Bill Text: IL HB4557 | 2017-2018 | 100th General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Amends the Election Code. Requires (rather than encourages) a school district to close a school or hold a teachers institute day if the school is chosen as a polling place by the county board or board of election commissioners. Effective immediately.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Failed) 2019-01-08 - Session Sine Die [HB4557 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2017-HB4557-Introduced.html
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| 1 | AN ACT concerning elections.
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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 Election Code is amended by changing Section | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 5 | 11-4.1 as follows:
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| 6 | (10 ILCS 5/11-4.1) (from Ch. 46, par. 11-4.1)
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| 7 | Sec. 11-4.1. (a) In appointing polling places under this | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 8 | Article, the
county board or board of election commissioners | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 9 | shall, insofar as they are
convenient and available, use | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 10 | schools and other public buildings as polling
places.
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| 11 | (b) Upon request of the county board or board of election | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 12 | commissioners,
the proper agency of government (including | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 13 | school districts and units of
local government) shall make a | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 14 | public building under its control available
for use as a | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 15 | polling place on an election day and for a reasonably
necessary | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 16 | time before and after election day, without charge.
If the | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 17 | county board or board of election commissioners chooses a | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 18 | school
to be a polling place, then the school district must | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 19 | make the school
available for use as a polling place.
However, | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 20 | for the day of the election, a school district shall is | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 21 | encouraged to (i) close the school or (ii) hold a teachers | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 22 | institute on that day with students not in attendance.
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| 23 | (c) A government agency which makes a public building under | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 1 | its
control available for use as a polling place shall (i) | ||||||
| 2 | ensure the portion of
the building to be used as the polling | ||||||
| 3 | place is accessible to voters with disabilities
and elderly | ||||||
| 4 | voters and (ii) allow the election authority to administer the | ||||||
| 5 | election as authorized under this Code.
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| 6 | (d) If a qualified elector's precinct polling place is a | ||||||
| 7 | school and the elector will be unable to enter that polling | ||||||
| 8 | place without violating Section 11-9.3 of the Criminal Code of | ||||||
| 9 | 2012 because the elector is a child sex offender as defined in | ||||||
| 10 | Section 11-9.3 of the Criminal Code of 2012, that elector may | ||||||
| 11 | vote by a vote by mail ballot in accordance with Article 19 of | ||||||
| 12 | this Code or may vote early in accordance with Article 19A of | ||||||
| 13 | this Code. | ||||||
| 14 | (Source: P.A. 98-773, eff. 7-18-14; 98-1171, eff. 6-1-15; | ||||||
| 15 | 99-143, eff. 7-27-15.)
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| 16 | Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | ||||||
| 17 | becoming law.
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