93RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2003 and 2004
HB4528

 

Introduced 02/03/04, by Sara Feigenholtz

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
5 ILCS 140/7   from Ch. 116, par. 207
25 ILCS 130/10-2   from Ch. 63, par. 1010-2

    Amends the Legislative Commission Reorganization Act of 1984. Requires that the Legislative Research Unit post on the Internet the research and information it provides to a requesting legislator or legislative staff, without disclosing the identity of the requester. Requires that the Unit post, as soon as possible, such material provided during the 5 years before the bill's effective date. Amends the Freedom of Information Act to make conforming changes. Effective immediately.


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A BILL FOR

 

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1     AN ACT concerning the legislature.
 
2     Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3 represented in the General Assembly:
 
4     Section 5. The Freedom of Information Act is amended by
5 changing Section 7 as follows:
 
6     (5 ILCS 140/7)  (from Ch. 116, par. 207)
7     Sec. 7. Exemptions.
8     (1) The following shall be exempt from inspection and
9 copying:
10         (a) Information specifically prohibited from
11     disclosure by federal or State law or rules and regulations
12     adopted under federal or State law.
13         (b) Information that, if disclosed, would constitute a
14     clearly unwarranted invasion of personal privacy, unless
15     the disclosure is consented to in writing by the individual
16     subjects of the information. The disclosure of information
17     that bears on the public duties of public employees and
18     officials shall not be considered an invasion of personal
19     privacy. Information exempted under this subsection (b)
20     shall include but is not limited to:
21             (i) files and personal information maintained with
22         respect to clients, patients, residents, students or
23         other individuals receiving social, medical,
24         educational, vocational, financial, supervisory or
25         custodial care or services directly or indirectly from
26         federal agencies or public bodies;
27             (ii) personnel files and personal information
28         maintained with respect to employees, appointees or
29         elected officials of any public body or applicants for
30         those positions;
31             (iii) files and personal information maintained
32         with respect to any applicant, registrant or licensee

 

 

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1         by any public body cooperating with or engaged in
2         professional or occupational registration, licensure
3         or discipline;
4             (iv) information required of any taxpayer in
5         connection with the assessment or collection of any tax
6         unless disclosure is otherwise required by State
7         statute; and
8             (v) information revealing the identity of persons
9         who file complaints with or provide information to
10         administrative, investigative, law enforcement or
11         penal agencies; provided, however, that identification
12         of witnesses to traffic accidents, traffic accident
13         reports, and rescue reports may be provided by agencies
14         of local government, except in a case for which a
15         criminal investigation is ongoing, without
16         constituting a clearly unwarranted per se invasion of
17         personal privacy under this subsection; and
18             (vi) the names, addresses, or other personal
19         information of participants and registrants in park
20         district, forest preserve district, and conservation
21         district programs.
22         (c) Records compiled by any public body for
23     administrative enforcement proceedings and any law
24     enforcement or correctional agency for law enforcement
25     purposes or for internal matters of a public body, but only
26     to the extent that disclosure would:
27             (i) interfere with pending or actually and
28         reasonably contemplated law enforcement proceedings
29         conducted by any law enforcement or correctional
30         agency;
31             (ii) interfere with pending administrative
32         enforcement proceedings conducted by any public body;
33             (iii) deprive a person of a fair trial or an
34         impartial hearing;
35             (iv) unavoidably disclose the identity of a
36         confidential source or confidential information

 

 

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1         furnished only by the confidential source;
2             (v) disclose unique or specialized investigative
3         techniques other than those generally used and known or
4         disclose internal documents of correctional agencies
5         related to detection, observation or investigation of
6         incidents of crime or misconduct;
7             (vi) constitute an invasion of personal privacy
8         under subsection (b) of this Section;
9             (vii) endanger the life or physical safety of law
10         enforcement personnel or any other person; or
11             (viii) obstruct an ongoing criminal investigation.
12         (d) Criminal history record information maintained by
13     State or local criminal justice agencies, except the
14     following which shall be open for public inspection and
15     copying:
16             (i) chronologically maintained arrest information,
17         such as traditional arrest logs or blotters;
18             (ii) the name of a person in the custody of a law
19         enforcement agency and the charges for which that
20         person is being held;
21             (iii) court records that are public;
22             (iv) records that are otherwise available under
23         State or local law; or
24             (v) records in which the requesting party is the
25         individual identified, except as provided under part
26         (vii) of paragraph (c) of subsection (1) of this
27         Section.
28         "Criminal history record information" means data
29     identifiable to an individual and consisting of
30     descriptions or notations of arrests, detentions,
31     indictments, informations, pre-trial proceedings, trials,
32     or other formal events in the criminal justice system or
33     descriptions or notations of criminal charges (including
34     criminal violations of local municipal ordinances) and the
35     nature of any disposition arising therefrom, including
36     sentencing, court or correctional supervision,

 

 

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1     rehabilitation and release. The term does not apply to
2     statistical records and reports in which individuals are
3     not identified and from which their identities are not
4     ascertainable, or to information that is for criminal
5     investigative or intelligence purposes.
6         (e) Records that relate to or affect the security of
7     correctional institutions and detention facilities.
8         (f) Preliminary drafts, notes, recommendations,
9     memoranda and other records in which opinions are
10     expressed, or policies or actions are formulated, except
11     that a specific record or relevant portion of a record
12     shall not be exempt when the record is publicly cited and
13     identified by the head of the public body. The exemption
14     provided in this paragraph (f) extends to all those records
15     of officers and agencies of the General Assembly that
16     pertain to the preparation of legislative documents,
17     except for information that must be posted on the Internet
18     by the Legislative Research Unit in accordance with Section
19     10-2 of the Legislative Commission Reorganization Act of
20     1984.
21         (g) Trade secrets and commercial or financial
22     information obtained from a person or business where the
23     trade secrets or information are proprietary, privileged
24     or confidential, or where disclosure of the trade secrets
25     or information may cause competitive harm, including all
26     information determined to be confidential under Section
27     4002 of the Technology Advancement and Development Act.
28     Nothing contained in this paragraph (g) shall be construed
29     to prevent a person or business from consenting to
30     disclosure.
31         (h) Proposals and bids for any contract, grant, or
32     agreement, including information which if it were
33     disclosed would frustrate procurement or give an advantage
34     to any person proposing to enter into a contractor
35     agreement with the body, until an award or final selection
36     is made. Information prepared by or for the body in

 

 

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1     preparation of a bid solicitation shall be exempt until an
2     award or final selection is made.
3         (i) Valuable formulae, computer geographic systems,
4     designs, drawings and research data obtained or produced by
5     any public body when disclosure could reasonably be
6     expected to produce private gain or public loss. The
7     exemption for "computer geographic systems" provided in
8     this paragraph (i) does not extend to requests made by news
9     media as defined in Section 2 of this Act when the
10     requested information is not otherwise exempt and the only
11     purpose of the request is to access and disseminate
12     information regarding the health, safety, welfare, or
13     legal rights of the general public.
14         (j) Test questions, scoring keys and other examination
15     data used to administer an academic examination or
16     determined the qualifications of an applicant for a license
17     or employment.
18         (k) Architects' plans, engineers' technical
19     submissions, and other construction related technical
20     documents for projects not constructed or developed in
21     whole or in part with public funds and the same for
22     projects constructed or developed with public funds, but
23     only to the extent that disclosure would compromise
24     security, including but not limited to water treatment
25     facilities, airport facilities, sport stadiums, convention
26     centers, and all government owned, operated, or occupied
27     buildings.
28         (l) Library circulation and order records identifying
29     library users with specific materials.
30         (m) Minutes of meetings of public bodies closed to the
31     public as provided in the Open Meetings Act until the
32     public body makes the minutes available to the public under
33     Section 2.06 of the Open Meetings Act.
34         (n) Communications between a public body and an
35     attorney or auditor representing the public body that would
36     not be subject to discovery in litigation, and materials

 

 

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1     prepared or compiled by or for a public body in
2     anticipation of a criminal, civil or administrative
3     proceeding upon the request of an attorney advising the
4     public body, and materials prepared or compiled with
5     respect to internal audits of public bodies.
6         (o) Information received by a primary or secondary
7     school, college or university under its procedures for the
8     evaluation of faculty members by their academic peers.
9         (p) Administrative or technical information associated
10     with automated data processing operations, including but
11     not limited to software, operating protocols, computer
12     program abstracts, file layouts, source listings, object
13     modules, load modules, user guides, documentation
14     pertaining to all logical and physical design of
15     computerized systems, employee manuals, and any other
16     information that, if disclosed, would jeopardize the
17     security of the system or its data or the security of
18     materials exempt under this Section.
19         (q) Documents or materials relating to collective
20     negotiating matters between public bodies and their
21     employees or representatives, except that any final
22     contract or agreement shall be subject to inspection and
23     copying.
24         (r) Drafts, notes, recommendations and memoranda
25     pertaining to the financing and marketing transactions of
26     the public body. The records of ownership, registration,
27     transfer, and exchange of municipal debt obligations, and
28     of persons to whom payment with respect to these
29     obligations is made.
30         (s) The records, documents and information relating to
31     real estate purchase negotiations until those negotiations
32     have been completed or otherwise terminated. With regard to
33     a parcel involved in a pending or actually and reasonably
34     contemplated eminent domain proceeding under Article VII
35     of the Code of Civil Procedure, records, documents and
36     information relating to that parcel shall be exempt except

 

 

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1     as may be allowed under discovery rules adopted by the
2     Illinois Supreme Court. The records, documents and
3     information relating to a real estate sale shall be exempt
4     until a sale is consummated.
5         (t) Any and all proprietary information and records
6     related to the operation of an intergovernmental risk
7     management association or self-insurance pool or jointly
8     self-administered health and accident cooperative or pool.
9         (u) Information concerning a university's adjudication
10     of student or employee grievance or disciplinary cases, to
11     the extent that disclosure would reveal the identity of the
12     student or employee and information concerning any public
13     body's adjudication of student or employee grievances or
14     disciplinary cases, except for the final outcome of the
15     cases.
16         (v) Course materials or research materials used by
17     faculty members.
18         (w) Information related solely to the internal
19     personnel rules and practices of a public body.
20         (x) Information contained in or related to
21     examination, operating, or condition reports prepared by,
22     on behalf of, or for the use of a public body responsible
23     for the regulation or supervision of financial
24     institutions or insurance companies, unless disclosure is
25     otherwise required by State law.
26         (y) Information the disclosure of which is restricted
27     under Section 5-108 of the Public Utilities Act.
28         (z) Manuals or instruction to staff that relate to
29     establishment or collection of liability for any State tax
30     or that relate to investigations by a public body to
31     determine violation of any criminal law.
32         (aa) Applications, related documents, and medical
33     records received by the Experimental Organ Transplantation
34     Procedures Board and any and all documents or other records
35     prepared by the Experimental Organ Transplantation
36     Procedures Board or its staff relating to applications it

 

 

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1     has received.
2         (bb) Insurance or self insurance (including any
3     intergovernmental risk management association or self
4     insurance pool) claims, loss or risk management
5     information, records, data, advice or communications.
6         (cc) Information and records held by the Department of
7     Public Health and its authorized representatives relating
8     to known or suspected cases of sexually transmissible
9     disease or any information the disclosure of which is
10     restricted under the Illinois Sexually Transmissible
11     Disease Control Act.
12         (dd) Information the disclosure of which is exempted
13     under Section 30 of the Radon Industry Licensing Act.
14         (ee) Firm performance evaluations under Section 55 of
15     the Architectural, Engineering, and Land Surveying
16     Qualifications Based Selection Act.
17         (ff) Security portions of system safety program plans,
18     investigation reports, surveys, schedules, lists, data, or
19     information compiled, collected, or prepared by or for the
20     Regional Transportation Authority under Section 2.11 of
21     the Regional Transportation Authority Act or the St. Clair
22     County Transit District under the Bi-State Transit Safety
23     Act.
24         (gg) Information the disclosure of which is restricted
25     and exempted under Section 50 of the Illinois Prepaid
26     Tuition Act.
27         (hh) Information the disclosure of which is exempted
28     under Section 80 of the State Gift Ban Act.
29         (ii) Beginning July 1, 1999, information that would
30     disclose or might lead to the disclosure of secret or
31     confidential information, codes, algorithms, programs, or
32     private keys intended to be used to create electronic or
33     digital signatures under the Electronic Commerce Security
34     Act.
35         (jj) Information contained in a local emergency energy
36     plan submitted to a municipality in accordance with a local

 

 

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1     emergency energy plan ordinance that is adopted under
2     Section 11-21.5-5 of the Illinois Municipal Code.
3         (kk) Information and data concerning the distribution
4     of surcharge moneys collected and remitted by wireless
5     carriers under the Wireless Emergency Telephone Safety
6     Act.
7         (ll) Vulnerability assessments, security measures, and
8     response policies or plans that are designed to identify,
9     prevent, or respond to potential attacks upon a community's
10     population or systems, facilities, or installations, the
11     destruction or contamination of which would constitute a
12     clear and present danger to the health or safety of the
13     community, but only to the extent that disclosure could
14     reasonably be expected to jeopardize the effectiveness of
15     the measures or the safety of the personnel who implement
16     them or the public. Information exempt under this item may
17     include such things as details pertaining to the
18     mobilization or deployment of personnel or equipment, to
19     the operation of communication systems or protocols, or to
20     tactical operations.
21         (mm) Maps and other records regarding the location or
22     security of a utility's generation, transmission,
23     distribution, storage, gathering, treatment, or switching
24     facilities.
25         (nn) (ll) Law enforcement officer identification
26     information or driver identification information compiled
27     by a law enforcement agency or the Department of
28     Transportation under Section 11-212 of the Illinois
29     Vehicle Code.
30         (oo) (ll) Records and information provided to a
31     residential health care facility resident sexual assault
32     and death review team or the Residential Health Care
33     Facility Resident Sexual Assault and Death Review Teams
34     Executive Council under the Residential Health Care
35     Facility Resident Sexual Assault and Death Review Team Act.
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1 information or limit the availability of records to the public,
2 except as stated in this Section or otherwise provided in this
3 Act.
4 (Source: P.A. 92-16, eff. 6-28-01; 92-241, eff. 8-3-01; 92-281,
5 eff. 8-7-01; 92-645, eff. 7-11-02; 92-651, eff. 7-11-02; 93-43,
6 eff. 7-1-03; 93-209, eff. 7-18-03; 93-237, eff. 7-22-03;
7 93-325, eff. 7-23-03, 93-422, eff. 8-5-03; 93-577, eff.
8 8-21-03; revised 9-8-03.)
 
9     Section 10. The Legislative Commission Reorganization Act
10 of 1984 is amended by changing Section 10-2 as follows:
 
11     (25 ILCS 130/10-2)  (from Ch. 63, par. 1010-2)
12     Sec. 10-2. The Legislative Research Unit shall collect
13 information concerning the government and general welfare of
14 the State, examine the effects of constitutional provisions and
15 previously enacted statutes, consider important issues of
16 public policy and questions of state-wide interest, and perform
17 research and provide information as may be requested by the
18 members of the General Assembly or as the Joint Committee on
19 Legislative Support Services considers necessary or desirable.
20 At the time the Legislative Research Unit provides a General
21 Assembly member or legislative staff with requested research or
22 information, the Unit must post the same research and
23 information on the Internet in searchable form, without
24 disclosing the identity of the requester. As soon as possible
25 after the effective date of this amendatory Act of the 93rd
26 General Assembly, the Unit must post on the Internet in
27 searchable form, without disclosing the identity of the
28 requester, research and information provided at the request of
29 a General Assembly member or legislative staff during the 5
30 years immediately before the effective date of this amendatory
31 Act of the 93rd General Assembly that the Unit has maintained
32 as responses to individual requests.
33     The Legislative Research Unit shall maintain an up-to-date
34 computerized record of the information required to be reported

 

 

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1 to it by Section 1 of "An Act concerning State boards and
2 commissions and amending a named Act", enacted by the 86th
3 General Assembly, which information shall be a public record
4 under the Freedom of Information Act. The Legislative Research
5 Unit may prescribe forms for making initial reports and reports
6 of change under that Section, and may request information to
7 verify compliance with that Section.
8 (Source: P.A. 86-591.)
 
9     Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
10 becoming law.