Illinois House Bill 5531 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-0)
Status: Failed on January 8 2019 - 100% progression
Action: 2019-01-08 - Session Sine Die
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

Creates the Small Donor Democracy Matching System for Fair Elections Act. Amends the Election Code. Creates a small donor campaign contribution matching system for candidates for various offices of State government. Creates the Small Donor Democracy Matching Fund as a special Fund in the State Treasury. Sets forth requirements for accessing the small donor matching system. Sets forth provisions for the funding of the matching contributions. Imposes limits on the access to matching funds. Provides for penalties for violations of the provisions. Sets forth disclosure requirements. Creates the Campaign Finance Board within the State Board of Elections to implement the campaign matching system. Provides that provisions of the Code concerning election interference do not apply to the campaign contribution matching program or similar systems of public financing for elections established by a home rule unit of government. Amends the State Finance Act to make a conforming change. Defines terms. Includes legislative findings and severability provisions. Effective immediately.

ELEC CD-CONTRIBUTION MATCHING

Rep. Kelly Cassidy [D]	Rep. Litesa Wallace [D]	Rep. Will Guzzardi [D]	Rep. Robyn Gabel [D]
Rep. Linda LaVia [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2019-01-08	House	Session Sine Die
2018-04-16	House	Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Linda Chapa LaVia
2018-04-13	House	Rule 19(a) / Re-referred to Rules Committee
2018-04-09	House	Added Chief Co-Sponsor Rep. Will Guzzardi
2018-03-27	House	Added Chief Co-Sponsor Rep. Litesa E. Wallace
2018-03-07	House	Assigned to Elections & Campaign Finance Committee
2018-02-20	House	Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Robyn Gabel
2018-02-16	House	Referred to Rules Committee
2018-02-16	House	First Reading
2018-02-16	House	Filed with the Clerk by Rep. Kelly M. Cassidy

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
10	5	9-25.1	Amended Code	Citation Text
10	5	9A-10	New Code	See Bill Text
10	5	9A-15	New Code	See Bill Text
10	5	9A-20	New Code	See Bill Text
10	5	9A-25	New Code	See Bill Text
10	5	9A-30	New Code	See Bill Text
10	5	9A-35	New Code	See Bill Text
10	5	9A-40	New Code	See Bill Text
10	5	9A-45	New Code	See Bill Text
10	5	9A-5	New Code	See Bill Text
10	5	9A-50	New Code	See Bill Text
10	5	9A-55	New Code	See Bill Text
10	5	9A-60	New Code	See Bill Text
10	5	9A-65	New Code	See Bill Text
10	5	9A-70	New Code	See Bill Text
10	5	9A-75	New Code	See Bill Text
10	5	Art. 9A heading	New Code	See Bill Text
30	105	5.886	New Code	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.ilga.gov/legislation/BillStatus.asp?DocNum=5531&GAID=14&DocTypeID=HB&SessionID=91&GA=100
Text	https://www.ilga.gov/legislation/100/HB/10000HB5531.htm