100TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2017 and 2018
HB0485
 
Introduced , by Rep. Anthony DeLuca
 
SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 

 
5 ILCS 430/5-20

     Amends the State Officials and Employees Ethics Act. Provides that no executive branch constitutional officer
or member of the General Assembly may make public announcements of any State grant or State funded project of any kind within 60 days before a general election.
  


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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 State Officials and Employees Ethics Act is 
5amended  by changing Section 5-20 as follows:
 
6    (5 ILCS 430/5-20)

7    Sec. 5-20. Public service announcements; other promotional 
8material.

9    (a) Beginning January 1, 2004, no public service 
10announcement or
advertisement that is on behalf of
any State 
11administered program and contains the
proper name, image, or 
12voice of any executive branch constitutional officer
or member 
13of the General Assembly shall be (i) broadcast or aired on 
14radio or
television, (ii)
 printed in a commercial newspaper or 
15a commercial magazine, or (iii) displayed on a billboard or 
16electronic message board at any
time.


17    (b) The proper name or image of any executive branch 
18constitutional officer
or member of the General Assembly may 
19not appear on any (i)
bumper stickers,
(ii) commercial 
20billboards, (iii) lapel pins or buttons, (iv) magnets, (v)

21stickers, and
(vi) other similar promotional items, that are 
22not in furtherance of the person's official State duties or 
23governmental and public service functions, if
designed,
paid 
 
 
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1for, prepared, or distributed using public dollars. This 
2subsection does
not apply to stocks of items existing on the 
3effective date of this amendatory
Act of the 93rd General 
4Assembly.


5    (b-5) No executive branch constitutional officer
or member 
6of the General Assembly may make public announcements of any 
7State grant or State funded project of any kind within 60 days 
8before a general election. 
9    (c) This Section does not apply to
communications
funded 
10through expenditures required to be reported under Article 9 of 
11the
Election Code.


12(Source: P.A. 97-13, eff. 6-16-11.)