Bill Text: IL HB0802 | 2017-2018 | 100th General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Amends the Lobbyist Registration Act. On and after February 1, 2018, prohibits a person required to be registered under the Act, his or her spouse, and his or her immediate family members living with that registered lobbyist from serving in any countywide elective public office in a county with a population of 3,000,000 or more. Provides that the restriction imposed by the amendatory Act does not apply to a registered lobbyist, his or her spouse, or any immediate family member living with that registered lobbyist who was serving in a countywide elective public office prior to the effective date of the amendatory Act. Allows any such person to serve out the remainder of the term of the office to which he or she was elected. Effective immediately.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Failed) 2019-01-08 - Session Sine Die [HB0802 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2017-HB0802-Introduced.html
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| 1 | AN ACT concerning State government.
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| 2 | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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| 3 | represented in the General Assembly:
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| 4 | Section 5. The Lobbyist Registration Act is amended by | |||||||||||||||||||
| 5 | changing Section 3.1 as follows:
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| 6 | (25 ILCS 170/3.1) | |||||||||||||||||||
| 7 | Sec. 3.1. Prohibition on serving in countywide elective | |||||||||||||||||||
| 8 | public office or on boards and commissions.
Notwithstanding | |||||||||||||||||||
| 9 | any other law of this State, on and after February 1, 2004,
but | |||||||||||||||||||
| 10 | not before that date, a person required to be registered
under | |||||||||||||||||||
| 11 | this Act, his or her spouse, and his or her immediate family | |||||||||||||||||||
| 12 | members
living with that person may not
serve on a board, | |||||||||||||||||||
| 13 | commission, authority, or task force authorized or created
by | |||||||||||||||||||
| 14 | State law or by executive order of the Governor. On and after | |||||||||||||||||||
| 15 | February 1, 2018, but not before that date, a person required | |||||||||||||||||||
| 16 | to be registered under this Act, his or her spouse, and his or | |||||||||||||||||||
| 17 | her immediate family members living with that registered | |||||||||||||||||||
| 18 | lobbyist may not serve in a countywide elective public office | |||||||||||||||||||
| 19 | in a county with a population of 3,000,000 or more. These | |||||||||||||||||||
| 20 | restrictions do ; except that this
restriction does not apply to | |||||||||||||||||||
| 21 | any of the
following:
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| 22 | (1) a registered lobbyist, his or her spouse, or any | |||||||||||||||||||
| 23 | immediate family
member living with the registered | |||||||||||||||||||
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| 1 | lobbyist, who is serving in an elective
public office, | ||||||
| 2 | whether
elected or appointed to fill a vacancy, other than | ||||||
| 3 | a countywide elective public office in a county with a | ||||||
| 4 | population of 3,000,000 or more on and after February 1, | ||||||
| 5 | 2018, provided that registered lobbyists, their spouses, | ||||||
| 6 | or any immediate family members living with a registered | ||||||
| 7 | lobbyist serving in a countywide elective public office | ||||||
| 8 | before the effective date of this amendatory Act of the | ||||||
| 9 | 100th General Assembly shall serve out the remainder of the | ||||||
| 10 | term of office to which they were elected; and
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| 11 | (2) a registered lobbyist, his or her spouse, or any | ||||||
| 12 | immediate family
member living with the registered | ||||||
| 13 | lobbyist, who is serving on a State
advisory body
that | ||||||
| 14 | makes nonbinding recommendations to an agency of State | ||||||
| 15 | government
but does not make binding recommendations or | ||||||
| 16 | determinations or take any
other substantive action.
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| 17 | (Source: P.A. 96-555, eff. 1-1-10; 96-1358, eff. 7-28-10.)
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| 18 | Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | ||||||
| 19 | becoming law.
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