Bill Text: IL SJRCA0007 | 2019-2020 | 101st General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Proposes to amend the Legislature Article of the Illinois Constitution. Provides that appropriation bills shall require passage by a three-fifths vote in each house of the General Assembly. Effective upon being declared adopted.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Failed) 2021-01-13 - Session Sine Die [SJRCA0007 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2019-SJRCA0007-Introduced.html

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101ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2019 and 2020 SENATE JOINT RESOLUTION CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT SC0007 Introduced 2/13/2019, by Sen. Dan McConchie SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
ILCON Art. IV, Sec. 8
Proposes to amend the Legislature Article of the Illinois Constitution. Provides that appropriation bills shall require passage by a three-fifths vote in each house of the General Assembly. Effective upon being declared adopted.
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SENATE JOINT RESOLUTION
CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT
RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE ONE HUNDRED FIRST GENERAL
ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
CONCURRING HEREIN, that there shall be submitted to the
electors of the State for adoption or rejection at the general
election next occurring at least 6 months after the adoption of
this resolution a proposition to amend Section 8 of Article IV
of the Illinois Constitution as follows:
ARTICLE IV
THE LEGISLATURE
(ILCON Art. IV, Sec. 8)
SECTION 8. PASSAGE OF BILLS
(a) The enacting clause of the laws of this State shall be:
"Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly."
(b) The General Assembly shall enact laws only by bill.
Bills may originate in either house, but may be amended or
rejected by the other.
(c) No bill shall become a law without the concurrence of a
majority of the members elected to each house. Final passage of
a bill shall be by record vote. In the Senate at the request of
two members, and in the House at the request of five members, a

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record vote may be taken on any other occasion. A record vote
is a vote by yeas and nays entered on the journal.
(d) A bill shall be read by title on three different days
in each house. A bill and each amendment thereto shall be
reproduced and placed on the desk of each member before final
passage.
Bills, except bills for appropriations and for the
codification, revision or rearrangement of laws, shall be
confined to one subject. Appropriation bills shall be limited
to the subject of appropriations, and shall require passage by
a three-fifths vote in each house of the General Assembly.
A bill expressly amending a law shall set forth completely
the sections amended.
The Speaker of the House of Representatives and the
President of the Senate shall sign each bill that passes both
houses to certify that the procedural requirements for passage
have been met.
(Source: Illinois Constitution.)
SCHEDULE
This Constitutional Amendment takes effect upon being
declared adopted in accordance with Section 7 of the Illinois
Constitutional Amendment Act.