100TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2017 and 2018
HB2514

 

Introduced , by Rep. Lou Lang

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
205 ILCS 5/48.3  from Ch. 17, par. 360.2
205 ILCS 205/9012  from Ch. 17, par. 7309-12
205 ILCS 305/9.1

    Amends the Illinois Banking Act and the Savings Bank Act. Replaces "Commissioner" with "Secretary" in provisions related to the disclosure of information in order to update references to the Secretary of Financial and Professional Regulation. Provides that the Secretary may furnish confidential supervisory information to a Federal Home Loan Bank in connection with any bank that is a member of the Federal Home Loan Bank or in connection with any application by the bank before the Federal Home Loan Bank. Provides that a bank or other financial institution or its officers, agents, and employees may disclose confidential supervisory information to a Federal Home Loan Bank of which it is a member. Amends the Illinois Credit Union Act. Provides that relevant confidential supervisory information may be disclosed under specified circumstances to other agencies or entities having a legitimate regulatory interest, including, but not limited to, a Federal Home Loan Bank. Effective immediately.


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A BILL FOR

 

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1    AN ACT concerning regulation.
 
2    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3represented in the General Assembly:
 
4    Section 5. The Illinois Banking Act is amended by changing
5Section 48.3 as follows:
 
6    (205 ILCS 5/48.3)  (from Ch. 17, par. 360.2)
7    Sec. 48.3. Disclosure of reports of examinations and
8confidential supervisory information; limitations.
9    (a) Any report of examination, visitation, or
10investigation prepared by the Secretary Commissioner under
11this Act, the Electronic Fund Transfer Act, the Corporate
12Fiduciary Act, the Illinois Bank Holding Company Act of 1957,
13and the Foreign Banking Office Act, any report of examination,
14visitation, or investigation prepared by the state regulatory
15authority of another state that examines a branch of an
16Illinois State bank in that state, any document or record
17prepared or obtained in connection with or relating to any
18examination, visitation, or investigation, and any record
19prepared or obtained by the Secretary Commissioner to the
20extent that the record summarizes or contains information
21derived from any report, document, or record described in this
22subsection shall be deemed "confidential supervisory
23information". Confidential supervisory information shall not

 

 

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1include any information or record routinely prepared by a bank
2or other financial institution and maintained in the ordinary
3course of business or any information or record that is
4required to be made publicly available pursuant to State or
5federal law or rule. Confidential supervisory information
6shall be the property of the Secretary Commissioner and shall
7only be disclosed under the circumstances and for the purposes
8set forth in this Section.
9     The Secretary Commissioner may disclose confidential
10supervisory information only under the following
11circumstances:
12        (1) The Secretary Commissioner may furnish
13    confidential supervisory information to the Board of
14    Governors of the Federal Reserve System, the federal
15    reserve bank of the federal reserve district in which the
16    State bank is located or in which the parent or other
17    affiliate of the State bank is located, any official or
18    examiner thereof duly accredited for the purpose, or any
19    other state regulator, federal regulator, or in the case of
20    a foreign bank possessing a certificate of authority
21    pursuant to the Foreign Banking Office Act or a license
22    pursuant to the Foreign Bank Representative Office Act, the
23    bank regulator in the country where the foreign bank is
24    chartered, that the Secretary Commissioner determines to
25    have an appropriate regulatory interest. Nothing contained
26    in this Act shall be construed to limit the obligation of

 

 

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1    any member State bank to comply with the requirements
2    relative to examinations and reports of the Federal Reserve
3    Act and of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve
4    System or the federal reserve bank of the federal reserve
5    district in which the bank is located, nor to limit in any
6    way the powers of the Secretary Commissioner with reference
7    to examinations and reports.
8        (2) The Secretary Commissioner may furnish
9    confidential supervisory information to the United States,
10    any agency thereof that has insured a bank's deposits in
11    whole or in part, or any official or examiner thereof duly
12    accredited for the purpose. Nothing contained in this Act
13    shall be construed to limit the obligation relative to
14    examinations and reports of any State bank, deposits in
15    which are to any extent insured by the United States, any
16    agency thereof, nor to limit in any way the powers of the
17    Secretary Commissioner with reference to examination and
18    reports of such bank.
19        (2.5) The Secretary may furnish confidential
20    supervisory information to a Federal Home Loan Bank in
21    connection with any bank that is a member of the Federal
22    Home Loan Bank or in connection with any application by the
23    bank before the Federal Home Loan Bank. The confidential
24    supervisory information shall remain the property of the
25    Secretary and may not be further disclosed without the
26    Secretary's permission.

 

 

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1        (3) The Secretary Commissioner may furnish
2    confidential supervisory information to the appropriate
3    law enforcement authorities when the Secretary
4    Commissioner reasonably believes a bank, which the
5    Secretary Commissioner has caused to be examined, has been
6    a victim of a crime.
7        (4) The Secretary Commissioner may furnish
8    confidential supervisory information relating to a bank or
9    other financial institution, which the Secretary
10    Commissioner has caused to be examined, to be sent to the
11    administrator of the Uniform Disposition of Unclaimed
12    Property Act.
13        (5) The Secretary Commissioner may furnish
14    confidential supervisory information relating to a bank or
15    other financial institution, which the Secretary
16    Commissioner has caused to be examined, relating to its
17    performance of obligations under the Illinois Income Tax
18    Act and the Illinois Estate and Generation-Skipping
19    Transfer Tax Act to the Illinois Department of Revenue.
20        (6) The Secretary Commissioner may furnish
21    confidential supervisory information relating to a bank or
22    other financial institution, which the Secretary
23    Commissioner has caused to be examined, under the federal
24    Currency and Foreign Transactions Reporting Act, Title 31,
25    United States Code, Section 1051 et seq.
26        (6.5) The Secretary Commissioner may furnish

 

 

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1    confidential supervisory information to any other agency
2    or entity that the Secretary Commissioner determines to
3    have a legitimate regulatory interest.
4        (7) The Secretary Commissioner may furnish
5    confidential supervisory information under any other
6    statute that by its terms or by regulations promulgated
7    thereunder requires the disclosure of financial records
8    other than by subpoena, summons, warrant, or court order.
9        (8) At the request of the affected bank or other
10    financial institution, the Secretary Commissioner may
11    furnish confidential supervisory information relating to a
12    bank or other financial institution, which the Secretary
13    Commissioner has caused to be examined, in connection with
14    the obtaining of insurance coverage or the pursuit of an
15    insurance claim for or on behalf of the bank or other
16    financial institution; provided that, when possible, the
17    Secretary Commissioner shall disclose only relevant
18    information while maintaining the confidentiality of
19    financial records not relevant to such insurance coverage
20    or claim and, when appropriate, may delete identifying data
21    relating to any person or individual.
22        (9) The Secretary Commissioner may furnish a copy of a
23    report of any examination performed by the Secretary
24    Commissioner of the condition and affairs of any electronic
25    data processing entity to the banks serviced by the
26    electronic data processing entity.

 

 

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1        (10) In addition to the foregoing circumstances, the
2    Secretary Commissioner may, but is not required to, furnish
3    confidential supervisory information under the same
4    circumstances authorized for the bank or financial
5    institution pursuant to subsection (b) of this Section,
6    except that the Secretary Commissioner shall provide
7    confidential supervisory information under circumstances
8    described in paragraph (3) of subsection (b) of this
9    Section only upon the request of the bank or other
10    financial institution.
11    (b) A bank or other financial institution or its officers,
12agents, and employees may disclose confidential supervisory
13information only under the following circumstances:
14        (1) to the board of directors of the bank or other
15    financial institution, as well as the president,
16    vice-president, cashier, and other officers of the bank or
17    other financial institution to whom the board of directors
18    may delegate duties with respect to compliance with
19    recommendations for action, and to the board of directors
20    of a bank holding company that owns at least 80% of the
21    outstanding stock of the bank or other financial
22    institution;
23        (2) to attorneys for the bank or other financial
24    institution and to a certified public accountant engaged by
25    the State bank or financial institution to perform an
26    independent audit provided that the attorney or certified

 

 

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1    public accountant shall not permit the confidential
2    supervisory information to be further disseminated;
3        (3) to any person who seeks to acquire a controlling
4    interest in, or who seeks to merge with, the bank or
5    financial institution, provided that all attorneys,
6    certified public accountants, officers, agents, or
7    employees of that person shall agree to be bound to respect
8    the confidentiality of the confidential supervisory
9    information and to not further disseminate the information
10    therein contained;
11        (3.5) to a Federal Home Loan Bank of which it is a
12    member;
13        (4) (blank); or
14        (5) to the bank's insurance company in relation to an
15    insurance claim or the effort by the bank to procure
16    insurance coverage, provided that, when possible, the bank
17    shall disclose only information that is relevant to the
18    insurance claim or that is necessary to procure the
19    insurance coverage, while maintaining the confidentiality
20    of financial information pertaining to customers. When
21    appropriate, the bank may delete identifying data relating
22    to any person.
23    The disclosure of confidential supervisory information by
24a bank or other financial institution pursuant to this
25subsection (b) and the disclosure of information to the
26Secretary Commissioner or other regulatory agency in

 

 

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1connection with any examination, visitation, or investigation
2shall not constitute a waiver of any legal privilege otherwise
3available to the bank or other financial institution with
4respect to the information.
5    (c) (1) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act or
6any other law, confidential supervisory information shall be
7the property of the Secretary Commissioner and shall be
8privileged from disclosure to any person except as provided in
9this Section. No person in possession of confidential
10supervisory information may disclose that information for any
11reason or under any circumstances not specified in this Section
12without the prior authorization of the Secretary Commissioner.
13Any person upon whom a demand for production of confidential
14supervisory information is made, whether by subpoena, order, or
15other judicial or administrative process, must withhold
16production of the confidential supervisory information and
17must notify the Secretary Commissioner of the demand, at which
18time the Secretary Commissioner is authorized to intervene for
19the purpose of enforcing the limitations of this Section or
20seeking the withdrawal or termination of the attempt to compel
21production of the confidential supervisory information.
22    (2) Any request for discovery or disclosure of confidential
23supervisory information, whether by subpoena, order, or other
24judicial or administrative process, shall be made to the
25Secretary Commissioner, and the Secretary Commissioner shall
26determine within 15 days whether to disclose the information

 

 

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1pursuant to procedures and standards that the Secretary
2Commissioner shall establish by rule. If the Secretary
3Commissioner determines that such information will not be
4disclosed, the Secretary's Commissioner's decision shall be
5subject to judicial review under the provisions of the
6Administrative Review Law, and venue shall be in either
7Sangamon County or Cook County.
8    (3) Any court order that compels disclosure of confidential
9supervisory information may be immediately appealed by the
10Secretary Commissioner, and the order shall be automatically
11stayed pending the outcome of the appeal.
12    (d) If any officer, agent, attorney, or employee of a bank
13or financial institution knowingly and willfully furnishes
14confidential supervisory information in violation of this
15Section, the Secretary Commissioner may impose a civil monetary
16penalty up to $1,000 for the violation against the officer,
17agent, attorney, or employee.
18(Source: P.A. 90-301, eff. 8-1-97; 91-201, eff. 1-1-00.)
 
19    Section 10. The Savings Bank Act is amended by changing
20Section 9012 as follows:
 
21    (205 ILCS 205/9012)  (from Ch. 17, par. 7309-12)
22    Sec. 9012. Disclosure of reports of examinations and
23confidential supervisory information; limitations.
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1investigation prepared by the Secretary Commissioner under
2this Act, any report of examination, visitation, or
3investigation prepared by the state regulatory authority of
4another state that examines a branch of an Illinois State
5savings bank in that state, any document or record prepared or
6obtained in connection with or relating to any examination,
7visitation, or investigation, and any record prepared or
8obtained by the Secretary Commissioner to the extent that the
9record summarizes or contains information derived from any
10report, document, or record described in this subsection shall
11be deemed confidential supervisory information. "Confidential
12supervisory information" shall not include any information or
13record routinely prepared by a savings bank and maintained in
14the ordinary course of business or any information or record
15that is required to be made publicly available pursuant to
16State or federal law or rule. Confidential supervisory
17information shall be the property of the Secretary Commissioner
18and shall only be disclosed under the circumstances and for the
19purposes set forth in this Section.
20    The Secretary Commissioner may disclose confidential
21supervisory information only under the following
22circumstances:
23        (1) The Secretary Commissioner may furnish
24    confidential supervisory information to federal and state
25    depository institution regulators, or any official or
26    examiner thereof duly accredited for the purpose. Nothing

 

 

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1    contained in this Act shall be construed to limit the
2    obligation of any savings bank to comply with the
3    requirements relative to examinations and reports nor to
4    limit in any way the powers of the Secretary Commissioner
5    relative to examinations and reports.
6        (2) The Secretary Commissioner may furnish
7    confidential supervisory information to the United States
8    or any agency thereof that to any extent has insured a
9    savings bank's deposits, or any official or examiner
10    thereof duly accredited for the purpose. Nothing contained
11    in this Act shall be construed to limit the obligation
12    relative to examinations and reports of any savings bank in
13    which deposits are to any extent insured by the United
14    States or any agency thereof nor to limit in any way the
15    powers of the Secretary Commissioner with reference to
16    examination and reports of the savings bank.
17        (2.5) The Secretary may furnish confidential
18    supervisory information to a Federal Home Loan Bank in
19    connection with any savings bank that is a member of the
20    Federal Home Loan Bank or in connection with any
21    application by the savings bank before the Federal Home
22    Loan Bank. The confidential supervisory information shall
23    remain the property of the Secretary and may not be further
24    disclosed without the Secretary's permission.
25        (3) The Secretary Commissioner may furnish
26    confidential supervisory information to the appropriate

 

 

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1    law enforcement authorities when the Secretary
2    Commissioner reasonably believes a savings bank, which the
3    Secretary Commissioner has caused to be examined, has been
4    a victim of a crime.
5        (4) The Secretary Commissioner may furnish
6    confidential supervisory information related to a savings
7    bank, which the Secretary Commissioner has caused to be
8    examined, to the administrator of the Uniform Disposition
9    of Unclaimed Property Act.
10        (5) The Secretary Commissioner may furnish
11    confidential supervisory information relating to a savings
12    bank, which the Secretary Commissioner has caused to be
13    examined, relating to its performance of obligations under
14    the Illinois Income Tax Act and the Illinois Estate and
15    Generation-Skipping Transfer Tax Act to the Illinois
16    Department of Revenue.
17        (6) The Secretary Commissioner may furnish
18    confidential supervisory information relating to a savings
19    bank, which the Secretary Commissioner has caused to be
20    examined, under the federal Currency and Foreign
21    Transactions Reporting Act, 31 United States Code, Section
22    1051 et seq.
23        (7) The Secretary Commissioner may furnish
24    confidential supervisory information to any other agency
25    or entity that the Secretary Commissioner determines to
26    have a legitimate regulatory interest.

 

 

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1        (8) The Secretary Commissioner may furnish
2    confidential supervisory information as otherwise
3    permitted or required by this Act and may furnish
4    confidential supervisory information under any other
5    statute that by its terms or by regulations promulgated
6    thereunder requires the disclosure of financial records
7    other than by subpoena, summons, warrant, or court order.
8        (9) At the request of the affected savings bank, the
9    Secretary Commissioner may furnish confidential
10    supervisory information relating to the savings bank,
11    which the Secretary Commissioner has caused to be examined,
12    in connection with the obtaining of insurance coverage or
13    the pursuit of an insurance claim for or on behalf of the
14    savings bank; provided that, when possible, the Secretary
15    Commissioner shall disclose only relevant information
16    while maintaining the confidentiality of financial records
17    not relevant to such insurance coverage or claim and, when
18    appropriate, may delete identifying data relating to any
19    person.
20        (10) The Secretary Commissioner may furnish a copy of a
21    report of any examination performed by the Secretary
22    Commissioner of the condition and affairs of any electronic
23    data processing entity to the savings banks serviced by the
24    electronic data processing entity.
25        (11) In addition to the foregoing circumstances, the
26    Secretary Commissioner may, but is not required to, furnish

 

 

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1    confidential supervisory information under the same
2    circumstances authorized for the savings bank pursuant to
3    subsection (b) of this Section, except that the Secretary
4    Commissioner shall provide confidential supervisory
5    information under circumstances described in paragraph (3)
6    of subsection (b) of this Section only upon the request of
7    the savings bank.
8    (b) A savings bank or its officers, agents, and employees
9may disclose confidential supervisory information only under
10the following circumstances:
11        (1) to the board of directors of the savings bank, as
12    well as the president, vice-president, cashier, and other
13    officers of the savings bank to whom the board of directors
14    may delegate duties with respect to compliance with
15    recommendations for action, and to the board of directors
16    of a savings bank holding company that owns at least 80% of
17    the outstanding stock of the savings bank or other
18    financial institution.
19        (2) to attorneys for the savings bank and to a
20    certified public accountant engaged by the savings bank to
21    perform an independent audit; provided that the attorney or
22    certified public accountant shall not permit the
23    confidential supervisory information to be further
24    disseminated.
25        (3) to any person who seeks to acquire a controlling
26    interest in, or who seeks to merge with, the savings bank;

 

 

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1    provided that the person shall agree to be bound to respect
2    the confidentiality of the confidential supervisory
3    information and to not further disseminate the information
4    other than to attorneys, certified public accountants,
5    officers, agents, or employees of that person who likewise
6    shall agree to be bound to respect the confidentiality of
7    the confidential supervisory information and to not
8    further disseminate the information.
9        (4) to the savings bank's insurance company, if the
10    supervisory information contains information that is
11    otherwise unavailable and is strictly necessary to
12    obtaining insurance coverage or pursuing an insurance
13    claim for or on behalf of the savings bank; provided that,
14    when possible, the savings bank shall disclose only
15    information that is relevant to obtaining insurance
16    coverage or pursuing an insurance claim, while maintaining
17    the confidentiality of financial information pertaining to
18    customers; and provided further that, when appropriate,
19    the savings bank may delete identifying data relating to
20    any person.
21        (5) to a Federal Home Loan Bank of which it is a
22    member.
23    The disclosure of confidential supervisory information by
24a savings bank pursuant to this subsection (b) and the
25disclosure of information to the Secretary Commissioner or
26other regulatory agency in connection with any examination,

 

 

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1visitation, or investigation shall not constitute a waiver of
2any legal privilege otherwise available to the savings bank
3with respect to the information.
4    (c) (1) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act or
5any other law, confidential supervisory information shall be
6the property of the Secretary Commissioner and shall be
7privileged from disclosure to any person except as provided in
8this Section. No person in possession of confidential
9supervisory information may disclose that information for any
10reason or under any circumstances not specified in this Section
11without the prior authorization of the Secretary Commissioner.
12Any person upon whom a demand for production of confidential
13supervisory information is made, whether by subpoena, order, or
14other judicial or administrative process, must withhold
15production of the confidential supervisory information and
16must notify the Secretary Commissioner of the demand, at which
17time the Secretary Commissioner is authorized to intervene for
18the purpose of enforcing the limitations of this Section or
19seeking the withdrawal or termination of the attempt to compel
20production of the confidential supervisory information.
21    (2) Any request for discovery or disclosure of confidential
22supervisory information, whether by subpoena, order, or other
23judicial or administrative process, shall be made to the
24Secretary Commissioner, and the Secretary Commissioner shall
25determine within 15 days whether to disclose the information
26pursuant to procedures and standards that the Secretary

 

 

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1Commissioner shall establish by rule. If the Secretary
2Commissioner determines that such information will not be
3disclosed, the Secretary's Commissioner's decision shall be
4subject to judicial review under the provisions of the
5Administrative Review Law, and venue shall be in either
6Sangamon County or Cook County.
7    (3) Any court order that compels disclosure of confidential
8supervisory information may be immediately appealed by the
9Secretary Commissioner, and the order shall be automatically
10stayed pending the outcome of the appeal.
11    (d) If any officer, agent, attorney, or employee of a
12savings bank knowingly and willfully furnishes confidential
13supervisory information in violation of this Section, the
14Secretary Commissioner may impose a civil monetary penalty up
15to $1,000 for the violation against the officer, agent,
16attorney, or employee.
17    (e)   Subject to the limits of this Section, the Secretary
18Commissioner also may promulgate regulations to set procedures
19and standards for disclosure of the following items:
20        (1) All fixed orders and opinions made in cases of
21    appeals of the Secretary's Commissioner's actions.
22        (2) Statements of policy and interpretations adopted
23    by the Secretary's Commissioner's office, but not
24    otherwise made public.
25        (3) Nonconfidential portions of application files,
26    including applications for new charters. The Secretary

 

 

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1    Commissioner shall specify by rule as to what part of the
2    files are confidential.
3        (4) Quarterly reports of income, deposits, and
4    financial condition.
5(Source: P.A. 93-271, eff. 7-22-03.)
 
6    Section 15. The Illinois Credit Union Act is amended by
7changing Section 9.1 as follows:
 
8    (205 ILCS 305/9.1)
9    Sec. 9.1. Disclosures of reports of examinations and
10confidential supervisory information; limitations.
11    (1) Any report of examination, visitation, or
12investigation prepared by the Secretary under this Act or by
13the state regulatory authority charged with enforcing the
14Electronic Fund Transfer Act or the Corporate Fiduciary Act or
15by the state regulatory authority of another state that
16examines an office of an Illinois credit union in that state,
17any document or record prepared or obtained in connection with
18or relating to any examination, visitation, or investigation,
19and any record prepared or obtained by the Secretary to the
20extent that the record summarizes or contains information
21derived from any report, document, or record described in this
22subsection shall be deemed "confidential supervisory
23information". Confidential supervisory information shall not
24include any information or record routinely prepared by a

 

 

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1credit union and maintained in the ordinary course of business
2or any information or record that is required to be made
3publicly available pursuant to State or federal law or rule.
4    (2) Confidential supervisory information is privileged
5from discovery and shall only be disclosed under the
6circumstances and for the purposes set forth in this Section.
7    (3) Relevant confidential supervisory information may be
8disclosed under a statute that by its terms or by rules
9promulgated thereunder requires the disclosure of confidential
10supervisory information other than by subpoena, summons,
11warrant, or court order; to the appropriate law enforcement
12authorities when the Secretary or the credit union reasonably
13believes the credit union, which the Secretary has caused to be
14examined, has been a victim of a crime; to other agencies or
15entities having a legitimate regulatory interest, including,
16but not limited to, a Federal Home Loan Bank; to the credit
17union's board, officers, retained professionals, and insurers;
18to persons seeking to merge with or purchase all or part of the
19assets of the credit union; and where disclosure is otherwise
20required for the benefit of the credit union. Disclosure of
21confidential supervisory information to these persons does not
22constitute a waiver of the legal privilege otherwise available
23with respect to the information.
24    (4) A person to whom confidential supervisory information
25is disclosed shall not further disseminate confidential
26supervisory information.

 

 

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1    (5) (a) Any person upon whom a demand for production of
2confidential supervisory information is made, whether by
3subpoena, order, or other judicial or administrative process,
4must withhold production of the confidential supervisory
5information and must notify the Secretary of the demand, at
6which time the Secretary is authorized to intervene for the
7purpose of enforcing the limitations of this Section or seeking
8the withdrawal or termination of the attempt to compel
9production of the confidential supervisory information.
10    (b) Any request for discovery or disclosure of confidential
11supervisory information, whether by subpoena, order, or other
12judicial or administrative process, shall be made to the
13Secretary, and the Secretary shall determine within 15 days
14whether to disclose the information pursuant to procedures and
15standards that the Secretary shall establish by rule. If the
16Secretary determines that such information will not be
17disclosed, the Secretary's decision shall be subject to
18judicial review under the provisions of the Administrative
19Review Law, and venue shall be in either Sangamon County or
20Cook County.
21    (c) Any court order that compels disclosure of confidential
22supervisory information may be immediately appealed by the
23Secretary and the order shall be automatically stayed pending
24the outcome of the appeal.
25(Source: P.A. 97-133, eff. 1-1-12.)
 
26    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon

 

 

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1becoming law.