103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2023 and 2024 SENATE JOINT RESOLUTION CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT SC0007 Introduced 3/7/2023, by Sen. Jason Plummer SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED: ILCON Art. IV, Sec. 8 Proposes to amend the Legislature Article of the Illinois Constitution. Provides that final passage of a bill or amendment, except bills for appropriations, may not occur until at least 24 hours after being introduced. Provides that final passage of bills for appropriations may not occur until at least 72 hours after being introduced. Effective upon being declared adopted. LRB103 24968 DTM 51302 e 103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2023 and 2024 SENATE JOINT RESOLUTION CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT SC0007 Introduced 3/7/2023, by Sen. Jason Plummer SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED: ILCON Art. IV, Sec. 8 ILCON Art. IV, Sec. 8 Proposes to amend the Legislature Article of the Illinois Constitution. Provides that final passage of a bill or amendment, except bills for appropriations, may not occur until at least 24 hours after being introduced. Provides that final passage of bills for appropriations may not occur until at least 72 hours after being introduced. Effective upon being declared adopted. LRB103 24968 DTM 51302 e LRB103 24968 DTM 51302 e
103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2023 and 2024 SENATE JOINT RESOLUTION CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT SC0007 Introduced 3/7/2023, by Sen. Jason Plummer SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
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ILCON Art. IV, Sec. 8
Proposes to amend the Legislature Article of the Illinois Constitution. Provides that final passage of a bill or amendment, except bills for appropriations, may not occur until at least 24 hours after being introduced. Provides that final passage of bills for appropriations may not occur until at least 72 hours after being introduced. Effective upon being declared adopted.
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1 SENATE JOINT RESOLUTION
2 CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT
3 RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE ONE HUNDRED THIRD GENERAL
4 ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, THE HOUSE OF
5 REPRESENTATIVES CONCURRING HEREIN, that there shall be
6 submitted to the electors of the State for adoption or
7 rejection at the general election next occurring at least 6
8 months after the adoption of this resolution a proposition to
9 amend Article IV of the Illinois Constitution by changing
10 Section 8 as follows:
11 ARTICLE IV
12 THE LEGISLATURE
13 (ILCON Art. IV, Sec. 8)
14 SECTION 8. PASSAGE OF BILLS
15 (a) The enacting clause of the laws of this State shall be:
16 "Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
17 represented in the General Assembly."
18 (b) The General Assembly shall enact laws only by bill.
19 Bills may originate in either house, but may be amended or
20 rejected by the other.
21 (c) No bill shall become a law without the concurrence of a
22 majority of the members elected to each house. Final passage
23 of a bill shall be by record vote. In the Senate at the request
103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2023 and 2024 SENATE JOINT RESOLUTION CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT SC0007 Introduced 3/7/2023, by Sen. Jason Plummer SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
ILCON Art. IV, Sec. 8 ILCON Art. IV, Sec. 8
ILCON Art. IV, Sec. 8
Proposes to amend the Legislature Article of the Illinois Constitution. Provides that final passage of a bill or amendment, except bills for appropriations, may not occur until at least 24 hours after being introduced. Provides that final passage of bills for appropriations may not occur until at least 72 hours after being introduced. Effective upon being declared adopted.
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1 of two members, and in the House at the request of five
2 members, a record vote may be taken on any other occasion. A
3 record vote is a vote by yeas and nays entered on the journal.
4 (d) A bill shall be read by title on three different days
5 in each house. A bill and each amendment thereto shall be
6 reproduced and placed on the desk of each member before final
7 passage. Final passage of a bill or amendment, except bills
8 for appropriations, may not occur until at least 24 hours
9 after being introduced. Final passage of bills for
10 appropriations may not occur until at least 72 hours after
11 being introduced.
12 Bills, except bills for appropriations and for the
13 codification, revision or rearrangement of laws, shall be
14 confined to one subject. Appropriation bills shall be limited
15 to the subject of appropriations.
16 A bill expressly amending a law shall set forth completely
17 the sections amended.
18 The Speaker of the House of Representatives and the
19 President of the Senate shall sign each bill that passes both
20 houses to certify that the procedural requirements for passage
21 have been met.
22 (Source: Illinois Constitution.)
23 SCHEDULE
24 This Constitutional Amendment takes effect upon being
25 declared adopted in accordance with Section 7 of the Illinois
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1 Constitutional Amendment Act.
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