98TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2013 and 2014
HB3289

 

Introduced , by Rep. Jeanne M Ives

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
5 ILCS 140/7  from Ch. 116, par. 207
115 ILCS 5/10  from Ch. 48, par. 1710

    Amends the duty to bargain provisions of the Illinois Educational Labor Relations Act. Provides that (i) once an agreement is reached between representatives of educational employees and an educational employer, the agreement shall be reduced to writing and published on the Internet website of the educational employer or published by another method and made available to the public if there is no Internet website; (ii) the educational employer may not ratify the agreement until the agreement has been published and available to the public for at least 21 days; and (iii) upon ratification by both parties, the agreement shall be signed by the parties (instead of providing that once an agreement is reached and ratified by both parties, the agreement shall be reduced to writing and signed by the parties). Makes a related change in the Freedom of Information Act. Effective immediately.


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FISCAL NOTE ACT MAY APPLY
STATE MANDATES ACT MAY REQUIRE REIMBURSEMENT

 

 

A BILL FOR

 

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1    AN ACT concerning education.
 
2    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3represented in the General Assembly:
 
4    Section 5. The Freedom of Information Act is amended by
5changing Section 7 as follows:
 
6    (5 ILCS 140/7)  (from Ch. 116, par. 207)
7    Sec. 7. Exemptions.
8    (1) When a request is made to inspect or copy a public
9record that contains information that is exempt from disclosure
10under this Section, but also contains information that is not
11exempt from disclosure, the public body may elect to redact the
12information that is exempt. The public body shall make the
13remaining information available for inspection and copying.
14Subject to this requirement, the following shall be exempt from
15inspection and copying:
16        (a) Information specifically prohibited from
17    disclosure by federal or State law or rules and regulations
18    implementing federal or State law.
19        (b) Private information, unless disclosure is required
20    by another provision of this Act, a State or federal law or
21    a court order.
22        (b-5) Files, documents, and other data or databases
23    maintained by one or more law enforcement agencies and

 

 

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1    specifically designed to provide information to one or more
2    law enforcement agencies regarding the physical or mental
3    status of one or more individual subjects.
4        (c) Personal information contained within public
5    records, the disclosure of which would constitute a clearly
6    unwarranted invasion of personal privacy, unless the
7    disclosure is consented to in writing by the individual
8    subjects of the information. "Unwarranted invasion of
9    personal privacy" means the disclosure of information that
10    is highly personal or objectionable to a reasonable person
11    and in which the subject's right to privacy outweighs any
12    legitimate public interest in obtaining the information.
13    The disclosure of information that bears on the public
14    duties of public employees and officials shall not be
15    considered an invasion of personal privacy.
16        (d) Records in the possession of any public body
17    created in the course of administrative enforcement
18    proceedings, and any law enforcement or correctional
19    agency for law enforcement purposes, but only to the extent
20    that disclosure would:
21            (i) interfere with pending or actually and
22        reasonably contemplated law enforcement proceedings
23        conducted by any law enforcement or correctional
24        agency that is the recipient of the request;
25            (ii) interfere with active administrative
26        enforcement proceedings conducted by the public body

 

 

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1        that is the recipient of the request;
2            (iii) create a substantial likelihood that a
3        person will be deprived of a fair trial or an impartial
4        hearing;
5            (iv) unavoidably disclose the identity of a
6        confidential source, confidential information
7        furnished only by the confidential source, or persons
8        who file complaints with or provide information to
9        administrative, investigative, law enforcement, or
10        penal agencies; except that the identities of
11        witnesses to traffic accidents, traffic accident
12        reports, and rescue reports shall be provided by
13        agencies of local government, except when disclosure
14        would interfere with an active criminal investigation
15        conducted by the agency that is the recipient of the
16        request;
17            (v) disclose unique or specialized investigative
18        techniques other than those generally used and known or
19        disclose internal documents of correctional agencies
20        related to detection, observation or investigation of
21        incidents of crime or misconduct, and disclosure would
22        result in demonstrable harm to the agency or public
23        body that is the recipient of the request;
24            (vi) endanger the life or physical safety of law
25        enforcement personnel or any other person; or
26            (vii) obstruct an ongoing criminal investigation

 

 

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1        by the agency that is the recipient of the request.
2        (d-5) A law enforcement record created for law
3    enforcement purposes and contained in a shared electronic
4    record management system if the law enforcement agency that
5    is the recipient of the request did not create the record,
6    did not participate in or have a role in any of the events
7    which are the subject of the record, and only has access to
8    the record through the shared electronic record management
9    system.
10        (e) Records that relate to or affect the security of
11    correctional institutions and detention facilities.
12        (e-5) Records requested by persons committed to the
13    Department of Corrections if those materials are available
14    in the library of the correctional facility where the
15    inmate is confined.
16        (e-6) Records requested by persons committed to the
17    Department of Corrections if those materials include
18    records from staff members' personnel files, staff
19    rosters, or other staffing assignment information.
20        (e-7) Records requested by persons committed to the
21    Department of Corrections if those materials are available
22    through an administrative request to the Department of
23    Corrections.
24        (f) Preliminary drafts, notes, recommendations,
25    memoranda and other records in which opinions are
26    expressed, or policies or actions are formulated, except

 

 

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1    that a specific record or relevant portion of a record
2    shall not be exempt when the record is publicly cited and
3    identified by the head of the public body. The exemption
4    provided in this paragraph (f) extends to all those records
5    of officers and agencies of the General Assembly that
6    pertain to the preparation of legislative documents.
7        (g) Trade secrets and commercial or financial
8    information obtained from a person or business where the
9    trade secrets or commercial or financial information are
10    furnished under a claim that they are proprietary,
11    privileged or confidential, and that disclosure of the
12    trade secrets or commercial or financial information would
13    cause competitive harm to the person or business, and only
14    insofar as the claim directly applies to the records
15    requested.
16        The information included under this exemption includes
17    all trade secrets and commercial or financial information
18    obtained by a public body, including a public pension fund,
19    from a private equity fund or a privately held company
20    within the investment portfolio of a private equity fund as
21    a result of either investing or evaluating a potential
22    investment of public funds in a private equity fund. The
23    exemption contained in this item does not apply to the
24    aggregate financial performance information of a private
25    equity fund, nor to the identity of the fund's managers or
26    general partners. The exemption contained in this item does

 

 

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1    not apply to the identity of a privately held company
2    within the investment portfolio of a private equity fund,
3    unless the disclosure of the identity of a privately held
4    company may cause competitive harm.
5        Nothing contained in this paragraph (g) shall be
6    construed to prevent a person or business from consenting
7    to disclosure.
8        (h) Proposals and bids for any contract, grant, or
9    agreement, including information which if it were
10    disclosed would frustrate procurement or give an advantage
11    to any person proposing to enter into a contractor
12    agreement with the body, until an award or final selection
13    is made. Information prepared by or for the body in
14    preparation of a bid solicitation shall be exempt until an
15    award or final selection is made.
16        (i) Valuable formulae, computer geographic systems,
17    designs, drawings and research data obtained or produced by
18    any public body when disclosure could reasonably be
19    expected to produce private gain or public loss. The
20    exemption for "computer geographic systems" provided in
21    this paragraph (i) does not extend to requests made by news
22    media as defined in Section 2 of this Act when the
23    requested information is not otherwise exempt and the only
24    purpose of the request is to access and disseminate
25    information regarding the health, safety, welfare, or
26    legal rights of the general public.

 

 

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1        (j) The following information pertaining to
2    educational matters:
3            (i) test questions, scoring keys and other
4        examination data used to administer an academic
5        examination;
6            (ii) information received by a primary or
7        secondary school, college, or university under its
8        procedures for the evaluation of faculty members by
9        their academic peers;
10            (iii) information concerning a school or
11        university's adjudication of student disciplinary
12        cases, but only to the extent that disclosure would
13        unavoidably reveal the identity of the student; and
14            (iv) course materials or research materials used
15        by faculty members.
16        (k) Architects' plans, engineers' technical
17    submissions, and other construction related technical
18    documents for projects not constructed or developed in
19    whole or in part with public funds and the same for
20    projects constructed or developed with public funds,
21    including but not limited to power generating and
22    distribution stations and other transmission and
23    distribution facilities, water treatment facilities,
24    airport facilities, sport stadiums, convention centers,
25    and all government owned, operated, or occupied buildings,
26    but only to the extent that disclosure would compromise

 

 

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1    security.
2        (l) Minutes of meetings of public bodies closed to the
3    public as provided in the Open Meetings Act until the
4    public body makes the minutes available to the public under
5    Section 2.06 of the Open Meetings Act.
6        (m) Communications between a public body and an
7    attorney or auditor representing the public body that would
8    not be subject to discovery in litigation, and materials
9    prepared or compiled by or for a public body in
10    anticipation of a criminal, civil or administrative
11    proceeding upon the request of an attorney advising the
12    public body, and materials prepared or compiled with
13    respect to internal audits of public bodies.
14        (n) Records relating to a public body's adjudication of
15    employee grievances or disciplinary cases; however, this
16    exemption shall not extend to the final outcome of cases in
17    which discipline is imposed.
18        (o) Administrative or technical information associated
19    with automated data processing operations, including but
20    not limited to software, operating protocols, computer
21    program abstracts, file layouts, source listings, object
22    modules, load modules, user guides, documentation
23    pertaining to all logical and physical design of
24    computerized systems, employee manuals, and any other
25    information that, if disclosed, would jeopardize the
26    security of the system or its data or the security of

 

 

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1    materials exempt under this Section.
2        (p) Records relating to collective negotiating matters
3    between public bodies and their employees or
4    representatives, except that (i) any final contract or
5    agreement shall be subject to inspection and copying and
6    (ii) educational employers subject to the Illinois
7    Educational Labor Relations Act must comply with the
8    publication requirements of subsection (d) of Section 10 of
9    the Illinois Educational Labor Relations Act.
10        (q) Test questions, scoring keys, and other
11    examination data used to determine the qualifications of an
12    applicant for a license or employment.
13        (r) The records, documents, and information relating
14    to real estate purchase negotiations until those
15    negotiations have been completed or otherwise terminated.
16    With regard to a parcel involved in a pending or actually
17    and reasonably contemplated eminent domain proceeding
18    under the Eminent Domain Act, records, documents and
19    information relating to that parcel shall be exempt except
20    as may be allowed under discovery rules adopted by the
21    Illinois Supreme Court. The records, documents and
22    information relating to a real estate sale shall be exempt
23    until a sale is consummated.
24        (s) Any and all proprietary information and records
25    related to the operation of an intergovernmental risk
26    management association or self-insurance pool or jointly

 

 

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1    self-administered health and accident cooperative or pool.
2    Insurance or self insurance (including any
3    intergovernmental risk management association or self
4    insurance pool) claims, loss or risk management
5    information, records, data, advice or communications.
6        (t) Information contained in or related to
7    examination, operating, or condition reports prepared by,
8    on behalf of, or for the use of a public body responsible
9    for the regulation or supervision of financial
10    institutions or insurance companies, unless disclosure is
11    otherwise required by State law.
12        (u) Information that would disclose or might lead to
13    the disclosure of secret or confidential information,
14    codes, algorithms, programs, or private keys intended to be
15    used to create electronic or digital signatures under the
16    Electronic Commerce Security Act.
17        (v) Vulnerability assessments, security measures, and
18    response policies or plans that are designed to identify,
19    prevent, or respond to potential attacks upon a community's
20    population or systems, facilities, or installations, the
21    destruction or contamination of which would constitute a
22    clear and present danger to the health or safety of the
23    community, but only to the extent that disclosure could
24    reasonably be expected to jeopardize the effectiveness of
25    the measures or the safety of the personnel who implement
26    them or the public. Information exempt under this item may

 

 

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1    include such things as details pertaining to the
2    mobilization or deployment of personnel or equipment, to
3    the operation of communication systems or protocols, or to
4    tactical operations.
5        (w) (Blank).
6        (x) Maps and other records regarding the location or
7    security of generation, transmission, distribution,
8    storage, gathering, treatment, or switching facilities
9    owned by a utility, by a power generator, or by the
10    Illinois Power Agency.
11        (y) Information contained in or related to proposals,
12    bids, or negotiations related to electric power
13    procurement under Section 1-75 of the Illinois Power Agency
14    Act and Section 16-111.5 of the Public Utilities Act that
15    is determined to be confidential and proprietary by the
16    Illinois Power Agency or by the Illinois Commerce
17    Commission.
18        (z) Information about students exempted from
19    disclosure under Sections 10-20.38 or 34-18.29 of the
20    School Code, and information about undergraduate students
21    enrolled at an institution of higher education exempted
22    from disclosure under Section 25 of the Illinois Credit
23    Card Marketing Act of 2009.
24        (aa) Information the disclosure of which is exempted
25    under the Viatical Settlements Act of 2009.
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1    review team and records maintained by a mortality review
2    team appointed under the Department of Juvenile Justice
3    Mortality Review Team Act.
4        (cc) Information regarding interments, entombments, or
5    inurnments of human remains that are submitted to the
6    Cemetery Oversight Database under the Cemetery Care Act or
7    the Cemetery Oversight Act, whichever is applicable.
8        (dd) Correspondence and records (i) that may not be
9    disclosed under Section 11-9 of the Public Aid Code or (ii)
10    that pertain to appeals under Section 11-8 of the Public
11    Aid Code.
12        (ee) The names, addresses, or other personal
13    information of persons who are minors and are also
14    participants and registrants in programs of park
15    districts, forest preserve districts, conservation
16    districts, recreation agencies, and special recreation
17    associations.
18        (ff) The names, addresses, or other personal
19    information of participants and registrants in programs of
20    park districts, forest preserve districts, conservation
21    districts, recreation agencies, and special recreation
22    associations where such programs are targeted primarily to
23    minors.
24        (gg) Confidential information described in Section
25    1-100 of the Illinois Independent Tax Tribunal Act of 2012.
26    (1.5) Any information exempt from disclosure under the

 

 

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1Judicial Privacy Act shall be redacted from public records
2prior to disclosure under this Act.
3    (2) A public record that is not in the possession of a
4public body but is in the possession of a party with whom the
5agency has contracted to perform a governmental function on
6behalf of the public body, and that directly relates to the
7governmental function and is not otherwise exempt under this
8Act, shall be considered a public record of the public body,
9for purposes of this Act.
10    (3) This Section does not authorize withholding of
11information or limit the availability of records to the public,
12except as stated in this Section or otherwise provided in this
13Act.
14(Source: P.A. 96-261, eff. 1-1-10; 96-328, eff. 8-11-09;
1596-542, eff. 1-1-10; 96-558, eff. 1-1-10; 96-736, eff. 7-1-10;
1696-863, eff. 3-1-10; 96-1378, eff. 7-29-10; 97-333, eff.
178-12-11; 97-385, eff. 8-15-11; 97-452, eff. 8-19-11; 97-783,
18eff. 7-13-12; 97-813, eff. 7-13-12; 97-847, eff. 9-22-12;
1997-1065, eff. 8-24-12; 97-1129, eff. 8-28-12; revised
209-20-12.)
 
21    Section 10. The Illinois Educational Labor Relations Act is
22amended by changing Section 10 as follows:
 
23    (115 ILCS 5/10)  (from Ch. 48, par. 1710)
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1the exclusive representative have the authority and the duty to
2bargain collectively as set forth in this Section. Collective
3bargaining is the performance of the mutual obligations of the
4educational employer and the representative of the educational
5employees to meet at reasonable times and confer in good faith
6with respect to wages, hours and other terms and conditions of
7employment, and to execute a written contract incorporating any
8agreement reached by such obligation, provided such obligation
9does not compel either party to agree to a proposal or require
10the making of a concession.
11    (b) The parties to the collective bargaining process shall
12not effect or implement a provision in a collective bargaining
13agreement if the implementation of that provision would be in
14violation of, or inconsistent with, or in conflict with any
15statute or statutes enacted by the General Assembly of
16Illinois. The parties to the collective bargaining process may
17effect or implement a provision in a collective bargaining
18agreement if the implementation of that provision has the
19effect of supplementing any provision in any statute or
20statutes enacted by the General Assembly of Illinois pertaining
21to wages, hours or other conditions of employment; provided
22however, no provision in a collective bargaining agreement may
23be effected or implemented if such provision has the effect of
24negating, abrogating, replacing, reducing, diminishing, or
25limiting in any way any employee rights, guarantees or
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1employment provided in such statutes. Any provision in a
2collective bargaining agreement which has the effect of
3negating, abrogating, replacing, reducing, diminishing or
4limiting in any way any employee rights, guarantees or
5privileges provided in an Illinois statute or statutes shall be
6void and unenforceable, but shall not affect the validity,
7enforceability and implementation of other permissible
8provisions of the collective bargaining agreement.
9    (c) The collective bargaining agreement negotiated between
10representatives of the educational employees and the
11educational employer shall contain a grievance resolution
12procedure which shall apply to all employees in the unit and
13shall provide for binding arbitration of disputes concerning
14the administration or interpretation of the agreement. The
15agreement shall also contain appropriate language prohibiting
16strikes for the duration of the agreement. The costs of such
17arbitration shall be borne equally by the educational employer
18and the employee organization.
19    (d) Once an agreement is reached between representatives of
20the educational employees and the educational employer and is
21ratified by both parties, the agreement shall be reduced to
22writing and published on the Internet website of the
23educational employer or published by another method and made
24available to the public if there is no Internet website. The
25educational employer may not ratify the agreement until the
26agreement has been published and available to the public for at

 

 

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1least 21 days. Upon ratification by both parties, the agreement
2shall be signed by the parties.
3(Source: P.A. 84-832.)
 
4    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
5becoming law.