Sen. Mike Jacobs
Filed: 5/18/2007
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1 | AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 1670
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2 | AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 1670, immediately | ||||||
3 | below the enacting clause, by inserting the following:
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4 | "Section 3. 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)
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7 | Sec. 1.02. For the purposes of this Act:
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8 | "Meeting" means any gathering, whether in person or by | ||||||
9 | video or audio conference, telephone call, electronic means | ||||||
10 | (such as, without limitation, electronic mail, electronic | ||||||
11 | chat, and instant messaging), or other means of contemporaneous | ||||||
12 | interactive communication, of a majority of a quorum of the | ||||||
13 | members of a
public body held for the purpose of discussing | ||||||
14 | public
business or, for a 5-member public body, a quorum of the | ||||||
15 | members of a public body held for the purpose of discussing | ||||||
16 | public business. |
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1 | Accordingly, for a 5-member public body, 3 members of the | ||||||
2 | body constitute a quorum and the affirmative vote of 3 members | ||||||
3 | is necessary to adopt any motion, resolution, or ordinance, | ||||||
4 | unless a greater number is otherwise required .
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5 | "Public body" includes all legislative, executive, | ||||||
6 | administrative or advisory
bodies of the State, counties, | ||||||
7 | townships, cities, villages, incorporated
towns, school | ||||||
8 | districts and all other municipal corporations, boards, | ||||||
9 | bureaus,
committees or commissions of this State, and any | ||||||
10 | subsidiary bodies of any
of the foregoing including but not | ||||||
11 | limited to committees and subcommittees
which are supported in | ||||||
12 | whole or in part by tax revenue, or which expend tax
revenue, | ||||||
13 | except the General Assembly and committees or commissions | ||||||
14 | thereof.
"Public body" includes tourism boards and convention | ||||||
15 | or civic center
boards located in counties that are contiguous | ||||||
16 | to the Mississippi River with
populations of more than 250,000 | ||||||
17 | but less than 300,000. "Public body"
includes the Health | ||||||
18 | Facilities Planning Board. "Public body" does not
include a | ||||||
19 | child death review team or the Illinois Child Death Review | ||||||
20 | Teams
Executive Council established under
the Child Death | ||||||
21 | Review Team Act or an ethics commission acting under the State | ||||||
22 | Officials and
Employees Ethics Act.
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23 | (Source: P.A. 93-617, eff. 12-9-03; 94-1058, eff. 1-1-07.)".
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