Bill Text: IL HB4553 | 2017-2018 | 100th General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Amends the Circuit Courts Act to provide that: in 2021, the General Assembly shall redraw the boundaries of the subcircuits of Circuit of Cook County to reflect the results of the 2020 federal decennial census; a resident judgeship assigned to a subcircuit shall continue to be assigned to that subcircuit; and a vacancy in a resident judgeship existing on or occurring after the effective date of a law redrawing the boundaries of the subcircuits shall be filled by a resident of the redrawn subcircuit.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Failed) 2019-01-08 - Session Sine Die [HB4553 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2017-HB4553-Introduced.html
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1 | AN ACT concerning courts.
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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 Circuit Courts Act is amended by changing | |||||||||||||||||||
5 | Section 2f as follows:
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6 | (705 ILCS 35/2f) (from Ch. 37, par. 72.2f)
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7 | Sec. 2f. (a) The Circuit of Cook County shall be divided | |||||||||||||||||||
8 | into 15
units to be known as subcircuits. The subcircuits shall | |||||||||||||||||||
9 | be compact,
contiguous, and substantially equal in population.
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10 | The General Assembly
shall create the subcircuits by law on or | |||||||||||||||||||
11 | before
July 1, 1991, using population data as determined by the | |||||||||||||||||||
12 | 1990 Federal census.
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13 | (a-5) In 2021, the General Assembly shall redraw the | |||||||||||||||||||
14 | boundaries of the subcircuits to reflect the results of the | |||||||||||||||||||
15 | 2020 federal decennial census. In accordance with subsection | |||||||||||||||||||
16 | (d), a resident judgeship assigned to a subcircuit shall | |||||||||||||||||||
17 | continue to be assigned to that subcircuit. Any vacancy in a | |||||||||||||||||||
18 | resident judgeship existing on or occurring after the effective | |||||||||||||||||||
19 | date of a law redrawing the boundaries of the subcircuits shall | |||||||||||||||||||
20 | be filled by a resident of the redrawn subcircuit. | |||||||||||||||||||
21 | (b) The 165 resident judges to be elected from the Circuit | |||||||||||||||||||
22 | of Cook
County shall be determined under paragraph (4) of | |||||||||||||||||||
23 | subsection (a) of Section 2 of the
Judicial Vacancies Act.
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1 | (c) The Supreme Court shall allot (i) the additional | ||||||
2 | resident judgeships
provided by paragraph (4) of subsection (a) | ||||||
3 | of Section 2 of the Judicial Vacancies Act
and (ii) all | ||||||
4 | vacancies in
resident judgeships existing on or occurring on or | ||||||
5 | after the effective date
of this amendatory Act of 1990,
with | ||||||
6 | respect to the other resident judgeships of the Circuit
of Cook | ||||||
7 | County, for election from the various subcircuits until there | ||||||
8 | are
11 resident judges to be
elected from each of the 15 | ||||||
9 | subcircuits (for a total of 165). A resident
judgeship | ||||||
10 | authorized before the effective date of this amendatory Act of
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11 | 1990 that became vacant and was filled by appointment by the | ||||||
12 | Supreme Court
before that effective date shall be filled by | ||||||
13 | election at the general
election in November of 1992 from the | ||||||
14 | unit of the Circuit of Cook County
within Chicago or the unit | ||||||
15 | of that Circuit outside Chicago, as the case may
be, in which | ||||||
16 | the vacancy occurred.
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17 | (d) As soon as practicable after the subcircuits are | ||||||
18 | created by law, the
Supreme Court shall determine by lot a | ||||||
19 | numerical order for the 15
subcircuits. That numerical order | ||||||
20 | shall be the basis for the order in which resident
judgeships | ||||||
21 | are assigned to the subcircuits. After the first round of
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22 | assignments, the second and all later rounds shall be based on | ||||||
23 | the same
numerical order. Once a resident judgeship is assigned | ||||||
24 | to a subcircuit,
it shall continue to be assigned to that | ||||||
25 | subcircuit for all purposes.
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26 | (e) A resident judge elected from a subcircuit shall |
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1 | continue to reside
in that subcircuit as long as he or she | ||||||
2 | holds that office. A resident judge elected from a subcircuit | ||||||
3 | after January 1, 2008, must retain residency as a registered | ||||||
4 | voter in the subcircuit to run for retention from the circuit | ||||||
5 | at large thereafter.
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6 | (Source: P.A. 95-610, eff. 9-11-07.)
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