House Voting Device Act (25 ILCS 20/)

Chapter 25 — Legislature

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Sec. 0.01. Short title

This Act may be cited as the House Voting Device Act.

(Source: P.A. 86-1324.)

Sec. 1.

When a vote is being taken on any bill, resolution, motion or other proposition requiring the vote of the House of Representatives by means of the voting device in the House of Representatives no person other than a regularly qualified member of the House of Representatives shall at any time cause a vote to be recorded on such voting device whether by means of any voting switch or otherwise.

(Source: Laws 1951, p. 88.)

Sec. 2.

Whoever with malicious intent violates any provision of this Act shall be guilty of a Class B misdemeanor.

(Source: P.A. 77-2521.)

Sec. 3.

All complaints, complaining of the violation of terms of this Act must be filed in the circuit court of Sangamon County, Illinois, by the Speaker of the House of Representatives only after he has been authorized by a vote of 89 members of the House of Representatives.

(Source: Laws 1967, p. 3900.)