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HB0113 99TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

  
  

 


 
99TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2015 and 2016
HB0113

 

Introduced , by Rep. Anthony DeLuca

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
5 ILCS 430/5-20

    Amends the State Officials and Employees Ethics Act. Provides that no executive branch constitutional officer or member of the General Assembly may make public announcements of any State grant or State funded project of any kind within 60 days before a general election.


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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 Officials and Employees Ethics Act is
5amended by changing Section 5-20 as follows:
 
6    (5 ILCS 430/5-20)
7    Sec. 5-20. Public service announcements; other promotional
8material.
9    (a) Beginning January 1, 2004, no public service
10announcement or advertisement that is on behalf of any State
11administered program and contains the proper name, image, or
12voice of any executive branch constitutional officer or member
13of the General Assembly shall be (i) broadcast or aired on
14radio or television, (ii) printed in a commercial newspaper or
15a commercial magazine, or (iii) displayed on a billboard or
16electronic message board at any time.
17    (b) The proper name or image of any executive branch
18constitutional officer or member of the General Assembly may
19not appear on any (i) bumper stickers, (ii) commercial
20billboards, (iii) lapel pins or buttons, (iv) magnets, (v)
21stickers, and (vi) other similar promotional items, that are
22not in furtherance of the person's official State duties or
23governmental and public service functions, if designed, paid

 

 

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1for, prepared, or distributed using public dollars. This
2subsection does not apply to stocks of items existing on the
3effective date of this amendatory Act of the 93rd General
4Assembly.
5    (b-5) No executive branch constitutional officer or member
6of the General Assembly may make public announcements of any
7State grant or State funded project of any kind within 60 days
8before a general election.
9    (c) This Section does not apply to communications funded
10through expenditures required to be reported under Article 9 of
11the Election Code.
12(Source: P.A. 97-13, eff. 6-16-11.)