Bill Text: IL HB3946 | 2019-2020 | 101st General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Lobbyist Registration Act. Requires registration under the Act for persons lobbying units of local government and school districts (rather than only persons lobbying State government). Provides that the changes made by this amendatory Act do not restrict the authority of units of local government and school districts to regulate lobbying. Effective immediately.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 6-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-11-05 - Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Lindsay Parkhurst [HB3946 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2019-HB3946-Introduced.html

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101ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2019 and 2020 HB3946 Introduced , by Rep. Tom Demmer SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
25 ILCS 170/2 from Ch. 63, par. 172
25 ILCS 170/11.2
25 ILCS 170/11.3
Amends the Lobbyist Registration Act. Requires registration under the Act for persons lobbying units of local government and school districts (rather than only persons lobbying State government). Provides that the changes made by this amendatory Act do not restrict the authority of units of local government and school districts to regulate lobbying. Effective immediately.
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A BILL FOR
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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 Lobbyist Registration Act is amended by
changing Sections 2, 11.2, and 11.3 as follows:
(25 ILCS 170/2) (from Ch. 63, par. 172)
Sec. 2. Definitions. As used in this Act, unless the
context otherwise requires:
(a) "Person" means any individual, firm, partnership,
committee, association, corporation, or any other organization
or group of persons.
(b) "Expenditure" means a payment, distribution, loan,
advance, deposit, or gift of money or anything of value, and
includes a contract, promise, or agreement, whether or not
legally enforceable, to make an expenditure, for the ultimate
purpose of influencing executive, legislative, or
administrative action, other than compensation as defined in
subsection (d).
(c) "Official" means:
(1) the Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Secretary of
State, Attorney General, State Treasurer, and State
Comptroller;
(2) Chiefs of Staff for officials described in item

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(1);
(3) Cabinet members of any elected constitutional
officer, including Directors, Assistant Directors and
Chief Legal Counsel or General Counsel;
(4) Members of the General Assembly; and
(5) Members of any board, commission, authority, or
task force of the State authorized or created by State law
or by executive order of the Governor; and .
(6) Any elected or appointed official of any unit of
local government or school district, including, but not
limited to, the members of any legislative body of a unit
of local government or school district.
(d) "Compensation" means any money, thing of value or
financial benefits received or to be received in return for
services rendered or to be rendered, for lobbying as defined in
subsection (e).
Monies paid to members of the General Assembly by the State
as remuneration for performance of their Constitutional and
statutory duties as members of the General Assembly shall not
constitute compensation as defined by this Act.
(e) "Lobby" and "lobbying" means any communication with an
official of the executive or legislative branch of State
government as defined in subsection (c) for the ultimate
purpose of influencing any executive, legislative, or
administrative action.
(f) "Influencing" means any communication, action,

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reportable expenditure as prescribed in Section 6 or other
means used to promote, support, affect, modify, oppose or delay
any executive, legislative or administrative action or to
promote goodwill with officials as defined in subsection (c).
(g) "Executive action" means the proposal, drafting,
development, consideration, amendment, adoption, approval,
promulgation, issuance, modification, rejection or
postponement by a State entity, unit of local government, or
school district of a rule, regulation, order, ordinance,
resolution, decision, determination, contractual arrangement,
purchasing agreement or other quasi-legislative or
quasi-judicial action or proceeding.
(h) "Legislative action" means the development, drafting,
introduction, consideration, modification, adoption,
rejection, review, enactment, or passage or defeat of any bill,
amendment, resolution, report, nomination, administrative rule
or other matter by either house of the General Assembly or a
committee thereof, or by a legislator, or by the legislative
body of a unit of local government or school district or any
member thereof. Legislative action also means the action of the
Governor in approving or vetoing any bill or portion thereof,
and the action of the Governor or any agency in the development
of a proposal for introduction in the legislature.
(i) "Administrative action" means the execution or
rejection of any rule, regulation, legislative rule, standard,
fee, rate, contractual arrangement, purchasing agreement or

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other delegated legislative or quasi-legislative action to be
taken or withheld by any executive agency, department, board or
commission of the State, a unit of local government, or a
school district.
(j) "Lobbyist" means any natural person who undertakes to
lobby State government, a unit of local government, or a school
district as provided in subsection (e).
(k) "Lobbying entity" means any entity that hires, retains,
employs, or compensates a natural person to lobby State
government, a unit of local government, or a school district as
provided in subsection (e).
(l) "Authorized agent" means the person designated by an
entity or lobbyist registered under this Act as the person
responsible for submission and retention of reports required
under this Act.
(m) "Client" means any person or entity that provides
compensation to a lobbyist to lobby State government, a unit of
local government, or a school district as provided in
subsection (e) of this Section.
(n) "Client registrant" means a client who is required to
register under this Act.
(Source: P.A. 98-459, eff. 1-1-14.)
(25 ILCS 170/11.2)
Sec. 11.2. Local regulation. A unit of local government or
school district may adopt an ordinance or resolution regulating

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lobbying activities with that unit of local government or
school district that imposes requirements similar to those
imposed by this Act. The changes made by this amendatory Act of
the 101st General Assembly shall not restrict the authority of
a unit of local government or school district to regulate
lobbying activities under this Section.
(Source: P.A. 88-187.)
(25 ILCS 170/11.3)
Sec. 11.3. Compensation from a State agency. It is a
violation of this Act for a person registered or required to be
registered under this Act to accept or agree to accept
compensation from a State agency, unit of local government, or
school district for the purpose of lobbying legislative action.
This Section does not apply to compensation (i) that is a
portion of the salary of a full-time employee of a State agency
whose responsibility or authority includes, but is not limited
to, lobbying executive, legislative, or administrative action
or (ii) to an individual who is contractually retained by a
State agency that is not listed in Section 5-15 of the Civil
Administrative Code of Illinois.
For the purpose of this Section, "State agency" is defined
as in the Illinois State Auditing Act.
(Source: P.A. 96-555, eff. 1-1-10.)
Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
becoming law.