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 1                       HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION
 2                      CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT

 3        RESOLVED,   BY   THE  HOUSE  OF  REPRESENTATIVES  OF  THE
 4    NINETY-SECOND 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 Section  8
 9    of Article IV of the Illinois Constitution as follows:

10                             ARTICLE IV
11                           THE LEGISLATURE

12         (ILCON Art. IV, Sec. 8)
13    SECTION 8. PASSAGE OF BILLS
14        (a)  The  enacting clause of the laws of this State shall
15    be: "Be it enacted by the People of the  State  of  Illinois,
16    represented in the General Assembly."
17        (b)  The  General Assembly shall enact laws only by bill.
18    Bills may originate in either house, but may  be  amended  or
19    rejected by the other.
20        (c)  No  bill  shall become a law without the concurrence
21    of a majority of the members elected  to  each  house.  Final
22    passage  of  a bill shall be by record vote. In the Senate at
23    the request of two members, and in the House at  the  request
24    of  five  members,  a  record  vote may be taken on any other
25    occasion. A record vote is a vote by yeas and nays entered on
26    the journal.
27        (d)  A bill shall be read by  title  on  three  different
28    days  in  each house. A bill and each amendment thereto shall
29    be reproduced and placed on the desk of  each  member  before
30    final passage.
31        Bills,  except  bills  for  appropriations  and  for  the
32    codification,  revision  or  rearrangement  of laws, shall be
 
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 1    confined to one subject. Appropriation bills shall be limited
 2    to the subject of appropriations.
 3        A  bill  expressly  amending  a  law  shall   set   forth
 4    completely the sections amended.
 5        The  Speaker  of  the  House  of  Representatives and the
 6    President of the Senate shall sign each bill that passes both
 7    houses  to  certify  that  the  procedural  requirements  for
 8    passage have been met.
 9        (e)  An action alleging that  a  Public  Act  is  invalid
10    because  it  violates  the requirement in subsection (d) that
11    bills,  except  bills  for   appropriations   and   for   the
12    codification,  revision,  or  rearrangement of laws, shall be
13    confined to one subject must  be  commenced  within  3  years
14    after  the effective date of the Public Act.  If a Public Act
15    has  more  than  one  effective  date,  the  action  must  be
16    commenced within 3 years after the earliest effective date in
17    the Public Act.
18        This subsection applies to Public Acts that  take  effect
19    on or after January 1, 2003.
20    (Source: Illinois Constitution.)

21                              SCHEDULE
22        This  Constitutional  Amendment  takes  effect upon being
23    declared adopted in accordance with Section 7 of the Illinois
24    Constitutional Amendment Act.

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