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92_HB0634
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1 AN ACT to amend the Open Meetings Act by changing Section
2 1.02.
3 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
4 represented in the General Assembly:
5 Section 5. The Open Meetings Act is amended by changing
6 Section 1.02 as follows:
7 (5 ILCS 120/1.02) (from Ch. 102, par. 41.02)
8 Sec. 1.02. For the purposes of this Act:
9 "Meeting" means any gathering of a majority of a quorum
10 of the members of a public body held for the purpose of
11 discussing public business.
12 "Public body" includes all legislative, executive,
13 administrative or advisory bodies of the State, counties,
14 townships, cities, villages, incorporated towns, school
15 districts and all other municipal corporations, boards,
16 bureaus, committees or commissions of this State, and any
17 subsidiary bodies of any of the foregoing including but not
18 limited to committees and subcommittees which are supported
19 in whole or in part by tax revenue, or which expend tax
20 revenue, except the General Assembly and committees or
21 commissions thereof. "Public body" includes tourism boards
22 and convention or civic center boards located in counties
23 that are contiguous to the Mississippi River with populations
24 of more than 250,000 but less than 300,000. "Public body"
25 includes the Health Facilities Planning Board. "Public body"
26 does not include a child death review team established under
27 the Child Death Review Team Act; or an ethics commission,
28 ethics officer, or ultimate jurisdictional authority acting
29 under the State Gift Ban Act as provided by Section 80 of
30 that Act; or a Metropolitan Enforcement Group (MEG) Policy
31 Board established under the Intergovernmental Drug Laws
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1 Enforcement Act or any combination of law enforcement
2 agencies established to enforce the penal laws of this State.
3 (Source: P.A. 90-517, eff. 8-22-97; 90-737, eff. 1-1-99;
4 91-782, eff. 6-9-00.)
5 Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
6 becoming law.