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

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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-Enrolled.html

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AN ACT concerning courts.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The Associate Judges Act is amended by changing
Section 2 as follows:
(705 ILCS 45/2) (from Ch. 37, par. 160.2)
Sec. 2. (a) The maximum number of associate judges
authorized for each circuit is the greater of the applicable
minimum number specified in this Section or one for each 35,000
or fraction thereof in population as determined by the last
preceding Federal census, except for circuits with a population
of more than 3,000,000 where the maximum number of associate
judges is one for each 29,000 or fraction thereof in population
as determined by the last preceding federal census, reduced in
circuits of less than 200,000 inhabitants by the number of
resident circuit judges elected in the circuit in excess of one
per county. In addition, in circuits of 1,000,000 or more
inhabitants, there shall be one additional associate judge
authorized for each municipal district of the circuit court.
The number of associate judges to be appointed in each circuit,
not to exceed the maximum authorized, shall be determined from
time to time by the Circuit Court. The minimum number of
associate judges authorized for any circuit consisting of a

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single county shall be 14, except that the minimum in the 22nd
circuit shall be 8 and except that the minimum in the 19th
circuit on and after December 4, 2006 shall be 20. The minimum
number of associate judges authorized for any circuit
consisting of 2 counties with a combined population of at least
275,000 but less than 300,000 shall be 10. The minimum number
of associate judges authorized for any circuit with a
population of at least 303,000 but not more than 309,000 shall
be 10. The minimum number of associate judges authorized for
any circuit with a population of at least 329,000, but not more
than 349,999 335,000 shall be 11. The minimum number of
associate judges authorized for any circuit with a population
of at least 173,000 shall be 5. As used in this Section, the
term "resident circuit judge" has the meaning given it in the
Judicial Vacancies Act.
(b) The maximum number of associate judges authorized under
subsection (a) for a circuit with a population of more than
3,000,000 shall be reduced as provided in this subsection (b).
For each vacancy that exists on or occurs on or after the
effective date of this amendatory Act of 1990, that maximum
number shall be reduced by one until the total number of
associate judges authorized under subsection (a) is reduced by
60. A vacancy exists or occurs when an associate judge dies,
resigns, retires, is removed, or is not reappointed upon
expiration of his or her term; a vacancy does not exist or
occur at the expiration of a term if the associate judge is

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reappointed.
(c) The maximum number of associate judges authorized under
subsection (a) for the 17th judicial circuit shall be reduced
as provided in this subsection (c). Due to the vacancy that
exists on or after the effective date of this amendatory Act of
the 93rd General Assembly in the associate judgeship that is
converted into a resident judgeship under subsection (a-10) of
Section 2f-6 of the Circuit Courts Act, the maximum number of
judges authorized under subsection (a) of this Section shall be
reduced by one. A vacancy exists or occurs when an associate
judge dies, resigns, retires, is removed, or is not reappointed
upon expiration of his or her term; a vacancy does not exist or
occur at the expiration of a term if the associate judge is
reappointed.
(d) The maximum number of associate judges authorized under
subsection (a) for the 23rd judicial circuit shall be reduced
as provided in this subsection (d). Due to the vacancy that
exists on or after the effective date of this amendatory Act of
the 98th General Assembly in the associate judgeship that is
converted into a resident judgeship under subsection (k) of
Section 2f-10 of the Circuit Courts Act, the maximum number of
judges authorized under subsection (a) of this Section shall be
reduced by one.
(Source: P.A. 98-744, eff. 7-16-14.)
Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
becoming law.