Bill Text: IL HB3179 | 2015-2016 | 99th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Counties Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning commissioners in certain counties.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-03-27 - Rule 19(a) / Re-referred to Rules Committee [HB3179 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2015-HB3179-Introduced.html

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99TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2015 and 2016 HB3179 Introduced , by Rep. John E. Bradley SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
55 ILCS 5/2-4006.5
Amends the Counties Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning commissioners in certain counties.
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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
2-4006.5 as follows:
(55 ILCS 5/2-4006.5)
Sec. 2-4006.5. Commissioners in certain counties.
(a) If a county elects 3 commissioners at large under
Section 2-4006, registered voters of such county may, by a vote
of a majority of those voting on such proposition, determine to
change the method of electing the board of county commissioners
by electing either 3 or 5 members from single member districts.
In order for such question to be placed upon the ballot, such
petition must contain the signatures of not fewer than 10% of
the the registered voters of such county.
Commissioners may not be elected from single member
districts until the question of electing either 3 or 5
commissioners from single member districts has been submitted
to the electors of the county at a regular election and
approved by a majority of the electors voting on the question.
The commissioners must certify the question to the proper
election authority, which must submit the question at an
election in accordance with the Election Code.

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The question must be in substantially the following form:
Shall the board of county commissioners of (name of
county) consist of (insert either 3 or 5) commissioners
elected from single member districts?
The votes must be recorded as "Yes" or "No".
If a majority of the electors voting on the question vote
in the affirmative, a 3-member or 5-member board of county
commissioners, as the case may be, shall be established to be
elected from single member districts.
(b) If the voters of the county decide to elect either 3 or
5 commissioners from single member districts, the board of
county commissioners shall on or before August 31 of the year
following the 2000 federal decennial census divide the county
into either 3 or 5 compact and contiguous county commission
districts that are substantially equal in population. On or
before May 31 of the year following each federal decennial
census thereafter, the board of county commissioners shall
reapportion the county commission districts to be compact,
contiguous, and substantially equal in population.
(c) The commissioners elected at large at or before the
general election in 2000 shall continue to serve until the
expiration of their terms. Of those commissioners, the
commissioner whose term expires in 2002 shall be assigned to
district 1; the commissioner whose term expires in 2004 shall
be assigned to district 2; and the commissioner whose term
expires in 2006 shall be assigned to district 3.

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(d) If the voters of the county decide to elect 5
commissioners from single member districts, at the general
election in 2002, one commissioner from and residing in each of
districts 1, 4, and 5 shall be elected. At the general election
in 2004, one commissioner from and residing in each of
districts 1, 2, and 5 shall be elected. At the general election
in 2006, one commissioner from and residing in each of
districts 2, 3, and 4 shall be elected. At the general election
in 2008, one commissioner from and residing in each of
districts 1, 3, and 5 shall be elected. At the general election
in 2010, one commissioner from each of districts 2 and 4 shall
be elected. At the general election in 2012, commissioners from
and residing in each district shall be elected. Thereafter,
commissioners shall be elected at each general election to fill
expired terms. Each commissioner must reside in the district
that he or she represents from the time that he or she files
his or her nomination papers until his or her term expires.
In the year following the decennial census of 2010 and
every 10 years thereafter, the commissioners, publicly by lot,
shall divide the districts into 2 groups. One group shall serve
terms of 4 years, 4 years, and 2 years and one group shall
serve terms of 2 years, 4 years, and 4 years.
(Source: P.A. 91-846, eff. 6-22-00; 92-189, eff. 8-1-01.)