Illinois House Bill 1703

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: Introduced on January 24 2025 - 25% progression
Action: 2025-02-18 - Assigned to Ethics & Elections
Pending: House Ethics & Elections Committee
Hearing: Feb 25 @ 2:00 pm in Room D-1 Stratton Building
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

Amends the State Officials and Employees Ethics Act. Provides that an Executive Inspector General may issue a public statement when the Executive Inspector General concludes its investigation and (i) recommends systemic or procedural action based on the investigation or (ii) finds reasonable cause to believe that a violation has occurred and the Executive Inspector General believes that a complaint concerning the investigation should not be filed by the Attorney General with the Executive Ethics Commission. Limits the scope of a public statement that may be issued. Provides that, before issuing a public statement, the Executive Inspector General shall share the public statement with the agency head and ultimate jurisdictional authority affected by the investigation and allow the agency head and ultimate jurisdictional authority affected by the investigation a period of 10 business days to provide the Executive Inspector General with a response to the proposed public statement, which must be included with the public statement. Effective immediately.

EX INSPECTOR GENERAL-STATEMENT

Rep. Fred Crespo [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2025-02-18	House	Assigned to Ethics & Elections
2025-01-28	House	Referred to Rules Committee
2025-01-28	House	First Reading
2025-01-24	House	Filed with the Clerk by Rep. Fred Crespo

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
5	430	20-95	Amended Code	Citation Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.ilga.gov/legislation/BillStatus.asp?DocNum=1703&GAID=18&DocTypeID=HB&SessionID=114&GA=104
Text	https://www.ilga.gov/legislation/104/HB/10400HB1703.htm