Bill Text: IL HB4356 | 2015-2016 | 99th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Revised Cities and Villages Act of 1941. Establishes a procedure for an election to recall the Mayor of Chicago. Effective immediately.

Sponsorship: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-03-02 - Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Sam Yingling [HB4356 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2015-HB4356-Introduced.html

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99TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2015 and 2016 HB4356 Introduced , by Rep. La Shawn K. Ford SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
65 ILCS 20/21-24.5 new
Amends the Revised Cities and Villages Act of 1941. Establishes a procedure for an election to recall the Mayor of Chicago. 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 Revised Cities and Villages Act of 1941 is
amended by adding Section 21-24.5 as follows:
(65 ILCS 20/21-24.5 new)
Sec. 21-24.5. Recall election-Mayor of Chicago.
(a) The recall of the Mayor of Chicago may be proposed by a
petition signed by a number of electors equal in number to at
least 15% of the total votes cast for Mayor in the preceding
election, with at least 50 signatures from each ward. A
petition shall have been signed by the petitioning electors not
more than 150 days after an affidavit has been filed with the
board of election commissioners providing notice of intent to
circulate a petition to recall the Mayor. The affidavit may be
filed no sooner than 6 months after the beginning of the
Mayor's term of office. The affidavit shall have been signed by
the proponent of the recall petition and at least 2 aldermen.
(b) The form of the petition, circulation, and procedure
for determining the validity and sufficiency of a petition
shall be as provided by law. If the petition is valid and
sufficient, the board of election commissioners shall certify
the petition not more than 100 days after the date the petition

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was filed, and the question "Shall (name) be recalled from the
office of Mayor?" must be submitted to the electors at a
special recall election called by the board of election
commissioners, to occur not more than 100 days after
certification of the petition. A recall petition certified by
the board of election commissioners may not be withdrawn and
another recall petition may not be initiated against the Mayor
during the remainder of the current term of office. Any recall
petition or recall election pending on the date of the next
election at which a candidate for Mayor is elected is void.
(c) If a petition to recall the Mayor has been filed with
the board of election commissioners, a person eligible to serve
as Mayor may propose his or her candidacy for the special
successor primary election by a petition signed by at least
12,500 legal voters of the city, signed not more than 50 days
after a recall petition has been filed with the board of
election commissioners. All such petitions, and procedure with
respect thereto, shall conform in other respects to the
provisions of the election and ballot laws then in force in the
city of Chicago concerning the nomination of independent
candidates for public office by petition. If the successor
election petition is valid and sufficient, the board of
election commissioners shall certify the petition not more than
100 days after the date the petition to recall the Mayor was
filed.
If the Mayor is removed by the special recall election, the

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names of candidates for Mayor must be submitted to the electors
at a special successor primary election called by the board of
election commissioners to be held 60 days after the special
recall election. If no candidate receives a majority of the
votes in the special successor primary election, a special
runoff election shall be held no later than 60 days after the
special successor primary election, and only the names of the
candidates receiving the highest and second highest number of
votes at the special successor primary election shall appear on
the ballot. If more than one candidate received the highest or
second highest number of votes at the special successor primary
election, the names of all candidates receiving the highest and
second highest number of votes shall appear on the ballot at
the special runoff election. The candidate receiving the
highest number of votes at the special runoff election shall be
declared elected.
(d) The Mayor is immediately removed upon certification of
the special recall election results if a majority of the
electors voting on the question vote to recall the Mayor. If
the Mayor is removed, then (i) the Vice Mayor shall serve until
the Mayor elected at the special successor primary election or
special runoff election is qualified and (ii) the candidate who
receives a majority of votes in the special primary election or
the candidate who receives the highest number of votes in the
special runoff election is elected Mayor for the balance of the
term.

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Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
becoming law.