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1 HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION
2 CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT
3 RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE
4 NINETY-FIRST GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, THE
5 SENATE CONCURRING HEREIN, that there shall be submitted to
6 the electors of the State for adoption or rejection at the
7 general election next occurring at least 6 months after the
8 adoption of this resolution a proposition to amend Sections 2
9 and 5 of Article IV of the Illinois Constitution as follows:
10 ARTICLE IV
11 THE LEGISLATURE
12 (ILCON Art. IV, Sec. 2)
13 SECTION 2. LEGISLATIVE COMPOSITION
14 (a) One Senator shall be elected from each Legislative
15 District. During each ten-year period, beginning with the
16 general election in 2002, Senators shall first be elected for
17 terms of six years, and then for terms of four years.
18 Immediately following each decennial redistricting, the
19 General Assembly by law shall divide the Legislative
20 Districts as equally as possible into three groups. Senators
21 from one group shall be elected for terms of four years, four
22 years and two years; Senators from the second group, for
23 terms of four years, two years and four years; and Senators
24 from the third group, for terms of two years, four years and
25 four years. The Legislative Districts in each group shall be
26 distributed substantially equally over the State.
27 (b) Each Legislative District shall be divided into two
28 Representative Districts. In 1982 and every two years
29 thereafter One Representative shall be elected from each
30 Representative District for a term of two years. During each
31 ten-year period, beginning with the general election in 2002,
32 Representatives shall first be elected for terms of four
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1 years, then for terms of two years, and then for terms of
2 four years.
3 (c) To be eligible to serve as a member of the General
4 Assembly, a person must be a United States citizen, at least
5 21 years old, and for the two years preceding his election or
6 appointment a resident of the district which he is to
7 represent. In the general election following a
8 redistricting, a candidate for the General Assembly may be
9 elected from any district which contains a part of the
10 district in which he resided at the time of the redistricting
11 and reelected if a resident of the new district he represents
12 for 18 months prior to reelection.
13 (d) Within thirty days after a vacancy occurs, it shall
14 be filled by appointment as provided by law. If the vacancy
15 is in a Senatorial or Representative office with more than
16 twenty-eight months remaining in the term, the appointed
17 Senator or Representative shall serve until the next general
18 election, at which time a Senator or Representative shall be
19 elected to serve for the remainder of the term. If the
20 vacancy is in any other Senatorial or a Representative office
21 or in any other Senatorial office, the appointment shall be
22 for the remainder of the term. An appointee to fill a
23 vacancy shall be a member of the same political party as the
24 person he succeeds.
25 (e) No member of the General Assembly shall receive
26 compensation as a public officer or employee from any other
27 governmental entity for time during which he is in attendance
28 as a member of the General Assembly.
29 No member of the General Assembly during the term for
30 which he was elected or appointed shall be appointed to a
31 public office which shall have been created or the
32 compensation for which shall have been increased by the
33 General Assembly during that term.
34 (Source: Amendment adopted at general election November 4,
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1 1980.)
2 (ILCON Art. IV, Sec. 5)
3 SECTION 5. SESSIONS
4 (a) The General Assembly shall convene each year on the
5 second Wednesday of January. The General Assembly shall be a
6 continuous body for a period beginning and ending at noon on
7 the second Wednesday of January of consecutive odd-numbered
8 years. during the term for which members of the House of
9 Representatives are elected.
10 (b) The Governor may convene the General Assembly or the
11 Senate alone in special session by a proclamation stating the
12 purpose of the session; and only business encompassed by such
13 purpose, together with any impeachments or confirmation of
14 appointments shall be transacted. Special sessions of the
15 General Assembly may also be convened by joint proclamation
16 of the presiding officers of both houses, issued as provided
17 by law.
18 (c) Sessions of each house of the General Assembly and
19 meetings of committees, joint committees and legislative
20 commissions shall be open to the public. Sessions and
21 committee meetings of a house may be closed to the public if
22 two-thirds of the members elected to that house determine
23 that the public interest so requires; and meetings of joint
24 committees and legislative commissions may be so closed if
25 two-thirds of the members elected to each house so determine.
26 (Source: Illinois Constitution.)
27 SCHEDULE
28 This Constitutional Amendment takes effect on January 1,
29 2001 and applies to the election of members of the General
30 Assembly in 2002 and thereafter. It does not affect the
31 terms of members elected in 1998 or 2000.