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90_SB0130

      New Act
          Creates the Local Government Contract Lobbyist Disclosure
      Act.  Provides that units of local government, including home
      rule units, and school districts shall identify by line  item
      in  their  annual  budget  each  agreement  with  a  contract
      lobbyist  to  provide  lobbying services.  Exempts from these
      provisions employees of the governmental units  and  entities
      paid association dues or subscriptions.
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 1        AN  ACT  to create the Local Government Contract Lobbyist
 2    Disclosure Act.
 3        Be it enacted by the People of  the  State  of  Illinois,
 4    represented in the General Assembly:
 5        Section  1.   Short  title.  This Act may be cited as the
 6    Local Government Contract Lobbyist Disclosure Act.
 7        Section 5.  Definitions. In this Act:
 8        "Annual  budget"  includes  annual  or  amended  budgets,
 9    appropriation  bills  or  ordinances,  or  similar  documents
10    required by law.
11        "Contract lobbyist" includes those persons  and  entities
12    required   to   register  as  lobbyists  under  the  Lobbyist
13    Registration Act, but does not include (i) employees  of  the
14    unit of local government or school district and (ii) entities
15    to which the unit of local government or school district pays
16    nothing other than association dues or subscriptions that are
17    used for lobbying activities by that entity.
18        "Home rule unit" has the meaning established in Section 6
19    of Article VII of the Illinois Constitution.
20        "Lobbying"  has  the  meaning established in Section 2 of
21    the Lobbyist Registration Act.
22        "School district" includes any school district  organized
23    under the School Code.
24        "Unit of local government" has the meaning established in
25    Section 1 of Article VII of the Illinois Constitution.
26        Section   10.   Annual  budget  entry.   Units  of  local
27    government, including home rule units, and  school  districts
28    shall  specify  by  a  line item entry in their annual budget
29    each agreement with a contract lobbyist to  provide  lobbying
30    services  for  the  governmental  body.   The line item entry
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 1    shall include the name  of  the  contract  lobbyist  and  the
 2    amount of the compensation for the lobbying services.
 3        Section  15.  Public  access.   The entries in the annual
 4    budget specifying the information of the lobbying  agreements
 5    shall  be  available  to the public under the same provisions
 6    that provide public access to the annual budget.
 7        Section 90.  Home rule.  A home rule unit may not provide
 8    for annual budget entries in a manner inconsistent with  this
 9    Act.   This  Act  is  a  limitation  under  subsection (i) of
10    Section 6 of Article VII of the Illinois Constitution on  the
11    concurrent   exercise  by  home  rule  units  of  powers  and
12    functions exercised by the State.

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