Bill Text: IL SJR0066 | 2019-2020 | 101st General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Withdraws the proposed changes to the Revenue Article of the Illinois Constitution contained in SJRCA 1 from the ballot for the general election to be held on November 3, 2020.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Failed) 2021-01-13 - Session Sine Die [SJR0066 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2019-SJR0066-Introduced.html
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| 1 | SENATE JOINT RESOLUTION
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| 2 | WHEREAS, Senate Joint Resolution Constitutional Amendment | ||||||
| 3 | No. 1 proposes to amend the Revenue Article of the Illinois | ||||||
| 4 | Constitution by removing language that requires a uniform rate | ||||||
| 5 | for personal income tax imposed by the State, and by | ||||||
| 6 | authorizing the General Assembly to set by law the rate or | ||||||
| 7 | rates for personal income tax imposed by the State; and
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| 8 | WHEREAS, Senate Joint Resolution Constitutional Amendment | ||||||
| 9 | No. 1 was adopted by a three-fifths majority of the Senate on | ||||||
| 10 | May 1, 2019, and by a three-fifths majority of the House of | ||||||
| 11 | Representatives on May 27, 2019, meeting the requirements of | ||||||
| 12 | subsection (a) of Section 2 of Article XIV of the Illinois | ||||||
| 13 | Constitution to be placed on the ballot at the next general | ||||||
| 14 | election; and
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| 15 | WHEREAS, The proposal to amend the Illinois Constitution | ||||||
| 16 | authorized by Senate Joint Resolution Constitutional Amendment | ||||||
| 17 | No. 1 is scheduled to appear on the general election ballot for | ||||||
| 18 | November 3, 2020; and
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| 19 | WHEREAS, Subsection (a) of Section 2 of Article XIV of the | ||||||
| 20 | Illinois Constitution specifically authorizes proposed | ||||||
| 21 | constitutional amendments adopted by the General Assembly | ||||||
| 22 | under Section 2 of Article XIV of the Illinois Constitution to | ||||||
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| 1 | be removed from the ballot when "withdrawn by a majority of the | ||||||
| 2 | members elected to each house"; therefore, be it
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| 3 | RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE ONE HUNDRED FIRST GENERAL | ||||||
| 4 | ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES | ||||||
| 5 | CONCURRING HEREIN, that the proposal to amend the Illinois | ||||||
| 6 | Constitution authorized by Senate Joint Resolution | ||||||
| 7 | Constitutional Amendment No. 1 is hereby withdrawn from the | ||||||
| 8 | general election ballot for November 3, 2020; and be it further
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| 9 | RESOLVED, That the Governor, the Secretary of State, the | ||||||
| 10 | Illinois State Board of Elections, and all Illinois election | ||||||
| 11 | authorities shall be provided with copies of this resolution.
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