102ND GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2021 and 2022
HB0566
 
Introduced 2/8/2021, 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 
13use public 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, 
17or any person holding public office violates subsection (a) of 
18this Section, then all State moneys, including, but not 
19limited to, moneys from the County and Mass Transit District 
20Fund, Local Government Distributive Fund,  Local Government Tax 
21Fund, State and Local Sales Tax Reform Fund, and personal 
22property replacement tax revenues, shall be withheld from the 
23unit of local government until the obstruction, fighting, or 
 
 
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1challenge by the unit of local government, or public official, 
2is concluded.
 


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.)