Bill Text: IL SB0200 | 2013-2014 | 98th General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Amends the Election Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the nomination of candidates for the General Assembly.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)
Status: (Failed) 2015-01-13 - Session Sine Die [SB0200 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2013-SB0200-Amended.html
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| 1 | AMENDMENT TO SENATE BILL 200
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| 2 | AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend Senate Bill 200 by replacing | ||||||
| 3 | everything after the enacting clause with the following:
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| 4 | "Section 5. The Election Code is amended by changing | ||||||
| 5 | Section 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. | ||||||
| 8 | (a) In appointing polling places under this Article, the
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| 9 | county board or board of election commissioners shall, insofar | ||||||
| 10 | as they are
convenient and available, use schools and other | ||||||
| 11 | public buildings as polling
places.
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| 12 | (b) Upon request of the county board or board of election | ||||||
| 13 | commissioners,
the proper agency of government (including | ||||||
| 14 | school districts and units of
local government) shall make a | ||||||
| 15 | public building under its control available
for use as a | ||||||
| 16 | polling place on an election day and for a reasonably
necessary | ||||||
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| 1 | time before and after election day, without charge.
If the | ||||||
| 2 | county board or board of election commissioners chooses a | ||||||
| 3 | school
to be a polling place, then the school district must | ||||||
| 4 | make the school
available for use as a polling place.
However, | ||||||
| 5 | for the day of the election, a school district is encouraged to | ||||||
| 6 | (i) close the school or (ii) hold a teachers institute on that | ||||||
| 7 | day with students not in attendance may choose to (i)
keep the | ||||||
| 8 | school open or (ii) hold a teachers institute on that day.
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| 9 | (c) A government agency which makes a public building under | ||||||
| 10 | its
control available for use as a polling place shall (i) | ||||||
| 11 | ensure the portion of
the building to be used as the polling | ||||||
| 12 | place is accessible to handicapped
and elderly voters and (ii) | ||||||
| 13 | allow the election authority to administer the election as | ||||||
| 14 | authorized under this Code.
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| 15 | (d) If a qualified elector's precinct polling place is a | ||||||
| 16 | school and the elector will be unable to enter that polling | ||||||
| 17 | place without violating Section 11-9.3 of the Criminal Code of | ||||||
| 18 | 2012 because the elector is a child sex offender as defined in | ||||||
| 19 | Section 11-9.3 of the Criminal Code of 2012, that elector may | ||||||
| 20 | vote by absentee ballot in accordance with Article 19 of this | ||||||
| 21 | Code or may vote early in accordance with Article 19A of this | ||||||
| 22 | Code. | ||||||
| 23 | (Source: P.A. 97-1150, eff. 1-25-13.)
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| 24 | Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | ||||||
| 25 | becoming law.".
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