Bill Text: IL SB3636 | 2017-2018 | 100th General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Amends the Election Code. Requires each candidate to provide to the Board of Elections a notarized certification that he or she has not been convicted of tax fraud and has not been found by any taxing body or court to have intentionally engaged in an act or acts of fraud, deceit, or misrepresentation to achieve a reduction in the amount of taxes due or to avoid paying taxes that would otherwise be owed. Provides that State Board of Elections shall not certify the name of any person who (i) has not filed the certification or (ii) has been convicted of tax fraud or has been found by any taxing body or other unit of government to have intentionally engaged in an act or acts of fraud, deceit, or misrepresentation to achieve a reduction in the amount of taxes due or to avoid paying taxes that would otherwise be owed. Requires the State Board of Elections to generate a list of all such candidates and transmit that list to the election authority.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Failed) 2019-01-09 - Session Sine Die [SB3636 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2017-SB3636-Introduced.html
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| 1 | AN ACT concerning elections.
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| 2 | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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| 3 | represented in the General Assembly:
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| 4 | Section 5. The Election Code is amended by adding Section | |||||||||||||||||||
| 5 | 1-18 as follows:
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| 6 | (10 ILCS 5/1-18 new) | |||||||||||||||||||
| 7 | Sec. 1-18. Ballot forfeiture; indebtedness. | |||||||||||||||||||
| 8 | (a) No later than 30 days before the date required for | |||||||||||||||||||
| 9 | certification, each candidate shall provide to the Board of | |||||||||||||||||||
| 10 | Elections a notarized certification, sworn under penalty of | |||||||||||||||||||
| 11 | perjury, that he or she has not been convicted of tax fraud and | |||||||||||||||||||
| 12 | has not been found by any taxing body or court to have | |||||||||||||||||||
| 13 | intentionally engaged in an act or acts of fraud, deceit, or | |||||||||||||||||||
| 14 | misrepresentation to achieve a reduction in the amount of taxes | |||||||||||||||||||
| 15 | due or to avoid paying taxes that would otherwise be owed. | |||||||||||||||||||
| 16 | (b) The State Board of Elections shall not certify the name | |||||||||||||||||||
| 17 | of any person who (i) has not filed the certification required | |||||||||||||||||||
| 18 | by subsection (a) or (ii) has been convicted of tax fraud or | |||||||||||||||||||
| 19 | has been found by any taxing body or other unit of government | |||||||||||||||||||
| 20 | to have intentionally engaged in an act or acts of fraud, | |||||||||||||||||||
| 21 | deceit, or misrepresentation to achieve a reduction in the | |||||||||||||||||||
| 22 | amount of taxes due or to avoid paying taxes that would | |||||||||||||||||||
| 23 | otherwise be owed. | |||||||||||||||||||
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| 1 | (c) The State Board of Elections shall generate a list of | ||||||
| 2 | all candidates specified in subsection (b). Such list shall be | ||||||
| 3 | transmitted to any election authority whose duty it is to place | ||||||
| 4 | the name of any such candidate on the ballot. The election | ||||||
| 5 | authority shall not place upon the ballot the name of any | ||||||
| 6 | candidate who has been convicted of tax fraud or who has been | ||||||
| 7 | found by any taxing body or other unit of government to have | ||||||
| 8 | intentionally engaged in an act or acts of fraud, deceit, or | ||||||
| 9 | misrepresentation to achieve a reduction in the amount of taxes | ||||||
| 10 | due or to avoid paying taxes that would otherwise be owed.
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