Bill Text: IL HB3434 | 2019-2020 | 101st General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Election Code. Provides that regardless of whether a school is used as a polling place under Section 11-4.1, school districts shall close all schools on the day of a general election. Removes language encouraging a school district to close a school or hold a teachers institute day on election day for a school that is used as a polling place.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-03-29 - Rule 19(a) / Re-referred to Rules Committee [HB3434 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2019-HB3434-Introduced.html

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101ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2019 and 2020 HB3434 Introduced , by Rep. Jonathan Carroll SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
10 ILCS 5/1-21 new
10 ILCS 5/11-4.1 from Ch. 46, par. 11-4.1
Amends the Election Code. Provides that regardless of whether a school is used as a polling place under Section 11-4.1, school districts shall close all schools on the day of a general election. Removes language encouraging a school district to close a school or hold a teachers institute day on election day for a school that is used as a polling place.
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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
11-4.1 and by adding Section 1-21 as follows:
(10 ILCS 5/1-21 new)
Sec. 1-21. Schools closed on election day. Regardless of
whether a school is used as a polling place under Section
11-4.1, school districts shall close all schools on the day of
a general election.
(10 ILCS 5/11-4.1) (from Ch. 46, par. 11-4.1)
Sec. 11-4.1. (a) In appointing polling places under this
Article, the county board or board of election commissioners
shall, insofar as they are convenient and available, use
schools and other public buildings as polling places.
(b) Upon request of the county board or board of election
commissioners, the proper agency of government (including
school districts and units of local government) shall make a
public building under its control available for use as a
polling place on an election day and for a reasonably necessary
time before and after election day, without charge. If the
county board or board of election commissioners chooses a

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school to be a polling place, then the school district must
make the school available for use as a polling place. However,
for the day of the election, a school district is encouraged to
(i) close the school or (ii) hold a teachers institute on that
day with students not in attendance.
(c) A government agency which makes a public building under
its control available for use as a polling place shall (i)
ensure the portion of the building to be used as the polling
place is accessible to voters with disabilities and elderly
voters and (ii) allow the election authority to administer the
election as authorized under this Code.
(d) If a qualified elector's precinct polling place is a
school and the elector will be unable to enter that polling
place without violating Section 11-9.3 of the Criminal Code of
2012 because the elector is a child sex offender as defined in
Section 11-9.3 of the Criminal Code of 2012, that elector may
vote by a vote by mail ballot in accordance with Article 19 of
this Code or may vote early in accordance with Article 19A of
this Code.
(Source: P.A. 98-773, eff. 7-18-14; 98-1171, eff. 6-1-15;
99-143, eff. 7-27-15.)