Bill Text: IL SB0863 | 2023-2024 | 103rd General Assembly | Engrossed
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 2-0)
Status: (Engrossed) 2024-05-24 - Referred to Rules Committee [SB0863 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2023-SB0863-Engrossed.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, | ||||||
| 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) | ||||||
| 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 | ||||||
| 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. | ||||||
| 10 | (Source: P.A. 102-668, eff. 11-15-21; 102-692, eff. 1-7-22.)
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