Bill Text: IL HB1368 | 2009-2010 | 96th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Open Meetings Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning definitions.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2009-04-03 - Rule 19(a) / Re-referred to Rules Committee [HB1368 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2009-HB1368-Introduced.html

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96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2009 and 2010 HB1368 Introduced 2/18/2009, by Rep. Michael J. Madigan - Barbara Flynn Currie - Jim Watson SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
5 ILCS 120/1.02 from Ch. 102, par. 41.02
Amends the Open Meetings Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning definitions.
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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 Open Meetings Act is amended by changing
Section 1.02 as follows:
(5 ILCS 120/1.02) (from Ch. 102, par. 41.02)
Sec. 1.02. For the the purposes of this Act:
"Meeting" means any gathering, whether in person or by
video or audio conference, telephone call, electronic means
(such as, without limitation, electronic mail, electronic
chat, and instant messaging), or other means of contemporaneous
interactive communication, of a majority of a quorum of the
members of a public body held for the purpose of discussing
public business or, for a 5-member public body, a quorum of the
members of a public body held for the purpose of discussing
public business.
Accordingly, for a 5-member public body, 3 members of the
body constitute a quorum and the affirmative vote of 3 members
is necessary to adopt any motion, resolution, or ordinance,
unless a greater number is otherwise required.
"Public body" includes all legislative, executive,
administrative or advisory bodies of the State, counties,
townships, cities, villages, incorporated towns, school

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districts and all other municipal corporations, boards,
bureaus, committees or commissions of this State, and any
subsidiary bodies of any of the foregoing including but not
limited to committees and subcommittees which are supported in
whole or in part by tax revenue, or which expend tax revenue,
except the General Assembly and committees or commissions
thereof. "Public body" includes tourism boards and convention
or civic center boards located in counties that are contiguous
to the Mississippi River with populations of more than 250,000
but less than 300,000. "Public body" includes the Health
Facilities Planning Board. "Public body" does not include a
child death review team or the Illinois Child Death Review
Teams Executive Council established under the Child Death
Review Team Act or an ethics commission acting under the State
Officials and Employees Ethics Act.
(Source: P.A. 94-1058, eff. 1-1-07; 95-245, eff. 8-17-07.)