Bill Text: IL SB1795 | 2019-2020 | 101st General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Election Code. Requires the State Board of Elections to develop a program or enter into a contract with a third-party developer to create a program that allows petition signatures to be collected on mobile and tablet electronic devices. Provides that the program shall be made available, free of charge, to all political committees who have filed statements of organization with the Board. Provides the requirements for the program.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Failed) 2021-01-13 - Session Sine Die [SB1795 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2019-SB1795-Introduced.html

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101ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2019 and 2020 SB1795 Introduced 2/15/2019, by Sen. Laura Ellman SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
10 ILCS 5/1-4.5 new
Amends the Election Code. Requires the State Board of Elections to develop a program or enter into a contract with a third-party developer to create a program that allows petition signatures to be collected on mobile and tablet electronic devices. Provides that the program shall be made available, free of charge, to all political committees who have filed statements of organization with the Board. Provides the requirements for the program.
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A BILL FOR
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AN ACT concerning elections.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The Election Code is amended by adding Section
1-4.5 as follows:
(10 ILCS 5/1-4.5 new)
Sec. 1-4.5. Digital petition signatures. The Board shall
either develop a program or enter into a contract with a
third-party developer to create a program that allows petition
signatures to be collected on mobile and tablet electronic
devices.
The program shall be made available, free of charge, to all
political committees who have filed statements of organization
with the Board.
The user facing portion of the program shall be
downloadable in the form of a mobile or tablet application. The
application must be downloadable from at least the 2 largest
digital distribution platforms for mobile applications.
The program, at a minimum, must be able to:
(1) determine whether a signer is already registered;
(2) allow the signer to register or update his or her
registration;
(3) determine whether a signer lives in the

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jurisdiction of the petition for which he or she is
signing;
(4) determine if the signer has already signed another
petition for the same office if that office precludes
signing multiple petitions;
(5) collect the signature of the signer;
(6) record the date and time of the signature;
(7) record the circulators information; and
(8) email the signer a confirmation of his or her
signature, the date and time, what petition he or she
signed for, and a list of all the other petitions the
signer has signed during that election cycle using the
program.