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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 Government of Illinois, under the State of Illinois Constitution, has three branches of government: Executive, Legislative, and Judicial. The State's executive branch is split into several statewide elected offices, with the Governor as chief executive and head of state, and has numerous departments, agencies, boards and commissions.
The Speaker of the Illinois House of Representatives is seventh (behind the Lieutenant Governor, Attorney General, Secretary of State, Comptroller, Treasurer, and President of the Senate, respectively) in the line of succession to the office of Governor of Illinois. [1] [2]
The Illinois General Assembly is the legislature of the U.S. state of Illinois. It has two chambers, the Illinois House of Representatives and the Illinois Senate. The General Assembly was created by the first state constitution adopted in 1818. As of 2025, the current General Assembly is the 104th; the term of an assembly lasts two years.
The composition of the 93rd House reflects the results of the 2002 election, in which the Democrats maintained their majority. [4] 24 new members joined the chamber, and three Representatives who had previously been appointed to fill vacancies were elected for the first time. [80] 89 House incumbents were re-elected. [80]
The 101st General Assembly enacted a total of 673 bills into law. [4] Notable among these was the Illinois Cannabis Regulation and Tax Act (410 ILCS 705), which legalizes and regulates the production, consumption, and sale of cannabis in Illinois.
Member: Appropriations-General Service, Financial Institutions, House Budget Oversight Panel, Renewable Energy & Sustainability, Revenue & Finance, State Government Administration, Tollway Oversight, Transportation, Regulation, Roads 54 Cook Thomas Morrison: Republican 2011 [131]
The Illinois House has 118 members who are elected every two years. The composition of the 94th House reflects the results of the 2004 election, in which three seats changed from Democratic to Republican, and two seats changed from Republican to Democratic, resulting in a reduced 65–53 Democratic majority. [83]