Bill Text: IL HB4503 | 2023-2024 | 103rd General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Election Code. Provides that, if a unit of local government receives a request to make the unit's public buildings within the election authority's jurisdiction available as permanent or temporary early voting polling place, the unit may demonstrate to the election authority that the use would interfere with scheduled programming, and, if so, the election authority and the unit shall work cooperatively to find an alternative location to serve as the permanent or temporary early voting polling place. Effective immediately.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-04-05 - Rule 19(a) / Re-referred to Rules Committee [HB4503 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2023-HB4503-Introduced.html

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103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2023 and 2024 HB4503 Introduced , by Rep. Katie Stuart SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
10 ILCS 5/19A-21
Amends the Election Code. Provides that, if a unit of local government receives a request to make the unit's public buildings within the election authority's jurisdiction available as permanent or temporary early voting polling place, the unit may demonstrate to the election authority that the use would interfere with scheduled programming, and, if so, the election authority and the unit shall work cooperatively to find an alternative location to serve as the permanent or temporary early voting polling place. Effective immediately.
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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 19A-21 as follows:
(10 ILCS 5/19A-21)
Sec. 19A-21. Use of local public buildings for early
voting polling places. Upon request by an election authority,
a unit of local government (as defined in Section 1 of Article
VII of the Illinois Constitution, which does not include
school districts) shall make the unit's public buildings
within the election authority's jurisdiction available as
permanent or temporary early voting polling places without
charge. Availability of a building shall include reasonably
necessary time before and after the period early voting is
conducted at that building. If, upon receiving the election
authority's request, the unit of local government demonstrates
to the election authority that the use would interfere with
scheduled programming, the election authority and the unit of
local government shall work cooperatively to find an
alternative location to serve as the permanent or temporary
early voting polling place.
A unit of local government making its public building

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available as a permanent or temporary early voting polling
place shall ensure that any portion of the building made
available is accessible to voters with disabilities and
elderly voters.
(Source: P.A. 99-143, eff. 7-27-15.)