Bill Text: IL HB2477 | 2017-2018 | 100th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Election Code. Provides that no patient who has resided for less than 180 days in any hospital or mental institution (rather than no patient of any hospital or mental institution) in the State shall by virtue of his or her abode at the hospital be deemed a resident or legal voter in an election district in which the hospital or mental institution is situated. Effective immediately.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)

Status: (Passed) 2018-08-28 - Public Act . . . . . . . . . 100-1110 [HB2477 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2017-HB2477-Introduced.html

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100TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2017 and 2018 HB2477 Introduced , by Rep. Barbara Flynn Currie SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
10 ILCS 5/3-4 from Ch. 46, par. 3-4
Amends the Election Code. Provides that no patient who has resided for less than 180 days in any hospital or mental institution (rather than no patient of any hospital or mental institution) in the State shall by virtue of his or her abode at the hospital be deemed a resident or legal voter in an election district in which the hospital or mental institution is situated. Effective immediately.
LRB100 08694 MLM 18829 b
A BILL FOR
HB2477 LRB100 08694 MLM 18829 b
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
3-4 as follows:
(10 ILCS 5/3-4) (from Ch. 46, par. 3-4)
Sec. 3-4. No patient who has resided for less than 180 days
in of any hospital or mental institution in this State, shall
by virtue of his abode at such hospital or mental institution
be deemed a resident or legal voter in the town, city, village
or election district or precinct in which such hospital or
mental institution may be situated; but every such person shall
be deemed a resident of the town, city, village or election
district or precinct in which he resided next prior to becoming
a patient of such hospital or mental institution. However, the
term "hospital" does not include skilled nursing facilities.
(Source: P.A. 79-1123.)
Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
becoming law.