Bill Text: IL HB4616 | 2009-2010 | 96th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Counties Code. Provides that the Cook County Board of Commissioners may override a veto by the County Board President by an affirmative vote of three-fifths of its members (instead of four-fifths). Effective immediately.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 7-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2009-09-30 - Referred to Rules Committee [HB4616 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2009-HB4616-Introduced.html

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96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2009 and 2010 HB4616 Introduced , by Rep. Michael P. McAuliffe SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
55 ILCS 5/2-6008 from Ch. 34, par. 2-6008
Amends the Counties Code. Provides that the Cook County Board of Commissioners may override a veto by the County Board President by an affirmative vote of three-fifths of its members (instead of four-fifths). 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 Counties Code is amended by changing Section
2-6008 as follows:
(55 ILCS 5/2-6008) (from Ch. 34, par. 2-6008)
Sec. 2-6008. Approval of ordinances. All ordinances,
resolutions or motions shall be submitted to said board of
commissioners in writing, or reduced to writing before any vote
shall be taken thereon; and if adopted by the board, the same
shall not take effect until after the same shall have been
approved in writing by the president of said board, except as
hereinafter provided. It shall be the duty of the clerk of said
board to deliver to the president thereof, upon his or her
request, the original (or a copy) of each ordinance, resolution
or motion, so passed or adopted by said board as aforesaid,
within one day after its passage or adoption; and in case the
president approves thereof, he or she shall sign the same, and
it shall thereupon be in full force and effect. In case the
president shall not approve any such ordinance, resolution or
motion, he or she shall, within five days after the receipt of
the same as aforesaid, return it to the clerk of said board,
with his or her objections thereto in writing. Such veto by the

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president may extend to any one or more items or appropriations
contained in any resolution making an appropriation, or to the
entire resolution; and in case the veto only extends to a part
of such resolution making an appropriation, the residue thereof
not embraced within the veto shall take effect and be in force
from the time of the receipt by said clerk of such veto of such
part. Upon the return of any such ordinance, resolution or
motion by the president, with his or her objections thereto as
aforesaid, the vote by which the same was passed shall be
reconsidered by the board of commissioners as to so much
thereof as may have been vetoed; and if, after such
reconsideration, three-fifths four-fifths of all the members
elected to the board shall agree to pass the same by yeas and
nays, to be entered on the journal, the same shall take effect,
notwithstanding the president may have refused to approve
thereof. In case the president shall fail or omit to either
sign and approve or return, with his or her objections as
aforesaid, any such ordinance, motion or resolution which shall
have been passed or adopted by the board within six days after
it shall have been so passed or adopted, the same shall take
effect without the approval of the president.
(Source: P.A. 86-962.)
Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
becoming law.