of 6 years and 2 shall serve  for  terms  of  2  years.
24    Thereafter members elected in such districts shall be elected
25    to a 6 year term.  An Election for board members shall not be
26    held  in  school districts which by consolidation, annexation
27    or otherwise shall cease to exist as a school district within
28    six months after the election date, and the term of all board
29    members which would otherwise terminate  shall  be  continued
30    until  such district shall cease to exist. Each member shall,
31    on the date of his election,  be  a  citizen  of  the  United
32    States  of  the  age  of  18 years or over, a resident of the
33    state and the territory of the district for at least one year
34    immediately preceding his election,  a  registered  voter  as
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 1    provided  in  the  general  election  law, and shall not be a
 2    school trustee or a school  treasurer.   When  the  board  of
 3    education  is  the  successor  of  the  school directors, all
 4    rights of property, and all rights regarding causes of action
 5    existing or vested in such directors, shall  vest  in  it  as
 6    fully  as they were vested in the school directors.  Terms of
 7    members are subject to Section 2A-54 of the Election Code.
 8        Nomination papers filed under this Section are not  valid
 9    unless  the  candidate named therein files with the secretary
10    of the board of education or with a person designated by  the
11    board  to  receive  nominating  petitions  a receipt from the
12    county clerk showing that the candidate has filed a statement
13    of  economic  interests   as   required   by   the   Illinois
14    Governmental  Ethics  Act.    Such  receipt shall be so filed
15    either previously during  the  calendar  year  in  which  his
16    nomination  papers  were  filed  or within the period for the
17    filing of nomination papers in accordance  with  the  general
18    election law.
19        Whenever  a  vacancy  occurs, the remaining members shall
20    notify the regional superintendent of that vacancy  within  5
21    days  after  its  occurrence  and  shall  proceed to fill the
22    vacancy until the next  regular  school  election,  at  which
23    election  a successor shall be elected to serve the remainder
24    of the unexpired term.  However, if the vacancy  occurs  with
25    less  than  868 days remaining in the term, or if the vacancy
26    occurs less than 88 days before the next regularly  scheduled
27    election  for  this office then the person so appointed shall
28    serve the remainder of the unexpired term, and no election to
29    fill the vacancy shall be held. Should they fail so  to  act,
30    within  45  days  after  the  vacancy  occurs,  the  regional
31    superintendent of schools under whose supervision and control
32    the  district  is  operating, as defined in Section 3-14.2 of
33    this Act, shall within 30 days after  the  remaining  members
34    have failed to fill the vacancy, fill the vacancy as provided
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 1    for  herein.  Upon  the  regional superintendent's failure to
 2    fill the vacancy, the vacancy shall be  filled  at  the  next
 3    regularly  scheduled  election.  Whether elected or appointed
 4    by the remaining  members  or  regional  superintendent,  the
 5    successor  shall be an inhabitant of the particular area from
 6    which his or her predecessor was elected if  the  residential
 7    requirements  contained  in  Section 11A-8, 11B-7, or 12-2 of
 8    this Act apply.
 9    (Source: P.A. 89-129, eff. 7-14-95; 89-579, eff.  7-30-96.)";
10    and
11    on  page  22,  line  9,  by changing "and 3-7" to ", 3-7, and
12    3-8"; and
13    on page 26, line 14, by changing  "consolidated  nonpartisan"
14    to "nonpartisan"; and
15    on  page  26,  line  20, by inserting the following after the
16    period:
17    "Terms of  members  are  subject  to  Section  2A-54  of  the
18    Election Code."; and
19    on page 31, by inserting below line 14 the following:
20        "(110 ILCS 805/3-8) (from Ch. 122, par. 103-8)
21        Sec.  3-8.  Following  each election and canvass, the new
22    board shall hold its organizational meeting on or before  the
23    14th  day  after the election. If the election is the initial
24    election  ordered  by  the   regional   superintendent,   the
25    organizational  meeting  shall  be  convened  by the regional
26    superintendent, who shall preside over the meeting until  the
27    election  for  chairman, vice chairman and secretary of board
28    is completed.  At  all  other  organizational  meetings,  the
29    chairman  of  the  board,  or,  in  his  or  her absence, the
30    president of the community college or acting chief  executive
31    officer  of  the  college  shall  convene  the new board, and
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 1    conduct  the  election  for  chairman,  vice   chairman   and
 2    secretary.    The   board   shall   then   proceed  with  its
 3    organization under the  newly  elected  board  officers,  and
 4    shall  fix  a  time  and  place for its regular meetings.  It
 5    shall than enter upon the discharge of its duties.  The terms
 6    of board office shall be 2 years, except that  the  board  by
 7    resolution  may establish a policy for the terms of office to
 8    be one year, and provide for the election of officers for the
 9    remaining one year period. Terms of members  are  subject  to
10    Section 2A-54 of the Election Code.
11        Special  meetings  of  the  board  may  be  called by the
12    chairman or by any 3 members of the board  by  giving  notice
13    thereof in writing stating the time, place and purpose of the
14    meeting.  Such  notice  may be served by mail 48 hours before
15    the meeting or  by  personal  service  24  hours  before  the
16    meeting.
17        At  each regular and special meeting which is open to the
18    public, members of the public and employees of the  community
19    college   district   shall   be  afforded  time,  subject  to
20    reasonable constraints, to comment to or ask questions of the
21    board.
22    (Source: P.A. 86-758; 86-1032; 87-707; 87-915.)"; and
23    on page 31, by deleting lines 15 and 16.

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