Sen. Mike Jacobs

Filed: 5/18/2007

 

 


 

 


 
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AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 1670

2     AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 1670, immediately
3 below the enacting clause, by inserting the following:
 
4     "Section 3. The Open Meetings Act is amended by changing
5 Section 1.02 as follows:
 
6     (5 ILCS 120/1.02)  (from Ch. 102, par. 41.02)
7     Sec. 1.02. For the purposes of this Act:
8     "Meeting" means any gathering, whether in person or by
9 video or audio conference, telephone call, electronic means
10 (such as, without limitation, electronic mail, electronic
11 chat, and instant messaging), or other means of contemporaneous
12 interactive communication, of a majority of a quorum of the
13 members of a public body held for the purpose of discussing
14 public business or, for a 5-member public body, a quorum of the
15 members of a public body held for the purpose of discussing
16 public business.

 

 

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1     Accordingly, for a 5-member public body, 3 members of the
2 body constitute a quorum and the affirmative vote of 3 members
3 is necessary to adopt any motion, resolution, or ordinance,
4 unless a greater number is otherwise required.
5     "Public body" includes all legislative, executive,
6 administrative or advisory bodies of the State, counties,
7 townships, cities, villages, incorporated towns, school
8 districts and all other municipal corporations, boards,
9 bureaus, committees or commissions of this State, and any
10 subsidiary bodies of any of the foregoing including but not
11 limited to committees and subcommittees which are supported in
12 whole or in part by tax revenue, or which expend tax revenue,
13 except the General Assembly and committees or commissions
14 thereof. "Public body" includes tourism boards and convention
15 or civic center boards located in counties that are contiguous
16 to the Mississippi River with populations of more than 250,000
17 but less than 300,000. "Public body" includes the Health
18 Facilities Planning Board. "Public body" does not include a
19 child death review team or the Illinois Child Death Review
20 Teams Executive Council established under the Child Death
21 Review Team Act or an ethics commission acting under the State
22 Officials and Employees Ethics Act.
23 (Source: P.A. 93-617, eff. 12-9-03; 94-1058, eff. 1-1-07.)".