Bill Text: IL HB1314 | 2025-2026 | 104th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the State Officials and Employees Ethics Act. In provisions requiring governmental entities to adopt ordinances or resolutions regulating specified ethical concerns, provides that a governmental entity may create an ethics commission to satisfy the requirements.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2025-01-14 - Filed with the Clerk by Rep. Suzanne M. Ness [HB1314 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2025-HB1314-Introduced.html

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104TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2025 and 2026 HB1314 Introduced , by Rep. Suzanne M. Ness SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
5 ILCS 430/70-5
Amends the State Officials and Employees Ethics Act. In provisions requiring governmental entities to adopt ordinances or resolutions regulating specified ethical concerns, provides that a governmental entity may create an ethics commission to satisfy the requirements.
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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 70-5 as follows:
(5 ILCS 430/70-5)
Sec. 70-5. Adoption by governmental entities.
(a) Within 6 months after the effective date of this Act,
each governmental entity other than a community college
district, and each community college district within 6 months
after the effective date of this amendatory Act of the 95th
General Assembly, shall adopt an ordinance or resolution that
regulates, in a manner no less restrictive than Section 5-15
and Article 10 of this Act, (i) the political activities of
officers and employees of the governmental entity and (ii) the
soliciting and accepting of gifts by and the offering and
making of gifts to officers and employees of the governmental
entity. No later than 60 days after the effective date of this
amendatory Act of the 100th General Assembly, each
governmental unit shall adopt an ordinance or resolution
establishing a policy to prohibit sexual harassment. The
policy shall include, at a minimum: (i) a prohibition on
sexual harassment; (ii) details on how an individual can

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report an allegation of sexual harassment, including options
for making a confidential report to a supervisor, ethics
officer, Inspector General, or the Department of Human Rights;
(iii) a prohibition on retaliation for reporting sexual
harassment allegations, including availability of
whistleblower protections under this Act, the Whistleblower
Act, and the Illinois Human Rights Act; and (iv) the
consequences of a violation of the prohibition on sexual
harassment and the consequences for knowingly making a false
report. Within 6 months after the effective date of this
amendatory Act of the 101st General Assembly, each
governmental unit that is not subject to the jurisdiction of a
State or local Inspector General shall adopt an ordinance or
resolution amending its sexual harassment policy to provide
for a mechanism for reporting and independent review of
allegations of sexual harassment made against an elected
official of the governmental unit by another elected official
of a governmental unit.
(b) Within 3 months after the effective date of this
amendatory Act of the 93rd General Assembly, the Attorney
General shall develop model ordinances and resolutions for the
purpose of this Article. The Attorney General shall advise
governmental entities on their contents and adoption.
(c) As used in this Article, (i) an "officer" means an
elected or appointed official; regardless of whether the
official is compensated, and (ii) an "employee" means a

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