92nd General Assembly
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Senate Sponsors:
KLEMM-GEO-KARIS.

House Sponsors:
MORROW-DURKIN

Short description: 
ASSOCIATE JUDGES ACT-MINIMUM 5                                             

Synopsis of Bill as introduced:
        Amends the Associate Judges Act. Provides that the minimum number      
   of associate judges authorized for any circuit with a population of at      
   least 173,000 (instead of any circuit with a population  of  at  least      
   173,000 but not more than 177,000) shall be 5. Effective immediately.       
        SENATE AMENDMENT NO. 1.                                                
          Adds reference to:                                                   
          705 ILCS 35/2k new                                                   
        Eliminates the amendatory changes  in  the  bill  as  introduced.      
   Provides  that  the  minimum number of associate judges authorized for      
   the Fifth Judicial Circuit shall be 5.  Amends the Circuit Courts Act.      
   Provides that there shall be 2 additional circuit judges in  the  19th      
   Circuit  who  are  elected  from  Lake County and 2 additional circuit      
   judges in the 19th Circuit who are elected from McHenry County.             
        HOUSE AMENDMENT NO. 1.                                                 
          Deletes reference to:                                                
          705 ILCS 45/2                                                        
        Deletes everything except a Section heading in the Circuit Courts      
   Act.                                                                        
          FISCAL NOTE, H-AM 2 (Administrative Office of Illinois Courts)       
          The cost for judgeships added by the bill is $5,718,867. The         
          additional cost to fill the Eleventh and Twelfth Circuit resi-       
          dent judge positions immediately if $682,730. The cost for all       
          new judicial position for FY 2002 (including the net increase        
          in associate judges resulting from the 2000 census) is               
          $9,455,526. The annual judicial salary costs are based on            
          compensation rates effective July 1, 2001. Employment benefit        
          costs would increase the judicial salary costs by approximately      
          1.45%. The estimated total cost for staff, office space and          
          related expenses for each additional appellate court judge is        
          $289,000.                                                            
        HOUSE AMENDMENT NO. 2.                                                 
          Deletes reference to:                                                
          705 ILCS 35/2k new                                                   
          Adds reference to:                                                   
          705 ILCS 25/1                                                        
          705 ILCS 35/2                                                        
          705 ILCS 35/2f-1 new                                                 
          705 ILCS 35/2f-2 new                                                 
          705 ILCS 35/2f-3 new                                                 
          705 ILCS 35/2f-4 new                                                 
          705 ILCS 40/2                   from Ch. 37, par. 72.42              
          705 ILCS 45/2.5 new                                                  
        Deletes everything.  Amends the Appellate Court Act, the  Circuit      
   Courts  Act, the Judicial Vacancies Act, and the Associate Judges Act.      
   Adds one appellate judge in the fourth district, 2 appellate judges in      
   the second district, and one appellate judge in the fifth district  of      
   the  appellate  court. Adds one associate judge in the fourth judicial      
   circuit and 6 associate judges in the Circuit of Cook County.     Adds      
   one  circuit  judge  in each of the fourteenth and thirteenth judicial      
   circuits.  Adds 2 circuit judges in the seventeenth judicial  circuit.      
   Adds one circuit judge from St. Clair County in the twentieth judicial      
   circuit.   Adds  one  circuit  judge  from Madison County in the third      
   judicial circuit.  Adds 3 circuit judges to the sixteenth circuit, one      
   from each of Kendall, Kane, and  DeKalb  counties.   Adds  15  circuit      
   judges in the Cook County Circuit, one from each subcircuit.  Provides      
   for  appointment to fill these additional appellate, circuit, and Cook      
   County  subcircuit  judgeships  until  filled  at  the  2002   general      
   election.   Provides  that  vacancies in certain previously authorized      
   circuit  judgeships  must  be  filled  immediately  by  Supreme  Court      
   appointment. Adds 3 resident judgeships to the eighteenth circuit  and      
   3  resident  judgeships  to the nineteenth judicial circuit.  Requires      
   that the additional judgeships be filled beginning at the 2004 general      
   election and requires appointments to fill those judgeships before the      
   2004 general election.  In the twelfth judicial  circuit,  converts  3      
   judgeships  to resident judgeships.  Requires that by January 1, 2003,      
   the General Assembly divide the twelfth,  eighteenth,  and  nineteenth      
   circuits  into  subcircuits. Requires that the Supreme Court allot the      
   additional  judgeships,  the  converted  judgeships,  and  the   other      
   resident judgeships, as they become vacant, to the various subcircuits      
   to  be  filled  by  election  until the appropriate number of resident      
   judges is elected from each subcircuit.  In  the  eighteenth  circuit,      
   converts  the  first  vacant  non-resident judgeship into a subcircuit      
   judgeship.  Requires  the  Supreme  Court  to  determine  by  lot  the      
   numerical order of  the  subcircuits  for  the  purpose  of  assigning      
   resident judgeships to subcircuits.  Effective immediately.                 
          JUDICIAL NOTE, H-AM 2 (Office of the Illinois Courts)                
          The bill would increase the number of judges in the State by         
          adding 4 appellate court judges, 31 circuit judges, and 7            
          associate judges.                                                    
          STATE MANDATES NOTE, H-AM 2                                          
          (Department of Commerce and Community Affairs)                       
          In the opinion of DCCA, SB 118 (H-am 2) does not meet the            
          definition of a State mandate under the State Mandates Act.          
 
Last action on Bill: SESSION SINE DIE

   Last action date: JAN-07-2003

           Location: Senate

 Amendments to Bill: AMENDMENTS ADOPTED: HOUSE -   2     SENATE -   1


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