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Full Text of HB2259  97th General Assembly

HB2259ham001 97TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

Rep. Randy Ramey, Jr.

Filed: 4/8/2011

 

 


 

 


 
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AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 2259

2    AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 2259 by replacing
3everything after the enacting clause with the following:
 
4    "Section 5. The Open Meetings Act is amended by changing
5Section 2 as follows:
 
6    (5 ILCS 120/2)  (from Ch. 102, par. 42)
7    Sec. 2. Open meetings.
8    (a) Openness required. All meetings of public bodies shall
9be open to the public unless excepted in subsection (c) and
10closed in accordance with Section 2a.
11    (b) Construction of exceptions. The exceptions contained
12in subsection (c) are in derogation of the requirement that
13public bodies meet in the open, and therefore, the exceptions
14are to be strictly construed, extending only to subjects
15clearly within their scope. The exceptions authorize but do not
16require the holding of a closed meeting to discuss a subject

 

 

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1included within an enumerated exception.
2    (c) Exceptions. A public body may hold closed meetings to
3consider the following subjects:
4        (1) The appointment, employment, compensation,
5    discipline, performance, or dismissal of specific
6    employees of the public body or legal counsel for the
7    public body, including hearing testimony on a complaint
8    lodged against an employee of the public body or against
9    legal counsel for the public body to determine its
10    validity.
11        (2) Collective negotiating matters between the public
12    body and its employees or their representatives, or
13    deliberations concerning salary schedules for one or more
14    classes of employees.
15        (3) The selection of a person to fill a public office,
16    as defined in this Act, including a vacancy in a public
17    office, when the public body is given power to appoint
18    under law or ordinance, or the discipline, performance or
19    removal of the occupant of a public office, when the public
20    body is given power to remove the occupant under law or
21    ordinance.
22        (4) Evidence or testimony presented in open hearing, or
23    in closed hearing where specifically authorized by law, to
24    a quasi-adjudicative body, as defined in this Act, provided
25    that the body prepares and makes available for public
26    inspection a written decision setting forth its

 

 

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1    determinative reasoning.
2        (5) The purchase or lease of real property for the use
3    of the public body, including meetings held for the purpose
4    of discussing whether a particular parcel should be
5    acquired.
6        (6) The setting of a price for sale or lease of
7    property owned by the public body.
8        (7) The sale or purchase of securities, investments, or
9    investment contracts.
10        (8) Security procedures and the use of personnel and
11    equipment to respond to an actual, a threatened, or a
12    reasonably potential danger to the safety of employees,
13    students, staff, the public, or public property.
14        (9) Student disciplinary cases.
15        (10) The placement of individual students in special
16    education programs and other matters relating to
17    individual students.
18        (11) Litigation, when an action against, affecting or
19    on behalf of the particular public body has been filed and
20    is pending before a court or administrative tribunal, or
21    when the public body finds that an action is probable or
22    imminent, in which case the basis for the finding shall be
23    recorded and entered into the minutes of the closed
24    meeting.
25        (12) The establishment of reserves or settlement of
26    claims as provided in the Local Governmental and

 

 

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1    Governmental Employees Tort Immunity Act, if otherwise the
2    disposition of a claim or potential claim might be
3    prejudiced, or the review or discussion of claims, loss or
4    risk management information, records, data, advice or
5    communications from or with respect to any insurer of the
6    public body or any intergovernmental risk management
7    association or self insurance pool of which the public body
8    is a member.
9        (13) Conciliation of complaints of discrimination in
10    the sale or rental of housing, when closed meetings are
11    authorized by the law or ordinance prescribing fair housing
12    practices and creating a commission or administrative
13    agency for their enforcement.
14        (14) Informant sources, the hiring or assignment of
15    undercover personnel or equipment, or ongoing, prior or
16    future criminal investigations, when discussed by a public
17    body with criminal investigatory responsibilities.
18        (15) Professional ethics or performance when
19    considered by an advisory body appointed to advise a
20    licensing or regulatory agency on matters germane to the
21    advisory body's field of competence.
22        (16) Self evaluation, practices and procedures or
23    professional ethics, when meeting with a representative of
24    a statewide association of which the public body is a
25    member.
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1    formal peer review of physicians or other health care
2    professionals for a hospital, or other institution
3    providing medical care, that is operated by the public
4    body.
5        (18) Deliberations for decisions of the Prisoner
6    Review Board.
7        (19) Review or discussion of applications received
8    under the Experimental Organ Transplantation Procedures
9    Act.
10        (20) The classification and discussion of matters
11    classified as confidential or continued confidential by
12    the State Government Suggestion Award Board.
13        (21) Discussion of minutes of meetings lawfully closed
14    under this Act, whether for purposes of approval by the
15    body of the minutes or semi-annual review of the minutes as
16    mandated by Section 2.06.
17        (22) Deliberations for decisions of the State
18    Emergency Medical Services Disciplinary Review Board.
19        (23) The operation by a municipality of a municipal
20    utility or the operation of a municipal power agency or
21    municipal natural gas agency when the discussion involves
22    (i) contracts relating to the purchase, sale, or delivery
23    of electricity or natural gas or (ii) the results or
24    conclusions of load forecast studies.
25        (24) Meetings of a residential health care facility
26    resident sexual assault and death review team or the

 

 

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1    Executive Council under the Abuse Prevention Review Team
2    Act.
3        (25) Meetings of an independent team of experts under
4    Brian's Law.
5        (26) (25) Meetings of a mortality review team appointed
6    under the Department of Juvenile Justice Mortality Review
7    Team Act.
8        (27) (25) Confidential information, when discussed by
9    one or more members of an elder abuse fatality review team,
10    designated under Section 15 of the Elder Abuse and Neglect
11    Act, while participating in a review conducted by that team
12    of the death of an elderly person in which abuse or neglect
13    is suspected, alleged, or substantiated; provided that
14    before the review team holds a closed meeting, or closes an
15    open meeting, to discuss the confidential information,
16    each participating review team member seeking to disclose
17    the confidential information in the closed meeting or
18    closed portion of the meeting must state on the record
19    during an open meeting or the open portion of a meeting the
20    nature of the information to be disclosed and the legal
21    basis for otherwise holding that information confidential.
22        (28) Correspondence and records (i) that may not be
23    disclosed under Section 11-9 of the Public Aid Code or (ii)
24    that pertain to appeals under Section 11-8 of the Public
25    Aid Code.
26    (d) Definitions. For purposes of this Section:

 

 

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1    "Employee" means a person employed by a public body whose
2relationship with the public body constitutes an
3employer-employee relationship under the usual common law
4rules, and who is not an independent contractor.
5    "Public office" means a position created by or under the
6Constitution or laws of this State, the occupant of which is
7charged with the exercise of some portion of the sovereign
8power of this State. The term "public office" shall include
9members of the public body, but it shall not include
10organizational positions filled by members thereof, whether
11established by law or by a public body itself, that exist to
12assist the body in the conduct of its business.
13    "Quasi-adjudicative body" means an administrative body
14charged by law or ordinance with the responsibility to conduct
15hearings, receive evidence or testimony and make
16determinations based thereon, but does not include local
17electoral boards when such bodies are considering petition
18challenges.
19    (e) Final action. No final action may be taken at a closed
20meeting. Final action shall be preceded by a public recital of
21the nature of the matter being considered and other information
22that will inform the public of the business being conducted.
23(Source: P.A. 95-185, eff. 1-1-08; 96-1235, eff. 1-1-11;
2496-1378, eff. 7-29-10; 96-1428, eff. 8-11-10; revised 9-2-10.)
 
25    Section 10. The Freedom of Information Act is amended by

 

 

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1changing Section 7 as follows:
 
2    (5 ILCS 140/7)  (from Ch. 116, par. 207)
3    Sec. 7. Exemptions.
4    (1) When a request is made to inspect or copy a public
5record that contains information that is exempt from disclosure
6under this Section, but also contains information that is not
7exempt from disclosure, the public body may elect to redact the
8information that is exempt. The public body shall make the
9remaining information available for inspection and copying.
10Subject to this requirement, the following shall be exempt from
11inspection and copying:
12        (a) Information specifically prohibited from
13    disclosure by federal or State law or rules and regulations
14    implementing federal or State law.
15        (b) Private information, unless disclosure is required
16    by another provision of this Act, a State or federal law or
17    a court order.
18        (b-5) Files, documents, and other data or databases
19    maintained by one or more law enforcement agencies and
20    specifically designed to provide information to one or more
21    law enforcement agencies regarding the physical or mental
22    status of one or more individual subjects.
23        (c) Personal information contained within public
24    records, the disclosure of which would constitute a clearly
25    unwarranted invasion of personal privacy, unless the

 

 

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1    disclosure is consented to in writing by the individual
2    subjects of the information. "Unwarranted invasion of
3    personal privacy" means the disclosure of information that
4    is highly personal or objectionable to a reasonable person
5    and in which the subject's right to privacy outweighs any
6    legitimate public interest in obtaining the information.
7    The disclosure of information that bears on the public
8    duties of public employees and officials shall not be
9    considered an invasion of personal privacy.
10        (d) Records in the possession of any public body
11    created in the course of administrative enforcement
12    proceedings, and any law enforcement or correctional
13    agency for law enforcement purposes, but only to the extent
14    that disclosure would:
15            (i) interfere with pending or actually and
16        reasonably contemplated law enforcement proceedings
17        conducted by any law enforcement or correctional
18        agency that is the recipient of the request;
19            (ii) interfere with active administrative
20        enforcement proceedings conducted by the public body
21        that is the recipient of the request;
22            (iii) create a substantial likelihood that a
23        person will be deprived of a fair trial or an impartial
24        hearing;
25            (iv) unavoidably disclose the identity of a
26        confidential source, confidential information

 

 

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1        furnished only by the confidential source, or persons
2        who file complaints with or provide information to
3        administrative, investigative, law enforcement, or
4        penal agencies; except that the identities of
5        witnesses to traffic accidents, traffic accident
6        reports, and rescue reports shall be provided by
7        agencies of local government, except when disclosure
8        would interfere with an active criminal investigation
9        conducted by the agency that is the recipient of the
10        request;
11            (v) disclose unique or specialized investigative
12        techniques other than those generally used and known or
13        disclose internal documents of correctional agencies
14        related to detection, observation or investigation of
15        incidents of crime or misconduct, and disclosure would
16        result in demonstrable harm to the agency or public
17        body that is the recipient of the request;
18            (vi) endanger the life or physical safety of law
19        enforcement personnel or any other person; or
20            (vii) obstruct an ongoing criminal investigation
21        by the agency that is the recipient of the request.
22        (e) Records that relate to or affect the security of
23    correctional institutions and detention facilities.
24        (f) Preliminary drafts, notes, recommendations,
25    memoranda and other records in which opinions are
26    expressed, or policies or actions are formulated, except

 

 

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1    that a specific record or relevant portion of a record
2    shall not be exempt when the record is publicly cited and
3    identified by the head of the public body. The exemption
4    provided in this paragraph (f) extends to all those records
5    of officers and agencies of the General Assembly that
6    pertain to the preparation of legislative documents.
7        (g) Trade secrets and commercial or financial
8    information obtained from a person or business where the
9    trade secrets or commercial or financial information are
10    furnished under a claim that they are proprietary,
11    privileged or confidential, and that disclosure of the
12    trade secrets or commercial or financial information would
13    cause competitive harm to the person or business, and only
14    insofar as the claim directly applies to the records
15    requested.
16        The information included under this exemption includes
17    all trade secrets and commercial or financial information
18    obtained by a public body, including a public pension fund,
19    from a private equity fund or a privately held company
20    within the investment portfolio of a private equity fund as
21    a result of either investing or evaluating a potential
22    investment of public funds in a private equity fund. The
23    exemption contained in this item does not apply to the
24    aggregate financial performance information of a private
25    equity fund, nor to the identity of the fund's managers or
26    general partners. The exemption contained in this item does

 

 

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1    not apply to the identity of a privately held company
2    within the investment portfolio of a private equity fund,
3    unless the disclosure of the identity of a privately held
4    company may cause competitive harm.
5        Nothing contained in this paragraph (g) shall be
6    construed to prevent a person or business from consenting
7    to disclosure.
8        (h) Proposals and bids for any contract, grant, or
9    agreement, including information which if it were
10    disclosed would frustrate procurement or give an advantage
11    to any person proposing to enter into a contractor
12    agreement with the body, until an award or final selection
13    is made. Information prepared by or for the body in
14    preparation of a bid solicitation shall be exempt until an
15    award or final selection is made.
16        (i) Valuable formulae, computer geographic systems,
17    designs, drawings and research data obtained or produced by
18    any public body when disclosure could reasonably be
19    expected to produce private gain or public loss. The
20    exemption for "computer geographic systems" provided in
21    this paragraph (i) does not extend to requests made by news
22    media as defined in Section 2 of this Act when the
23    requested information is not otherwise exempt and the only
24    purpose of the request is to access and disseminate
25    information regarding the health, safety, welfare, or
26    legal rights of the general public.

 

 

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1        (j) The following information pertaining to
2    educational matters:
3            (i) test questions, scoring keys and other
4        examination data used to administer an academic
5        examination;
6            (ii) information received by a primary or
7        secondary school, college, or university under its
8        procedures for the evaluation of faculty members by
9        their academic peers;
10            (iii) information concerning a school or
11        university's adjudication of student disciplinary
12        cases, but only to the extent that disclosure would
13        unavoidably reveal the identity of the student; and
14            (iv) course materials or research materials used
15        by faculty members.
16        (k) Architects' plans, engineers' technical
17    submissions, and other construction related technical
18    documents for projects not constructed or developed in
19    whole or in part with public funds and the same for
20    projects constructed or developed with public funds,
21    including but not limited to power generating and
22    distribution stations and other transmission and
23    distribution facilities, water treatment facilities,
24    airport facilities, sport stadiums, convention centers,
25    and all government owned, operated, or occupied buildings,
26    but only to the extent that disclosure would compromise

 

 

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1    security.
2        (l) Minutes of meetings of public bodies closed to the
3    public as provided in the Open Meetings Act until the
4    public body makes the minutes available to the public under
5    Section 2.06 of the Open Meetings Act.
6        (m) Communications between a public body and an
7    attorney or auditor representing the public body that would
8    not be subject to discovery in litigation, and materials
9    prepared or compiled by or for a public body in
10    anticipation of a criminal, civil or administrative
11    proceeding upon the request of an attorney advising the
12    public body, and materials prepared or compiled with
13    respect to internal audits of public bodies.
14        (n) Records relating to a public body's adjudication of
15    employee grievances or disciplinary cases; however, this
16    exemption shall not extend to the final outcome of cases in
17    which discipline is imposed.
18        (o) Administrative or technical information associated
19    with automated data processing operations, including but
20    not limited to software, operating protocols, computer
21    program abstracts, file layouts, source listings, object
22    modules, load modules, user guides, documentation
23    pertaining to all logical and physical design of
24    computerized systems, employee manuals, and any other
25    information that, if disclosed, would jeopardize the
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1    materials exempt under this Section.
2        (p) Records relating to collective negotiating matters
3    between public bodies and their employees or
4    representatives, except that any final contract or
5    agreement shall be subject to inspection and copying.
6        (q) Test questions, scoring keys, and other
7    examination data used to determine the qualifications of an
8    applicant for a license or employment.
9        (r) The records, documents, and information relating
10    to real estate purchase negotiations until those
11    negotiations have been completed or otherwise terminated.
12    With regard to a parcel involved in a pending or actually
13    and reasonably contemplated eminent domain proceeding
14    under the Eminent Domain Act, records, documents and
15    information relating to that parcel shall be exempt except
16    as may be allowed under discovery rules adopted by the
17    Illinois Supreme Court. The records, documents and
18    information relating to a real estate sale shall be exempt
19    until a sale is consummated.
20        (s) Any and all proprietary information and records
21    related to the operation of an intergovernmental risk
22    management association or self-insurance pool or jointly
23    self-administered health and accident cooperative or pool.
24    Insurance or self insurance (including any
25    intergovernmental risk management association or self
26    insurance pool) claims, loss or risk management

 

 

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1    information, records, data, advice or communications.
2        (t) Information contained in or related to
3    examination, operating, or condition reports prepared by,
4    on behalf of, or for the use of a public body responsible
5    for the regulation or supervision of financial
6    institutions or insurance companies, unless disclosure is
7    otherwise required by State law.
8        (u) Information that would disclose or might lead to
9    the disclosure of secret or confidential information,
10    codes, algorithms, programs, or private keys intended to be
11    used to create electronic or digital signatures under the
12    Electronic Commerce Security Act.
13        (v) 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.

 

 

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1        (w) (Blank).
2        (x) Maps and other records regarding the location or
3    security of generation, transmission, distribution,
4    storage, gathering, treatment, or switching facilities
5    owned by a utility, by a power generator, or by the
6    Illinois Power Agency.
7        (y) Information contained in or related to proposals,
8    bids, or negotiations related to electric power
9    procurement under Section 1-75 of the Illinois Power Agency
10    Act and Section 16-111.5 of the Public Utilities Act that
11    is determined to be confidential and proprietary by the
12    Illinois Power Agency or by the Illinois Commerce
13    Commission.
14        (z) Information about students exempted from
15    disclosure under Sections 10-20.38 or 34-18.29 of the
16    School Code, and information about undergraduate students
17    enrolled at an institution of higher education exempted
18    from disclosure under Section 25 of the Illinois Credit
19    Card Marketing Act of 2009.
20        (aa) Information the disclosure of which is exempted
21    under the Viatical Settlements Act of 2009.
22        (bb) Records and information provided to a mortality
23    review team and records maintained by a mortality review
24    team appointed under the Department of Juvenile Justice
25    Mortality Review Team Act.
26        (cc) (bb) Information regarding interments,

 

 

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1    entombments, or inurnments of human remains that are
2    submitted to the Cemetery Oversight Database under the
3    Cemetery Care Act or the Cemetery Oversight Act, whichever
4    is applicable.
5        (dd) Correspondence and records (i) that may not be
6    disclosed under Section 11-9 of the Public Aid Code or (ii)
7    that pertain to appeals under Section 11-8 of the Public
8    Aid Code.
9    (2) A public record that is not in the possession of a
10public body but is in the possession of a party with whom the
11agency has contracted to perform a governmental function on
12behalf of the public body, and that directly relates to the
13governmental function and is not otherwise exempt under this
14Act, shall be considered a public record of the public body,
15for purposes of this Act.
16    (3) This Section does not authorize withholding of
17information or limit the availability of records to the public,
18except as stated in this Section or otherwise provided in this
19Act.
20(Source: P.A. 95-331, eff. 8-21-07; 95-481, eff. 8-28-07;
2195-941, eff. 8-29-08; 95-988, eff. 6-1-09; 96-261, eff. 1-1-10;
2296-328, eff. 8-11-09; 96-542, eff. 1-1-10; 96-558, eff. 1-1-10;
2396-736, eff. 7-1-10; 96-863, eff. 3-1-10; 96-1378, eff.
247-29-10; revised 9-2-10.)
 
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1becoming law.".