Illinois Senate Bill 1519 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)
Status: Introduced on February 20 2015 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2015-10-10 - Pursuant to Senate Rule 3-9(b) / Referred to Assignments
Pending: Senate Assignments Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

Amends the Election Code. 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. 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. Creates the Illinois Election Integrity Act. Creates the Illinois Election Integrity Fund as a special fund in the State Treasury. Makes a corresponding change in the State Finance Act. Provides that the fund shall be administered by the State Board of Elections and, in addition to contributions from income tax checkoffs, the fund shall accept voluntary contributions. Provides that the State Board of Elections shall use the moneys in the fund to perform election audits. Amends the Illinois Income Tax Act. Provides that, for taxable years ending on or after December 31, 2014, the Department of Revenue must print on its standard individual income tax form a provision indicating that if the taxpayer wishes to contribute to the Illinois Election Integrity Fund, he or she may do so by stating the amount of the contribution (not less than $3) on the return and that the contribution will reduce the taxpayer's refund or increase the amount of payment to accompany the return.

ELEC CD-EQUIPMENT/AUDITS

Sen. Michael Noland [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2015-10-10	Senate	Pursuant to Senate Rule 3-9(b) / Referred to Assignments
2015-05-15	Senate	Rule 2-10 Committee/3rd Reading Deadline Established As May 31, 2015
2015-04-24	Senate	Rule 2-10 Committee/3rd Reading Deadline Established As May 15, 2015
2015-04-15	Senate	Postponed - Executive Subcommittee on Election Law
2015-03-27	Senate	Rule 2-10 Committee Deadline Established As April 24, 2015
2015-03-19	Senate	To Subcommittee on Election Law
2015-03-19	Senate	Postponed - Executive
2015-03-03	Senate	Assigned to Executive
2015-02-20	Senate	Referred to Assignments
2015-02-20	Senate	First Reading
2015-02-20	Senate	Filed with Secretary by Sen. Michael Noland

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
10	5	19A-75	Amended Code	Citation Text
10	5	21B-10	New Code	See Bill Text
10	5	21B-15	New Code	See Bill Text
10	5	21B-20	New Code	See Bill Text
10	5	21B-25	New Code	See Bill Text
10	5	21B-30	New Code	See Bill Text
10	5	21B-35	New Code	See Bill Text
10	5	21B-40	New Code	See Bill Text
10	5	21B-45	New Code	See Bill Text
10	5	21B-5	New Code	See Bill Text
10	5	21B-50	New Code	See Bill Text
10	5	21B-55	New Code	See Bill Text
10	5	21B-60	New Code	See Bill Text
10	5	21B-65	New Code	See Bill Text
10	5	21B-70	New Code	See Bill Text
10	5	21B-75	New Code	See Bill Text
10	5	21B-80	New Code	See Bill Text
10	5	21B-85	New Code	See Bill Text
10	5	21B-90	New Code	See Bill Text
10	5	21B-95	New Code	See Bill 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. 21B heading	New Code	See Bill Text
30	105	5.866	New Code	See Bill Text
35	5	507DDD	New Code	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.ilga.gov/legislation/BillStatus.asp?DocNum=1519&GAID=13&DocTypeID=SB&SessionID=88&GA=99
Text	https://www.ilga.gov/legislation/99/SB/09900SB1519.htm