Bill Text: IL SB2322 | 2019-2020 | 101st General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Public Officer Prohibited Activities Act. Provides that a unit of local government may not use public funds to pay a lobbyist or lobbying entity. Limits home rule powers.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Failed) 2021-01-13 - Session Sine Die [SB2322 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2019-SB2322-Introduced.html

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101ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2019 and 2020 SB2322 Introduced 1/8/2020, by Sen. Jason Plummer SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
50 ILCS 105/5 new
Amends the Public Officer Prohibited Activities Act. Provides that a unit of local government may not use public funds to pay a lobbyist or lobbying entity. Limits home rule powers.
LRB101 15459 AWJ 64795 b
FISCAL NOTE ACT MAY APPLY HOME RULE NOTE ACT MAY APPLY
A BILL FOR
SB2322 LRB101 15459 AWJ 64795 b
AN ACT concerning local government.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The Public Officer Prohibited Activities Act is
amended by adding Section 5 as follows:
(50 ILCS 105/5 new)
Sec. 5. Use of public funds for lobbyists.
(a) As used in this Section, "lobbyist" and "lobbying
entity" have the meanings given to those terms in Section 2 of
the Lobbyist Registration Act.
(b) A unit of local government may not use public funds to
pay a lobbyist or lobbying entity.
(c) A home rule unit may not expend public funds 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.