Illinois Senate Bill 2831 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: Failed on January 9 2019 - 100% progression
Action: 2019-01-09 - Session Sine Die
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

Amends the Election Code. Provides that each election precinct shall contain 1,200 voters (currently, 500 voters in counties, 600 voters in a municipality with a board of election commissioners and fewer than 500,000 inhabitants, or 400 voters in a municipality with a board of election commissioners and more than 500,000 inhabitants). Makes corresponding and other changes. In provisions concerning the county board of a county with less than 3,000,000 inhabitants, removes language providing that an election precinct with more than 600 voters may be divided. Provides that a county board may (rather than shall) at specified meetings, redivide, consolidate, or readjust (rather than redivide or readjust) election precincts to meet the 1,200 voters per precinct standard. In provisions concerning a municipality with a board of election commissioners, provides that a city with over 500,000 residents may (rather than shall) rearrange its precincts within 90 days of a presidential election or at any time when the number of votes cast exceeds 1,200 (rather than equals 600) to meet the 1,200 voters per precinct standard. Effective immediately.

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Sen. Linda Holmes [D]

Sen. Cristina Castro [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2019-01-09	Senate	Session Sine Die
2018-04-27	Senate	Rule 3-9(a) / Re-referred to Assignments
2018-04-13	Senate	Rule 2-10 Committee Deadline Established As April 27, 2018
2018-04-12	Senate	To Subcommittee on Election Law
2018-02-21	Senate	Assigned to Executive
2018-02-15	Senate	Added as Co-Sponsor Sen. Cristina Castro
2018-02-13	Senate	Referred to Assignments
2018-02-13	Senate	First Reading
2018-02-13	Senate	Filed with Secretary by Sen. Linda Holmes

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
10	5	11-2	Amended Code	Citation Text
10	5	11-3	Amended Code	Citation Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.ilga.gov/legislation/BillStatus.asp?DocNum=2831&GAID=14&DocTypeID=SB&SessionID=91&GA=100
Text	https://www.ilga.gov/legislation/100/SB/10000SB2831.htm