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 1        AN ACT concerning local government.

 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
 5    Local Government Taxpayer's Relief Act.

 6        Section  5.  Legislative  findings.  The General Assembly
 7    finds that taxpayers who  finance  the  operations  of  local
 8    governments  are  unfairly  burdened by unscrupulous lawsuits
 9    filed by plaintiffs where the plaintiffs' revenues  are  also
10    subsidized   by  local  governments  through  taxpayer-funded
11    contracts. The purpose of this Act  is  to  terminate  public
12    funds  from  being  used  to  finance  lawsuits  against  the
13    taxpayer.    Suits against local governments must be financed
14    without taxpayer funds.

15        Section 10.  Definition. In this Act
16        "Person"  means  an  individual,   corporation,   vendor,
17    business   trust,  partnership,  association,  or  any  other
18    business entity, and includes representatives and  agents  of
19    that person.

20        Section  15.  Prohibited  contracts.  No  person may bid,
21    transact, continue to perform, or  have  any  interest  in  a
22    contract  or  agreement  let  or  issued  by  a unit of local
23    government or school district if  that  person  has  filed  a
24    civil  lawsuit naming that unit of local government or school
25    district as a defendant unless approved by the executive  and
26    a  super-majority  of  the  legislative branch of the unit of
27    local government.

28        Section 20.  Applicability.
 
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 1        (a)  This Act  applies  to  units  of  local  government,
 2    including  home  rule  units,  and school districts. This Act
 3    does not apply to  the  State  or  to  any  office,  officer,
 4    department,  division, bureau, board, commission, university,
 5    or other agency of the State.
 6        (b)  This Act applies to  all  contracts  and  agreements
 7    entered  into before, on, or after the effective date of this
 8    Act.
 9        (c)  This Act does not apply to any contract or agreement
10    between an employee and employer  as  defined  in  Title  29,
11    Chapter  18,  Subchapter  I,  Subtitle A, Section 1002 of the
12    United States Code.

13        Section 25.  Home rule. A home rule unit may not act in a
14    manner inconsistent with the provisions  of  this  Act.  This
15    Section  is a limitation under subsection (i) of Section 6 of
16    Article VII of the Illinois Constitution  on  the  concurrent
17    exercise by home rule units of powers and functions exercised
18    by the State.