Bill Text: IL HB3147 | 2019-2020 | 101st General Assembly | Introduced
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Bill Title: Amends the Open Meetings Act. Provides that if a change is made concerning regular meeting dates, times, or locations (currently, only change in dates), at least 10 days' notice of such change shall be given by publication in a newspaper of general circulation in the area in which such body functions.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 4-2)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2019-04-10 - Referred to Assignments [HB3147 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2019-HB3147-Introduced.html
Bill Title: Amends the Open Meetings Act. Provides that if a change is made concerning regular meeting dates, times, or locations (currently, only change in dates), at least 10 days' notice of such change shall be given by publication in a newspaper of general circulation in the area in which such body functions.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 4-2)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2019-04-10 - Referred to Assignments [HB3147 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2019-HB3147-Introduced.html
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1 | AN ACT concerning government.
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2 | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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3 | represented in the General Assembly:
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4 | Section 5. The Open Meetings Act is amended by changing | |||||||||||||||||||
5 | Section 2.03 as follows:
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6 | (5 ILCS 120/2.03) (from Ch. 102, par. 42.03)
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7 | Sec. 2.03.
In addition to the notice required by Section | |||||||||||||||||||
8 | 2.02, each body
subject to this Act must, at the beginning of | |||||||||||||||||||
9 | each calendar or fiscal year,
prepare and make available a | |||||||||||||||||||
10 | schedule of all its regular meetings for such
calendar or | |||||||||||||||||||
11 | fiscal year, listing the times and places of such meetings.
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12 | If a change is made in regular meeting dates , times, or | |||||||||||||||||||
13 | locations , at least 10 days' notice
of such change shall be | |||||||||||||||||||
14 | given by publication in a newspaper of general
circulation in | |||||||||||||||||||
15 | the area in which such body functions. However, in the case
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16 | bodies of local governmental units with a population of less | |||||||||||||||||||
17 | than 500 in
which no newspaper is published, such 10 days' | |||||||||||||||||||
18 | notice may be given by
posting a notice of such change in at | |||||||||||||||||||
19 | least 3 prominent places within the
governmental unit. Notice | |||||||||||||||||||
20 | of such change shall also be posted at the
principal office of | |||||||||||||||||||
21 | the public body or, if no such office exists, at the
building | |||||||||||||||||||
22 | in which the meeting is to be held. Notice of such change shall
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23 | also be supplied to those news media which have filed an annual |
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1 | request for
notice as provided in paragraph (b) of Section | ||||||
2 | 2.02.
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3 | (Source: Laws 1967, p. 1960 .)
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