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Bill	COURTS-23RD JUDICIAL CIRCUIT	Amends the Circuit Courts Act. Provides that in the 23rd judicial circuit, there shall be no at large circuit judgeships and only resident circuit judges shall be elected as provided in the Act. Adds the 23rd judicial circuit as an exception, along with Cook County, to the provision that provides that 4 circuit judges shall be elected in any circuit in which there is situated any State institution providing educational or welfare facilities for more than 25,000 persons. Makes other changes. Effective immediately.	us/states/il	Illinois General Assembly	97th	HB 4991	Illinois HB 4991 (97th)	bill		enacted		3	30	2	2012-02-06	2012-08-24	openstates	ocd-bill/ccaf790e-664f-46bb-b1ff-50c7d20657e6	http://ilga.gov/legislation/BillStatus.asp?DocNum=4991&GAID=11&DocTypeID=HB&LegId=64916&SessionID=84&GA=97	1951cd77ac3dc799abf7973160b18580163352d531b04b2c3105dd18af46849d	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-il

Illinois HB 4991 (97th) — COURTS-23RD JUDICIAL CIRCUIT

Amends the Circuit Courts Act. Provides that in the 23rd judicial circuit, there shall be no at large circuit judgeships and only resident circuit judges shall be elected as provided in the Act. Adds the 23rd judicial circuit as an exception, along with Cook County, to the provision that provides that 4 circuit judges shall be elected in any circuit in which there is situated any State institution providing educational or welfare facilities for more than 25,000 persons. Makes other changes. Effective immediately.

Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. Introduced (filed) — source
2. Engrossed (committee substitute) — source
3. Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Third Reading — 110–0 (pass) · lower
• Third Reading — 51–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Tom Cross — primary (person)

Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

• 2012-02-06 Filed with the Clerk by Rep. Tom Cross filing
• 2012-02-06 First Reading reading-1
• 2012-02-06 Referred to Rules Committee referral-committee
• 2012-02-15 Assigned to Judiciary I - Civil Law Committee referral-committee
• 2012-02-22 Do Pass / Short Debate Judiciary I - Civil Law Committee; 010-000-000 committee-passage
• 2012-02-22 Placed on Calendar 2nd Reading - Short Debate
• 2012-03-02 House Floor Amendment No. 1 Filed with Clerk by Rep. Tom Cross amendment-introduction
• 2012-03-02 House Floor Amendment No. 1 Referred to Rules Committee referral-committee
• 2012-03-21 Second Reading - Short Debate reading-2
• 2012-03-21 Placed on Calendar Order of 3rd Reading - Short Debate
• 2012-03-22 Third Reading - Short Debate - Passed 110-000-000 reading-3, passage
• 2012-03-22 House Floor Amendment No. 1 Tabled Pursuant to Rule 40 amendment-failure
• 2012-03-22 Arrive in Senate introduction
• 2012-03-22 Placed on Calendar Order of First Reading March 23, 2012 reading-1
• 2012-03-26 Chief Senate Sponsor Sen. John J. Cullerton
• 2012-03-27 First Reading reading-1
• 2012-03-27 Referred to Assignments referral-committee
• 2012-04-11 Assigned to Executive referral-committee
• 2012-04-18 Do Pass Executive; 011-000-000 committee-passage
• 2012-04-18 Placed on Calendar Order of 2nd Reading April 19, 2012
• 2012-05-18 Second Reading reading-2
• 2012-05-18 Placed on Calendar Order of 3rd Reading May 21, 2012
• 2012-05-24 Alternate Chief Sponsor Changed to Sen. Kwame Raoul
• 2012-05-25 Rule 2-10 Third Reading Deadline Established As May 31, 2012 reading-3
• 2012-05-28 Third Reading - Passed; 051-000-001 reading-3, passage
• 2012-05-28 Passed Both Houses
• 2012-06-26 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2012-08-24 Governor Approved executive-signature
• 2012-08-24 Effective Date August 24, 2012
• 2012-08-24 Public Act . . . . . . . . . 97-1069 became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/ccaf790e-664f-46bb-b1ff-50c7d20657e6. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Illinois legislature records).