Bill Text: IL HB0044 | 2023-2024 | 103rd General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Amends the Revised Cities and Villages Act of 1941. Changes a requirement that each petition for a nomination for mayor, city clerk, or city treasurer in the City of Chicago must be signed by at least 12,500 legal voters of the City of Chicago to a requirement that at least 2,500 legal voters of the City of Chicago sign each of those petitions.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-04-05 - Rule 19(a) / Re-referred to Rules Committee [HB0044 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2023-HB0044-Introduced.html


103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2023 and 2024
HB0044

Introduced , by Rep. La Shawn K. Ford

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
65 ILCS 20/21-28 from Ch. 24, par. 21-28

Amends the Revised Cities and Villages Act of 1941. Changes a requirement that each petition for a nomination for mayor, city clerk, or city treasurer in the City of Chicago must be signed by at least 12,500 legal voters of the City of Chicago to a requirement that at least 2,500 legal voters of the City of Chicago sign each of those petitions.
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A BILL FOR

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1 AN ACT concerning local government.
2 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3represented in the General Assembly:
4 Section 5. The Revised Cities and Villages Act of 1941 is
5amended by changing Section 21-28 as follows:
6 (65 ILCS 20/21-28) (from Ch. 24, par. 21-28)
7 Sec. 21-28. Nomination by petition.
8 (a) All nominations for alderperson of any ward in the
9city shall be by petition. Each petition for nomination of a
10candidate shall be signed by at least 473 legal voters of the
11ward.
12 (b) All nominations for mayor, city clerk, and city
13treasurer in the city shall be by petition. Each petition for
14nomination of a candidate must be signed by at least 2,500
1512,500 legal voters of the city.
16 (c) All such petitions, and procedure with respect
17thereto, shall conform in other respects to the provisions of
18the election and ballot laws then in force in the city of
19Chicago concerning the nomination of independent candidates
20for public office by petition. The method of nomination herein
21provided is exclusive of and replaces all other methods
22heretofore provided by law.
23(Source: P.A. 102-15, eff. 6-17-21.)
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