Bill Text: IL HB1398 | 2009-2010 | 96th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Election Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the names of candidates on a petition or certificate for nomination.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2009-04-03 - Rule 19(a) / Re-referred to Rules Committee [HB1398 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2009-HB1398-Introduced.html

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96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2009 and 2010 HB1398 Introduced 2/18/2009, by Rep. Michael J. Madigan - Barbara Flynn Currie - Elaine Nekritz SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
10 ILCS 5/7-10.2 from Ch. 46, par. 7-10.2
Amends the Election Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the names of candidates on a petition or certificate for nomination.
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A BILL FOR
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AN ACT concerning elections.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The Election Code is amended by changing Section
7-10.2 as follows:
(10 ILCS 5/7-10.2) (from Ch. 46, par. 7-10.2)
Sec. 7-10.2. In the the designation of the name of a
candidate on a petition for nomination or certificate of
nomination the candidate's given name or names, initial or
initials, a nickname by which the candidate is commonly known,
or a combination thereof, may be used in addition to the
candidate's surname. If a candidate has changed his or her
name, whether by a statutory or common law procedure in
Illinois or any other jurisdiction, within 3 years before the
last day for filing the petition or certificate for that
office, whichever is applicable, then (i) the candidate's name
on the petition or certificate must be followed by "formerly
known as (list all prior names during the 3-year period) until
name changed on (list date of each such name change)" and (ii)
the petition or certificate must be accompanied by the
candidate's affidavit stating the candidate's previous names
during the period specified in (i) and the date or dates each
of those names was changed; failure to meet these requirements

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shall be grounds for denying certification of the candidate's
name for the ballot or removing the candidate's name from the
ballot, as appropriate, but these requirements do not apply to
name changes resulting from adoption to assume an adoptive
parent's or parents' surname, marriage to assume a spouse's
surname, or dissolution of marriage or declaration of
invalidity of marriage to assume a former surname. No other
designation such as a political slogan, as defined by Section
7-17, title or degree, or nickname suggesting or implying
possession of a title, degree or professional status, or
similar information may be used in connection with the
candidate's surname.
(Source: P.A. 93-574, eff. 8-21-03; 94-1090, eff. 6-1-07.)