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104TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2025 and 2026
HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION
CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT
HC0019
Introduced 1/14/2026, by Rep. Ryan Spain - Tony M. McCombie, Norine K. Hammond, Dan Ugaste, Amy Elik, et al.
SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
ILCON Art. IV, Sec. 6
    Proposes to amend the Legislature Article of the Illinois Constitution. Provides that two-thirds of each house shall constitute a quorum to do business, but a smaller number may adjourn from day to day, and compel the attendance of absent members, in such manner and under such penalties as each house may provide (now, a majority of the members elected to each house constitutes a quorum). Effective upon being declared adopted in accordance with Section 7 of the Illinois Constitutional Amendment Act.
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1		HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION
2		CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT
3		    RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE ONE
4		HUNDRED FOURTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, THE
5		SENATE CONCURRING HEREIN, that there shall be submitted to the
6		electors of the State for adoption or rejection at the general
7		election next occurring at least 6 months after the adoption
8		of this resolution a proposition to amend Section 6 of Article
9		I of the Illinois Constitution as follows:
10		ARTICLE IV
11		THE LEGISLATURE
12		    (ILCON Art. IV, Sec. 6)
13		SECTION 6. ORGANIZATION
14		    (a) Two-thirds of each house shall constitute [A majority ]
15		[of the members elected to each house constitutes] a quorum to do 
16		business, but a smaller number may adjourn from day to day, and 
17		compel the attendance of absent members, in such manner and 
18		under such penalties as each house may provide.
19		    (b) On the first day of the January session of the General
20		Assembly in odd-numbered years, the Secretary of State shall
21		convene the House of Representatives to elect from its
22		membership a Speaker of the House of Representatives as
23		presiding officer, and the Governor shall convene the Senate
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1		to elect from its membership a President of the Senate as
2		presiding officer.
3		    (c) For purposes of powers of appointment conferred by
4		this Constitution, the Minority Leader of either house is a
5		member of the numerically strongest political party other than
6		the party to which the Speaker or the President belongs, as the
7		case may be.
8		    (d) Each house shall determine the rules of its
9		proceedings, judge the elections, returns and qualifications
10		of its members and choose its officers. No member shall be
11		expelled by either house, except by a vote of two-thirds of the
12		members elected to that house. A member may be expelled only
13		once for the same offense. Each house may punish by
14		imprisonment any person, not a member, guilty of disrespect to
15		the house by disorderly or contemptuous behavior in its
16		presence. Imprisonment shall not extend beyond twenty-four
17		hours at one time unless the person persists in disorderly or
18		contemptuous behavior.
19		(Source: Illinois Constitution.)
20		SCHEDULE
21		    This Constitutional Amendment takes effect upon being
22		declared adopted in accordance with Section 7 of the Illinois
23		Constitutional Amendment Act.