Bill Text: IL HB3106 | 2011-2012 | 97th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Counties Code. Provides that beginning with members elected at the general election in 2002, counties having a population between 800,000 and 3,000,000 according to the most recent federal (previously, 2000) decennial census shall have no more than 18 members on their county board. Effective immediately.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Failed) 2013-01-08 - Session Sine Die [HB3106 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2011-HB3106-Introduced.html

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97TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2011 and 2012 HB3106 Introduced , by Rep. Sandy Cole SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
55 ILCS 5/2-3002.5
Amends the Counties Code. Provides that beginning with members elected at the general election in 2002, counties having a population between 800,000 and 3,000,000 according to the most recent federal (previously, 2000) decennial census shall have no more than 18 members on their county board. Effective immediately.
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A BILL FOR
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AN ACT concerning local government.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The Counties Code is amended by changing Section
2-3002.5 as follows:
(55 ILCS 5/2-3002.5)
Sec. 2-3002.5. Beginning with members elected at the
general election in 2002, counties having a population between
800,000 and 3,000,000 according to the most recent federal 2000
decennial census shall have no more than 18 members on their
county board. If the chairman of the county board is elected
at-large by the voters of the county as provided in Section
2-3007, the chairman shall not be counted as a member of the
county board for the purpose of the limitations on the size of
the county board provided in this Section. Neither a member nor
the chairman of that county board shall serve simultaneously as
commissioner or president of the board of commissioners of the
forest preserve district. No person shall seek election to both
the county board and the forest preserve commission at the same
election.
(Source: P.A. 91-933, eff. 12-30-00.)
Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon

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becoming law.