Illinois General Assembly - Bill Status for HB3412

Deletes everything. Creates the State Officials and Employees Ethics Act. Prohibits State officers and employees of the executive and legislative branch of State government and the Auditor General and his or her employees from engaging in political activities during State time. Requires the implementation and maintenance of personnel policies for those officers and employees. Requires annual ethics training for those officers and employees. Prohibits certain practices by those officers, candidates for those offices, and those employees with respect to campaign contributions, fundraising, public service announcements, and post-State service employment. Creates protections for whistle-blowers. Preempts home rule and requires units of local government and school districts to adopt similar provisions. Amends the Illinois Governmental Ethics Act, the Illinois Administrative Procedure Act, the Election Code, the General Assembly Operations Act, the Personnel Code, the General Assembly Compensation Act, the General Assembly Staff Assistants Act, the Legislative Commission Reorganization Act of 1984, the Lobbyist Registration Act, the Illinois Procurement Code, the Raffles Act, and the State Lawsuit Immunity Act. Makes conforming changes and other changes concerning ex parte communications during State agency rulemaking, State appointees, electioneering, the use and reporting of campaign funds, and the registration and activities of lobbyists. Repeals the State Employees Political Activity Act. Effective immediately.

Recommends that the State Officials and Employees Ethics Act prohibit the solicitation and acceptance of gifts by State officials and employees and their families from certain prohibited sources with enumerated exceptions; provides for the appointment of an Executive Inspector General to investigate allegations of ethics violations in the executive branch of State government; provides for the appointment of an Executive Ethics Commission to hear complaints of those violations; provides for an ethics hot line in the executive branch; and makes changes concerning the prohibitions against public service announcements and employment after service in the State's procurement process. Repeals the State Gift Ban Act and amends the Open Meetings Act, the Illinois Public Labor Relations Act, and the Personnel Code to make conforming changes. Further amends the Lobbyist Registration Act concerning the registration fee and the service of lobbyists on boards, commissions, authorities, and task forces.

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