94TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2005 and 2006
HB1308

 

Introduced 2/9/2005, by Rep. Constance A. Howard

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
New Act
5 ILCS 140/7   from Ch. 116, par. 207

    Creates the State Services Accountability Act. Provides that certain contractors and grantees with State contracts or grants or with contracts to perform public works shall certify that: they will not use State funds to promote, assist, or deter union organizing or to influence the decision of any of their employees to be represented or not represented by a labor organization; they will not require or prohibit the attendance of employees at a meeting related to union representation; they will not schedule or hold meetings related to union representation during an employee's work time or in work areas; and they will allow a labor organization the same opportunity to communicate with employees as is used by the contractor or the grantee. Provides that a labor organization may file a complaint with the Attorney General if it believes that a contractor or grantee is expending funds in violation of this Act and that the Attorney General shall then notify the contractor or grantee that it must provide an accounting with specified information. Provides for enforcement of the Act. Amends the Freedom of Information Act. Provides that information concerning complaints filed under the State Services Accountability Act is exempt from inspection and copying. Effective immediately.


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1     AN ACT concerning State services and public works.
 
2     Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3 represented in the General Assembly:
 
4     Section 1. Short title. This Act may be cited as the State
5 Services Accountability Act.
 
6     Section 5. Legislative findings and declaration of policy.
7     (a) The purpose of this Act is to set forth a program to
8 better provide services and public works to the citizens of
9 Illinois by ensuring that tax dollars expended for services or
10 public works are properly used for their allocated purpose. The
11 State of Illinois enters into reimbursement agreements and
12 contracts with and provides grants to private entities
13 (contractors and grantees) for the purpose of providing
14 services and building or enhancing public works for the
15 citizens of Illinois. The State of Illinois enters into these
16 contracts and provides these grants to provide quality services
17 and public works for the citizens of Illinois.
18     (b) The General Assembly finds that the needs of its
19 citizens cannot be met if the time frame for provision of
20 services or public works provided through reimbursement
21 agreements, contracts, or grant agreements between the State of
22 Illinois and contractors and grantees are subject to disruption
23 and further finds that likelihood of disruption is enhanced
24 where disputes arise over unionization.
25     (c) The General Assembly finds that the development of a
26 stable, well-trained, committed workforce is essential to the
27 provision of quality services to Illinois' citizens.
28     (d) The General Assembly further finds that the tax dollars
29 intended for appropriated use should not be used to conduct
30 campaigns aimed at influencing the outcome of union
31 representation elections. In addition, staff time, paid with
32 tax dollars, should be spent providing services to Illinois'

 

 

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1 citizens and not consumed by attending compulsory meetings to
2 influence employees regarding unionization.
3     (e) It is hereby declared to be the policy of the State of
4 Illinois that, to foster the development of a stable,
5 well-trained, committed workforce, the State of Illinois shall
6 prohibit its contractors or grantees from using State funding
7 to influence the decision of their employees to be represented
8 or not be represented by a union.
9     (f) This Act is intended solely as a limitation on the
10 permissible uses of State appropriations. It is not intended to
11 expand, limit, or in any manner affect existing rights or
12 duties of employers, employees, or labor organizations under
13 the National Labor Relations Act or other federal law affecting
14 labor relations.
 
15     Section 10. Definitions. As used in this Act:
16     "Contractor or grantee" means an individual or entity,
17 other than the State of Illinois, a State agency, or a
18 political subdivision of the State of Illinois, which has a
19 reimbursement agreement or contractual or other relationship
20 with or has received moneys from the State of Illinois or a
21 State agency to provide services, or public works which
22 reimbursement agreement, contract, or grant is funded in whole
23 or in part by the State of Illinois, or through the Medicaid
24 program of the State of Illinois.
25     "Contractor" includes a subcontractor and a contractor of a
26 grantee and any other entity, other than a unit of local
27 government or a school district, that receives State funds for
28 supplying services or public works pursuant to a written
29 contract with the State or any of its agencies and which is
30 controlled in whole or in part by the contractor or an entity
31 in which the contractor has a substantial beneficial interest.
32     "Department" means the Department of Labor.
33     "Grantee" includes a sub-grantee and a grantee of a
34 contractor and any other entity which provides services or
35 public works controlled in whole or in part by the grantee, or

 

 

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1 an entity in which the grantee has a substantial beneficial
2 interest.
3     "Employee" means a person employed by a contractor or
4 grantee other than a person employed in a bona fide supervisory
5 or managerial position as defined by applicable law.
6     "Labor organization", "employee representative", or
7 "union" means an organization or union of any kind in which
8 employees participate and which exists for the purpose, in
9 whole or in part, of representing employees concerning
10 grievances, labor disputes, wages, rates of pay, benefits,
11 hours of employment, or working conditions.
12     "State agency" includes the State and every State agency,
13 department, board, or commission.
14     "State funds" means any money provided by the State of
15 Illinois or a State agency.
16     "Public works" means all fixed works constructed for public
17 use by any public body, other than work done directly by any
18 public utility company, whether or not done under public
19 supervision or direction, or paid for wholly or in part out of
20 public funds. "Public works" as defined herein includes all
21 projects financed in whole or in part with bonds issued under
22 the Industrial Project Revenue Bond Act (Article 11, Division
23 74 of the Illinois Municipal Code), the Industrial Building
24 Revenue Bond Act, the Illinois Development Finance Authority
25 Act, the Illinois Sports Facilities Authority Act, or the Build
26 Illinois Bond Act, and all projects financed in whole or in
27 part with loans or other funds made available pursuant to the
28 Build Illinois Act. "Public works" also means all projects
29 financed in whole or in part with funds from the Fund for
30 Illinois' Future under Section 6z-47 of the State Finance Act,
31 funds for school construction under Section 5 of the General
32 Obligation Bond Act, funds authorized under Section 3 of the
33 School Construction Bond Act, funds for school infrastructure
34 under Section 6z-45 of the State Finance Act, or funds for
35 transportation purposes under Section 4 of the General
36 Obligation Bond Act.

 

 

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1     "Public body" means the State or any officer, board or
2 commission of the State or any political subdivision or
3 department thereof, or any institution supported in whole or in
4 part by public funds, authorized by law to construct public
5 works or to enter into any contract for the construction of
6 public works, and includes every county, city, town, village,
7 township, school district, irrigation, utility, reclamation
8 improvement or other district and every other political
9 subdivision, district, or municipality of the State whether
10 such political subdivision, municipality, or district operates
11 under a special charter or not.
 
12     Section 12. Applicability. This Act does not apply to the
13 following:
14         (1) any contract or grant that has a value of less than
15     $25,000; or
16         (2) any contractor or grantee that receives at least
17     85% of its total revenues from sources other than the State
18     of Illinois.
19     The dollar amount in this Section shall be updated
20 annually, beginning on January 20, 2007, by a percentage equal
21 to the change in the consumer price index-u during the
22 preceding 12-month calendar year. "Consumer price index-u"
23 means the index published by the Bureau of Labor Statistics of
24 the United States Department of Labor that measures the average
25 change in prices of goods and services purchased by all urban
26 consumers, United States city average, all items, 1982-84=100.
27 The new amount resulting from each annual adjustment shall be
28 determined by the Illinois Department of Labor and made
29 available to the public on January 20 of every year.
 
30     Section 15. Policy requirements.
31     (a) All contractors and grantees shall certify as part of
32 any State contract, grant, or reimbursement agreement that they
33 will not use State funds to promote, assist, or deter union
34 organizing or to otherwise seek to influence the decision of

 

 

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1 any of its employees to be represented or not represented by a
2 labor organization.
3     (b) No contractor or grantee shall receive a contract or
4 grant to provide services or public works for the citizens of
5 the State of Illinois unless the contractor or grantee has
6 agreed to provide certification under subsection (a).
7     (c) Any reimbursement agreement, contract, or grant
8 entered into by and between a contractor or a grantee and the
9 State of Illinois or a State agency to provide services or
10 public works shall include a certification under subsection (a)
11 and an agreement by the contractor or grantee to comply with
12 the terms of the certification under subsection (a).
13     (d) Any contractor or grantee entering into a contract with
14 any person or entity to provide services or public works
15 directly subject to, and primarily for the purpose of
16 performing, the contract or grant agreement between the
17 contractor or grantee and the State of Illinois or a State
18 agency shall include in the contract or grant agreement a
19 certification under subsection (a) identical to the
20 certification under subsection (a) in the contract or grant
21 agreement between the contractor or grantee and the State of
22 Illinois or State agency.
 
23     Section 20. Reporting.
24     (a) Any contractor or grantee who is subject to this Act
25 and who makes expenditures to assist, promote, or deter union
26 organizing shall maintain records sufficient to show that no
27 State funds were used for those expenditures. Expenditures to
28 be included in this record include, but are not limited to, the
29 cost of: literature or other similar communications related to
30 union representation; the hiring of vendors, including lawyers
31 and consultants, for the purpose of influencing a unionization
32 effort; the holding of meetings, including meetings with
33 supervisors and managerial employees, to influence employees
34 regarding unionization; and the wages of employees, including
35 supervisory and management employees, during any activity

 

 

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1 aimed at influencing a unionization effort or the preparation
2 for the activity.
3     (b) Any taxpayer, employee, or employee representative may
4 file a complaint with the Department of Labor against a
5 contractor or grantee covered under this Act, if the taxpayer,
6 employee, or employee representative believes in good faith
7 that the contractor or grantee has expended funds in violation
8 of this Act. For the purposes of this Section, a complainant is
9 presumed to act in good faith if the complainant reasonably
10 believes that: (i) the information reported or disclosed to the
11 complainant is true; and (ii) a violation has occurred. A
12 complainant is not acting in good faith under this Section if
13 the complaint is based on information that the complainant
14 reasonably should know is false or misleading with respect to
15 the occurrence of a violation, or if the complainant has reason
16 to believe another party has filed a similar complaint within
17 the past 14 days.
18     (c) Upon receipt of a complaint by the Department, the
19 Department shall immediately notify the State agency that has
20 entered into the contract, grant, or reimbursement agreement
21 with respect to which the complainant has alleged an
22 expenditure of funds that violates this Act. The State agency
23 shall, within 5 business days, provide the Department with
24 copies of all documents in its possession relevant to the
25 amount and sources of expenditures by the contractor or grantee
26 under the contract, grant, or reimbursement agreement, and
27 shall otherwise give full cooperation to the Department in all
28 aspects of the Department's adjudication of the complaint. The
29 Department shall, within 3 business days after a complaint is
30 filed, provide the contractor or grantee with a copy of the
31 complaint by personal service or certified mail, together with
32 notice to the contractor or grantee that it must provide the
33 records described in subsection (a) of this Section. The
34 contractor or grantee shall provide the records to the
35 Department within 15 business days after the contractor or
36 grantee receives notice from the Department, unless the

 

 

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1 Department gives the contractor or grantee an extension of 10
2 business days extension to provide the records, based upon a
3 showing of good cause for the extension. The Department shall
4 keep confidential all proprietary records submitted by
5 contractors or grantees, pursuant to the filing of a complaint
6 that is not subject to the Freedom of Information Act or
7 relevant to the State contract. The Department shall not
8 provide these proprietary records to the opposing party, except
9 as is necessary to investigate or prosecute a complaint, or to
10 give the complainant the opportunity to provide additional,
11 supplemental, or rebuttal information or evidence. These
12 proprietary records shall be subject to a protective order, if
13 appropriate, to prohibit redisclosure. Following the last date
14 for receipt of all required records, the Department shall
15 schedule an expedited hearing. The Department shall provide the
16 parties to the hearing with at least 5 business days' advance
17 notice. The issue at the hearing shall be whether there is
18 probable cause to believe that the contractor or grantee has
19 violated the Act by using State funds to promote, assist, or
20 deter union organizing, or to otherwise seek to influence the
21 decision of any of its employees to be represented or not
22 represented by a labor organization. The hearing shall be
23 completed, and a decision rendered by the Department, within 5
24 business days. For good cause, the Department may extend the
25 final date for issuing a decision by an additional 5 business
26 days. The decision of the Department shall not include the
27 disclosure of confidential business records.
 
28     Section 25. Enforcement.
29     (a) The Department shall immediately provide the Attorney
30 General with a copy of its decision, together with a copy of
31 the full hearing record and all documents submitted to the
32 Department by other State agencies and the contractor or
33 grantee. Not earlier than 21 calendar days after the Department
34 provides these documents, the Attorney General may take any
35 action that in the sole judgment of the Attorney General is

 

 

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1 necessary to enforce compliance with the Act including, but not
2 limited to, a civil action for injunctive relief, declaratory
3 relief, specific performance, or damages or a combination of
4 these remedies. Between the time that the Department renders a
5 decision and the earliest date that the Attorney General may
6 file an action for enforcement of the Act, any party to the
7 hearing before the Department may provide the Attorney General
8 with supplementary written information relevant to the issue of
9 whether an action for enforcement should be filed.
10     (b) If the State of Illinois brings an enforcement action
11 for violation of this Act, any taxpayer, employee, or employee
12 representative with a direct interest in compliance with this
13 Act may join in that enforcement action as a real party in
14 interest.
15     (c) If the State of Illinois declines to institute an
16 action for enforcement for violation of this Act within 30
17 calendar days following the decision of the Department as to
18 probable cause, any taxpayer, employee, or employee
19 representative with a direct interest in compliance with this
20 Act may institute and enforce a civil action on his or her or
21 its own behalf against the contractor or grantee and seek
22 injunctive relief, declaratory relief, specific performance,
23 or damages or a combination of those remedies. If a private
24 party commencing an action under this Section makes a
25 preliminary showing, supported by affidavit, that the
26 contractor or grantee may have used State funds to assist,
27 promote, or deter union organizing, or to otherwise seek to
28 influence the decision of its employees to be represented or
29 not represented by a labor organization, that party shall have
30 the right to obtain, through subpoena, the records maintained
31 by the contractor or grantee under Section 20, subject to a
32 protective order, if appropriate, to prohibit redisclosure.
33     (d) Remedies for violation of this Act include but are not
34 limited to injunctive and declaratory relief, specific
35 performance, and monetary damages. In view of the difficulty of
36 determining actual damages incurred because of a violation of

 

 

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1 this Act, liquidated damages shall be awarded at the rate of
2 $1,000 for each violation, plus an additional $500 for each day
3 the violation continues without remedy. All damages shall inure
4 to the benefit of the State of Illinois.
5     (e) If a private party commences a civil action under this
6 Section that the court deems frivolous, the court shall dismiss
7 the action and may assess court costs and attorney's fees
8 against the plaintiff.
 
9     Section 35. Construction of Act. Nothing in this Act shall
10 be construed to make a contractor responsible for the actions
11 of a subcontractor.
 
12     Section 90. Severability. The provisions of this Act are
13 severable under Section 1.31 of the Statute on Statutes.
 
14     Section 900. The Freedom of Information Act is amended by
15 changing Section 7 as follows:
 
16     (5 ILCS 140/7)  (from Ch. 116, par. 207)
17     Sec. 7. Exemptions.
18     (1) The following shall be exempt from inspection and
19 copying:
20         (a) Information specifically prohibited from
21     disclosure by federal or State law or rules and regulations
22     adopted under federal or State law.
23         (b) Information that, if disclosed, would constitute a
24     clearly unwarranted invasion of personal privacy, unless
25     the disclosure is consented to in writing by the individual
26     subjects of the information. The disclosure of information
27     that bears on the public duties of public employees and
28     officials shall not be considered an invasion of personal
29     privacy. Information exempted under this subsection (b)
30     shall include but is not limited to:
31             (i) files and personal information maintained with
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1         other individuals receiving social, medical,
2         educational, vocational, financial, supervisory or
3         custodial care or services directly or indirectly from
4         federal agencies or public bodies;
5             (ii) personnel files and personal information
6         maintained with respect to employees, appointees or
7         elected officials of any public body or applicants for
8         those positions;
9             (iii) files and personal information maintained
10         with respect to any applicant, registrant or licensee
11         by any public body cooperating with or engaged in
12         professional or occupational registration, licensure
13         or discipline;
14             (iv) information required of any taxpayer in
15         connection with the assessment or collection of any tax
16         unless disclosure is otherwise required by State
17         statute;
18             (v) information revealing the identity of persons
19         who file complaints with or provide information to
20         administrative, investigative, law enforcement or
21         penal agencies; provided, however, that identification
22         of witnesses to traffic accidents, traffic accident
23         reports, and rescue reports may be provided by agencies
24         of local government, except in a case for which a
25         criminal investigation is ongoing, without
26         constituting a clearly unwarranted per se invasion of
27         personal privacy under this subsection; and
28             (vi) the names, addresses, or other personal
29         information of participants and registrants in park
30         district, forest preserve district, and conservation
31         district programs.
32         (c) Records compiled by any public body for
33     administrative enforcement proceedings and any law
34     enforcement or correctional agency for law enforcement
35     purposes or for internal matters of a public body, but only
36     to the extent that disclosure would:

 

 

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1             (i) interfere with pending or actually and
2         reasonably contemplated law enforcement proceedings
3         conducted by any law enforcement or correctional
4         agency;
5             (ii) interfere with pending administrative
6         enforcement proceedings conducted by any public body;
7             (iii) deprive a person of a fair trial or an
8         impartial hearing;
9             (iv) unavoidably disclose the identity of a
10         confidential source or confidential information
11         furnished only by the confidential source;
12             (v) disclose unique or specialized investigative
13         techniques other than those generally used and known or
14         disclose internal documents of correctional agencies
15         related to detection, observation or investigation of
16         incidents of crime or misconduct;
17             (vi) constitute an invasion of personal privacy
18         under subsection (b) of this Section;
19             (vii) endanger the life or physical safety of law
20         enforcement personnel or any other person; or
21             (viii) obstruct an ongoing criminal investigation.
22         (d) Criminal history record information maintained by
23     State or local criminal justice agencies, except the
24     following which shall be open for public inspection and
25     copying:
26             (i) chronologically maintained arrest information,
27         such as traditional arrest logs or blotters;
28             (ii) the name of a person in the custody of a law
29         enforcement agency and the charges for which that
30         person is being held;
31             (iii) court records that are public;
32             (iv) records that are otherwise available under
33         State or local law; or
34             (v) records in which the requesting party is the
35         individual identified, except as provided under part
36         (vii) of paragraph (c) of subsection (1) of this

 

 

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1         Section.
2         "Criminal history record information" means data
3     identifiable to an individual and consisting of
4     descriptions or notations of arrests, detentions,
5     indictments, informations, pre-trial proceedings, trials,
6     or other formal events in the criminal justice system or
7     descriptions or notations of criminal charges (including
8     criminal violations of local municipal ordinances) and the
9     nature of any disposition arising therefrom, including
10     sentencing, court or correctional supervision,
11     rehabilitation and release. The term does not apply to
12     statistical records and reports in which individuals are
13     not identified and from which their identities are not
14     ascertainable, or to information that is for criminal
15     investigative or intelligence purposes.
16         (e) Records that relate to or affect the security of
17     correctional institutions and detention facilities.
18         (f) Preliminary drafts, notes, recommendations,
19     memoranda and other records in which opinions are
20     expressed, or policies or actions are formulated, except
21     that a specific record or relevant portion of a record
22     shall not be exempt when the record is publicly cited and
23     identified by the head of the public body. The exemption
24     provided in this paragraph (f) extends to all those records
25     of officers and agencies of the General Assembly that
26     pertain to the preparation of legislative documents.
27         (g) Trade secrets and commercial or financial
28     information obtained from a person or business where the
29     trade secrets or information are proprietary, privileged
30     or confidential, or where disclosure of the trade secrets
31     or information may cause competitive harm, including all
32     information determined to be confidential under the State
33     Services Accountability Act or Section 4002 of the
34     Technology Advancement and Development Act. Nothing
35     contained in this paragraph (g) shall be construed to
36     prevent a person or business from consenting to disclosure.

 

 

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1         (h) Proposals and bids for any contract, grant, or
2     agreement, including information which if it were
3     disclosed would frustrate procurement or give an advantage
4     to any person proposing to enter into a contractor
5     agreement with the body, until an award or final selection
6     is made. Information prepared by or for the body in
7     preparation of a bid solicitation shall be exempt until an
8     award or final selection is made.
9         (i) Valuable formulae, computer geographic systems,
10     designs, drawings and research data obtained or produced by
11     any public body when disclosure could reasonably be
12     expected to produce private gain or public loss. The
13     exemption for "computer geographic systems" provided in
14     this paragraph (i) does not extend to requests made by news
15     media as defined in Section 2 of this Act when the
16     requested information is not otherwise exempt and the only
17     purpose of the request is to access and disseminate
18     information regarding the health, safety, welfare, or
19     legal rights of the general public.
20         (j) Test questions, scoring keys and other examination
21     data used to administer an academic examination or
22     determined the qualifications of an applicant for a license
23     or employment.
24         (k) Architects' plans, engineers' technical
25     submissions, and other construction related technical
26     documents for projects not constructed or developed in
27     whole or in part with public funds and the same for
28     projects constructed or developed with public funds, but
29     only to the extent that disclosure would compromise
30     security, including but not limited to water treatment
31     facilities, airport facilities, sport stadiums, convention
32     centers, and all government owned, operated, or occupied
33     buildings.
34         (l) Library circulation and order records identifying
35     library users with specific materials.
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1     public as provided in the Open Meetings Act until the
2     public body makes the minutes available to the public under
3     Section 2.06 of the Open Meetings Act.
4         (n) Communications between a public body and an
5     attorney or auditor representing the public body that would
6     not be subject to discovery in litigation, and materials
7     prepared or compiled by or for a public body in
8     anticipation of a criminal, civil or administrative
9     proceeding upon the request of an attorney advising the
10     public body, and materials prepared or compiled with
11     respect to internal audits of public bodies.
12         (o) Information received by a primary or secondary
13     school, college or university under its procedures for the
14     evaluation of faculty members by their academic peers.
15         (p) Administrative or technical information associated
16     with automated data processing operations, including but
17     not limited to software, operating protocols, computer
18     program abstracts, file layouts, source listings, object
19     modules, load modules, user guides, documentation
20     pertaining to all logical and physical design of
21     computerized systems, employee manuals, and any other
22     information that, if disclosed, would jeopardize the
23     security of the system or its data or the security of
24     materials exempt under this Section.
25         (q) Documents or materials relating to collective
26     negotiating matters between public bodies and their
27     employees or representatives, except that any final
28     contract or agreement shall be subject to inspection and
29     copying.
30         (r) Drafts, notes, recommendations and memoranda
31     pertaining to the financing and marketing transactions of
32     the public body. The records of ownership, registration,
33     transfer, and exchange of municipal debt obligations, and
34     of persons to whom payment with respect to these
35     obligations is made.
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1     real estate purchase negotiations until those negotiations
2     have been completed or otherwise terminated. With regard to
3     a parcel involved in a pending or actually and reasonably
4     contemplated eminent domain proceeding under Article VII
5     of the Code of Civil Procedure, records, documents and
6     information relating to that parcel shall be exempt except
7     as may be allowed under discovery rules adopted by the
8     Illinois Supreme Court. The records, documents and
9     information relating to a real estate sale shall be exempt
10     until a sale is consummated.
11         (t) Any and all proprietary information and records
12     related to the operation of an intergovernmental risk
13     management association or self-insurance pool or jointly
14     self-administered health and accident cooperative or pool.
15         (u) Information concerning a university's adjudication
16     of student or employee grievance or disciplinary cases, to
17     the extent that disclosure would reveal the identity of the
18     student or employee and information concerning any public
19     body's adjudication of student or employee grievances or
20     disciplinary cases, except for the final outcome of the
21     cases.
22         (v) Course materials or research materials used by
23     faculty members.
24         (w) Information related solely to the internal
25     personnel rules and practices of a public body.
26         (x) Information contained in or related to
27     examination, operating, or condition reports prepared by,
28     on behalf of, or for the use of a public body responsible
29     for the regulation or supervision of financial
30     institutions or insurance companies, unless disclosure is
31     otherwise required by State law.
32         (y) Information the disclosure of which is restricted
33     under Section 5-108 of the Public Utilities Act.
34         (z) Manuals or instruction to staff that relate to
35     establishment or collection of liability for any State tax
36     or that relate to investigations by a public body to

 

 

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1     determine violation of any criminal law.
2         (aa) Applications, related documents, and medical
3     records received by the Experimental Organ Transplantation
4     Procedures Board and any and all documents or other records
5     prepared by the Experimental Organ Transplantation
6     Procedures Board or its staff relating to applications it
7     has received.
8         (bb) Insurance or self insurance (including any
9     intergovernmental risk management association or self
10     insurance pool) claims, loss or risk management
11     information, records, data, advice or communications.
12         (cc) Information and records held by the Department of
13     Public Health and its authorized representatives relating
14     to known or suspected cases of sexually transmissible
15     disease or any information the disclosure of which is
16     restricted under the Illinois Sexually Transmissible
17     Disease Control Act.
18         (dd) Information the disclosure of which is exempted
19     under Section 30 of the Radon Industry Licensing Act.
20         (ee) Firm performance evaluations under Section 55 of
21     the Architectural, Engineering, and Land Surveying
22     Qualifications Based Selection Act.
23         (ff) Security portions of system safety program plans,
24     investigation reports, surveys, schedules, lists, data, or
25     information compiled, collected, or prepared by or for the
26     Regional Transportation Authority under Section 2.11 of
27     the Regional Transportation Authority Act or the St. Clair
28     County Transit District under the Bi-State Transit Safety
29     Act.
30         (gg) Information the disclosure of which is restricted
31     and exempted under Section 50 of the Illinois Prepaid
32     Tuition Act.
33         (hh) Information the disclosure of which is exempted
34     under the State Officials and Employees Ethics Act.
35         (ii) Beginning July 1, 1999, information that would
36     disclose or might lead to the disclosure of secret or

 

 

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1     confidential information, codes, algorithms, programs, or
2     private keys intended to be used to create electronic or
3     digital signatures under the Electronic Commerce Security
4     Act.
5         (jj) Information contained in a local emergency energy
6     plan submitted to a municipality in accordance with a local
7     emergency energy plan ordinance that is adopted under
8     Section 11-21.5-5 of the Illinois Municipal Code.
9         (kk) Information and data concerning the distribution
10     of surcharge moneys collected and remitted by wireless
11     carriers under the Wireless Emergency Telephone Safety
12     Act.
13         (ll) Vulnerability assessments, security measures, and
14     response policies or plans that are designed to identify,
15     prevent, or respond to potential attacks upon a community's
16     population or systems, facilities, or installations, the
17     destruction or contamination of which would constitute a
18     clear and present danger to the health or safety of the
19     community, but only to the extent that disclosure could
20     reasonably be expected to jeopardize the effectiveness of
21     the measures or the safety of the personnel who implement
22     them or the public. Information exempt under this item may
23     include such things as details pertaining to the
24     mobilization or deployment of personnel or equipment, to
25     the operation of communication systems or protocols, or to
26     tactical operations.
27         (mm) Maps and other records regarding the location or
28     security of a utility's generation, transmission,
29     distribution, storage, gathering, treatment, or switching
30     facilities.
31         (nn) Law enforcement officer identification
32     information or driver identification information compiled
33     by a law enforcement agency or the Department of
34     Transportation under Section 11-212 of the Illinois
35     Vehicle Code.
36         (oo) Records and information provided to a residential

 

 

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1     health care facility resident sexual assault and death
2     review team or the Residential Health Care Facility
3     Resident Sexual Assault and Death Review Teams Executive
4     Council under the Residential Health Care Facility
5     Resident Sexual Assault and Death Review Team Act.
6     (2) This Section does not authorize withholding of
7 information or limit the availability of records to the public,
8 except as stated in this Section or otherwise provided in this
9 Act.
10 (Source: P.A. 92-16, eff. 6-28-01; 92-241, eff. 8-3-01; 92-281,
11 eff. 8-7-01; 92-645, eff. 7-11-02; 92-651, eff. 7-11-02; 93-43,
12 eff. 7-1-03; 93-209, eff. 7-18-03; 93-237, eff. 7-22-03;
13 93-325, eff. 7-23-03, 93-422, eff. 8-5-03; 93-577, eff.
14 8-21-03; 93-617, eff. 12-9-03.)