97TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2011 and 2012
SB1970
 
Introduced 2/10/2011, by Sen. Kirk W. Dillard
 
SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 

 
5 ILCS 430/5-20

     Amends the State Officials and Employees Ethics Act.  Applies the prohibitions against the inclusion of names, images, and voices in public service announcements and the printing of names and images on promotional materials to State employees who are candidates for public office (now, the prohibitions apply only to executive branch constitutional officers and General Assembly members).
  


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A BILL FOR
 

  
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1    AN ACT concerning government.
  
 
2    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
 
3represented in the General Assembly:
  
 
 
4    Section 5. The State Officials and Employees Ethics Act is 
5amended  by changing Section 5-20 as follows:
 
6    (5 ILCS 430/5-20)

7    Sec. 5-20. Public service announcements; other promotional 
8material.


9    (a) Beginning January 1, 2004, no public service 
10announcement or
advertisement that is on behalf of
any State 
11administered program and contains the
proper name, image, or 
12voice of any executive branch constitutional officer,
or member 
13of the General Assembly, or, beginning on the effective date of 
14this amendatory Act of the 97th General Assembly, State 
15employee (if the State employee is a candidate for public 
16office) shall be broadcast or aired on radio or
television or 
17printed in a commercial newspaper or a commercial magazine at 
18any
time.


19    (b) The proper name or image of any executive branch 
20constitutional officer,
or member of the General Assembly, or 
21State employee (if the State employee is a candidate for public 
22office) may not appear on any (i)
bumper stickers,
(ii) 
23commercial billboards, (iii) lapel pins or buttons, (iv) 
 
 
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1magnets, (v)
stickers, and
(vi) other similar promotional 
2items, that are not in furtherance of the person's official 
3State duties or governmental and public service functions, if

4designed,
paid for, prepared, or distributed using public 
5dollars. This subsection does
not apply to stocks of items 
6existing (i) with respect to executive branch constitutional 
7officers and General Assembly members, on the effective date of 
8this amendatory
Act of the 93rd General Assembly and (ii) with 
9respect to State employees who are candidates for public 
10office, on the effective date of this amendatory Act of the 
1197th General Assembly.


12    (c) This Section does not apply to
communications
funded 
13through expenditures required to be reported under Article 9 of 
14the
Election Code.


15    (d) For the purposes of this Section only:
16        (1) "Candidate" means a person who has filed nominating 
17    papers or petitions for nomination or election to an 
18    elective public office, or who has been appointed to fill a 
19    vacancy in nomination, and who remains eligible for 
20    placement on a primary or election ballot.
21        (2) "Public office" means any elective office for which 
22    candidates are required by the Illinois Governmental 
23    Ethics Act to file statements of economic interests. 
24(Source: P.A. 93-615, eff. 11-19-03; 93-617, eff. 12-9-03; 
2593-685, eff. 7-8-04.)