Bill Amendment: IL HB1721 | 2023-2024 | 103rd General Assembly

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Bill Title: LOCAL GOVERNMENT-TECH

Status: 2025-01-07 - Session Sine Die [HB1721 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2023-HB1721-House_Amendment_001.html

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Rep. Blaine Wilhour

Filed: 3/10/2023

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AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 1721
AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 1721 by replacing
everything after the enacting clause with the following:
"Section 5. The Public Officer Prohibited Activities Act
is amended by changing Section 2a as follows:
(50 ILCS 105/2a) (from Ch. 102, par. 2a)
Sec. 2a. Township officials.
(a) No township supervisor or trustee, during the term of
office for which he or she is elected, may accept, be appointed
to, or hold any office by the appointment of the board of
township trustees unless he or she first resigns from the
office of supervisor or trustee or unless the appointment is
specifically authorized by law. A supervisor or trustee may,
however, serve as a volunteer firefighter and receive
compensation for that service. Any appointment in violation of
this Section is void. Nothing in this Act shall be construed to

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prohibit an elected township official from holding elected
office in another unit of local government as long as there is
no contractual relationship between the township and the other
unit of local government. This amendatory Act of 1995 is
declarative of existing law and is not a new enactment.
(b) On and after the effective date of this amendatory Act
of the 100th General Assembly, a person elected to or
appointed to fill a vacancy in an elected township position,
including, but not limited to, a trustee, a supervisor, a
highway commissioner, a clerk, an assessor, or a collector,
shall not be employed by the township, except that a
supervisor or trustee may serve as a volunteer firefighter and
receive compensation for that service as provided in
subsection (a).
(c) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, any
township official for a township with a population of less
than 2,500 inhabitants, including, but not limited to, a
trustee for such a township, may serve as a member of a board
of education, member of a regional board of school trustees,
member of a board of school directors, or member of a board of
school inspectors.
(Source: P.A. 100-868, eff. 1-1-19.)
Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
becoming law.".