Bill Text: IL HB3593 | 2019-2020 | 101st General Assembly | Engrossed
Bill Title: Amends the Counties Code. Provides that a chairman of a county board who is chosen by the board may be removed, with or without cause, upon a motion adopted by an affirmative vote of four-fifths of the board. Provides that upon adoption of a motion to remove the chairman: (i) the chairman position becomes vacant the and former chairman's compensation shall be prorated to the date the motion was approved; (ii) the vice-chairman immediately assumes the duties of chairman without chairman compensation; and (iii) a new chairman shall be elected at the next regularly scheduled county board meeting. Further provides that a chairman removed maintains his or her status as a member of the county board.
Sponsorship: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-1)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2019-04-12 - Added as Alternate Chief Co-Sponsor Sen. Melinda Bush [HB3593 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2019-HB3593-Engrossed.html
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| 1 | AN ACT concerning local government.
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| 2 | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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| 3 | represented in the General Assembly:
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| 4 | Section 5. The Counties Code is amended by changing Section | ||||||
| 5 | 2-1003 as follows:
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| 6 | (55 ILCS 5/2-1003) (from Ch. 34, par. 2-1003)
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| 7 | Sec. 2-1003. Chairman and vice-chairman of county board. | ||||||
| 8 | The county board shall, unless the chairman is elected by the | ||||||
| 9 | voters of
the county, at its first meeting in the month | ||||||
| 10 | following the month in which
county board members are elected, | ||||||
| 11 | choose one of its members as chairman for
a term of 2 years and | ||||||
| 12 | at the same meeting, choose one of its members as
vice-chairman | ||||||
| 13 | for a term of 2 years. The vice-chairman shall serve in the
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| 14 | place of the chairman at any meeting of the county board in | ||||||
| 15 | which
the chairman is not present. In case of the absence of | ||||||
| 16 | the chairman and
the vice-chairman at any meeting, the members | ||||||
| 17 | present shall choose one of
their number as temporary chairman. | ||||||
| 18 | A chairman who is chosen by the county board may be | ||||||
| 19 | removed, with or without cause, upon a motion adopted by an | ||||||
| 20 | affirmative vote of four-fifths of the county board. Upon | ||||||
| 21 | adoption of a motion to remove the chairman: (i) the chairman | ||||||
| 22 | position becomes vacant and the former chairman's compensation | ||||||
| 23 | shall be prorated to the date the motion was approved; (ii) the | ||||||
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| 1 | vice-chairman immediately assumes the duties of chairman | ||||||
| 2 | without chairman compensation; and (iii) a new chairman shall | ||||||
| 3 | be elected at the next regularly scheduled county board | ||||||
| 4 | meeting. A chairman removed under this Section maintains his or | ||||||
| 5 | her status as a member of the county board.
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| 6 | (Source: P.A. 86-962.)
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