104TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2025 and 2026 SB0180 Introduced 1/17/2025, by Sen. Paul Faraci SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED: 705 ILCS 35/2f-14 Amends the Circuit Courts Act. Provides, in a provision concerning resident judgeships of the 6th judicial circuit, that when a vacancy occurs in an at-large judgeship, the at-large judgeship shall be converted to a resident judgeship for either Champaign County or Macon County, depending on which of those 2 counties the incumbent at-large circuit judge resided in when the incumbent judge was elected. Effective immediately. LRB104 08658 JRC 18712 b A BILL FOR 104TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2025 and 2026 SB0180 Introduced 1/17/2025, by Sen. Paul Faraci SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED: 705 ILCS 35/2f-14 705 ILCS 35/2f-14 Amends the Circuit Courts Act. Provides, in a provision concerning resident judgeships of the 6th judicial circuit, that when a vacancy occurs in an at-large judgeship, the at-large judgeship shall be converted to a resident judgeship for either Champaign County or Macon County, depending on which of those 2 counties the incumbent at-large circuit judge resided in when the incumbent judge was elected. Effective immediately. LRB104 08658 JRC 18712 b LRB104 08658 JRC 18712 b A BILL FOR
104TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2025 and 2026 SB0180 Introduced 1/17/2025, by Sen. Paul Faraci SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
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Amends the Circuit Courts Act. Provides, in a provision concerning resident judgeships of the 6th judicial circuit, that when a vacancy occurs in an at-large judgeship, the at-large judgeship shall be converted to a resident judgeship for either Champaign County or Macon County, depending on which of those 2 counties the incumbent at-large circuit judge resided in when the incumbent judge was elected. Effective immediately.
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1 AN ACT concerning courts.
2 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3 represented in the General Assembly:
4 Section 5. The Circuit Courts Act is amended by changing
5 Section 2f-14 as follows:
6 (705 ILCS 35/2f-14)
7 Sec. 2f-14. 6th judicial circuit; resident judgeships.
8 (a) The at-large judgeships of the 6th judicial circuit
9 existing on January 7, 2022 shall be converted to resident
10 judgeships as provided in this subsection as those judgeships
11 are or become vacant. When a vacancy occurs in an at-large
12 judgeship of the 6th judicial circuit, the at-large judgeship
13 shall be converted to a resident judgeship for either
14 Champaign County or Macon County, depending on which of those
15 2 counties the incumbent at-large circuit judge resided in
16 when the incumbent judge was elected. The first 3 that become
17 vacant after January 7, 2022 (the effective date of Public Act
18 102-693) shall be converted to resident judgeships elected
19 from Champaign County. The remaining two at-large judgeships
20 that become vacant shall be converted to resident judgeships
21 elected from Macon County. Thereafter, persons elected to
22 those resident judgeships shall be residents of the county
23 which elects them.
104TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2025 and 2026 SB0180 Introduced 1/17/2025, by Sen. Paul Faraci SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
705 ILCS 35/2f-14 705 ILCS 35/2f-14
705 ILCS 35/2f-14
Amends the Circuit Courts Act. Provides, in a provision concerning resident judgeships of the 6th judicial circuit, that when a vacancy occurs in an at-large judgeship, the at-large judgeship shall be converted to a resident judgeship for either Champaign County or Macon County, depending on which of those 2 counties the incumbent at-large circuit judge resided in when the incumbent judge was elected. Effective immediately.
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1 (b) It is the intent of the General Assembly not to create
2 any additional judgeships in the 6th judicial circuit by
3 Public Act 102-693 and this amendatory Act of the 102nd
4 General Assembly. Notwithstanding any other provision of law
5 to the contrary, the conversion of at-large judgeships to
6 resident judgeships under subsection (a) of this Section shall
7 not entitle the 6th judicial circuit to any additional circuit
8 judgeships elected at-large.
9 (Source: P.A. 102-693, eff. 1-7-22; 102-1126, eff. 2-10-23.)
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