101ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2019 and 2020
HB2622

 

Introduced , by Rep. Allen Skillicorn

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
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    Amends the Illinois Public Labor Relations Act and the Illinois Educational Labor Relations Act. Provides that once an agreement is reached between an employer and the representative of the employees concerning all of the terms of a collective bargaining agreement, that agreement shall be reduced to writing and published on the website of the employer. Provides that not less than 14 days after publication of the agreement on its website, the employer shall hold an open public meeting on ratification of the agreement. Provides that no agreement concerning all of the terms of a collective bargaining agreement shall be ratified by the parties until after the employer publishes the agreement on its website and holds an open public meeting on ratification of the agreement. Provides that upon ratification, the agreement shall be signed by the parties. Provides that rejection of an agreement by either the employer or the representative of the employees shall not constitute an unfair labor practice. Provides that no collective bargaining agreement shall be binding until it has been ratified by a majority vote, with that vote taking place after the public meeting. Requires that any contract between a public employer and an employee under the Illinois Public Labor Relations Act, in which the total compensation exceeds $150,000, shall also be published on the employer's website for a period of not less than 14 days prior to being signed by both the public employer and the employee. Provides that if a public contract requires board approval before it may take effect, then not less than 14 days after publication of the contract on its website, the public employer shall hold an open public meeting on the contract. Provides that no contract shall take effect until after the public employer publishes the contract on its website and holds an open public meeting on the contract. Amends the Open Meetings Act and the Freedom of Information Act to allow for open meetings and inspection and copying of records concerning specified provisions of the Illinois Public Labor Relations Act and the Illinois Educational Labor Relations Act. Makes conforming changes. Effective immediately.


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A BILL FOR

 

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1    AN ACT concerning government.
 
2    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3represented in the General Assembly:
 
4    Section 5. The Open Meetings Act is amended by changing
5Section 2 as follows:
 
6    (5 ILCS 120/2)  (from Ch. 102, par. 42)
7    Sec. 2. Open meetings.
8    (a) Openness required. All meetings of public bodies shall
9be open to the public unless excepted in subsection (c) and
10closed in accordance with Section 2a.
11    (b) Construction of exceptions. The exceptions contained
12in subsection (c) are in derogation of the requirement that
13public bodies meet in the open, and therefore, the exceptions
14are to be strictly construed, extending only to subjects
15clearly within their scope. The exceptions authorize but do not
16require the holding of a closed meeting to discuss a subject
17included within an enumerated exception.
18    (c) Exceptions. A public body may hold closed meetings to
19consider the following subjects:
20        (1) The appointment, employment, compensation,
21    discipline, performance, or dismissal of specific
22    employees of the public body or legal counsel for the
23    public body, including hearing testimony on a complaint

 

 

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1    lodged against an employee of the public body or against
2    legal counsel for the public body to determine its
3    validity. However, a meeting to consider an increase in
4    compensation to a specific employee of a public body that
5    is subject to the Local Government Wage Increase
6    Transparency Act may not be closed and shall be open to the
7    public and posted and held in accordance with this Act.
8        (2) Collective negotiating matters between the public
9    body and its employees or their representatives, or
10    deliberations concerning salary schedules for one or more
11    classes of employees, except that any meeting required
12    under either subsection (e) of Section 7 of the Illinois
13    Public Labor Relations Act or subsection (d) of Section 10
14    of the Illinois Educational Labor Relations Act shall be
15    open to the public.
16        (3) The selection of a person to fill a public office,
17    as defined in this Act, including a vacancy in a public
18    office, when the public body is given power to appoint
19    under law or ordinance, or the discipline, performance or
20    removal of the occupant of a public office, when the public
21    body is given power to remove the occupant under law or
22    ordinance.
23        (4) Evidence or testimony presented in open hearing, or
24    in closed hearing where specifically authorized by law, to
25    a quasi-adjudicative body, as defined in this Act, provided
26    that the body prepares and makes available for public

 

 

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1    inspection a written decision setting forth its
2    determinative reasoning.
3        (5) The purchase or lease of real property for the use
4    of the public body, including meetings held for the purpose
5    of discussing whether a particular parcel should be
6    acquired.
7        (6) The setting of a price for sale or lease of
8    property owned by the public body.
9        (7) The sale or purchase of securities, investments, or
10    investment contracts. This exception shall not apply to the
11    investment of assets or income of funds deposited into the
12    Illinois Prepaid Tuition Trust Fund.
13        (8) Security procedures, school building safety and
14    security, and the use of personnel and equipment to respond
15    to an actual, a threatened, or a reasonably potential
16    danger to the safety of employees, students, staff, the
17    public, or public property.
18        (9) Student disciplinary cases.
19        (10) The placement of individual students in special
20    education programs and other matters relating to
21    individual students.
22        (11) Litigation, when an action against, affecting or
23    on behalf of the particular public body has been filed and
24    is pending before a court or administrative tribunal, or
25    when the public body finds that an action is probable or
26    imminent, in which case the basis for the finding shall be

 

 

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1    recorded and entered into the minutes of the closed
2    meeting.
3        (12) The establishment of reserves or settlement of
4    claims as provided in the Local Governmental and
5    Governmental Employees Tort Immunity Act, if otherwise the
6    disposition of a claim or potential claim might be
7    prejudiced, or the review or discussion of claims, loss or
8    risk management information, records, data, advice or
9    communications from or with respect to any insurer of the
10    public body or any intergovernmental risk management
11    association or self insurance pool of which the public body
12    is a member.
13        (13) Conciliation of complaints of discrimination in
14    the sale or rental of housing, when closed meetings are
15    authorized by the law or ordinance prescribing fair housing
16    practices and creating a commission or administrative
17    agency for their enforcement.
18        (14) Informant sources, the hiring or assignment of
19    undercover personnel or equipment, or ongoing, prior or
20    future criminal investigations, when discussed by a public
21    body with criminal investigatory responsibilities.
22        (15) Professional ethics or performance when
23    considered by an advisory body appointed to advise a
24    licensing or regulatory agency on matters germane to the
25    advisory body's field of competence.
26        (16) Self evaluation, practices and procedures or

 

 

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1    professional ethics, when meeting with a representative of
2    a statewide association of which the public body is a
3    member.
4        (17) The recruitment, credentialing, discipline or
5    formal peer review of physicians or other health care
6    professionals, or for the discussion of matters protected
7    under the federal Patient Safety and Quality Improvement
8    Act of 2005, and the regulations promulgated thereunder,
9    including 42 C.F.R. Part 3 (73 FR 70732), or the federal
10    Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of
11    1996, and the regulations promulgated thereunder,
12    including 45 C.F.R. Parts 160, 162, and 164, by a hospital,
13    or other institution providing medical care, that is
14    operated by the public body.
15        (18) Deliberations for decisions of the Prisoner
16    Review Board.
17        (19) Review or discussion of applications received
18    under the Experimental Organ Transplantation Procedures
19    Act.
20        (20) The classification and discussion of matters
21    classified as confidential or continued confidential by
22    the State Government Suggestion Award Board.
23        (21) Discussion of minutes of meetings lawfully closed
24    under this Act, whether for purposes of approval by the
25    body of the minutes or semi-annual review of the minutes as
26    mandated by Section 2.06.

 

 

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1        (22) Deliberations for decisions of the State
2    Emergency Medical Services Disciplinary Review Board.
3        (23) The operation by a municipality of a municipal
4    utility or the operation of a municipal power agency or
5    municipal natural gas agency when the discussion involves
6    (i) contracts relating to the purchase, sale, or delivery
7    of electricity or natural gas or (ii) the results or
8    conclusions of load forecast studies.
9        (24) Meetings of a residential health care facility
10    resident sexual assault and death review team or the
11    Executive Council under the Abuse Prevention Review Team
12    Act.
13        (25) Meetings of an independent team of experts under
14    Brian's Law.
15        (26) Meetings of a mortality review team appointed
16    under the Department of Juvenile Justice Mortality Review
17    Team Act.
18        (27) (Blank).
19        (28) Correspondence and records (i) that may not be
20    disclosed under Section 11-9 of the Illinois Public Aid
21    Code or (ii) that pertain to appeals under Section 11-8 of
22    the Illinois Public Aid Code.
23        (29) Meetings between internal or external auditors
24    and governmental audit committees, finance committees, and
25    their equivalents, when the discussion involves internal
26    control weaknesses, identification of potential fraud risk

 

 

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1    areas, known or suspected frauds, and fraud interviews
2    conducted in accordance with generally accepted auditing
3    standards of the United States of America.
4        (30) Those meetings or portions of meetings of a
5    fatality review team or the Illinois Fatality Review Team
6    Advisory Council during which a review of the death of an
7    eligible adult in which abuse or neglect is suspected,
8    alleged, or substantiated is conducted pursuant to Section
9    15 of the Adult Protective Services Act.
10        (31) Meetings and deliberations for decisions of the
11    Concealed Carry Licensing Review Board under the Firearm
12    Concealed Carry Act.
13        (32) Meetings between the Regional Transportation
14    Authority Board and its Service Boards when the discussion
15    involves review by the Regional Transportation Authority
16    Board of employment contracts under Section 28d of the
17    Metropolitan Transit Authority Act and Sections 3A.18 and
18    3B.26 of the Regional Transportation Authority Act.
19        (33) Those meetings or portions of meetings of the
20    advisory committee and peer review subcommittee created
21    under Section 320 of the Illinois Controlled Substances Act
22    during which specific controlled substance prescriber,
23    dispenser, or patient information is discussed.
24        (34) Meetings of the Tax Increment Financing Reform
25    Task Force under Section 2505-800 of the Department of
26    Revenue Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois.

 

 

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1        (35) Meetings of the group established to discuss
2    Medicaid capitation rates under Section 5-30.8 of the
3    Illinois Public Aid Code.
4    (d) Definitions. For purposes of this Section:
5    "Employee" means a person employed by a public body whose
6relationship with the public body constitutes an
7employer-employee relationship under the usual common law
8rules, and who is not an independent contractor.
9    "Public office" means a position created by or under the
10Constitution or laws of this State, the occupant of which is
11charged with the exercise of some portion of the sovereign
12power of this State. The term "public office" shall include
13members of the public body, but it shall not include
14organizational positions filled by members thereof, whether
15established by law or by a public body itself, that exist to
16assist the body in the conduct of its business.
17    "Quasi-adjudicative body" means an administrative body
18charged by law or ordinance with the responsibility to conduct
19hearings, receive evidence or testimony and make
20determinations based thereon, but does not include local
21electoral boards when such bodies are considering petition
22challenges.
23    (e) Final action. No final action may be taken at a closed
24meeting. Final action shall be preceded by a public recital of
25the nature of the matter being considered and other information
26that will inform the public of the business being conducted.

 

 

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1(Source: P.A. 99-78, eff. 7-20-15; 99-235, eff. 1-1-16; 99-480,
2eff. 9-9-15; 99-642, eff. 7-28-16; 99-646, eff. 7-28-16;
399-687, eff. 1-1-17; 100-201, eff. 8-18-17; 100-465, eff.
48-31-17; 100-646, eff. 7-27-18.)
 
5    Section 10. The Freedom of Information Act is amended by
6changing Section 7 as follows:
 
7    (5 ILCS 140/7)  (from Ch. 116, par. 207)
8    Sec. 7. Exemptions.
9    (1) When a request is made to inspect or copy a public
10record that contains information that is exempt from disclosure
11under this Section, but also contains information that is not
12exempt from disclosure, the public body may elect to redact the
13information that is exempt. The public body shall make the
14remaining information available for inspection and copying.
15Subject to this requirement, the following shall be exempt from
16inspection and copying:
17        (a) Information specifically prohibited from
18    disclosure by federal or State law or rules and regulations
19    implementing federal or State law.
20        (b) Private information, unless disclosure is required
21    by another provision of this Act, a State or federal law or
22    a court order.
23        (b-5) Files, documents, and other data or databases
24    maintained by one or more law enforcement agencies and

 

 

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1    specifically designed to provide information to one or more
2    law enforcement agencies regarding the physical or mental
3    status of one or more individual subjects.
4        (c) Personal information contained within public
5    records, the disclosure of which would constitute a clearly
6    unwarranted invasion of personal privacy, unless the
7    disclosure is consented to in writing by the individual
8    subjects of the information. "Unwarranted invasion of
9    personal privacy" means the disclosure of information that
10    is highly personal or objectionable to a reasonable person
11    and in which the subject's right to privacy outweighs any
12    legitimate public interest in obtaining the information.
13    The disclosure of information that bears on the public
14    duties of public employees and officials shall not be
15    considered an invasion of personal privacy.
16        (d) Records in the possession of any public body
17    created in the course of administrative enforcement
18    proceedings, and any law enforcement or correctional
19    agency for law enforcement purposes, but only to the extent
20    that disclosure would:
21            (i) interfere with pending or actually and
22        reasonably contemplated law enforcement proceedings
23        conducted by any law enforcement or correctional
24        agency that is the recipient of the request;
25            (ii) interfere with active administrative
26        enforcement proceedings conducted by the public body

 

 

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1        that is the recipient of the request;
2            (iii) create a substantial likelihood that a
3        person will be deprived of a fair trial or an impartial
4        hearing;
5            (iv) unavoidably disclose the identity of a
6        confidential source, confidential information
7        furnished only by the confidential source, or persons
8        who file complaints with or provide information to
9        administrative, investigative, law enforcement, or
10        penal agencies; except that the identities of
11        witnesses to traffic accidents, traffic accident
12        reports, and rescue reports shall be provided by
13        agencies of local government, except when disclosure
14        would interfere with an active criminal investigation
15        conducted by the agency that is the recipient of the
16        request;
17            (v) disclose unique or specialized investigative
18        techniques other than those generally used and known or
19        disclose internal documents of correctional agencies
20        related to detection, observation or investigation of
21        incidents of crime or misconduct, and disclosure would
22        result in demonstrable harm to the agency or public
23        body that is the recipient of the request;
24            (vi) endanger the life or physical safety of law
25        enforcement personnel or any other person; or
26            (vii) obstruct an ongoing criminal investigation

 

 

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1        by the agency that is the recipient of the request.
2        (d-5) A law enforcement record created for law
3    enforcement purposes and contained in a shared electronic
4    record management system if the law enforcement agency that
5    is the recipient of the request did not create the record,
6    did not participate in or have a role in any of the events
7    which are the subject of the record, and only has access to
8    the record through the shared electronic record management
9    system.
10        (e) Records that relate to or affect the security of
11    correctional institutions and detention facilities.
12        (e-5) Records requested by persons committed to the
13    Department of Corrections, Department of Human Services
14    Division of Mental Health, or a county jail if those
15    materials are available in the library of the correctional
16    institution or facility or jail where the inmate is
17    confined.
18        (e-6) Records requested by persons committed to the
19    Department of Corrections, Department of Human Services
20    Division of Mental Health, or a county jail if those
21    materials include records from staff members' personnel
22    files, staff rosters, or other staffing assignment
23    information.
24        (e-7) Records requested by persons committed to the
25    Department of Corrections or Department of Human Services
26    Division of Mental Health if those materials are available

 

 

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1    through an administrative request to the Department of
2    Corrections or Department of Human Services Division of
3    Mental Health.
4        (e-8) Records requested by a person committed to the
5    Department of Corrections, Department of Human Services
6    Division of Mental Health, or a county jail, the disclosure
7    of which would result in the risk of harm to any person or
8    the risk of an escape from a jail or correctional
9    institution or facility.
10        (e-9) Records requested by a person in a county jail or
11    committed to the Department of Corrections or Department of
12    Human Services Division of Mental Health, containing
13    personal information pertaining to the person's victim or
14    the victim's family, including, but not limited to, a
15    victim's home address, home telephone number, work or
16    school address, work telephone number, social security
17    number, or any other identifying information, except as may
18    be relevant to a requester's current or potential case or
19    claim.
20        (e-10) Law enforcement records of other persons
21    requested by a person committed to the Department of
22    Corrections, Department of Human Services Division of
23    Mental Health, or a county jail, including, but not limited
24    to, arrest and booking records, mug shots, and crime scene
25    photographs, except as these records may be relevant to the
26    requester's current or potential case or claim.

 

 

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1        (f) Preliminary drafts, notes, recommendations,
2    memoranda and other records in which opinions are
3    expressed, or policies or actions are formulated, except
4    that a specific record or relevant portion of a record
5    shall not be exempt when the record is publicly cited and
6    identified by the head of the public body. The exemption
7    provided in this paragraph (f) extends to all those records
8    of officers and agencies of the General Assembly that
9    pertain to the preparation of legislative documents.
10        (g) Trade secrets and commercial or financial
11    information obtained from a person or business where the
12    trade secrets or commercial or financial information are
13    furnished under a claim that they are proprietary,
14    privileged or confidential, and that disclosure of the
15    trade secrets or commercial or financial information would
16    cause competitive harm to the person or business, and only
17    insofar as the claim directly applies to the records
18    requested.
19        The information included under this exemption includes
20    all trade secrets and commercial or financial information
21    obtained by a public body, including a public pension fund,
22    from a private equity fund or a privately held company
23    within the investment portfolio of a private equity fund as
24    a result of either investing or evaluating a potential
25    investment of public funds in a private equity fund. The
26    exemption contained in this item does not apply to the

 

 

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1    aggregate financial performance information of a private
2    equity fund, nor to the identity of the fund's managers or
3    general partners. The exemption contained in this item does
4    not apply to the identity of a privately held company
5    within the investment portfolio of a private equity fund,
6    unless the disclosure of the identity of a privately held
7    company may cause competitive harm.
8        Nothing contained in this paragraph (g) shall be
9    construed to prevent a person or business from consenting
10    to disclosure.
11        (h) Proposals and bids for any contract, grant, or
12    agreement, including information which if it were
13    disclosed would frustrate procurement or give an advantage
14    to any person proposing to enter into a contractor
15    agreement with the body, until an award or final selection
16    is made. Information prepared by or for the body in
17    preparation of a bid solicitation shall be exempt until an
18    award or final selection is made.
19        (i) Valuable formulae, computer geographic systems,
20    designs, drawings and research data obtained or produced by
21    any public body when disclosure could reasonably be
22    expected to produce private gain or public loss. The
23    exemption for "computer geographic systems" provided in
24    this paragraph (i) does not extend to requests made by news
25    media as defined in Section 2 of this Act when the
26    requested information is not otherwise exempt and the only

 

 

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1    purpose of the request is to access and disseminate
2    information regarding the health, safety, welfare, or
3    legal rights of the general public.
4        (j) The following information pertaining to
5    educational matters:
6            (i) test questions, scoring keys and other
7        examination data used to administer an academic
8        examination;
9            (ii) information received by a primary or
10        secondary school, college, or university under its
11        procedures for the evaluation of faculty members by
12        their academic peers;
13            (iii) information concerning a school or
14        university's adjudication of student disciplinary
15        cases, but only to the extent that disclosure would
16        unavoidably reveal the identity of the student; and
17            (iv) course materials or research materials used
18        by faculty members.
19        (k) Architects' plans, engineers' technical
20    submissions, and other construction related technical
21    documents for projects not constructed or developed in
22    whole or in part with public funds and the same for
23    projects constructed or developed with public funds,
24    including but not limited to power generating and
25    distribution stations and other transmission and
26    distribution facilities, water treatment facilities,

 

 

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1    airport facilities, sport stadiums, convention centers,
2    and all government owned, operated, or occupied buildings,
3    but only to the extent that disclosure would compromise
4    security.
5        (l) Minutes of meetings of public bodies closed to the
6    public as provided in the Open Meetings Act until the
7    public body makes the minutes available to the public under
8    Section 2.06 of the Open Meetings Act.
9        (m) Communications between a public body and an
10    attorney or auditor representing the public body that would
11    not be subject to discovery in litigation, and materials
12    prepared or compiled by or for a public body in
13    anticipation of a criminal, civil or administrative
14    proceeding upon the request of an attorney advising the
15    public body, and materials prepared or compiled with
16    respect to internal audits of public bodies.
17        (n) Records relating to a public body's adjudication of
18    employee grievances or disciplinary cases; however, this
19    exemption shall not extend to the final outcome of cases in
20    which discipline is imposed.
21        (o) Administrative or technical information associated
22    with automated data processing operations, including but
23    not limited to software, operating protocols, computer
24    program abstracts, file layouts, source listings, object
25    modules, load modules, user guides, documentation
26    pertaining to all logical and physical design of

 

 

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1    computerized systems, employee manuals, and any other
2    information that, if disclosed, would jeopardize the
3    security of the system or its data or the security of
4    materials exempt under this Section.
5        (p) Records relating to collective negotiating matters
6    between public bodies and their employees or
7    representatives, except that any final contract or
8    agreement and any agreement that is the subject of a
9    meeting held under either subsection (e) of Section 7 of
10    the Illinois Public Labor Relations Act or subsection (d)
11    of Section 10 of the Illinois Educational Labor Relations
12    Act shall be subject to inspection and copying.
13        (q) Test questions, scoring keys, and other
14    examination data used to determine the qualifications of an
15    applicant for a license or employment.
16        (r) The records, documents, and information relating
17    to real estate purchase negotiations until those
18    negotiations have been completed or otherwise terminated.
19    With regard to a parcel involved in a pending or actually
20    and reasonably contemplated eminent domain proceeding
21    under the Eminent Domain Act, records, documents and
22    information relating to that parcel shall be exempt except
23    as may be allowed under discovery rules adopted by the
24    Illinois Supreme Court. The records, documents and
25    information relating to a real estate sale shall be exempt
26    until a sale is consummated.

 

 

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1        (s) Any and all proprietary information and records
2    related to the operation of an intergovernmental risk
3    management association or self-insurance pool or jointly
4    self-administered health and accident cooperative or pool.
5    Insurance or self insurance (including any
6    intergovernmental risk management association or self
7    insurance pool) claims, loss or risk management
8    information, records, data, advice or communications.
9        (t) Information contained in or related to
10    examination, operating, or condition reports prepared by,
11    on behalf of, or for the use of a public body responsible
12    for the regulation or supervision of financial
13    institutions or insurance companies, unless disclosure is
14    otherwise required by State law.
15        (u) Information that would disclose or might lead to
16    the disclosure of secret or confidential information,
17    codes, algorithms, programs, or private keys intended to be
18    used to create electronic or digital signatures under the
19    Electronic Commerce Security Act.
20        (v) Vulnerability assessments, security measures, and
21    response policies or plans that are designed to identify,
22    prevent, or respond to potential attacks upon a community's
23    population or systems, facilities, or installations, the
24    destruction or contamination of which would constitute a
25    clear and present danger to the health or safety of the
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1    reasonably be expected to jeopardize the effectiveness of
2    the measures or the safety of the personnel who implement
3    them or the public. Information exempt under this item may
4    include such things as details pertaining to the
5    mobilization or deployment of personnel or equipment, to
6    the operation of communication systems or protocols, or to
7    tactical operations.
8        (w) (Blank).
9        (x) Maps and other records regarding the location or
10    security of generation, transmission, distribution,
11    storage, gathering, treatment, or switching facilities
12    owned by a utility, by a power generator, or by the
13    Illinois Power Agency.
14        (y) Information contained in or related to proposals,
15    bids, or negotiations related to electric power
16    procurement under Section 1-75 of the Illinois Power Agency
17    Act and Section 16-111.5 of the Public Utilities Act that
18    is determined to be confidential and proprietary by the
19    Illinois Power Agency or by the Illinois Commerce
20    Commission.
21        (z) Information about students exempted from
22    disclosure under Sections 10-20.38 or 34-18.29 of the
23    School Code, and information about undergraduate students
24    enrolled at an institution of higher education exempted
25    from disclosure under Section 25 of the Illinois Credit
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1        (aa) Information the disclosure of which is exempted
2    under the Viatical Settlements Act of 2009.
3        (bb) Records and information provided to a mortality
4    review team and records maintained by a mortality review
5    team appointed under the Department of Juvenile Justice
6    Mortality Review Team Act.
7        (cc) Information regarding interments, entombments, or
8    inurnments of human remains that are submitted to the
9    Cemetery Oversight Database under the Cemetery Care Act or
10    the Cemetery Oversight Act, whichever is applicable.
11        (dd) Correspondence and records (i) that may not be
12    disclosed under Section 11-9 of the Illinois Public Aid
13    Code or (ii) that pertain to appeals under Section 11-8 of
14    the Illinois Public Aid Code.
15        (ee) The names, addresses, or other personal
16    information of persons who are minors and are also
17    participants and registrants in programs of park
18    districts, forest preserve districts, conservation
19    districts, recreation agencies, and special recreation
20    associations.
21        (ff) The names, addresses, or other personal
22    information of participants and registrants in programs of
23    park districts, forest preserve districts, conservation
24    districts, recreation agencies, and special recreation
25    associations where such programs are targeted primarily to
26    minors.

 

 

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1        (gg) Confidential information described in Section
2    1-100 of the Illinois Independent Tax Tribunal Act of 2012.
3        (hh) The report submitted to the State Board of
4    Education by the School Security and Standards Task Force
5    under item (8) of subsection (d) of Section 2-3.160 of the
6    School Code and any information contained in that report.
7        (ii) Records requested by persons committed to or
8    detained by the Department of Human Services under the
9    Sexually Violent Persons Commitment Act or committed to the
10    Department of Corrections under the Sexually Dangerous
11    Persons Act if those materials: (i) are available in the
12    library of the facility where the individual is confined;
13    (ii) include records from staff members' personnel files,
14    staff rosters, or other staffing assignment information;
15    or (iii) are available through an administrative request to
16    the Department of Human Services or the Department of
17    Corrections.
18        (jj) Confidential information described in Section
19    5-535 of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois.
20    (1.5) Any information exempt from disclosure under the
21Judicial Privacy Act shall be redacted from public records
22prior to disclosure under this Act.
23    (2) A public record that is not in the possession of a
24public body but is in the possession of a party with whom the
25agency has contracted to perform a governmental function on
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1governmental function and is not otherwise exempt under this
2Act, shall be considered a public record of the public body,
3for purposes of this Act.
4    (3) This Section does not authorize withholding of
5information or limit the availability of records to the public,
6except as stated in this Section or otherwise provided in this
7Act.
8(Source: P.A. 99-298, eff. 8-6-15; 99-346, eff. 1-1-16; 99-642,
9eff. 7-28-16; 100-26, eff. 8-4-17; 100-201, eff. 8-18-17;
10100-732, eff. 8-3-18.)
 
11    Section 15. The Illinois Public Labor Relations Act is
12amended by changing Sections 7 and 24 as follows:
 
13    (5 ILCS 315/7)  (from Ch. 48, par. 1607)
14    Sec. 7. Duty to bargain.
15    (a) A public employer and the exclusive representative have
16the authority and the duty to bargain collectively set forth in
17this Section.
18    For the purposes of this Act, "to bargain collectively"
19means the performance of the mutual obligation of the public
20employer or his designated representative and the
21representative of the public employees to meet at reasonable
22times, including meetings in advance of the budget-making
23process, and to negotiate in good faith with respect to wages,
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1Section 4 of this Act, or the negotiation of an agreement, or
2any question arising thereunder and the execution of a written
3contract incorporating any agreement reached if requested by
4either party, but such obligation does not compel either party
5to agree to a proposal or require the making of a concession.
6    The duty "to bargain collectively" shall also include an
7obligation to negotiate over any matter with respect to wages,
8hours and other conditions of employment, not specifically
9provided for in any other law or not specifically in violation
10of the provisions of any law. If any other law pertains, in
11part, to a matter affecting the wages, hours and other
12conditions of employment, such other law shall not be construed
13as limiting the duty "to bargain collectively" and to enter
14into collective bargaining agreements containing clauses which
15either supplement, implement, or relate to the effect of such
16provisions in other laws.
17    The duty "to bargain collectively" shall also include
18negotiations as to the terms of a collective bargaining
19agreement. The parties may, by mutual agreement, provide for
20arbitration of impasses resulting from their inability to agree
21upon wages, hours and terms and conditions of employment to be
22included in a collective bargaining agreement. Such
23arbitration provisions shall be subject to the Illinois
24"Uniform Arbitration Act" unless agreed by the parties.
25    The duty "to bargain collectively" shall also mean that no
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1modify such contract, unless the party desiring such
2termination or modification:
3        (1) serves a written notice upon the other party to the
4    contract of the proposed termination or modification 60
5    days prior to the expiration date thereof, or in the event
6    such contract contains no expiration date, 60 days prior to
7    the time it is proposed to make such termination or
8    modification;
9        (2) offers to meet and confer with the other party for
10    the purpose of negotiating a new contract or a contract
11    containing the proposed modifications;
12        (3) notifies the Board within 30 days after such notice
13    of the existence of a dispute, provided no agreement has
14    been reached by that time; and
15        (4) continues in full force and effect, without
16    resorting to strike or lockout, all the terms and
17    conditions of the existing contract for a period of 60 days
18    after such notice is given to the other party or until the
19    expiration date of such contract, whichever occurs later.
20    The duties imposed upon employers, employees and labor
21organizations by paragraphs (2), (3) and (4) shall become
22inapplicable upon an intervening certification of the Board,
23under which the labor organization, which is a party to the
24contract, has been superseded as or ceased to be the exclusive
25representative of the employees pursuant to the provisions of
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1not be construed as requiring either party to discuss or agree
2to any modification of the terms and conditions contained in a
3contract for a fixed period, if such modification is to become
4effective before such terms and conditions can be reopened
5under the provisions of the contract.
6    (b) Collective bargaining for home care and home health
7workers who function as personal assistants and individual
8maintenance home health workers under the Home Services Program
9shall be limited to the terms and conditions of employment
10under the State's control, as defined in Public Act 93-204 or
11this amendatory Act of the 97th General Assembly, as
12applicable.
13    (c) Collective bargaining for child and day care home
14providers under the child care assistance program shall be
15limited to the terms and conditions of employment under the
16State's control, as defined in this amendatory Act of the 94th
17General Assembly.
18    (d) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Section,
19whenever collective bargaining is for the purpose of
20establishing an initial agreement following original
21certification of units with fewer than 35 employees, with
22respect to public employees other than peace officers, fire
23fighters, and security employees, the following apply:
24        (1) Not later than 10 days after receiving a written
25    request for collective bargaining from a labor
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1    representative as defined in Section 6(c), or within such
2    further period as the parties agree upon, the parties shall
3    meet and commence to bargain collectively and shall make
4    every reasonable effort to conclude and sign a collective
5    bargaining agreement.
6        (2) If anytime after the expiration of the 90-day
7    period beginning on the date on which bargaining is
8    commenced the parties have failed to reach an agreement,
9    either party may notify the Illinois Public Labor Relations
10    Board of the existence of a dispute and request mediation
11    in accordance with the provisions of Section 14 of this
12    Act.
13        (3) If after the expiration of the 30-day period
14    beginning on the date on which mediation commenced, or such
15    additional period as the parties may agree upon, the
16    mediator is not able to bring the parties to agreement by
17    conciliation, either the exclusive representative of the
18    employees or the employer may request of the other, in
19    writing, arbitration and shall submit a copy of the request
20    to the board. Upon submission of the request for
21    arbitration, the parties shall be required to participate
22    in the impasse arbitration procedures set forth in Section
23    14 of this Act, except the right to strike shall not be
24    considered waived pursuant to Section 17 of this Act, until
25    the actual convening of the arbitration hearing.
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1an agreement is reached between a public employer and the
2exclusive representative of a bargaining unit concerning all of
3the terms of a collective bargaining agreement, that agreement
4shall be reduced to writing and published on the website of the
5public employer. Not less than 14 days after publication of the
6agreement on its website, the public employer shall hold an
7open public meeting on ratification of the agreement. No
8agreement concerning all of the terms of a collective
9bargaining agreement shall be ratified by the parties until
10after the public employer publishes the agreement on its
11website and holds an open public meeting on ratification of the
12agreement as required under this subsection (e). Upon
13ratification, the agreement shall be signed by the parties.
14Rejection of an agreement by either the public employer or the
15exclusive representative of the bargaining unit shall not
16constitute an unfair labor practice.
17    (f) No collective bargaining agreement shall be binding on
18any government agency until it has been ratified by a majority
19vote of the agency's governing body, with that vote taking
20place after the public meeting described in subsection (e) of
21this Section.
22    (g) In addition to any collective bargaining agreement
23under this Section, any contract between a public employer and
24an employee in which the total compensation exceeds $150,000
25shall also be published on the employer's website for a period
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1employer and the employee. If a public contract requires board
2approval before it may take effect, then not less than 14 days
3after publication of the contract on its website, the public
4employer shall hold an open public meeting on the contract. No
5contract shall take effect until after the public employer
6publishes the contract on its website and holds an open public
7meeting on the contract as required under this subsection (g).
8(Source: P.A. 97-1158, eff. 1-29-13; 98-1004, eff. 8-18-14.)
 
9    (5 ILCS 315/24)  (from Ch. 48, par. 1624)
10    Sec. 24. Meetings. Except as provided under Section 7, the
11The provisions of the Open Meetings Act shall not apply to
12collective bargaining negotiations and grievance arbitration
13conducted pursuant to this Act.
14(Source: P.A. 83-1012.)
 
15    Section 20. The Illinois Educational Labor Relations Act is
16amended by changing Sections 10 and 18 as follows:
 
17    (115 ILCS 5/10)  (from Ch. 48, par. 1710)
18    Sec. 10. Duty to bargain. (a) An educational employer and
19the exclusive representative have the authority and the duty to
20bargain collectively as set forth in this Section. Collective
21bargaining is the performance of the mutual obligations of the
22educational employer and the representative of the educational
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1with respect to wages, hours and other terms and conditions of
2employment, and to execute a written contract incorporating any
3agreement reached by such obligation, provided such obligation
4does not compel either party to agree to a proposal or require
5the making of a concession.
6    (b) The parties to the collective bargaining process shall
7not effect or implement a provision in a collective bargaining
8agreement if the implementation of that provision would be in
9violation of, or inconsistent with, or in conflict with any
10statute or statutes enacted by the General Assembly of
11Illinois. The parties to the collective bargaining process may
12effect or implement a provision in a collective bargaining
13agreement if the implementation of that provision has the
14effect of supplementing any provision in any statute or
15statutes enacted by the General Assembly of Illinois pertaining
16to wages, hours or other conditions of employment; provided
17however, no provision in a collective bargaining agreement may
18be effected or implemented if such provision has the effect of
19negating, abrogating, replacing, reducing, diminishing, or
20limiting in any way any employee rights, guarantees or
21privileges pertaining to wages, hours or other conditions of
22employment provided in such statutes. Any provision in a
23collective bargaining agreement which has the effect of
24negating, abrogating, replacing, reducing, diminishing or
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1void and unenforceable, but shall not affect the validity,
2enforceability and implementation of other permissible
3provisions of the collective bargaining agreement.
4    (c) The collective bargaining agreement negotiated between
5representatives of the educational employees and the
6educational employer shall contain a grievance resolution
7procedure which shall apply to all employees in the unit and
8shall provide for binding arbitration of disputes concerning
9the administration or interpretation of the agreement. The
10agreement shall also contain appropriate language prohibiting
11strikes for the duration of the agreement. The costs of such
12arbitration shall be borne equally by the educational employer
13and the employee organization.
14    (d) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act, once
15Once an agreement is reached between representatives of the
16educational employees and the educational employer concerning
17the terms of a collective bargaining agreement, that and is
18ratified by both parties, the agreement shall be reduced to
19writing and published on the website of the educational
20employer. Not less than 14 days after publication of the
21agreement on its website, the educational employer shall hold
22an open public meeting on ratification of the agreement. No
23agreement concerning all of the terms of a collective
24bargaining agreement shall be ratified by the parties until
25after the educational employer publishes the agreement on its
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1agreement as required under this subsection (d). Upon
2ratification, the agreement shall be signed by the parties.
3Rejection of an agreement by the educational employer or by the
4exclusive representative of the educational employees shall
5not constitute an unfair labor practice and signed by the
6parties.
7    (e) No collective bargaining agreement shall be binding on
8any school board until it has been ratified by a majority vote
9of the district's school board, with that vote taking place
10after the public meeting described in subsection (d).
11(Source: P.A. 84-832.)
 
12    (115 ILCS 5/18)  (from Ch. 48, par. 1718)
13    Sec. 18. Meetings. Except as provided in Section 10 of this
14Act, the The provisions of the Open Meetings Act shall not
15apply to collective bargaining negotiations, including
16negotiating team strategy sessions, and grievance arbitrations
17conducted pursuant to this Act.
18(Source: P.A. 100-768, eff. 1-1-19.)
 
19    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
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1 INDEX
2 Statutes amended in order of appearance
3    5 ILCS 120/2from Ch. 102, par. 42
4    5 ILCS 140/7from Ch. 116, par. 207
5    5 ILCS 315/7from Ch. 48, par. 1607
6    5 ILCS 315/24from Ch. 48, par. 1624
7    115 ILCS 5/10from Ch. 48, par. 1710
8    115 ILCS 5/18from Ch. 48, par. 1718