Illinois House Bill 5878 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: Failed on January 8 2019 - 100% progression
Action: 2019-01-08 - Session Sine Die
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

Amends the Illinois Governmental Ethics Act. Provides fines for legislators who engage in specified restricted activities and for violations of legislator rules of conduct. Provides that any person who willfully files a false or incomplete statement of economic interests under the Act may be subject to a fine not to exceed, for each offense, $150,000. Amends the State Officials and Employees Ethics Act. Provides fines for intentional failure to complete ethics training and sexual harassment training. Modifies a Section concerning penalties under the Act to provide fines for specified violations. Amends the Criminal Code of 2012. Provides that any person who, in the course of business, fraudulently obtains public moneys reserved for, or allocated or available to, minority-owned businesses, women-owned businesses, service-disabled veteran-owned small businesses, or veteran-owned small businesses may be subject to a fine not to exceed, for each offense, $115,000. Provides that a fine of up to $1,000,000 may be imposed for bribery. Makes conforming changes. Effective immediately.

GOVERNMENT ETHICS-PENALTIES

Rep. Grant Wehrli [R]

Rep. Margo McDermed [R]

Date	Chamber	Action
2019-01-08	House	Session Sine Die
2018-05-18	House	Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Margo McDermed
2018-05-15	House	Referred to Rules Committee
2018-05-15	House	First Reading
2018-05-11	House	Filed with the Clerk by Rep. Grant Wehrli

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
5	420	2-101	Amended Code	Citation Text
5	420	2-103	Amended Code	Citation Text
5	420	2-104	Amended Code	Citation Text
5	420	2-110	Amended Code	Citation Text
5	420	3-108	New Code	See Bill Text
5	420	4A-107	Amended Code	Citation Text
5	430	5-10	Amended Code	Citation Text
5	430	5-10.5	Amended Code	Citation Text
5	430	50-5	Amended Code	Citation Text
720	5	17-10.3	Amended Code	Citation Text
720	5	33-1	Amended Code	Citation Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.ilga.gov/legislation/BillStatus.asp?DocNum=5878&GAID=14&DocTypeID=HB&SessionID=91&GA=100
Text	https://www.ilga.gov/legislation/100/HB/10000HB5878.htm