Bill Text: IL SB2988 | 2011-2012 | 97th General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Amends the Election Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Failed) 2013-01-08 - Session Sine Die [SB2988 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2011-SB2988-Amended.html
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1 | AMENDMENT TO SENATE BILL 2988
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2 | AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend Senate Bill 2988 by replacing | ||||||
3 | everything after the enacting clause with the following:
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4 | "Section 5. The Election Code is amended by adding Section | ||||||
5 | 9-8.20 as follows:
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6 | (10 ILCS 5/9-8.20 new) | ||||||
7 | Sec. 9-8.20. Prohibition on contributions by labor | ||||||
8 | organizations. | ||||||
9 | (a) As used in this Section: | ||||||
10 | The terms "contract", "State contract", and "contract with | ||||||
11 | a State agency" each mean any contract, as defined in Section | ||||||
12 | 1-15.30 of the Illinois Procurement Code, between a labor | ||||||
13 | organization and a State agency, including a collective | ||||||
14 | bargaining agreement. | ||||||
15 | "Collective bargaining" means collective bargaining as | ||||||
16 | defined in subsection (b) of Section 3 of the Illinois Public |
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1 | Labor Relations Act. | ||||||
2 | "Labor organization" means a labor organization as defined | ||||||
3 | in subsection (i) of Section 3 of the Illinois Public Labor | ||||||
4 | Relations Act. | ||||||
5 | "Officeholder" means the Governor, Lieutenant Governor, | ||||||
6 | Attorney General, Secretary of State, Comptroller, or | ||||||
7 | Treasurer. The Governor shall be considered the officeholder | ||||||
8 | responsible for negotiating or entering into all contracts by | ||||||
9 | all officers and employees of, and vendors and others doing | ||||||
10 | business with, executive branch State agencies under the | ||||||
11 | jurisdiction of the Executive Ethics Commission and not within | ||||||
12 | the jurisdiction of the Attorney General, the Secretary of | ||||||
13 | State, the Comptroller, or the Treasurer. | ||||||
14 | "State agency" means and includes all boards, commissions, | ||||||
15 | agencies, institutions, authorities, and bodies politic and | ||||||
16 | corporate of the State, created by or in accordance with the | ||||||
17 | Illinois Constitution or State statute, of the executive branch | ||||||
18 | of State government and does include colleges, universities,
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19 | public employee retirement systems, and institutions under the | ||||||
20 | jurisdiction of the governing boards of the University of | ||||||
21 | Illinois, Southern Illinois University, Illinois State | ||||||
22 | University, Eastern Illinois University, Northern Illinois | ||||||
23 | University, Western Illinois University, Chicago State | ||||||
24 | University, Governors State University, Northeastern Illinois | ||||||
25 | University, and the Illinois Board of Higher Education. | ||||||
26 | (b) Any labor organization whose contracts with State |
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1 | agencies, in the aggregate, annually total more than $50,000 is | ||||||
2 | prohibited from making any contributions to any political | ||||||
3 | committees established to promote the candidacy of (i) the | ||||||
4 | officeholder responsible for negotiating or entering into the | ||||||
5 | contracts or (ii) any other candidate for that office. This | ||||||
6 | prohibition shall be effective for the duration of the term of | ||||||
7 | office of the incumbent officeholder negotiating or entering | ||||||
8 | into the contracts or for a period of 2 years following the | ||||||
9 | expiration or termination of the contracts, whichever is | ||||||
10 | longer. | ||||||
11 | (c) Any labor organization whose aggregate pending | ||||||
12 | negotiations on State contracts total more than $50,000, or | ||||||
13 | whose aggregate pending negotiations on State contracts | ||||||
14 | combined with the labor organization's aggregate annual total | ||||||
15 | value of State contracts exceed $50,000, is prohibited from | ||||||
16 | making any contributions to any political committee
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17 | established to promote the candidacy of the officeholder | ||||||
18 | responsible for negotiating or entering into the contract | ||||||
19 | during the period beginning on the date the negotiations are | ||||||
20 | begun and ending on the day after the date the contract is | ||||||
21 | entered into. | ||||||
22 | (d) For the purposes of the prohibitions under subsections | ||||||
23 | (b) and (c) of this Section, (i) any contribution made to a | ||||||
24 | political committee established to promote the candidacy of the | ||||||
25 | Governor or a candidate for the office of Governor shall also | ||||||
26 | be considered as having been made to a political committee |
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1 | established to promote the candidacy of the Lieutenant | ||||||
2 | Governor, in the case of the Governor, or the candidate for | ||||||
3 | Lieutenant Governor having filed a joint petition, or write-in | ||||||
4 | declaration of intent, with the candidate for Governor, as | ||||||
5 | applicable, and (ii) any contribution made to a political | ||||||
6 | committee established to promote the candidacy of the | ||||||
7 | Lieutenant Governor or a candidate for the office of Lieutenant | ||||||
8 | Governor shall also be considered as having been made to a | ||||||
9 | political committee established to promote the candidacy of the | ||||||
10 | Governor, in the case of the Lieutenant Governor, or the | ||||||
11 | candidate for Governor having filed a joint petition, or | ||||||
12 | write-in declaration of intent, with the candidate for | ||||||
13 | Lieutenant Governor, as applicable. | ||||||
14 | (e) All contracts between State agencies and a labor | ||||||
15 | organization that violate subsection (b) or (c) may be declared | ||||||
16 | void if the State agency determines that voiding the contract | ||||||
17 | is in the best interests of the State. If a labor organization | ||||||
18 | violates subsection (b) 3 or more times within a 36-month | ||||||
19 | period, then all contracts between State agencies and that | ||||||
20 | labor organization shall be void, and that labor organization | ||||||
21 | shall not enter into any contract with any State agency for 3 | ||||||
22 | years from the date of the last violation. A notice of each | ||||||
23 | violation and the penalty imposed shall be published in the | ||||||
24 | Illinois Register. | ||||||
25 | (f) Any political committee that has received a | ||||||
26 | contribution in violation of subsection (b) or (c) shall pay an |
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1 | amount equal to the value of the contribution to the State no | ||||||
2 | more than 30 days after notice of the violation concerning the | ||||||
3 | contribution appears in the Illinois Register. Payments | ||||||
4 | received by the State
pursuant to this subsection shall be | ||||||
5 | deposited into the General Revenue
Fund.
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6 | Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | ||||||
7 | becoming law.".
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