Bill Text: IL HB5013 | 2019-2020 | 101st General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Illinois Municipal Code. Provides that a municipality may not prohibit a speaker at a public meeting from addressing an individual member of the city council, a municipal official, or a staff member of these individuals, except that these provisions do not prohibit a municipality from limiting when a speaker may speak at a meeting. Limits home rule powers. Effective immediately.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-06-23 - Rule 19(b) / Re-referred to Rules Committee [HB5013 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2019-HB5013-Introduced.html

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101ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2019 and 2020 HB5013 Introduced , by Rep. Anne Stava-Murray SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
65 ILCS 5/3.1-55-30 new
Amends the Illinois Municipal Code. Provides that a municipality may not prohibit a speaker at a public meeting from addressing an individual member of the city council, a municipal official, or a staff member of these individuals, except that these provisions do not prohibit a municipality from limiting when a speaker may speak at a meeting. Limits home rule powers. Effective immediately.
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A BILL FOR
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AN ACT concerning local government.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The Illinois Municipal Code is amended by adding
Section 3.1-55-30 as follows:
(65 ILCS 5/3.1-55-30 new)
Sec. 3.1-55-30. Addressing city council members at public
meetings.
(a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a
municipality may not prohibit a speaker at a public meeting
from addressing an individual member of the city council, a
municipal official, or a staff member of these individuals.
This subsection does not prohibit a municipality from limiting
when a speaker may speak at a meeting.
(b) A home rule municipality may not regulate addressing
individual city council members, municipal officials, or staff
members of these individuals at a city council meeting in a
manner inconsistent with this Section. This Section is a
limitation under subsection (i) of Section 6 of Article VII of
the Illinois Constitution on the concurrent exercise by home
rule units of powers and functions exercised by the State.
Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon

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becoming law.