SB1970 97TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

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97TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2011 and 2012
SB1970

Introduced 2/10/2011, by Sen. Kirk W. Dillard

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:

5 ILCS 430/5-20

Amends the State Officials and Employees Ethics Act. Applies the prohibitions against the inclusion of names, images, and voices in public service announcements and the printing of names and images on promotional materials to State employees who are candidates for public office (now, the prohibitions apply only to executive branch constitutional officers and General Assembly members).

A BILL FOR

AN ACT concerning government.

Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly:

Section 5. The State Officials and Employees Ethics Act is amended by changing Section 5-20 as follows:

(5 ILCS 430/5-20)

Sec. 5-20. Public service announcements; other promotional material.

(a) Beginning January 1, 2004, no public service announcement or advertisement that is on behalf of any State administered program and contains the proper name, image, or voice of any executive branch constitutional officer, or member of the General Assembly, or, beginning on the effective date of this amendatory Act of the 97th General Assembly, State employee (if the State employee is a candidate for public office) shall be broadcast or aired on radio or television or printed in a commercial newspaper or a commercial magazine at any time.

(b) The proper name or image of any executive branch constitutional officer, or member of the General Assembly, or State employee (if the State employee is a candidate for public office) may not appear on any (i) bumper stickers, (ii) commercial billboards, (iii) lapel pins or buttons, (iv) magnets, (v) stickers, and (vi) other similar promotional items, that are not in furtherance of the person's official State duties or governmental and public service functions, if designed, paid for, prepared, or distributed using public dollars. This subsection does not apply to stocks of items existing (i) with respect to executive branch constitutional officers and General Assembly members, on the effective date of this amendatory Act of the 93rd General Assembly and (ii) with respect to State employees who are candidates for public office, on the effective date of this amendatory Act of the 97th General Assembly.

(c) This Section does not apply to communications funded through expenditures required to be reported under Article 9 of the Election Code.

(d) For the purposes of this Section only:

(1) "Candidate" means a person who has filed nominating papers or petitions for nomination or election to an elective public office, or who has been appointed to fill a vacancy in nomination, and who remains eligible for placement on a primary or election ballot.

(2) "Public office" means any elective office for which candidates are required by the Illinois Governmental Ethics Act to file statements of economic interests.

(Source: P.A. 93-615, eff. 11-19-03; 93-617, eff. 12-9-03; 93-685, eff. 7-8-04.)