or Login to see your representatives.

Access Candidates' and Representatives' Biographies, Voting Records, Interest Group Ratings, Issue Positions, Public Statements, and Campaign Finances

Simply enter your zip code above to get to all of your candidates and representatives, or enter a name. Then, just click on the person you are interested in, and you can navigate to the categories of information we track for them.

[x] close
Print Track This Legislation

Key Votes

SJRCA 70 - Constitutional Amendment to recall certain elected officials - Key Vote

Illinois Key Votes

Debbie Halvorson voted Yea (Passage With Amendment) on this legislation.

Read recent statements Debbie Halvorson made in this general time period.

Stages

Family

Issues

Stage Details

Constitutional Amendment - Bill Failed (Senate) (33-19) - (Key vote)

Title: Constitutional Amendment to recall certain elected officials

Vote Smart's Synopsis:

Vote to pass a joint resolution that proposes a constitutional amendment to allow citizens of Illinois to recall elected officials.

Highlights:
-Requires that petitions to recall executive branch officers must have signatures of 12% of the electorate, and petitions to recall General Assembly members or judges must have signatures of 20% of the district’s voters (Article III Sec. 4.1). -Establishes that recall elections will be held 60-80 days after the petition is presented for recall, or within 180 days to coincide with a regular election (Article III Sec. 4.2). -Declares that if a recall of an officer fails, no recall may be initiated against that officer for 6 months (Article III Sec. 4.5).
Note:

NOTE: AN AMENDMENT TO THE CONSTITUTION REQUIRES THREE-FIFTHS APPROVAL IN EACH CHAMBER FOR PASSAGE. IT MUST THEN BE APPROVED BY A MAJORITY OF CITIZENS VOTING IN THE NEXT ELECTION TO BECOME ENACTED.

See The Voting Record

Constitutional Amendment - Introduced (Senate) -

Title: Constitutional Amendment to recall certain elected officals

Sponsors

  • Dan Cronin (IL - R) (Out Of Office)

Co-sponsors

About Project Vote Smart

Help Us If You Can

Media & Communications

Education

For Candidates

One Common Ground, Philipsburg, MT 59858 Hotline: 888-Vote-Smart (888-868-3762)
All content © 1992 - 2013 Project Vote Smart unless otherwise attributed - Privacy Policy - Legislative demographic data provided by Aristotle International, Inc. Mobile Version

Back to top