95TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2007 and 2008
HB0137


 
Introduced 1/19/2007, by Rep. Michael J. Madigan - Barbara Flynn Currie
 
SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 		














25 ILCS 105/1
  from Ch. 63, par. 801







    Amends the Legislative Materials Act.  Until December 31, 2010, authorizes the Clerk of the House of Representatives to sell House chamber member chairs to House members at original cost.  Effective immediately.
















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    AN ACT concerning the General Assembly.

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


 
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    Section 5. The Legislative Materials Act is amended  by 
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changing Section 1 as follows:
 



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    (25 ILCS 105/1)  (from Ch. 63, par. 801)



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    Sec. 1. Fees. 

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    (a) The Clerk of the House of Representatives may establish 
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a
schedule of reasonable fees to be charged for providing

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copies of daily and bound journals, committee documents, 
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committee tape
recordings, transcripts of committee 
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proceedings, and committee notices, for
providing copies of 
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bills on a continuing or individual basis, and for
providing 
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tape recordings and transcripts of floor debates and other

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proceedings of the House.

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    (b) The Secretary of the Senate may establish a schedule of 
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reasonable
fees to be charged for providing copies of daily and 
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bound
journals, committee notices, for providing copies of 
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bills on a continuing or
individual basis, and for providing 
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tape recordings and transcripts of floor
debates and other 
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proceedings of the Senate.

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    (c) The Clerk of the House of Representatives and the 
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Secretary of the
Senate may establish a schedule of reasonable 
 


 






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fees to be charged for providing
live audio of floor debates 
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and other proceedings of the House of
Representatives and the 
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Senate.  The Clerk and the Secretary shall have
complete 
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discretion over the distribution of live audio under this 
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subsection
(c), including discretion over the conditions under 
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which live audio shall be
distributed, except that live audio 
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shall be distributed to the General
Assembly and its staffs.  
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Nothing in this subsection (c) shall be construed to
create an 
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obligation on the part of the Clerk or Secretary to provide 
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live
audio to any person or entity other than to the General 
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Assembly and its
staffs.

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    (c-5) The Clerk of the House of Representatives, to the 
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extent authorized
by the House Rules, may establish a schedule 
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of reasonable fees to be charged
to members for the 
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preparation, filing, and reproduction of non-substantive

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resolutions.

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    (c-10) Through December 31, 2010
2002, the Clerk of the 
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House of
Representatives may sell to a member of the House of 
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Representatives one or
more of the chairs that comprise member 
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seating in the House chamber.  The
Clerk must charge the 
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original cost of the chairs.

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    (c-15) Through December 31, 2002, the Secretary of the 
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Senate may sell to
a member of the Senate one or more of the 
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chairs that comprise member seating
in the Senate chamber.  The 
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Secretary must charge the original cost of the
chairs.

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    (d) Receipts from all fees and charges established under 
 


 






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this
Section shall be deposited by the
Clerk and the Secretary 
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into the General Assembly
Operations Revolving Fund, a special 
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fund in the State treasury.  Amounts in
the Fund may be 
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appropriated for the operations of the offices of the Clerk
of 
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the House of Representatives and the Secretary of the Senate, 
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including
the replacement of items sold under subsections 
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(c-10) and (c-15).

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(Source: P.A. 92-11, eff. 6-11-01.)

 

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    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon 
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becoming law.