104TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2025 and 2026 HB1205 Introduced , by Rep. David Friess SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED: 10 ILCS 5/6-17 from Ch. 46, par. 6-17 Amends the Election Code. Provides that the county board or board of county commissioners of a county with a population of less than 100,000 may, by ordinance or resolution, dissolve a municipal board of election commissioners within that county and transfer its functions to the county clerk. LRB104 03621 SPS 13645 b A BILL FOR 104TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2025 and 2026 HB1205 Introduced , by Rep. David Friess SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED: 10 ILCS 5/6-17 from Ch. 46, par. 6-17 10 ILCS 5/6-17 from Ch. 46, par. 6-17 Amends the Election Code. Provides that the county board or board of county commissioners of a county with a population of less than 100,000 may, by ordinance or resolution, dissolve a municipal board of election commissioners within that county and transfer its functions to the county clerk. LRB104 03621 SPS 13645 b LRB104 03621 SPS 13645 b A BILL FOR 104TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2025 and 2026 HB1205 Introduced , by Rep. David Friess SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED: 10 ILCS 5/6-17 from Ch. 46, par. 6-17 10 ILCS 5/6-17 from Ch. 46, par. 6-17 10 ILCS 5/6-17 from Ch. 46, par. 6-17 Amends the Election Code. Provides that the county board or board of county commissioners of a county with a population of less than 100,000 may, by ordinance or resolution, dissolve a municipal board of election commissioners within that county and transfer its functions to the county clerk. LRB104 03621 SPS 13645 b LRB104 03621 SPS 13645 b LRB104 03621 SPS 13645 b A BILL FOR HB1205LRB104 03621 SPS 13645 b HB1205 LRB104 03621 SPS 13645 b HB1205 LRB104 03621 SPS 13645 b 1 AN ACT concerning elections. 2 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, 3 represented in the General Assembly: 4 Section 5. The Election Code is amended by changing 5 Section 6-17 as follows: 6 (10 ILCS 5/6-17) (from Ch. 46, par. 6-17) 7 Sec. 6-17. Dissolution. 8 (a) Except as provided in subsection (b), whenever 9 Whenever 1,000 of the legal voters in a city of 250,000 10 population or less where this Article 6 and Articles 14 and 18 11 of this Act or the Act of which they are a continuation have 12 been adopted shall petition the circuit court in the county in 13 which such city is located to submit to a vote of the electors 14 of such city the proposition as to whether such city and the 15 electors thereof shall reject the Articles, the court shall 16 enter an order of record approving such petition and thereupon 17 the court shall submit such proposition to the legal voters of 18 such city at the next succeeding general, state, county or 19 municipal election to be held in such county in not less than 20 30 days after the entry of such order. If 1,000 shall exceed 21 one-eighth of the legal voters of any such city then such 22 petition need not be signed or made by more than one-eighth of 23 the legal voters of such city. Notice of election shall be 104TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2025 and 2026 HB1205 Introduced , by Rep. David Friess SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED: 10 ILCS 5/6-17 from Ch. 46, par. 6-17 10 ILCS 5/6-17 from Ch. 46, par. 6-17 10 ILCS 5/6-17 from Ch. 46, par. 6-17 Amends the Election Code. Provides that the county board or board of county commissioners of a county with a population of less than 100,000 may, by ordinance or resolution, dissolve a municipal board of election commissioners within that county and transfer its functions to the county clerk. LRB104 03621 SPS 13645 b LRB104 03621 SPS 13645 b LRB104 03621 SPS 13645 b A BILL FOR 10 ILCS 5/6-17 from Ch. 46, par. 6-17 LRB104 03621 SPS 13645 b HB1205 LRB104 03621 SPS 13645 b HB1205- 2 -LRB104 03621 SPS 13645 b HB1205 - 2 - LRB104 03621 SPS 13645 b HB1205 - 2 - LRB104 03621 SPS 13645 b HB1205 - 2 - LRB104 03621 SPS 13645 b