101ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2019 and 2020
HB2207
 
Introduced , by Rep. Sam Yingling
 
SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 

 
  
50 ILCS 105/3.3 new
50 ILCS 105/4  from Ch. 102, par. 4

     Amends the Public Officer Prohibited Activities Act. Provides that a unit of local government with taxing authority, or any person holding public office with that unit of local government, shall not use public resources or public funds to obstruct, fight, or challenge initiatives to consolidate, merge, or eliminate any unit of local government.  Provides that State moneys shall be withheld from the unit of local government until the obstruction, fighting, or challenge is concluded.
  


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1    AN ACT concerning local government.
  
 
2    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
 
3represented in the General Assembly:
  
 
 
4    Section 5. The Public Officer Prohibited Activities Act is 
5amended  by changing Section 4 and  by adding Section 3.3 as 
6follows:
 
7    (50 ILCS 105/3.3 new)
8    Sec. 3.3. Consolidating, merging, or eliminating units of 
9local government.
10    (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a unit of 
11local government with taxing authority, or any person holding 
12public office with that unit of local government, shall not use 
13public resources or public funds to obstruct, fight, or 
14challenge initiatives to consolidate, merge, or eliminate any 
15unit of local government.
16    (b) If a unit of local government with taxing authority, or 
17any person holding public office violates subsection (a) of 
18this Section, then all State moneys, including, but not limited 
19to, moneys from the County and Mass Transit District Fund, 
20Local Government Distributive Fund,  Local Government Tax Fund, 
21State and Local Sales Tax Reform Fund, and personal property 
22replacement tax revenues, shall be withheld from the unit of 
23local government until the obstruction, fighting, or challenge 
 
 
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1by the unit of local government, or public official, is 
2concluded.
 


3    (50 ILCS 105/4)  (from Ch. 102, par. 4)




4    Sec. 4. 

Any alderman, member of a board of trustees, 
5supervisor or county
commissioner, or other person holding any 
6office, either by election or
appointment under the laws or 
7constitution of this state, who violates any
provision of the 
8preceding sections, is guilty of a Class 4 felony and in

9addition thereto, any office or official position held by any 
10person so
convicted shall become vacant, and shall be so 
11declared as part of the
judgment of court. This Section does 
12not apply to a violation of subsection (b) of Section 2a or 
13Section 3.3. 

14(Source: P.A. 100-868, eff. 1-1-19.)