Bill Text: IL SB3221 | 2023-2024 | 103rd General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Circuit Courts Act. Deletes language providing that certain at-large judgeships of the 6th judicial circuit shall be converted, as they become vacant, to resident judgeships elected from Champaign County and resident judgeships elected from Macon County.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-02-08 - Chief Sponsor Changed to Sen. Chapin Rose [SB3221 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2023-SB3221-Introduced.html

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103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2023 and 2024 SB3221 Introduced 2/6/2024, by Sen. Jil Tracy SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
705 ILCS 35/2f-14
Amends the Circuit Courts Act. Deletes language providing that certain at-large judgeships of the 6th judicial circuit shall be converted, as they become vacant, to resident judgeships elected from Champaign County and resident judgeships elected from Macon County.
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A BILL FOR
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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 Circuit Courts Act is amended by changing
Section 2f-14 as follows:
(705 ILCS 35/2f-14)
Sec. 2f-14. 6th judicial circuit; resident judgeships.
(a) The at-large judgeships of the 6th judicial circuit
existing on January 7, 2022 shall be converted to resident
judgeships as provided in this subsection as those judgeships
are or become vacant. The first 3 that become vacant after
January 7, 2022 (the effective date of Public Act 102-693)
shall be converted to resident judgeships elected from
Champaign County. The remaining two at-large judgeships that
become vacant shall be converted to resident judgeships
elected from Macon County. Thereafter, persons elected to
those resident judgeships shall be residents of the county
which elects them.
(b) It is the intent of the General Assembly not to create
any additional judgeships in the 6th judicial circuit by
Public Act 102-693 and this amendatory Act of the 102nd
General Assembly. Notwithstanding any other provision of law
to the contrary, the conversion of at-large judgeships to

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