Bill Text: IL HB1080 | 2025-2026 | 104th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Public Officer Prohibited Activities Act. Authorizes a supervisor or trustee of a township with fewer than 2,500 inhabitants, during the term of office for which the supervisor or trustee is elected, to hold the office of school board member for a school district. Amends the Township Code. Provides that a township board may not direct a distribution to be made from the township's general fund to a school district if a supervisor or trustee of the township is concurrently serving as a school board member of that school district. Effective immediately.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2025-01-09 - Referred to Rules Committee [HB1080 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2025-HB1080-Introduced.html

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104TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2025 and 2026 HB1080 Introduced , by Rep. Gregg Johnson SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
50 ILCS 105/1.4 new
60 ILCS 1/260-5
Amends the Public Officer Prohibited Activities Act. Authorizes a supervisor or trustee of a township with fewer than 2,500 inhabitants, during the term of office for which the supervisor or trustee is elected, to hold the office of school board member for a school district. Amends the Township Code. Provides that a township board may not direct a distribution to be made from the township's general fund to a school district if a supervisor or trustee of the township is concurrently serving as a school board member of that school district. Effective immediately.
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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 Public Officer Prohibited Activities Act is
amended by adding Section 1.4 as follows:
(50 ILCS 105/1.4 new)
Sec. 1.4. Supervisor or trustee of township with fewer
than 2,500 inhabitants; authorization to serve on school
board. A supervisor or trustee of a township with fewer than
2,500 inhabitants, during the term of office for which the
supervisor or trustee is elected, may concurrently serve as a
school board member of a school district.
Section 10. The Township Code is amended by changing
Section 260-5 as follows:
(60 ILCS 1/260-5)
Sec. 260-5. Distributions from general fund, generally.
(a) To the extent that moneys in the township general fund
have not been appropriated for other purposes, the township
board may direct that distributions be made from that fund as
follows:
(1) To (i) school districts maintaining grades 1

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through 8 that are wholly or partly located within the
township or (ii) governmental units as defined in Section
1 of the Community Mental Health Act that provide mental
health facilities and services (including facilities and
services for persons with intellectual disabilities) under
that Act within the township, or (iii) both.
(2) To community action agencies that serve township
residents. "Community action agencies" are defined as in
Part A of Title II of the federal Economic Opportunity Act
of 1964.
(b) Notwithstanding subsection (a), a township board may
not direct a distribution to be made from the township's
general fund to a school district if a supervisor or trustee of
the township is concurrently serving as a school board member
for that school district.
(Source: P.A. 99-143, eff. 7-27-15.)