On December 3, Illinois Governor Pat Quinn signed SB 3338, which says that the special election for U.S. House, 2nd district, will be in April, not March. The bill only relates to this one particular election and does not make a general change for dates of special elections.

The bill had been introduced on February 7, 2012, for the purpose of changing the no-politics-zone for certain sidewalks near polling places. The original bill had passed the Senate on March 29, 2012, and then had sat for months in the House Rules Committee. In November, when legislative leaders decided to change the date of the special election, they removed the original contents from the bill and amended it to include the text they needed, and passed it in a hurry.