Bill Text: IL HB4220 | 2021-2022 | 102nd General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the General Not For Profit Corporation Act of 1986. Requires a corporation associated with a township food pantry to adopt, within 120 days after the effective date of the amendatory Act, bylaws that provide the following: (1) that the board of directors shall consist of 5 directors who shall be the township supervisor and the township trustees; (2) that the township supervisor or a township trustee shall be automatically removed from the board of directors when he or she leaves his or her office; (3) that an individual who becomes the township supervisor or a township trustee shall automatically become a member of the board of directors; (4) that the directors shall receive no compensation for services to the corporation as directors, officers, or otherwise; and (5) that the township supervisor shall be the president and treasurer of the corporation. Sets forth criteria for determining when a corporation is associated with a township food pantry. Amends the Open Meetings Act. Expands the definition of "public body" to include domestic not-for-profit corporations that are associated with a township food pantry. Effective immediately.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-05 - Referred to Rules Committee [HB4220 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2021-HB4220-Introduced.html

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102ND GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2021 and 2022 HB4220 Introduced , by Rep. Daniel Didech SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
5 ILCS 120/1.02 from Ch. 102, par. 41.02
805 ILCS 105/108.11 new
Amends the General Not For Profit Corporation Act of 1986. Requires a corporation associated with a township food pantry to adopt, within 120 days after the effective date of the amendatory Act, bylaws that provide the following: (1) that the board of directors shall consist of 5 directors who shall be the township supervisor and the township trustees; (2) that the township supervisor or a township trustee shall be automatically removed from the board of directors when he or she leaves his or her office; (3) that an individual who becomes the township supervisor or a township trustee shall automatically become a member of the board of directors; (4) that the directors shall receive no compensation for services to the corporation as directors, officers, or otherwise; and (5) that the township supervisor shall be the president and treasurer of the corporation. Sets forth criteria for determining when a corporation is associated with a township food pantry. Amends the Open Meetings Act. Expands the definition of "public body" to include domestic not-for-profit corporations that are associated with a township food pantry. Effective immediately.
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A BILL FOR
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AN ACT concerning business.
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 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" includes
domestic not-for-profit corporations subject to the provisions
of the General Not For Profit Corporation Act of 1986 that are
associated with a township food pantry. "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.)
Section 10. The General Not For Profit Corporation Act of
1986 is amended by adding Section 108.11 as follows:

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(805 ILCS 105/108.11 new)
Sec. 108.11. Corporation associated with a township food
pantry.
(a) Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary,
within 120 days after the effective date of this amendatory
Act of the 102nd General Assembly a corporation associated
with a township food pantry shall adopt bylaws consistent with
the following:
(1) The board of directors shall consist of 5
directors, who shall be the township supervisor and the
township trustees.
(2) When the township supervisor or a township trustee
leaves his or her office, he or she shall be automatically
removed from the board of directors.
(3) When an individual becomes the township supervisor
or a township trustee, he or she shall automatically
become a member of the board of directors.
(4) The directors shall receive no compensation for
services to the corporation as directors, officers, or
otherwise.
(5) The township supervisor shall be the president and
treasurer of the corporation.
(b) A corporation is associated with a township food
pantry if it:
(1) is operated in whole or in part on township owned

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or rented property;
(2) includes the name of a township in its corporate
name;
(3) is operated by township employees or by volunteers
who are subject to the direction of township employees; or
(4) receives all or any portion of its funding under
Section 9-15 of the Illinois Public Aid Code.
Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
becoming law.