093_HB2989

 
                                     LRB093 07564 JAM 07740 b

 1        AN ACT concerning open meetings.

 2        Be  it  enacted  by  the People of the State of Illinois,
 3    represented in the General Assembly:

 4        Section 5.  The Open Meetings Act is amended by  changing
 5    Section 1.02 as follows:

 6        (5 ILCS 120/1.02) (from Ch. 102, par. 41.02)
 7        Sec. 1.02. Definitions. For the purposes of this Act:
 8        "Meeting"  means  any gathering of a majority of a quorum
 9    of the members of a public  body  held  for  the  purpose  of
10    discussing public business.
11        "Public   body"   includes  all  legislative,  executive,
12    administrative or advisory bodies  of  the  State,  counties,
13    townships,   cities,  villages,  incorporated  towns,  school
14    districts  and  all  other  municipal  corporations,  boards,
15    bureaus, committees or commissions of  this  State,  and  any
16    subsidiary  bodies  of any of the foregoing including but not
17    limited to committees and subcommittees which  are  supported
18    in  whole  or  in  part  by  tax revenue, or which expend tax
19    revenue,  except  the  General  Assembly  and  committees  or
20    commissions thereof. "Public body"  includes  tourism  boards
21    and  convention  or  civic  center boards located in counties
22    that are contiguous to the Mississippi River with populations
23    of more than 250,000 but less than  300,000.   "Public  body"
24    includes the Health Facilities Planning Board.  "Public body"
25    does  not  include  a child death review team or the Illinois
26    Child Death Review Teams Executive Council established  under
27    the  Child  Death  Review  Team  Act or an ethics commission,
28    ethics officer, or ultimate jurisdictional  authority  acting
29    under  the  State  Gift  Ban Act as provided by Section 80 of
30    that Act.
31    (Source: P.A. 91-782, eff. 6-9-00; 92-468, eff. 8-22-01.)