Bill Text: IL HB0485 | 2017-2018 | 100th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the State Officials and Employees Ethics Act. Provides that no executive branch constitutional officer or member of the General Assembly may make public announcements of any State grant or State funded project of any kind within 60 days before a general election.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Failed) 2019-01-08 - Session Sine Die [HB0485 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2017-HB0485-Introduced.html

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100TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2017 and 2018 HB0485 Introduced , by Rep. Anthony DeLuca SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
5 ILCS 430/5-20
Amends the State Officials and Employees Ethics Act. Provides that no executive branch constitutional officer or member of the General Assembly may make public announcements of any State grant or State funded project of any kind within 60 days before a general election.
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A BILL FOR
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AN ACT concerning government.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The State Officials and Employees Ethics Act is
amended by changing Section 5-20 as follows:
(5 ILCS 430/5-20)
Sec. 5-20. Public service announcements; other promotional
material.
(a) Beginning January 1, 2004, no public service
announcement or advertisement that is on behalf of any State
administered program and contains the proper name, image, or
voice of any executive branch constitutional officer or member
of the General Assembly shall be (i) broadcast or aired on
radio or television, (ii) printed in a commercial newspaper or
a commercial magazine, or (iii) displayed on a billboard or
electronic message board at any time.
(b) The proper name or image of any executive branch
constitutional officer or member of the General Assembly may
not appear on any (i) bumper stickers, (ii) commercial
billboards, (iii) lapel pins or buttons, (iv) magnets, (v)
stickers, and (vi) other similar promotional items, that are
not in furtherance of the person's official State duties or
governmental and public service functions, if designed, paid

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for, prepared, or distributed using public dollars. This
subsection does not apply to stocks of items existing on the
effective date of this amendatory Act of the 93rd General
Assembly.
(b-5) No executive branch constitutional officer or member
of the General Assembly may make public announcements of any
State grant or State funded project of any kind within 60 days
before a general election.
(c) This Section does not apply to communications funded
through expenditures required to be reported under Article 9 of
the Election Code.
(Source: P.A. 97-13, eff. 6-16-11.)