Bill Text: IL HB4180 | 2025-2026 | 104th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Counties Code. Requires county clerk offices to be closed on all legal holidays.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2025-10-28 - Referred to Rules Committee [HB4180 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2025-HB4180-Introduced.html

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104TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2025 and 2026HB4180 Introduced , by Rep. Debbie Meyers-Martin SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
55 ILCS 5/3-2007 from Ch. 34, par. 3-2007
Amends the Counties Code. Requires county clerk offices to be closed on all legal holidays.
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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 3-2007 as follows:
(55 ILCS 5/3-2007) (from Ch. 34, par. 3-2007)
Sec. 3-2007. Office quarters and hours; violation. The
county clerk shall keep the clerk's office at the court house
of the county, or at such other place as may be provided for
the clerk by the authorities of such county seat and shall keep
the office open and attend to the duties thereof:
(a) In counties of 500,000 or more population from 9
a. m. to 5 p. m. of each working day except Saturday
afternoons and legal holidays, but the clerk may open the
office at 8 a. m. on each working day:
(b) In counties of less than 500,000 population from 8
a. m. to 5 p. m. of each working day except Saturdays and
legal holidays, but in such counties the office shall
remain open until noon the Saturday before general,
primary or special election days.
However, Provided, that the days on which the county
clerk's such office shall be open and the hours of opening and
closing of the office of the county clerk may be changed and

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otherwise fixed and determined by the county board of any
county, except that the county clerk's office shall be closed
on all legal holidays. Any such action taken by the county
board shall be by an appropriate resolution passed at a
regular meeting.
Notwithstanding any other provision of this Section, when
any election is held and the results of such election are
required by law to be returned to the county clerk, the office
of the county clerk shall remain open for the purpose of
receiving such results from the time of opening of the polls
until the returns from each precinct have been received.
Any county clerk who fails to keep the clerk's office open
for the purpose of receiving election returns as required by
this Section commits a business offense, and shall be fined
not less than $500 nor more than $5,000.
(Source: P.A. 101-253, eff. 8-9-19.)