Bill Text: IL HB3003 | 2025-2026 | 104th General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Amends the Public Officer Prohibited Activities Act. In provisions concerning offices a member of a county board may hold during the member's term of office, provides that a member of the county board may serve as a member of an intergovernmental joint self-insurance pool board during the county board member's term of office. Effective immediately.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2025-02-06 - Referred to Rules Committee [HB3003 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2025-HB3003-Introduced.html
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| 1 | AN ACT concerning local government.
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| 2 | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, | |||||||||||||||||||
| 3 | represented in the General Assembly:
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| 4 | Section 5. The Public Officer Prohibited Activities Act is | |||||||||||||||||||
| 5 | amended by changing Section 1 as follows:
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| 6 | (50 ILCS 105/1) (from Ch. 102, par. 1) | |||||||||||||||||||
| 7 | Sec. 1. County board. No member of a county board, during | |||||||||||||||||||
| 8 | the term of office for which he or she is elected, may be | |||||||||||||||||||
| 9 | appointed to, accept, or hold any office other than (i) | |||||||||||||||||||
| 10 | chairman of the county board or member of the regional | |||||||||||||||||||
| 11 | planning commission by appointment or election of the board of | |||||||||||||||||||
| 12 | which he or she is a member, (ii) alderperson of a city or | |||||||||||||||||||
| 13 | member of the board of trustees of a village or incorporated | |||||||||||||||||||
| 14 | town if the city, village, or incorporated town has fewer than | |||||||||||||||||||
| 15 | 1,000 inhabitants and is located in a county having fewer than | |||||||||||||||||||
| 16 | 50,000 inhabitants, or (iii) trustee of a forest preserve | |||||||||||||||||||
| 17 | district created under Section 18.5 of the Conservation | |||||||||||||||||||
| 18 | District Act, unless he or she first resigns from the office of | |||||||||||||||||||
| 19 | county board member or unless the holding of another office is | |||||||||||||||||||
| 20 | authorized by law. Any such prohibited appointment or election | |||||||||||||||||||
| 21 | is void. This Section shall not preclude a member of the county | |||||||||||||||||||
| 22 | board from being appointed or selected to serve as (i) a member | |||||||||||||||||||
| 23 | of a County Extension Board as provided in Section 7 of the | |||||||||||||||||||
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| 1 | County Cooperative Extension Law, (ii) a member of an | ||||||
| 2 | Emergency Telephone System Board as provided in Section 15.4 | ||||||
| 3 | of the Emergency Telephone System Act, (iii) a member of the | ||||||
| 4 | board of review as provided in Section 6-30 of the Property Tax | ||||||
| 5 | Code, or (iv) a public administrator or public guardian as | ||||||
| 6 | provided in Section 13-1 of the Probate Act of 1975, or (v) a | ||||||
| 7 | member of an intergovernmental joint self-insurance pool board | ||||||
| 8 | as provided in Section 6 of the Intergovernmental Cooperation | ||||||
| 9 | Act. Nothing in this Act shall be construed to prohibit an | ||||||
| 10 | elected county official from holding elected office in another | ||||||
| 11 | unit of local government so long as there is no contractual | ||||||
| 12 | relationship between the county and the other unit of local | ||||||
| 13 | government. This amendatory Act of 1995 is declarative of | ||||||
| 14 | existing law and is not a new enactment. | ||||||
| 15 | (Source: P.A. 102-15, eff. 6-17-21.)
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| 16 | Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | ||||||
| 17 | becoming law. | ||||||