Bill Text: IL HB4160 | 2009-2010 | 96th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Creates the Local Official's Sign Act. Makes it a Class A misdemeanor for the proper name of an elected officer of a unit of local government or school district to appear on a sign paid for with public funds. Amends the State Officials and Employees Ethics Act. Adds any type of sign to the prohibition against the proper name or image of an executive branch constitutional officer or General Assembly member from appearing on a commercial billboard designed, prepared, paid for, or distributed using public dollars.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2009-04-03 - Rule 19(a) / Re-referred to Rules Committee [HB4160 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2009-HB4160-Introduced.html

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96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2009 and 2010 HB4160 Introduced 2/27/2009, by Rep. Jack D. Franks SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
New Act
5 ILCS 430/5-20
Creates the Local Official's Sign Act. Makes it a Class A misdemeanor for the proper name of an elected officer of a unit of local government or school district to appear on a sign paid for with public funds. Amends the State Officials and Employees Ethics Act. Adds any type of sign to the prohibition against the proper name or image of an executive branch constitutional officer or General Assembly member from appearing on a commercial billboard designed, prepared, paid for, or distributed using public dollars.
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CORRECTIONAL BUDGET AND IMPACT NOTE ACT MAY APPLY
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 1. This Act may be cited as the Local Official's
Sign Act.
Section 5. Name on sign prohibited. The proper name of an
incumbent elected officer of a unit of local government or
school district may not appear on a sign paid for in whole or
in part with public funds.
Section 10. Violation. Violation of this Act is a Class A
misdemeanor.
Section 95. The State Officials and Employees Ethics Act is
amended by changing Section 5-20 as follows:
(5 ILCS 430/5-20)
Sec. 5-20. Public service announcements; other promotional
material.
(a) Beginning January 1, 2004, no public service
announcement or advertisement that is on behalf of any State
administered program and contains the proper name, image, or
voice of any executive branch constitutional officer or member

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of the General Assembly shall be broadcast or aired on radio or
television or printed in a commercial newspaper or a commercial
magazine at any time.
(b) The proper name or image of any executive branch
constitutional officer or member of the General Assembly may
not appear on any (i) bumper stickers, (ii) commercial
billboards or other types of signs, (iii) lapel pins or
buttons, (iv) magnets, (v) stickers, and (vi) other similar
promotional items, that are not in furtherance of the person's
official State duties or governmental and public service
functions, if designed, paid for, prepared, or distributed
using public dollars. This subsection does not apply to stocks
of items existing on the effective date of this amendatory Act
of the 93rd General Assembly.
(c) This Section does not apply to communications funded
through expenditures required to be reported under Article 9 of
the Election Code.
(Source: P.A. 93-615, eff. 11-19-03; 93-617, eff. 12-9-03;
93-685, eff. 7-8-04.)