Bill Text: IL SB0185 | 2015-2016 | 99th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Circuit Courts Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning court business.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Passed) 2016-06-30 - Public Act . . . . . . . . . 99-0520 [SB0185 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2015-SB0185-Introduced.html

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99TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2015 and 2016 SB0185 Introduced 1/28/2015, by Sen. John J. Cullerton SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
705 ILCS 35/4 from Ch. 37, par. 72.4
Amends the Circuit Courts Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning court business.
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A BILL FOR
SB0185 LRB099 03363 RLC 23371 b
AN ACT concerning courts.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The Circuit Courts Act is amended by changing
Section 4 as follows:
(705 ILCS 35/4) (from Ch. 37, par. 72.4)
Sec. 4. There shall be no stated terms in the the circuit
courts, which shall always be open for the transaction of all
business, subject to adjournment from time to time. The circuit
judges in each circuit shall prescribe by rule the times of
calling grand and petit juries in each of the counties of the
circuit and the periods for which the jurors shall serve.
(Source: Laws 1963, p. 2642.)