Bill Text: IL SB2032 | 2017-2018 | 100th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois. Provides that the Illinois Transparency and Accountability Portal webmaster must compile and update notices and digital public records from all school districts and units of local government without websites (currently, must only compile and update for specified units of local government). Amends the Local Records Act. Provides that a school district or unit of local government may publish any notice, agenda, record, or other information or material required by law electronically instead of in a newspaper. Further provides that any requirement to store or maintain any public record in microfilm or microfiche form shall be satisfied by the school district or unit of local government's maintenance of such public record in digital form.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Failed) 2019-01-09 - Session Sine Die [SB2032 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2017-SB2032-Introduced.html

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100TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2017 and 2018 SB2032 Introduced 2/10/2017, by Sen. Jim Oberweis SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
20 ILCS 405/405-335
50 ILCS 205/25 new
Amends the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois. Provides that the Illinois Transparency and Accountability Portal webmaster must compile and update notices and digital public records from all school districts and units of local government without websites (currently, must only compile and update for specified units of local government). Amends the Local Records Act. Provides that a school district or unit of local government may publish any notice, agenda, record, or other information or material required by law electronically instead of in a newspaper. Further provides that any requirement to store or maintain any public record in microfilm or microfiche form shall be satisfied by the school district or unit of local government's maintenance of such public record in digital form.
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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 Department of Central Management Services
Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois is amended by
changing Section 405-335 as follows:
(20 ILCS 405/405-335)
Sec. 405-335. Illinois Transparency and Accountability
Portal (ITAP).
(a) The Department, within 12 months after January 1, 2010
(the effective date of Public Act 96-225) this amendatory Act
of the 96th General Assembly, shall establish and maintain a
website, known as the Illinois Transparency and Accountability
Portal (ITAP), with a full-time webmaster tasked with compiling
and updating the ITAP database with information received from
all State agencies as defined in this Section. Within 6 months
of the effective date of this amendatory Act of the 100th
General Assembly, ITAP shall have the capability to compile and
update the ITAP database with information received from all
school districts and units of local government without websites
including, but not limited to, counties, townships, special
districts, and municipalities. Subject to appropriation, the
full-time webmaster must also compile and update the ITAP

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database with information received from all school districts
and units of local government including, but not limited to,
counties, townships, special library districts, and
municipalities.
(b) For purposes of this Section:
"State agency" means the offices of the constitutional
officers identified in Article V of the Illinois Constitution,
executive agencies, and departments, boards, commissions, and
Authorities under the Governor.
"Contracts" means payment obligations with vendors on file
with the Office of the Comptroller to purchase goods and
services exceeding $10,000 in value (or, in the case of
professional or artistic services, exceeding $5,000 in value).
"Appropriation" means line-item detail of spending
approved by the General Assembly and Governor, categorized by
object of expenditure.
"Individual consultants" means temporary workers eligible
to receive State benefits paid on a State payroll.
"Recipients" means State agencies receiving
appropriations.
(c) The ITAP shall provide direct access to each of the
following:
(1) A database of all current State employees and
individual consultants, except sworn law enforcement
officers, sorted separately by:
(i) Name.

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(ii) Employing State agency.
(iii) Employing State division.
(iv) Employment position title.
(v) Current pay rate and year-to-date pay.
(2) A database of all current State expenditures,
sorted separately by agency, category, recipient, and
Representative District.
(3) A database of all development assistance
reportable pursuant to the Corporate Accountability for
Tax Expenditures Act, sorted separately by tax credit
category, taxpayer, and Representative District.
(4) A database of all revocations and suspensions of
State occupation and use tax certificates of registration
and all revocations and suspensions of State professional
licenses, sorted separately by name, geographic location,
and certificate of registration number or license number,
as applicable. Professional license revocations and
suspensions shall be posted only if resulting from a
failure to pay taxes, license fees, or child support.
(5) A database of all current State contracts, sorted
separately by contractor name, awarding officer or agency,
contract value, and goods or services provided.
(6) A database of all employees hired after the
effective date of this amendatory Act of 2010, sorted
searchably by each of the following at the time of
employment:

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(i) Name.
(ii) Employing State agency.
(iii) Employing State division.
(iv) Employment position title.
(v) Current pay rate and year-to-date pay.
(vi) County of employment location.
(vii) Rutan status.
(viii) Status of position as subject to collective
bargaining, subject to merit compensation, or exempt
under Section 4d of the Personnel Code.
(ix) Employment status as probationary, trainee,
intern, certified, or exempt from certification.
(x) Status as a military veteran.
(7) A searchable database of all current county,
township, library district, and municipal employees sorted
separately by:
(i) Employing unit of local government.
(ii) Employment position title.
(iii) Current pay rate and year-to-date pay.
(8) A searchable database of all county, township, and
municipal employees hired on or after the effective date of
this amendatory Act of the 97th General Assembly, sorted
separately by each of the following at the time of
employment:
(i) Employing unit of local government.
(ii) Employment position title.

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(iii) Current pay rate and year-to-date pay.
(9) A searchable database of all library district
employees hired on or after August 9, 2013 (the effective
date of Public Act 98-246), sorted separately by each of
the following at the time of employment:
(i) Employing unit of local government.
(ii) Employment position title.
(iii) Current pay rate and year-to-date pay.
(10) A link to a website maintained by the Department
that contains a list of contact information for each State
agency, including a telephone number and a link to the
Agency's website. Each State agency shall be responsible
for providing and updating the Department with this
information.
(11) Notices and digital public records provided to
ITAP by school districts and units of local government
without websites.
(d) The ITAP shall include all information required to be
published by subsection (c) of this Section that is available
to the Department in a format the Department can compile and
publish on the ITAP. The Department shall update the ITAP as
additional information becomes available in a format that can
be compiled and published on the ITAP by the Department.
(e) Each State agency, county, township, library district,
and municipality shall cooperate with the Department in
furnishing the information necessary for the implementation of

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this Section within a timeframe specified by the Department.
(f) Each county, township, library district, or
municipality submitting information to be displayed on the
Illinois Transparency and Accountability Portal (ITAP) is
responsible for the accuracy of the information provided.
(g) The Department, within 6 months after January 1, 2014
(the effective date of Public Act 98-283), shall distribute a
spreadsheet or otherwise make data entry available to each
State agency to facilitate the collection of data on the
State's annual workforce characteristics, workforce
compensation, and employee mobility. The Department shall
determine the data to be collected by each State agency. Each
State agency shall cooperate with the Department in furnishing
the data necessary for the implementation of this subsection
within the timeframe specified by the Department. The
Department shall publish the data received from each State
agency on the ITAP or another open data site annually.
(Source: P.A. 97-744, eff. 1-1-13; 98-246, eff. 8-9-13; 98-283,
eff. 1-1-14; 98-756, eff. 7-16-14; 98-1084, eff. 1-1-15.)
Section 10. The Local Records Act is amended by adding
Section 25 as follows:
(50 ILCS 205/25 new)
Sec. 25. Publication by internet posting; digital
maintenance of public records. Notwithstanding any other

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provision of law:
(a) Any requirement for a school district or a unit of
local government to publish any notice, agenda, record, or
other information or material in a newspaper by law including,
but not limited to, the Open Meetings Act, the Illinois
Municipal Budget Law, the Intergovernmental Cooperation Act,
the Counties Code, the Township Code, the Illinois Municipal
Code, the Election Code, the School Code, the Airport
Authorities Act, or the Civic Center Code, may instead publish
such notice, agenda, record, or other information on its
website or on the Illinois Transparency and Accountability
Portal under Section 405-335 of the Department of Central
Management Services Law of the Civil Administrative Code of
Illinois.
(b) Any requirement that a school district or unit of local
government store or maintain any public record in microfilm or
microfiche form shall be satisfied by the school district's or
unit of local government's maintenance of such public record in
digital form.