Illinois House Bill 2385 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: Failed on January 8 2019 - 100% progression
Action: 2019-01-08 - Session Sine Die
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

Amends the Local Records Act. Provides that all emails that are in connection with the transaction of public business sent or received by an agency or an employee, staff member, contractor, or officer of an agency are public records regardless if the emails are sent or received on a personal or agency-provided email address. Requires an agency that provides an email address to one or more of its staff members, employees, or contractors to provide an email address for all officers of the agency. Provides that staff members, employees, contractors, and officers shall use agency-provided email for all communications in connection with the transaction of public business. Provides that staff members, employees, contractors, and officers shall promptly forward, print, or otherwise provide any email sent or received on his or her personal email address to his or her agency if the email is in connection with the transaction of public business. Effective immediately.

LOCAL RECORDS ACT-EMAILS

Rep. Peter Breen [R]

Date	Chamber	Action
2019-01-08	House	Session Sine Die
2017-03-31	House	Rule 19(a) / Re-referred to Rules Committee
2017-03-24	House	House Committee Amendment No. 2 Referred to Rules Committee
2017-03-24	House	House Committee Amendment No. 2 Filed with Clerk by Rep. Peter Breen
2017-03-06	House	House Committee Amendment No. 1 Referred to Rules Committee
2017-03-06	House	House Committee Amendment No. 1 Filed with Clerk by Rep. Peter Breen
2017-02-14	House	Assigned to Executive Committee
2017-02-03	House	Referred to Rules Committee
2017-02-03	House	First Reading
2017-02-03	House	Filed with the Clerk by Rep. Peter Breen

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
50	205	17	New Code	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.ilga.gov/legislation/BillStatus.asp?DocNum=2385&GAID=14&DocTypeID=HB&SessionID=91&GA=100
Text	https://www.ilga.gov/legislation/100/HB/10000HB2385.htm
Amendment	https://www.ilga.gov/legislation/100/HB/10000HB2385ham001.htm
Amendment	https://www.ilga.gov/legislation/100/HB/10000HB2385ham002.htm