Bill Text: IL SB0207 | 2023-2024 | 103rd General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Amends the Legislative Commission Reorganization Act of 1984. Provides that newsletters and printed material printed on behalf of a member of the General Assembly may include autobiographical or biographical information about a member as long as the information does not include: (1) information about past or future campaigns; (2) information designed to provide an economic benefit to the member or the member's family; or (3) family news unrelated to the member's official role. Effective immediately.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2024-04-12 - Rule 2-10 Third Reading Deadline Established As May 3, 2024 [SB0207 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2023-SB0207-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 Legislative Commission Reorganization Act | |||||||||||||||||||
| 5 | of 1984 is amended by changing Section 9-2.5 as follows:
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| 6 | (25 ILCS 130/9-2.5)
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| 7 | Sec. 9-2.5. Newsletters and brochures. The Legislative | |||||||||||||||||||
| 8 | Printing Unit may
not print for any member of the General | |||||||||||||||||||
| 9 | Assembly any newsletters or brochures
during the period | |||||||||||||||||||
| 10 | beginning February 1 of the
year of a general primary | |||||||||||||||||||
| 11 | election, except that in 2022 the period shall begin on May 15, | |||||||||||||||||||
| 12 | 2022, and ending the day after the general primary
election | |||||||||||||||||||
| 13 | and during a period beginning September 1 of the year of a | |||||||||||||||||||
| 14 | general
election and ending the day after the general | |||||||||||||||||||
| 15 | election.
A member of the General Assembly may not mail, | |||||||||||||||||||
| 16 | during a period beginning
February 1 of the year of a general | |||||||||||||||||||
| 17 | primary election, except that in 2022 the period shall begin | |||||||||||||||||||
| 18 | on May 15, 2022, and ending the day after
the general primary | |||||||||||||||||||
| 19 | election and during a period beginning September 1 of the
year | |||||||||||||||||||
| 20 | of a general election and ending the day after the general | |||||||||||||||||||
| 21 | election, any
newsletters or brochures
that were printed, at | |||||||||||||||||||
| 22 | any time, by the Legislative
Printing Unit, except that such a | |||||||||||||||||||
| 23 | newsletter or brochure may be mailed during
those times if it | |||||||||||||||||||
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| 1 | is mailed to a constituent in response to that constituent's
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| 2 | inquiry concerning the needs of that constituent or questions | ||||||
| 3 | raised by that
constituent. Newsletters and printed material | ||||||
| 4 | may include autobiographical or biographical information about | ||||||
| 5 | a member of the General Assembly as long as the information | ||||||
| 6 | does not include: (1) information about past or future | ||||||
| 7 | campaigns; (2) information designed to provide an economic | ||||||
| 8 | benefit to the member or the member's family; or (3) family | ||||||
| 9 | news unrelated to the member's official role.
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| 10 | (Source: P.A. 102-668, eff. 11-15-21; 102-692, eff. 1-7-22.)
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| 11 | Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | ||||||
| 12 | becoming law.
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