UTIL-COMM COMMISS-ELECTION

Amends the Election Code. Requires that the proposition of retention of commissioners of the Illinois Commerce Commission be included on general election ballots. Requires abstracts to be made of votes and a canvassing of votes in an election for retention as commissioner of the Illinois Commerce Commission. Requires the State Board of Elections to transmit to the Illinois Commerce Commission and the Governor the names of commissioners of the Illinois Commerce Commission who fail to win retention in office. Sets forth the form that the proposition relating to the retention of a commissioner for the Illinois Commerce Commission must take on the ballot. Amends the Public Utilities Act. Requires the Secretary of State, prior to the next general election after a commissioner of the Illinois Commerce Commission is appointed, to certify the name of that commissioner to proper election officials to be submitted to the electors on the sole question of whether the commissioner should be retained as a member of the Illinois Commerce Commission for the remainder of his or her current term. Effective immediately.