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HB4278 • 2026
PARK DISTRICT BOARD VACANCIES
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PARK DISTRICT BOARD VACANCIES
Rule 19(a) / Re-referred to Rules Committee
Assigned to Ethics & Elections
First Reading
Referred to Rules Committee
Filed with the Clerk by Rep. Rita Mayfield
PARK DISTRICT BOARD VACANCIES
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Full Text of HB4278 Home Legislation Full Text HB4278 - 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 HB4278 Introduced 1/14/2026, by Rep. Rita Mayfield SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED: 70 ILCS 1205/2-25 from Ch. 105, par. 2-25 Amends the Park District Code. Provides that, when the office of a member of the governing board of a park district may be declared vacant, the office is not vacant until the office is declared vacant at a meeting of the members of the board. Provides that the amendatory changes are declaratory of existing law. LRB104 16937 RTM 30351 b A BILL FOR HB4278 LRB104 16937 RTM 30351 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 2-25 as follows: 6 (70 ILCS 1205/2-25) (from Ch. 105, par. 2-25) 7 Sec. 2-25. Vacancies. Whenever any member of the governing 8 board of any park district (i) dies, (ii) resigns, (iii) 9 becomes under legal disability, (iv) ceases to be a legal 10 voter in the district, (v) is convicted in any court located in 11 the United States of any infamous crime, bribery, perjury, or 12 other felony, (vi) refuses or neglects to take his or her oath 13 of office, (vii) neglects to perform the duties of his or her 14 office or attend meetings of the board for the length of time 15 as the board fixes by ordinance, or (viii) for any other reason 16 specified by law, that office may be declared vacant. However, 17 the office is not vacant until the office is declared vacant at 18 a meeting of the members of the board. Vacancies shall be 19 filled by appointment by a majority of the remaining members 20 of the board. Any person so appointed shall hold his or her 21 office until the next regular election for this office, at 22 which a member shall be elected to fill the vacancy for the 23 unexpired term, subject to the following conditions: HB4278 - 2 - LRB104 16937 RTM 30351 b 1 (1) If the vacancy occurs with less than 28 months 2 remaining in the term, the person appointed to fill the 3 vacancy shall hold his or her office until the expiration 4 of the term for which he or she has been appointed, and no 5 election to fill the vacancy shall be held. 6 (2) If the vacancy occurs with more than 28 months 7 left in the term, but less than 151 days before the next 8 regularly scheduled election for this office, the person 9 appointed to fill the vacancy shall hold his or her office 10 until the second regularly scheduled election for the 11 office following the appointment, at which a member shall 12 be elected to fill the vacancy for the unexpired term. 13 The changes made by this amendatory Act of the 104th 14 General Assembly are declaratory of existing law. 15 (Source: P.A. 104-434, eff. 11-21-25.) 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