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HB1591 • 2026
PARK COMMISSIONER ELECTIONS
This bill passed both chambers and reached final enrollment, even if later executive action is not shown here.
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PARK COMMISSIONER ELECTIONS
Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Michael J. Coffey, Jr.
Rule 19(a) / Re-referred to Rules Committee
Assigned to Ethics & Elections
Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Diane Blair-Sherlock
Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Michelle Mussman
Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Norma Hernandez
Rule 19(a) / Re-referred to Rules Committee
Assigned to Ethics & Elections
Added Chief Co-Sponsor Rep. Janet Yang Rohr
First Reading
Referred to Rules Committee
Filed with the Clerk by Rep. Anne Stava
PARK COMMISSIONER ELECTIONS
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Full Text of HB1591 Home Legislation Full Text HB1591 - 104th General Assembly Bill Status Full Text Votes Witness Slips Select Menu Bill Status Full Text Votes Witness Slips Printer Friendly Version Introduced Printer Friendly Version Introduced Open PDF 104TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2025 and 2026 HB1591 Introduced 1/28/2025, by Rep. Anne Stava-Murray SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED: 70 ILCS 1205/2-11 from Ch. 105, par. 2-11 Amends the Park District Code. Provides that no candidate for the office of park commissioner in any General Park District shall be required to file more than 300 petition signatures from qualified voters of the district. LRB104 08308 RTM 18359 b A BILL FOR HB1591 LRB104 08308 RTM 18359 b 1 AN ACT concerning local government. 2 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, 3 represented in the General Assembly: 4 Section 5. The Park District Code is amended by changing 5 Section 2-11 as follows: 6 (70 ILCS 1205/2-11) (from Ch. 105, par. 2-11) 7 Sec. 2-11. No person shall be eligible to serve as park 8 commissioner unless that person is a qualified elector of the 9 park district and has resided therein at least one year prior 10 to election or appointment. 11 A person is not eligible to serve as park commissioner if 12 that person is in arrears in the payment of a tax or other 13 indebtedness due to the park district or has been convicted in 14 any court located in the United States of any infamous crime, 15 bribery, perjury, or other felony. 16 Nominations of candidates for the office of park 17 commissioners in any General Park District at all succeeding 18 elections shall be made by petition signed in the aggregate 19 for each candidate by qualified voters of such district, equal 20 in number to not less than 2% of the number who voted at the 21 last preceding election for commissioners in such district, 22 but in no case by less than 25 of such voters. Notwithstanding 23 any other provisions of this Section, no candidate shall be HB1591 - 2 - LRB104 08308 RTM 18359 b 1 required to file more than 300 petition signatures from such 2 voters. The petition shall be filed with the secretary of the 3 district. 4 In all General Park Districts the secretary of the district 5 shall, in the manner and at the time prescribed by the general 6 election law certify to the proper election authorities the 7 name or names of the candidate or candidates so nominated. The 8 ballot shall have no political party name, platform or 9 principle thereon designated, nor shall any party circle be 10 printed upon the ballot. Where voting machines or electronic 11 voting systems are used, the provisions of this Section may be 12 modified as required or authorized by the general election 13 law. 14 (Source: P.A. 96-458, eff. 8-14-09.) 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