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1 | AN ACT concerning ethics.
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2 | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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3 | represented in the General Assembly:
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4 | Section 5. The
Illinois Procurement Code is amended by | |||||||||||||||||||||
5 | changing Section
53-10 as follows:
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6 | (30 ILCS 500/53-10)
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7 | Sec. 53-10. Concessions and leases of State property.
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8 | (a) Except for property under the jurisdiction of a public | |||||||||||||||||||||
9 | institution of
higher education, concessions, including the | |||||||||||||||||||||
10 | assignment, license, sale, or
transfer of
interests in or | |||||||||||||||||||||
11 | rights to discoveries, inventions, patents, or copyrightable
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12 | works, may be entered into by the State agency with | |||||||||||||||||||||
13 | jurisdiction over the
property, whether tangible or | |||||||||||||||||||||
14 | intangible. Licenses of naming rights and
sponsorship rights, | |||||||||||||||||||||
15 | as those
terms are defined and used in Section 7.6 of the State | |||||||||||||||||||||
16 | Property Control Act,
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not concessions and are not subject | |||||||||||||||||||||
17 | to this Code except to the extent provided
in that Section 7.6.
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18 | (b) Except for property under the jurisdiction of a public | |||||||||||||||||||||
19 | institution of
higher education, all concessions shall be | |||||||||||||||||||||
20 | reduced to writing and shall be
awarded under
the provisions of | |||||||||||||||||||||
21 | Article 20, except that the contract shall be awarded to the
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22 | highest and best bidder or offeror.
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23 | (Source: P.A. 90-572, eff. date - See Sec. 99-5.)
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24 | Section 10. The State
Property Control Act is amended by | |||||||||||||||||||||
25 | adding Section 7.6
as follows:
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26 | (30 ILCS 605/7.6 new)
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27 | Sec. 7.6. Naming and sponsorship rights; licenses.
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28 | (a) Administrator's authority. Notwithstanding any other | |||||||||||||||||||||
29 | provision of this
Act or any other law to the contrary, the | |||||||||||||||||||||
30 | administrator is authorized to
license naming rights and |
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1 | sponsorship rights only as provided in this Section.
Naming | ||||||
2 | rights and sponsorship rights regarding any property or asset | ||||||
3 | of the
State, whether
real, personal, tangible, or intangible, | ||||||
4 | may not be sold, conveyed, leased,
licensed, or otherwise | ||||||
5 | granted by the administrator or by any other officer,
employee, | ||||||
6 | or agent of
the State unless authorized in this Section.
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7 | (b) Excepted properties. Naming rights and sponsorship | ||||||
8 | rights may not be
licensed with respect to any of the | ||||||
9 | following:
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10 | (1) the State Capitol Building in Springfield, | ||||||
11 | Illinois;
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12 | (2) the Old State Capitol Building in Springfield, | ||||||
13 | Illinois;
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14 | (3) the Vandalia State House in Vandalia, Illinois;
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15 | (4) the Executive Mansion in Springfield, Illinois;
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16 | (5) the Executive Mansion, also known as the Hayes | ||||||
17 | House, in Du Quoin,
Illinois;
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18 | (6) the Abraham Lincoln Home in Springfield, Illinois, | ||||||
19 | if it becomes State
real property not under the | ||||||
20 | jurisdiction of the federal government;
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21 | (7) the Lincoln Tomb in Springfield, Illinois;
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22 | (8) the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and | ||||||
23 | Museum in
Springfield, Illinois;
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24 | (9) all present and future Abraham Lincoln sites not | ||||||
25 | otherwise listed;
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26 | (10) all Illinois homes of all past, present, or future | ||||||
27 | United States
Presidents who have resided, currently | ||||||
28 | reside, or in the future will reside in
the State of | ||||||
29 | Illinois;
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30 | (11) the burial sites of all past, present, or future | ||||||
31 | United States
Presidents;
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32 | (12) State real property under the jurisdiction and | ||||||
33 | control of an
executive
branch constitutional officer | ||||||
34 | other than the Governor, unless that other
executive branch | ||||||
35 | constitutional officer consents in writing;
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36 | (13) State real property under the jurisdiction and |
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1 | control of the
legislative branch, unless the Joint | ||||||
2 | Committee on Legislative Support Services
consents in | ||||||
3 | writing;
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4 | (14) State real property under the jurisdiction and | ||||||
5 | control of the
judicial
branch, unless the Supreme Court | ||||||
6 | consents in writing;
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7 | (15) State real property that is identified or named | ||||||
8 | for a specific
individual by Joint Resolution of the | ||||||
9 | General Assembly or by statute as of the
effective
date of | ||||||
10 | this Section or later; and
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11 | (16) any other State real property that on the | ||||||
12 | effective date of this
Section or later is designated a | ||||||
13 | National Historic Landmark, listed as a State
Historic
Site | ||||||
14 | under Section 6 of the Historic Preservation Agency Act, or | ||||||
15 | listed on
either the
Illinois Register of Historic Places | ||||||
16 | or the National Register of Historic
Places.
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17 | (c) Terms and conditions of licenses. A license of naming | ||||||
18 | rights or
sponsorship rights may have a
term of no
more than 5 | ||||||
19 | years, is non-transferable, and is non-renewable (at the end of | ||||||
20 | a
term of a license, however, the licensee is eligible to | ||||||
21 | compete for a new
license as
provided in subsection (d)). The | ||||||
22 | licensee
shall have the
authority to place signs and placards | ||||||
23 | only on the property or asset specified
in the license and
only | ||||||
24 | during the term of the license. The signs and placards may | ||||||
25 | contain nothing
other than the
name of the licensee, the | ||||||
26 | licensee's logo, or both, except that with the
written approval | ||||||
27 | of the administrator they may contain other material. The
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28 | license may, but need
not, require the State
to refer to the | ||||||
29 | property or asset by the name of the licensee during the term
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30 | of the license, all within reasonable limitations and other | ||||||
31 | than in statutes,
rules, and existing supplies of forms and | ||||||
32 | other documents. If a
licensee materially breaches any term of | ||||||
33 | a license and the Executive Ethics
Commission recommends that | ||||||
34 | the license be revoked, then the administrator may
declare the | ||||||
35 | license
revoked. All license fees must be paid prior to the | ||||||
36 | commencement of the term of
the license, are
non-refundable, |
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1 | and shall be deposited into the General Revenue Fund.
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2 | (d) Competitive negotiation. A license of naming rights or
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3 | sponsorship rights may be granted only on the basis of the | ||||||
4 | highest and best
competitively negotiated proposal. The | ||||||
5 | administrator shall give notice that
the administrator will | ||||||
6 | accept proposals for the licensing of naming rights or
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7 | sponsorship rights with respect to a specified property or | ||||||
8 | asset by
publication on 3 separate days not less than 15 nor | ||||||
9 | more than 30 days before
the day upon which proposals will be | ||||||
10 | accepted. The notice shall be given in
a daily newspaper having | ||||||
11 | general circulation in the county in which the
property or | ||||||
12 | asset is located. The administrator shall give such other | ||||||
13 | notice
as the administrator deems appropriate. Proposals shall | ||||||
14 | not be sealed and
shall be part of the public record. The | ||||||
15 | administrator shall conduct open,
competitive negotiations | ||||||
16 | with those who have submitted proposals in order
to obtain the | ||||||
17 | highest and best competitively negotiated proposal. If a
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18 | proposal satisfactory to the administrator is not negotiated, | ||||||
19 | the administrator
may give notice as provided in this | ||||||
20 | subsection and accept additional
proposals.
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21 | Subject to the provisions of this Section, the
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22 | administrator shall have all power necessary to grant the | ||||||
23 | license and enter
into any agreements
and execute any documents | ||||||
24 | necessary to exercise the authority granted by this
Section. | ||||||
25 | The
administrator shall have authority to order such surveys, | ||||||
26 | abstracts of title,
or commitments for
title insurance as may, | ||||||
27 | in the administrator's reasonable discretion, be deemed
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28 | necessary to demonstrate
good and marketable title to the | ||||||
29 | naming rights or sponsorship rights.
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30 | (e) Qualification of proposers and licensees. An | ||||||
31 | individual or entity that
wishes to submit a proposal must be | ||||||
32 | prequalified by the
administrator.
Neither the name, logo, | ||||||
33 | products, services, nor business relationships of the
proposer | ||||||
34 | shall be such
as to bring disrepute upon the State if | ||||||
35 | associated with any State property or
asset. To
prequalify, a | ||||||
36 | proposer
must satisfy the administrator that the proposer meets |
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1 | all of the ethics
requirements applicable to
contractors and | ||||||
2 | bidders and to their officers, agents, and employees under
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3 | Sections 50-5 (bribery),
50-10 (felons), 50-11 (debt | ||||||
4 | delinquency), 50-13 (conflicts of interest), 50-25
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5 | (inducement), 50-30
(revolving door), 50-35 (disclosure), | ||||||
6 | 50-40 (anticompetitive practices), 50-50
(insider
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7 | information), 50-65 (suspension), and 50-70 (additional | ||||||
8 | provisions) of the
Illinois Procurement
Code.
In addition, no | ||||||
9 | individual or entity may be prequalified, submit or negotiate a
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10 | proposal, or
be granted or hold a license under this Section if | ||||||
11 | that individual or entity is
required to be
registered under | ||||||
12 | the Lobbyist Registration Act or, as defined by rules adopted
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13 | by the
Executive Ethics Commission, does business or seeks to | ||||||
14 | do business with the
State.
Each license granted under this | ||||||
15 | Section is deemed to contain a provision that
it is a
material | ||||||
16 | breach of the license if the licensee becomes ineligible to be
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17 | prequalified or
otherwise becomes disqualified under this | ||||||
18 | subsection.
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19 | (f) Approval by Executive Ethics Commission. Upon | ||||||
20 | determining the highest and best proposal, the
administrator | ||||||
21 | must
deliver a written notice setting forth all of the | ||||||
22 | pertinent facts relating to
the proposal, the proposer, and
the | ||||||
23 | proposed license to the the
Executive Ethics Commission. The | ||||||
24 | license shall not be granted unless approved in advance by the | ||||||
25 | Commission. If the
administrator
proposes to amend an existing | ||||||
26 | license, the administrator must deliver notice of
the proposed | ||||||
27 | amendment to
the Commission, and the amendment shall not be | ||||||
28 | made unless approved in advance by the Commission.
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29 | (g) Rules. The administrator and the Executive Ethics | ||||||
30 | Commission may each,
separately, adopt rules to implement their | ||||||
31 | several functions under this
Section. The rules may
not, | ||||||
32 | however, waive or provide for the waiver of any of the | ||||||
33 | requirements of
this Section.
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34 | (h) Blind vendors. The provisions of this Section are | ||||||
35 | subject to, and do not supersede, any of the provisions of the | ||||||
36 | Blind Persons Operating Vending Facilities Act, any other State |
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1 | or federal law granting preferences to blind persons, or any | ||||||
2 | rules or regulations adopted pursuant to any of those laws.
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3 | (i) Definitions. In this Section:
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4 | "Naming rights" means the right to associate the name
or | ||||||
5 | identifying mark of any person or entity with the name or | ||||||
6 | identity of any
State property or other asset.
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7 | "Sponsorship rights" means the right
to associate the name | ||||||
8 | or identifying mark of any person or entity
with
any State | ||||||
9 | program or event
on the
grounds of, in, or with respect to any | ||||||
10 | State property or other asset.
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11 | (j) Severability. The provisions of this Section are | ||||||
12 | severable under Section
1.31 of the
Statute on Statutes.
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13 | Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | ||||||
14 | becoming law.
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