Bill Text: IL HB1654 | 2023-2024 | 103rd General Assembly | Introduced

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

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-04-19 - Rule 19(a) / Re-referred to Rules Committee [HB1654 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2023-HB1654-Introduced.html

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103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2023 and 2024 HB1654 Introduced , by Rep. Tony M. McCombie 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 and Services Review 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, an ethics commission acting under the
State Officials and Employees Ethics Act, a regional youth
advisory board or the Statewide Youth Advisory Board
established under the Department of Children and Family
Services Statewide Youth Advisory Board Act, or the Illinois
Independent Tax Tribunal.
(Source: P.A. 97-1129, eff. 8-28-12; 98-806, eff. 1-1-15.)