Illinois Administrative Code
Title 26 - ELECTIONS
Part 208 - CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS AND STATEWIDE QUESTIONS OF PUBLIC POLICY
Section 208.10 - Certification by the State Board of Elections of Proposed Amendments to the Illinois Constitution and Statewide Questions of Public Policy
Current through Register Vol. 48, No. 12, March 22, 2024
a) WHEREAS, the Illinois Constitution of 1970, Article XIV, Section 2, provides that the General Assembly may initiate amendments to the Constitution and is not limited in the total number of amendments to be submitted to the electorate except in the constitutional restriction of amending not more than three (3) Articles of the Constitution at any one election; and
b) WHEREAS, the Illinois Constitution of 1970, Article XIV, Section 3, provides that amendments to Article IV of the Constitution may be proposed by a petition signed by a number of electors equal in number to at least 8% of the total votes cast for candidates for governor in the preceding gubernatorial election; and
c) WHEREAS, the Election Code (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1979, ch. 46, par. 28-1) provides, in pertinent part, that questions of public policy shall be submitted to the electorate upon receipt of petitions that contain the signatures of 10% of the registered voters in the state except that not more than three (3) propositions shall be submitted at the same election; and
d) WHEREAS, Illinois Revised Statutes, Chapter 46, Section 1-3(12) requires the State Board of Elections to certify the form of ballot for amendments to the Illinois Constitution and for statewide referenda;
e) WHEREFORE, the State Board of Elections shall certify amendments to the Illinois Constitution and statewide questions of public policy as hereinafter set forth;