Bill Text: IL HB3453 | 2015-2016 | 99th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends State Designations Act. Provides that the portrait of any person who has served as Governor of Illinois and who has been removed from that office by impeachment and conviction or who has been convicted of a crime relating to actions the person took while serving as a state-wide elected official shall have a plaque displayed with his or her portrait denoting the conviction. Effective immediately.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-03-27 - Rule 19(a) / Re-referred to Rules Committee [HB3453 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2015-HB3453-Introduced.html

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99TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2015 and 2016 HB3453 Introduced , by Rep. Charles E. Meier SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
5 ILCS 460/212
Amends State Designations Act. Provides that the portrait of any person who has served as Governor of Illinois and who has been removed from that office by impeachment and conviction or who has been convicted of a crime relating to actions the person took while serving as a state-wide elected official shall have a plaque displayed with his or her portrait denoting the conviction. Effective immediately.
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AN ACT concerning government.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The State Designations Act is amended by
changing Section 212 as follows:
(5 ILCS 460/212)
Sec. 212. Official gubernatorial portraits.
(a) The portraits of the Governors of Illinois, painted or
otherwise created as visual images, displayed in the State
Capitol shall be the official State portraits of the Governors
of Illinois.
(b) No portrait or other image of any person who has served
as Governor of Illinois and who has been removed from that
office by impeachment and conviction shall be financed or paid
for by the State or any State entity or with State funds.
Notwithstanding this prohibition, a portrait or image of such a
person may be displayed or otherwise placed in the State
Capitol, and the State may maintain such official State
portrait of that person among the official State portraits of
the Governors of Illinois.
(c) The portrait of any person who has served as Governor
of Illinois and who has been removed from that office by
impeachment and conviction or who has been convicted of a crime

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relating to actions the person took while serving as a
state-wide elected official shall have a plaque displayed with
his or her portrait denoting the conviction.
(Source: P.A. 96-1017, eff. 1-1-11.)
Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
becoming law.