Illinois Senate Bill 1197 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: Failed on January 13 2021 - 100% progression
Action: 2021-01-13 - Session Sine Die
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

Amends the Election Code. Creates a new Article concerning audits. Requires that each election authority (i) conduct an election day audit of a random sample of 10% of votes cast and (ii) provide by contract or employment for the performance by one or more independent auditors of post-election parallel tabulations and audits. Provides for the scope of the audits and the resulting reports. Requires that optical scan technology and direct recording electronic voting systems meet certain federal and independent testing standards. Creates a voluntary tax checkoff for the Fund. With respect to early voting, requires that an election authority using only direct recording electronic voting systems have paper ballots available for voters wishing to use them. Amends the State Finance Act. Creates the Election Integrity Fund as a special fund in the State treasury. Provides that the amendatory Act may be referred to as the Illinois Election Integrity Act.

ELEC CD-EQUIPMENT/AUDITS

Sen. Cristina Castro [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2021-01-13	Senate	Session Sine Die
2019-03-28	Senate	Rule 3-9(a) / Re-referred to Assignments
2019-03-22	Senate	Rule 2-10 Committee Deadline Established As March 28, 2019
2019-02-21	Senate	To Subcommittee on Election Law
2019-02-13	Senate	Assigned to Executive
2019-02-06	Senate	Referred to Assignments
2019-02-06	Senate	First Reading
2019-02-06	Senate	Filed with Secretary by Sen. Cristina Castro

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
10	5	17A-10	New Code	See Bill Text
10	5	17A-100	New Code	See Bill Text
10	5	17A-15	New Code	See Bill Text
10	5	17A-20	New Code	See Bill Text
10	5	17A-25	New Code	See Bill Text
10	5	17A-30	New Code	See Bill Text
10	5	17A-35	New Code	See Bill Text
10	5	17A-40	New Code	See Bill Text
10	5	17A-45	New Code	See Bill Text
10	5	17A-5	New Code	See Bill Text
10	5	17A-50	New Code	See Bill Text
10	5	17A-55	New Code	See Bill Text
10	5	17A-60	New Code	See Bill Text
10	5	17A-65	New Code	See Bill Text
10	5	17A-70	New Code	See Bill Text
10	5	17A-75	New Code	See Bill Text
10	5	17A-80	New Code	See Bill Text
10	5	17A-85	New Code	See Bill Text
10	5	17A-90	New Code	See Bill Text
10	5	17A-95	New Code	See Bill Text
10	5	19A-75	Amended Code	Citation Text
10	5	24B-16	Amended Code	Citation Text
10	5	24B-2	Amended Code	Citation Text
10	5	24C-16	Amended Code	Citation Text
10	5	24C-2	Amended Code	Citation Text
10	5	24C-9	Amended Code	Citation Text
10	5	Art. 17A heading	New Code	See Bill Text
30	105	5.891	New Code	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.ilga.gov/legislation/BillStatus.asp?DocNum=1197&GAID=15&DocTypeID=SB&SessionID=108&GA=101
Text	https://www.ilga.gov/legislation/101/SB/10100SB1197.htm