Bill Text: IL SB2206 | 2021-2022 | 102nd General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Local Records Act. Provides that a unit of local government shall compile a list of each entity, address of each entity, product or service supplied by each entity, and amount paid to each entity for any expenditure of government funds greater than $3,000 from the unit of local government during a fiscal year. Provides that the list shall continue to be updated throughout the entire fiscal year by adding additional names of entities that were paid an expenditure greater than $3,000. Provides that the unit of local government shall publish on its website, if it has one, the compiled list and shall update the list at least annually. Provides that, if the unit of local government does not have a website, the unit of local government shall publish the list, on an annual basis, in a newspaper of general circulation in the county in which the unit of local government is located. Limits home rule powers.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 4-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-04-19 - Added as Co-Sponsor Sen. Dale Fowler [SB2206 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2021-SB2206-Introduced.html

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102ND GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2021 and 2022 SB2206 Introduced 2/26/2021, by Sen. Jason Plummer SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
50 ILCS 205/25 new
Amends the Local Records Act. Provides that a unit of local government shall compile a list of each entity, address of each entity, product or service supplied by each entity, and amount paid to each entity for any expenditure of government funds greater than $3,000 from the unit of local government during a fiscal year. Provides that the list shall continue to be updated throughout the entire fiscal year by adding additional names of entities that were paid an expenditure greater than $3,000. Provides that the unit of local government shall publish on its website, if it has one, the compiled list and shall update the list at least annually. Provides that, if the unit of local government does not have a website, the unit of local government shall publish the list, on an annual basis, in a newspaper of general circulation in the county in which the unit of local government is located. Limits home rule powers.
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FISCAL NOTE ACT MAY APPLY HOME RULE NOTE ACT MAY APPLY
A BILL FOR
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AN ACT concerning local government.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The Local Records Act is amended by adding
Section 25 as follows:
(50 ILCS 205/25 new)
Sec. 25. Expenditures greater than $3,000.
(a) A unit of local government shall compile a list of each
entity, address of each entity, product or service supplied by
each entity, and amount paid to each entity for any
expenditure of government funds greater than $3,000 from the
unit of local government during a fiscal year. Exempt material
listed under Section 7 of the Freedom of Information Act shall
not be included in the list. The list shall continue to be
updated throughout the entire fiscal year by adding additional
names of entities that were paid an expenditure greater than
$3,000.
(b) A unit of local government shall publish on its
website, if it has one, the public record compiled under
subsection (a) and shall update the list at least annually. If
the unit of local government does not have a website, the unit
of local government shall publish the list, on an annual
basis, in a newspaper of general circulation in the county in

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which the unit of local government is located.
(c) Nothing in this Section shall be construed to require
a unit of local government to compile or publish information
about payments or compensation to jurors.
(d) A home rule unit may not compile or publish the list of
entities that were paid an expenditure greater than $3,000
under this Section in a manner inconsistent with this Section.
This Section is a limitation under subsection (i) of Section 6
of Article VII of the Illinois Constitution on the concurrent
exercise by home rule units of powers and functions exercised
by the State.