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. 28, July 12, 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;
1)
			 The State Board of Elections shall prepare and certify the form of ballot to be
			 used at the General Election for all proposed amendments to the Illinois
			 Constitution, submitted either by the General Assembly or initiated by
			 petition, according to the chronological order in which they are filed with the
			 Secretary of State or State Board of Elections, as the case may be.
2) The State Board of Elections shall prepare
			 and certify the form of ballot for statewide questions of public policy
			 according to the chronological order in which they are filed with the State
			 Board of Elections.
3) Petitions
			 filed in the office of the State Board of Elections shall be deemed to be filed
			 as of the time they are actually received by the State Board of Elections. If
			 more than one set of petitions are offered for filing at the same time, such
			 offering shall constitute a simultaneous filing and be subject to a lottery to
			 determine which petition was first filed.
4) There shall be no limit on the number of
			 proposed constitutional amendments initiated by petition to be placed on the
			 ballot at the same election, nor shall there be a limit on the number of
			 proposed constitutional amendments submitted by the General Assembly to be
			 placed on the ballot at the same election except that the State Board of
			 Elections shall not certify amendments to more than three (3) Articles of the
			 Constitution at the same election.