Bill Text: IL HJRCA0007 | 2011-2012 | 97th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Proposes to amend The Legislature Article of the Illinois Constitution. Limits a person's total service in the office of Speaker of the House of Representatives, President of the Senate, Minority Leader of the House, or Minority Leader of the Senate to a total of 10 years in any one office and 14 years combined in 2 or more offices. Effective upon being declared adopted and applies to service on or after the second Wednesday in January, 2014.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-05-05 - Tabled Pursuant to Rule 46 [HJRCA0007 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2011-HJRCA0007-Introduced.html

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97TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2011 and 2012 HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT HC0007 Introduced , by Rep. Sidney H. Mathias SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
ILCON Art. IV, Sec. 6
Proposes to amend The Legislature Article of the Illinois Constitution. Limits a person's total service in the office of Speaker of the House of Representatives, President of the Senate, Minority Leader of the House, or Minority Leader of the Senate to a total of 10 years in any one office and 14 years combined in 2 or more offices. Effective upon being declared adopted and applies to service on or after the second Wednesday in January, 2014.
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A BILL FOR
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HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION
CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT
RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE
NINETY-SEVENTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, THE
SENATE CONCURRING HEREIN, that there shall be submitted to the
electors of the State for adoption or rejection at the general
election next occurring at least 6 months after the adoption of
this resolution a proposition to amend Article IV of the
Illinois Constitution by changing Section 6 as follows:
ARTICLE IV
THE LEGISLATURE
(ILCON Art. IV, Sec. 6)
SECTION 6. ORGANIZATION
(a) A majority of the members elected to each house
constitutes a quorum.
(b) On the first day of the January session of the General
Assembly in odd-numbered years, the Secretary of State shall
convene the House of Representatives to elect from its
membership a Speaker of the House of Representatives as
presiding officer, and the Governor shall convene the Senate to
elect from its membership a President of the Senate as
presiding officer. A person may serve no more than a total of
10 years in any one of the following offices and no more than a

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combined total of 14 years in any 2 or more of the following
offices: Speaker of the House of Representatives, President of
the Senate, Minority Leader of the House of Representatives, or
Minority Leader of the Senate; provided that service before the
second Wednesday in January of 2014 shall not be considered in
the calculation of a person's service.
(c) For purposes of powers of appointment conferred by this
Constitution, the Minority Leader of either house is a member
of the numerically strongest political party other than the
party to which the Speaker or the President belongs, as the
case may be.
(d) Each house shall determine the rules of its
proceedings, judge the elections, returns and qualifications
of its members and choose its officers. No member shall be
expelled by either house, except by a vote of two-thirds of the
members elected to that house. A member may be expelled only
once for the same offense. Each house may punish by
imprisonment any person, not a member, guilty of disrespect to
the house by disorderly or contemptuous behavior in its
presence. Imprisonment shall not extend beyond twenty-four
hours at one time unless the person persists in disorderly or
contemptuous behavior.
(Source: Illinois Constitution.)
SCHEDULE
This Constitutional Amendment takes effect upon being

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declared adopted in accordance with Section 7 of the Illinois
Constitutional Amendment Act.