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SB3088 • 2026
ELEC CD-POLLING PLACES
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ELEC CD-POLLING PLACES
Rule 3-9(a) / Re-referred to Assignments
Rule 2-10 Committee/3rd Reading Deadline Established As May 22, 2026
Rule 2-10 Committee/3rd Reading Deadline Established As May 15, 2026
Rule 2-10 Committee Deadline Established As April 24, 2026
Rule 2-10 Committee Deadline Established As March 27, 2026
To Elections
Assigned to Executive
Filed with Secretary by Sen. Ram Villivalam
First Reading
Referred to Assignments
ELEC CD-POLLING PLACES
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Full Text of SB3088 Home Legislation Full Text SB3088 - 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 SB3088 Introduced 1/29/2026, by Sen. Ram Villivalam SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED: 10 ILCS 5/11-4.1 from Ch. 46, par. 11-4.1 Amends the Election Code. Provides that, before submitting a request to a school district for use of a school building as a polling place, the county board or board of election commissioners shall evaluate all other suitable alternatives before choosing a school as a polling place. LRB104 20267 SPS 33718 b A BILL FOR SB3088 LRB104 20267 SPS 33718 b 1 AN ACT concerning elections. 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 11-4.1 as follows: 6 (10 ILCS 5/11-4.1) (from Ch. 46, par. 11-4.1) 7 Sec. 11-4.1. (a) In appointing polling places under this 8 Article, the county board or board of election commissioners 9 shall, insofar as they are convenient and available, use 10 schools and other public buildings as polling places. 11 (a-5) Before submitting a request to a school district for 12 use of a school building as a polling place, the county board 13 or board of election commissioners shall evaluate all other 14 suitable alternatives before choosing a school as a polling 15 place. 16 (b) Upon request of the county board or board of election 17 commissioners, the proper agency of government (including 18 school districts and units of local government) shall make a 19 public building under its control available for use as a 20 polling place on an election day and for a reasonably 21 necessary time before and after election day, without charge. 22 If the county board or board of election commissioners chooses 23 a school to be a polling place, then the school district must SB3088 - 2 - LRB104 20267 SPS 33718 b 1 make the school available for use as a polling place. However, 2 for the day of the election, a school district is encouraged to 3 (i) close the school or (ii) hold a teachers institute on that 4 day with students not in attendance. 5 (c) A government agency which makes a public building 6 under its control available for use as a polling place shall 7 (i) ensure the portion of the building to be used as the 8 polling place is accessible to voters with disabilities and 9 elderly voters and (ii) allow the election authority to 10 administer the election as authorized under this Code. 11 (d) If a qualified elector's precinct polling place is a 12 school and the elector will be unable to enter that polling 13 place without violating Section 11-9.3 of the Criminal Code of 14 2012 because the elector is a child sex offender as defined in 15 Section 11-9.3 of the Criminal Code of 2012, that elector may 16 vote by a vote by mail ballot in accordance with Article 19 of 17 this Code or may vote early in accordance with Article 19A of 18 this Code. 19 (Source: P.A. 98-773, eff. 7-18-14; 98-1171, eff. 6-1-15; 20 99-143, eff. 7-27-15.) 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