104TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2025 and 2026 SB0204 Introduced 1/22/2025, by Sen. Chapin Rose SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED: 705 ILCS 35/2f-14 Amends the Circuit Courts Act. Deletes language providing that certain at-large judgeships of the 6th judicial circuit shall be converted, as they become vacant, to resident judgeships elected from Champaign County and resident judgeships elected from Macon County. LRB104 03748 JRC 13772 b A BILL FOR 104TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2025 and 2026 SB0204 Introduced 1/22/2025, by Sen. Chapin Rose SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED: 705 ILCS 35/2f-14 705 ILCS 35/2f-14 Amends the Circuit Courts Act. Deletes language providing that certain at-large judgeships of the 6th judicial circuit shall be converted, as they become vacant, to resident judgeships elected from Champaign County and resident judgeships elected from Macon County. LRB104 03748 JRC 13772 b LRB104 03748 JRC 13772 b A BILL FOR 104TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2025 and 2026 SB0204 Introduced 1/22/2025, by Sen. Chapin Rose SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED: 705 ILCS 35/2f-14 705 ILCS 35/2f-14 705 ILCS 35/2f-14 Amends the Circuit Courts Act. Deletes language providing that certain at-large judgeships of the 6th judicial circuit shall be converted, as they become vacant, to resident judgeships elected from Champaign County and resident judgeships elected from Macon County. LRB104 03748 JRC 13772 b LRB104 03748 JRC 13772 b LRB104 03748 JRC 13772 b A BILL FOR SB0204LRB104 03748 JRC 13772 b SB0204 LRB104 03748 JRC 13772 b SB0204 LRB104 03748 JRC 13772 b 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. The first 3 that become vacant after 12 January 7, 2022 (the effective date of Public Act 102-693) 13 shall be converted to resident judgeships elected from 14 Champaign County. The remaining two at-large judgeships that 15 become vacant shall be converted to resident judgeships 16 elected from Macon County. Thereafter, persons elected to 17 those resident judgeships shall be residents of the county 18 which elects them. 19 (b) It is the intent of the General Assembly not to create 20 any additional judgeships in the 6th judicial circuit by 21 Public Act 102-693 and this amendatory Act of the 102nd 22 General Assembly. Notwithstanding any other provision of law 23 to the contrary, the conversion of at-large judgeships to 104TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2025 and 2026 SB0204 Introduced 1/22/2025, by Sen. Chapin Rose SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED: 705 ILCS 35/2f-14 705 ILCS 35/2f-14 705 ILCS 35/2f-14 Amends the Circuit Courts Act. Deletes language providing that certain at-large judgeships of the 6th judicial circuit shall be converted, as they become vacant, to resident judgeships elected from Champaign County and resident judgeships elected from Macon County. LRB104 03748 JRC 13772 b LRB104 03748 JRC 13772 b LRB104 03748 JRC 13772 b A BILL FOR 705 ILCS 35/2f-14 LRB104 03748 JRC 13772 b SB0204 LRB104 03748 JRC 13772 b SB0204- 2 -LRB104 03748 JRC 13772 b SB0204 - 2 - LRB104 03748 JRC 13772 b SB0204 - 2 - LRB104 03748 JRC 13772 b SB0204 - 2 - LRB104 03748 JRC 13772 b