HB5078sam003 97TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

Sen. Don Harmon

Filed: 5/22/2012

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AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 5078

AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 5078, AS AMENDED, by replacing everything after the enacting clause with the following:

"Section 5. The Public Officer Prohibited Activities Act is amended by changing Section 1 and by adding Section 1.4 as follows:

(50 ILCS 105/1) (from Ch. 102, par. 1)

Sec. 1. County board. No member of a county board, during the term of office for which he or she is elected, may be appointed to, accept, or hold any office by appointment of the county board chairman, with the advice and consent of the county board, or by election of the county board of which he or she is a member other than: (i) chairman of the county board, (ii) or member of the regional planning commission by appointment or election of the board of which he or she is a member, (ii) alderman of a city or member of the board of trustees of a village or incorporated town if the city, village, or incorporated town has fewer than 1,000 inhabitants and is located in a county having fewer than 50,000 inhabitants, or (iii) trustee of a forest preserve district created under Section 18.5 of the Conservation District Act, unless he or she first resigns from the office of county board member or unless the holding of another office is authorized by law. Any such prohibited appointment or election is void. This Section shall not preclude a member of the county board from being selected or from serving as a member of a County Extension Board as provided in Section 7 of the County Cooperative Extension Law, as a member of an Emergency Telephone System Board as provided in Section 15.4 of the Emergency Telephone System Act, or as appointed members of the board of review as provided in Section 6-30 of the Property Tax Code. Nothing in this Act shall be construed to prohibit an elected county official from holding elected office in another unit of local government so long as there is no contractual relationship between the county and the other unit of local government. This amendatory Act of 1995 is declarative of existing law and is not a new enactment.

(Source: P.A. 94-617, eff. 8-18-05.)

(50 ILCS 105/1.4 new)

Sec. 1.4. Elected officials; other offices.

An elected county board member may serve as: (i) an elected mayor of a city or an elected president of the board of trustees of a village or incorporated town or (ii) an elected alderman of a city or an elected member of the board of trustees of a village or incorporated town, provided that the elected county board member and elected municipal officer must abstain from acting, voting, sponsoring, discussing, or participating in any way in the consideration of any specific contract or agreement between the county and the city, village, or incorporated town or in any other matter in which the interests of the county and the city, village, or incorporated town may conflict. County board members and municipal officers are not disqualified from acting on, voting on, sponsoring, discussing, or participating in the adoption of the county's or municipality's annual appropriations ordinance.

On or after the effective date of this amendatory Act of the 97th General Assembly, any individual who holds elected office in a unit of local government may not first enter into an additional elected office in another unit of local government if he or she is: (i) earning service credit under the Illinois Pension Code as a result of holding the first elected office and (ii) will earn service credit under the Illinois Pension Code as a result of simultaneously holding the second elected office.

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