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92_HB3145enr
HB3145 Enrolled LRB9203112JMmb
1 AN ACT concerning presidential electors.
2 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3 represented in the General Assembly:
4 Section 5. The Election Code is amended by changing
5 Section 21-4 as follows:
6 (10 ILCS 5/21-4) (from Ch. 46, par. 21-4)
7 Sec. 21-4. Presidential electors; meeting; allowance. The
8 electors, elected under this Article as aforesaid, shall meet
9 at the office of the Secretary of State in a room to be
10 designated by the Secretary him in the Capitol at Springfield
11 in this State, at the time appointed by the laws of the
12 United States at the hour of ten o'clock in the forenoon of
13 that such day, and give their votes for President and for
14 Vice-President of the United States, in the manner herein
15 provided in this Article, and perform such duties as are or
16 may be required by law. Each elector shall receive an
17 allowance for food and lodging equal to the amount per day
18 permitted to be deducted for such expenses under the Internal
19 Revenue Code, plus a mileage allowance at the rate in effect
20 under regulations promulgated pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 5707(b)(2)
21 for the number of highway miles necessarily and conveniently
22 traveled, for every 20 miles necessary travel in going to the
23 seat of government to give his or her vote and returning to
24 his or her residence and otherwise performing the official
25 duties of an elector, to be computed by the most usual route,
26 the sum of $3, to be paid on the warrant of the State
27 Comptroller, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise
28 appropriated, and any person appointed by the electors
29 assembled to fill a vacancy shall also receive the allowances
30 compensation provided for electors appointed.
31 (Source: P.A. 78-592.)
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