Bill Text: IL HB0690 | 2025-2026 | 104th General Assembly | Engrossed
Bill Title: Amends the Counties Code. Requires all county clerk offices to be closed on all legal holidays.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 8)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2026-04-21 - Referred to Assignments [HB0690 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2025-HB0690-Engrossed.html
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| 1 | AN ACT concerning local government. | ||||||
| 2 | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, | ||||||
| 3 | represented in the General Assembly: | ||||||
| 4 | Section 5. The Counties Code is amended by changing | ||||||
| 5 | Section 3-2007 as follows: | ||||||
| 6 | (55 ILCS 5/3-2007) (from Ch. 34, par. 3-2007) | ||||||
| 7 | Sec. 3-2007. Office quarters and hours; violation. | ||||||
| 8 | (a) The county clerk shall keep the clerk's office at the | ||||||
| 9 | court house of the county, or at such other place as may be | ||||||
| 10 | provided for the clerk by the authorities of such county seat | ||||||
| 11 | and shall keep the office open and attend to the duties | ||||||
| 12 | thereof: | ||||||
| 13 | (1) (a) In counties of 500,000 or more population from | ||||||
| 14 | 9 a. m. to 5 p. m. of each working day except Saturday | ||||||
| 15 | afternoons and legal holidays, but the clerk may open the | ||||||
| 16 | office at 8 a. m. on each working day: | ||||||
| 17 | (2) (b) In counties of less than 500,000 population | ||||||
| 18 | from 8 a. m. to 5 p. m. of each working day except | ||||||
| 19 | Saturdays and legal holidays, but in such counties the | ||||||
| 20 | office shall remain open until noon the Saturday before | ||||||
| 21 | general, primary or special election days. | ||||||
| 22 | Except as otherwise required under subsection (b), all | ||||||
| 23 | county clerk's offices must be closed for all legal holidays. | ||||||
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| 1 | The Provided, that the days on which the county clerk's such | ||||||
| 2 | office shall be open and the hours of opening and closing of | ||||||
| 3 | the office of the county clerk, except for any day that is a | ||||||
| 4 | legal holiday, may be changed and otherwise fixed and | ||||||
| 5 | determined by the county board of any county. Any such action | ||||||
| 6 | taken by the county board shall be by an appropriate | ||||||
| 7 | resolution passed at a regular meeting. | ||||||
| 8 | (b) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Section, | ||||||
| 9 | when any election is held and the results of such election are | ||||||
| 10 | required by law to be returned to the county clerk, the office | ||||||
| 11 | of the county clerk shall remain open for the purpose of | ||||||
| 12 | receiving such results from the time of opening of the polls | ||||||
| 13 | until the returns from each precinct have been received. | ||||||
| 14 | (c) Any county clerk who fails to keep the clerk's office | ||||||
| 15 | open for the purpose of receiving election returns as required | ||||||
| 16 | by this Section commits a business offense, and shall be fined | ||||||
| 17 | not less than $500 nor more than $5,000. | ||||||
| 18 | (Source: P.A. 101-253, eff. 8-9-19.) | ||||||
