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 1        AN ACT concerning open meetings.

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

 4        Section 5.  The Open Meetings Act is amended by  changing
 5    Section 2.05 as follows:

 6        (5 ILCS 120/2.05) (from Ch. 102, par. 42.05)
 7        Sec.  2.05.   Subject  to  the  provisions  of "An Act in
 8    relation to the rights of witnesses at proceedings  conducted
 9    by  a  court,  commission,  administrative  agency  or  other
10    tribunal in this State which are televised or broadcast or at
11    which  motion pictures are taken", approved July 14, 1953, as
12    amended, any person may record the  proceedings  at  meetings
13    required to be open by this Act by tape, film or other means.
14    The  authority holding the meeting shall prescribe reasonable
15    rules to govern the right to make such recordings.  If  video
16    or  sound  recordings  are made by the public body, a copy of
17    the recordings must be  made  available  for  review  by  the
18    public.
19        If  a  witness at any meeting required to be open by this
20    Act which is conducted by a commission, administrative agency
21    or other tribunal, refuses to testify on the grounds that  he
22    may  not  be  compelled  to  testify  if  any  portion of his
23    testimony is to  be  broadcast  or  televised  or  if  motion
24    pictures  are  to be taken of him while he is testifying, the
25    authority holding the meeting shall prohibit  such  recording
26    during the testimony of the witness.  Nothing in this Section
27    shall  be  construed to extend the right to refuse to testify
28    at any meeting not subject to the provisions of  "An  Act  in
29    relation  to the rights of witnesses at proceedings conducted
30    by  a  court,  commission,  administrative  agency  or  other
31    tribunal in this State which are televised or broadcast or at
 
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 1    which motion pictures are taken", approved July 14, 1953,  as
 2    amended.
 3    (Source: P.A. 82-378.)