Rep. Charles E. Jefferson
Filed: 4/7/2005
 
 

 




 

 		












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AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 1337




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    AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 1337 by replacing 
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everything after the enacting clause with the following:

 
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    "Section 5. The Election Code is amended  by changing 
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Section 17-15 as follows:
 



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    (10 ILCS 5/17-15)  (from Ch. 46, par. 17-15)



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    Sec. 17-15. Time off work to vote.  If a registered voter 
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does not have sufficient time outside of his or her working 
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hours within which to vote at any regular election, the voter 
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may, without loss of pay for up to 2 hours, take off so much 
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working time as will, when added to the voter's voting time 
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outside of working hours, enable the voter to vote.
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    If an employee has 4 consecutive hours either between the 
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opening of the polls and the beginning of the working shift or 
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between the end of the working shift and the closing of the 
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polls, the voter shall be deemed to have sufficient time 
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outside working hours within which to vote. If the voter has 
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less than 4 consecutive hours, the voter may take off so much 
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working time as will when added to the voting time outside of 
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working hours enable the voter to vote, but not more than 2 
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hours of which shall be without loss of pay; provided that the 
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voter shall be allowed time off for voting only at the 
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beginning or end of his or her working shift, as the employer 
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may designate, unless otherwise mutually agreed.
 


 






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    If the employee requires working time off to vote, the 
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voter shall notify his or her employer prior to the day before 
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the election that the voter requires time off to vote in 
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accordance with the provisions of this Section.
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    Not less than 10 working days before every election, every 
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employer shall post conspicuously in the place of work where it 
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can be seen as employees come or go to their place of work a 
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notice, to be prepared or  approved by the Director of the 
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Illinois Department of Labor, setting forth the provisions of 
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this Section.  The notice shall be kept posted until the close 
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of the polls on election day.
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    An employer shall not be obligated to pay the employee for 
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time off to vote unless the employee presents to the employer a 
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voter's receipt or other proof that the voter did, in fact, 
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vote on the election day.
Any person entitled to vote at a 
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general or special election or
at any election at which 
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propositions are submitted to a popular vote in
this State, 
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shall, on the day of such election, be entitled to absent

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himself from any services or employment in which he is then 
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engaged or
employed, for a period of 2 hours between the time 
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of opening and closing
the polls; and such voter shall not 
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because of so absenting himself be
liable to any penalty; 
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Provided, however, that application for such leave
of absence 
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shall be made prior to the day of election. The employer may

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specify the hours during which said employee may absent himself 
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as
aforesaid. No person or corporation shall refuse to an 
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employee the
privilege hereby conferred, nor shall subject an 
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employee to a penalty
because of the exercise of such 
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privilege, nor shall directly or indirectly
violate the 
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provisions of this section.

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(Source: Laws 1963, p. 2532.)

 

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    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon 
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becoming law.".