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Full Text of HB3453  99th General Assembly

HB3453 99TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

  
  

 


 
99TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2015 and 2016
HB3453

 

Introduced , by Rep. Charles E. Meier

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
5 ILCS 460/212

    Amends State Designations Act. Provides that the portrait of any person who has served as Governor of Illinois and who has been removed from that office by impeachment and conviction or who has been convicted of a crime relating to actions the person took while serving as a state-wide elected official shall have a plaque displayed with his or her portrait denoting the conviction. Effective immediately.


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FISCAL NOTE ACT MAY APPLY

 

 

A BILL FOR

 

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1    AN ACT concerning government.
 
2    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3represented in the General Assembly:
 
4    Section 5. The State Designations Act is amended by
5changing Section 212 as follows:
 
6    (5 ILCS 460/212)
7    Sec. 212. Official gubernatorial portraits.
8    (a) The portraits of the Governors of Illinois, painted or
9otherwise created as visual images, displayed in the State
10Capitol shall be the official State portraits of the Governors
11of Illinois.
12    (b) No portrait or other image of any person who has served
13as Governor of Illinois and who has been removed from that
14office by impeachment and conviction shall be financed or paid
15for by the State or any State entity or with State funds.
16Notwithstanding this prohibition, a portrait or image of such a
17person may be displayed or otherwise placed in the State
18Capitol, and the State may maintain such official State
19portrait of that person among the official State portraits of
20the Governors of Illinois.
21    (c) The portrait of any person who has served as Governor
22of Illinois and who has been removed from that office by
23impeachment and conviction or who has been convicted of a crime

 

 

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1relating to actions the person took while serving as a
2state-wide elected official shall have a plaque displayed with
3his or her portrait denoting the conviction.
4(Source: P.A. 96-1017, eff. 1-1-11.)
 
5    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
6becoming law.