Bill Amendment: IL HB2929 | 2023-2024 | 103rd General Assembly

NOTE: For additional amemendments please see the Bill Drafting List

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Bill Title: ELEC CD-DECEASED VOTERS

Status: 2025-01-07 - Session Sine Die [HB2929 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2023-HB2929-House_Amendment_001.html

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Rep. Dennis Tipsword, Jr.

Filed: 3/3/2023

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AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 2929
AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 2929 by replacing
everything after the enacting clause with the following:
"Section 5. The Election Code is amended by changing
Sections 4-14.1 and 5-9.1 and by adding Section 1A-70 as
follows:
(10 ILCS 5/1A-70 new)
Sec. 1A-70. Remove voter form. The State Board of
Elections shall create a form to be used by an election
authority to remove a voter from its roll.
(10 ILCS 5/4-14.1) (from Ch. 46, par. 4-14.1)
Sec. 4-14.1. Cancelation of deceased voter's registration.
Upon establishment of an electronic reporting system for death
registrations as provided in the Vital Records Act, the county
clerk of the county where a decedent last resided, as

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indicated on the decedent's death certificate, shall may issue
certifications of death records from that system and shall may
use that system to cancel the registration of any person who
has died during the preceding month. Regardless of whether or
not such a system has been established, it is the duty of the
county clerk to examine, monthly, the records deposited in his
or her office pursuant to the Vital Records Act that relate to
deaths in the county, and to cancel the registration of any
person who has died during the preceding month. The county
clerk shall examine notifications of deaths provided by the
county coroner and cancel the registration of any person who
has died.
(Source: P.A. 96-1484, eff. 1-1-11.)
(10 ILCS 5/5-9.1) (from Ch. 46, par. 5-9.1)
Sec. 5-9.1. Cancelation of deceased voter's registration.
Upon establishment of an electronic reporting system for death
registrations as provided in the Vital Records Act, the county
clerk of the county where a decedent last resided, as
indicated on the decedent's death certificate, shall may issue
certifications of death records from that system and shall may
use that system to cancel the registration of any person who
has died during the preceding month and cause the name of each
such deceased person to be erased from the register of the
precinct in which the deceased person was registered.
Regardless of whether or not such a system has been

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established, it is the duty of the county clerk to examine
monthly the records deposited in his or her office pursuant to
the Vital Records Act that relate to deaths in the county, to
cancel the registration of any person who has died during the
preceding month and cause the name of each such deceased
person to be erased from the register of the precinct in which
the deceased person was registered. The county clerk shall
examine notifications of deaths provided by the county coroner
and cancel the registration of any person who has died.
(Source: P.A. 96-1484, eff. 1-1-11.)
Section 10. The Counties Code is amended by adding Section
3-3046 as follows:
(55 ILCS 5/3-3046 new)
Sec. 3-3046. Notification to county clerk or election
authority. A county coroner shall notify the local county
clerk or local election authority of records concerning deaths
the coroner investigates.".