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KCTCS was founded as part of the Postsecondary Improvement Act of 1997 (House Bill 1), signed by former Kentucky Governor Paul E. Patton, to create a new institution to replace the University of Kentucky's Community College System and the Kentucky Department of Education's network of technical schools. The Kentucky Fire Commission, a separate ...
December 2, 1822 4 Thomas Mather: Democratic-Republican: 4th November 15, 1824 5 David Blackwell: Democratic: January 2, 1826 6 John McLean: Democratic: 5th December 4, 1826 6th 7 William Lee D. Ewing: Democratic: 7th December 6, 1830 8 Alexander M. Jenkins: Democratic: 8th December 6, 1832 9 James Semple: Democratic: 9th December 1, 1834 10th ...
The Illinois House of Representatives is the lower house of the Illinois General Assembly.The body was created by the first Illinois Constitution adopted in 1818. The House under the current constitution as amended in 1980 consists of 118 representatives elected from individual legislative districts for two-year terms with no limits; redistricted every 10 years, based on the 2010 U.S. census ...
The 102nd Illinois General Assembly, consisting of the Illinois House and Illinois Senate, convened on January 13, 2021, [1] and adjourned sine die on January 10, 2023. Over that period, it was in session for a total of 112 days. [2] The membership of the 102nd General Assembly was decided by the 2020 elections. The election resulted in the ...
The Illinois House has 118 members who are elected every two years. A simple majority of 60 votes is required to pass a bill; a 60% supermajority is required to override a veto or propose a constitutional amendment. The composition of the 93rd House reflects the results of the 2002 election, in which the Democrats maintained their majority.
The new maps for the Illinois House and Senate districts were signed into law by the governor on June 3, 2011. [8] As a result, several Republican members of the General Assembly were drawn into the same district. [8] Republican leaders of the House and Senate sued to block the map, but a three-judge panel dismissed their suit in December 2011. [9]
The 100th General Assembly enacted a total of 1,190 bills into law. [1] Notably among these, it passed the first state budget in more than two years, ending the Illinois Budget Impasse that began under the 99th Illinois General Assembly. The budget was passed over the veto of Governor Bruce Rauner. [2]
Among these was a major overhaul of Illinois' family law statutes, as a result of which no-fault divorce became available in Illinois and heartbalm torts were abolished. [4] The General Assembly also passed the nation's first law punishing companies for participating in the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement.