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Rep. Karen May
Filed: 4/18/2006
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| AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 1969
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| AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 1969 by replacing |
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| everything after the enacting clause with the following:
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| "Section 5. The Election Code is amended by changing |
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| Section 9-9.5 as follows:
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| (10 ILCS 5/9-9.5)
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| Sec. 9-9.5. Disclosures in political communications.
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| (a) Any political committee, organized under the Election |
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| Code, that
makes an expenditure for a pamphlet, circular, |
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| handbill, Internet or telephone communication, radio, |
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| television,
or print advertisement,
or other communication |
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| directed at voters and
mentioning the name of a candidate in |
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| the next upcoming election shall ensure
that the name of the |
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| political committee paying for any part of the
communication, |
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| including, but not limited to, its preparation and |
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| distribution,
is
identified clearly within the communication |
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| as the payor. This subsection
Section does
not apply to items |
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| that are too small to contain the required disclosure.
Nothing |
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| in this subsection
Section shall require disclosure on any |
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| telephone communication using random sampling or other |
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| scientific survey methods to gauge public opinion for or |
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| against any candidate or question of public policy.
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| Whenever any vendor or other person provides any of the |
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| services listed in this subsection
Section, other than any |
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| telephone communication using random sampling or other |
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| scientific survey methods to gauge public opinion for or |
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| against any candidate or question of public policy, the vendor |
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| or person shall keep and maintain records showing the name and |
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| address of the person who purchased or requested the services |
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| and the amount paid for the services. The records required by |
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| this subsection
Section shall be kept for a period of one year |
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| after the date upon which payment was received for the |
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| services.
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| (b) Any political committee, organized under this Code, |
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| that makes an expenditure for a pamphlet, circular, handbill, |
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| Internet or telephone communication, radio, television, or |
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| print advertisement, or other communication directed at voters |
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| and (i) mentioning the name of a candidate in the next upcoming |
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| election, without that candidate's permission, and (ii) |
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| advocating for or against a public policy position shall ensure |
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| that the name of the political committee paying for any part of |
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| the communication, including, but not limited to, its |
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| preparation and distribution, is identified clearly within the |
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| communication. This subsection applies only when the |
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| expenditure is made by or through a political committee of a |
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| legislative political caucus organized for the purpose of |
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| supporting candidates of that political party or opposing |
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| candidates of another political party for the office of State |
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| Senator or State Representative in the General Assembly. |
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| Nothing in this subsection shall require disclosure on any |
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| telephone communication using random sampling or other |
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| scientific survey methods to gauge public opinion for or |
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| against any candidate or question of public policy.
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| (c) A political committee organized under this Code shall |
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| not make an expenditure for any unsolicited telephone call to |
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| the line of a residential telephone customer in this State |
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| using any method to block or otherwise circumvent that |
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| customer's use of a caller identification service.
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