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<title>Illinois General Assembly - Bill Status for HB 1561         </title>
<shortdesc>ELEC CD-PETITION GENERATOR</shortdesc>
<sponsor>
<sponsorhead1>House Sponsors</sponsorhead1><sponsors>Rep. Keith R. Wheeler-Mark Batinick-Steven A. Andersson, Margo McDermed, Grant Wehrli, Brian W. Stewart, Christine Winger, Thomas M. Bennett and Randy E. Frese</sponsors>
</sponsor>
<lastaction>
<statusdate>1/10/2017</statusdate><chamber>House</chamber><action>Session Sine Die</action>
</lastaction>
<synopsis>
<synopsistitle></synopsistitle>
<reference>10 ILCS 5/7-10.4 new</reference><aliasreference></aliasreference><SynopsisText>     Amends the Election Code. Provides that the State Board of Elections shall produce an online petition packet generation system that allows a potential candidate to enter the appropriate information and select the office for which he or she wishes to run and the system will generate all of the appropriate forms with the accurate formatting and information. Provides that no petitions created by the State Board's online petition packet generation system may be challenged on the basis of formatting or other technicalities.</SynopsisText></synopsis>
<actions>
<statusdate>2/9/2015</statusdate><chamber>House</chamber><action>Filed with the Clerk by Rep. Keith R. Wheeler</action>
<statusdate>2/9/2015</statusdate><chamber>House</chamber><action>First Reading</action>
<statusdate>2/9/2015</statusdate><chamber>House</chamber><action>Referred to Rules Committee</action>
<statusdate>2/19/2015</statusdate><chamber>House</chamber><action>Added Chief Co-Sponsor Rep. Mark Batinick</action>
<statusdate>2/19/2015</statusdate><chamber>House</chamber><action>Added Chief Co-Sponsor Rep. Steven A. Andersson</action>
<statusdate>2/20/2015</statusdate><chamber>House</chamber><action>Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Margo McDermed</action>
<statusdate>2/20/2015</statusdate><chamber>House</chamber><action>Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Grant Wehrli</action>
<statusdate>2/20/2015</statusdate><chamber>House</chamber><action>Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Brian W. Stewart</action>
<statusdate>2/24/2015</statusdate><chamber>House</chamber><action>Assigned to Executive Committee</action>
<statusdate>3/10/2015</statusdate><chamber>House</chamber><action>Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Christine Winger</action>
<statusdate>3/10/2015</statusdate><chamber>House</chamber><action>Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Thomas M. Bennett</action>
<statusdate>3/12/2015</statusdate><chamber>House</chamber><action>Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Randy E. Frese</action>
<statusdate>3/27/2015</statusdate><chamber>House</chamber><action>Rule 19(a) / Re-referred to Rules Committee</action>
<statusdate>1/10/2017</statusdate><chamber>House</chamber><action>Session Sine Die</action>
</actions>
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