Do Or Die Time For Illinois Term Limits
From the Peoria Journal-Star
It’s crunch time for differing term-limit proposals to get approval to appear on the November ballot as constitutional amendments.
The Commission for Legislative Reform and Term Limits, a Political Action Committee formed by Republican gubernatorial nominee Bruce Rauner sponsors one of the plans, which would limit all state legislators to eight years in the General Assembly. It also would trim the size of the state Senate to 41 seats while boosting the number of seats in the House to 123.
The plan would additionally change the required amount of House and Senate votes needed to override a governor’s veto from a three-fifths vote to two-thirds.
Because the amendment is a petition initiative, the Illinois Constitution requires that it be signed by an amount of registered voters equal to 8 percent of the number of votes cast in the previous gubernatorial election.
That means a little less than 300,000 people need to sign the petition. Rauner recently said he expects to have more than enough signatures to clear any challenges to the petition, but the campaign didn’t return calls asking when they expect to file it.
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From the Peoria Journal-Star
It’s crunch time for differing term-limit proposals to get approval to appear on the November ballot as constitutional amendments.
The Commission for Legislative Reform and Term Limits, a Political Action Committee formed by Republican gubernatorial nominee Bruce Rauner sponsors one of the plans, which would limit all state legislators to eight years in the General Assembly. It also would trim the size of the state Senate to 41 seats while boosting the number of seats in the House to 123.
The plan would additionally change the required amount of House and Senate votes needed to override a governor’s veto from a three-fifths vote to two-thirds.
Because the amendment is a petition initiative, the Illinois Constitution requires that it be signed by an amount of registered voters equal to 8 percent of the number of votes cast in the previous gubernatorial election.
That means a little less than 300,000 people need to sign the petition. Rauner recently said he expects to have more than enough signatures to clear any challenges to the petition, but the campaign didn’t return calls asking when they expect to file it.
Read more in our daily News Update...