Full Text of HB1983 95th General Assembly
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Rep. Bill Mitchell
Filed: 4/19/2007
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| AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 1983
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| AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 1983 by replacing | 3 |
| everything after the enacting clause with the following:
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| "Section 5. The Lobbyist Registration Act is amended by | 5 |
| changing Section 3 as follows:
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| (25 ILCS 170/3) (from Ch. 63, par. 173)
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| Sec. 3. Persons required to register.
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| (a) Except as provided in Sections 4 and 9, the following | 9 |
| persons shall
register with the Secretary of State as provided | 10 |
| herein:
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| (1) Any person who, for compensation or otherwise,
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| either individually or as an employee or contractual | 13 |
| employee of another
person, undertakes to influence | 14 |
| executive, legislative or administrative
action.
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| (2) Any person who employs another person for the | 16 |
| purposes
of influencing executive, legislative or |
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| administrative action.
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| (a-5) A person may not register under this Act if (i) his | 3 |
| or her last day in the office of Governor, Lieutenant Governor, | 4 |
| Attorney General, Secretary of State, Comptroller, Treasurer, | 5 |
| State Senator, or State Representative, whether due to | 6 |
| conclusion of the term or other event, was less than 24 months | 7 |
| earlier or (ii) he or she was an employee or appointee of, or | 8 |
| an employee or appointee of a governmental entity under the | 9 |
| jurisdiction or control of, the Governor, Lieutenant Governor, | 10 |
| Attorney General, Secretary of State, Comptroller, or | 11 |
| Treasurer less than 24 months earlier. A person subject to this | 12 |
| subsection who acts in a manner that would require the person | 13 |
| to be registered under this Act violates this Act as provided | 14 |
| in subsection (b).
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| (b) It is a violation of this Act to engage in lobbying or | 16 |
| to employ any
person for the purpose of lobbying who is not | 17 |
| registered with the Office of the
Secretary of State, except | 18 |
| upon condition that the person register and the
person does in | 19 |
| fact register within 2 business days after being employed or | 20 |
| retained for lobbying services.
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| (Source: P.A. 93-615, eff. 11-19-03.)".
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