HB4242ham001 100TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

Rep. David McSweeney

Filed: 2/6/2018

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AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 4242

AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 4242 by replacing everything after the enacting clause with the following:

"Section 5. The Freedom of Information Act is amended by adding Section 2.25 as follows:

(5 ILCS 140/2.25 new)

Sec. 2.25. Sexual harassment and sexual discrimination severance agreements.

(a) A unit of local government, school district, community college district, or other local taxing body shall provide notice to the public as specified in this Section if the unit of local government, school district, community college district, or other local taxing body enters into a severance, separation, or other agreement with an employee or contractor accused of sexual harassment, as defined in Section 2-101 of the Illinois Human Rights Act, or sexual discrimination, as defined by federal law, and the change in employment status leading to the severance, separation, or other agreement is causally related to the accusation of sexual harassment or sexual discrimination.

(b) No more than 72 hours after payment has been made by or on behalf of the unit of local government, school district, community college district, or other local taxing body under a severance, separation, or other agreement described by subsection (a), the unit of local government, school district, community college district, or other local taxing body shall publish on its Internet website and cause to be published once per week for 5 consecutive weeks in a newspaper published in the jurisdiction of the unit of local government, school district, community college district, or other local taxing body the following information:

(1) the name of the person receiving the payment;

(2) the amount of the payment;

(3) the fact that the person receiving the payment has been accused of sexual harassment or sexual discrimination, as the case may be; and

(4) whether the employee or contractor has admitted to the alleged sexual harassment or sexual discrimination.

(c) No unit of local government, school district, community college district, or other local taxing body shall incur liability as a result of any injury or other damages arising from its compliance with this Section.

(d) Nothing this Section shall abridge any contractual status of employer-employee confidentiality.

Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon becoming law.".