98TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2013 and 2014
SB3106
 
Introduced 2/7/2014, by Sen. Michael Connelly
 
SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 

 
50 ILCS 205/20 new
30 ILCS 805/8.38 new

     Amends the Local Records Act. Provides that a unit of local government or a school district that maintains an Internet website shall maintain an electronic mail system. Requires that unit of local government or school district to maintain and provide an electronic mail address for each of its officials for use in the course of their official duties. Requires a unit of local government or school district to post to its website for the current calendar year the contact information, including an electronic mail address, for all elected and appointed officials. Limits home rule powers. Amends the State Mandates Act to require implementation without reimbursement.
  


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FISCAL NOTE ACT MAY APPLY
HOME RULE NOTE ACT MAY APPLY
STATE MANDATES ACT MAY REQUIRE REIMBURSEMENT
 
 
A BILL FOR
 

  
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1    AN ACT concerning local government.
  
 
2    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
 
3represented in the General Assembly:
  
 
 
4    Section 5. The Local Records Act is amended  by adding 
5Section 20 as follows:
 
6    (50 ILCS 205/20 new)
7    Sec. 20. Internet posting requirements.
8    (a) A unit of local government or a school district that 
9maintains an Internet website shall, within 90 days of the 
10effective date of this amendatory Act of the 98th General 
11Assembly, do each of the following:
12        (1) maintain an electronic mail system;
13        (2) maintain and provide an electronic mail address for 
14    each of its officials in the course of their official 
15    duties to be used exclusively for correspondence directly 
16    related to the official business of that unit of local 
17    government or school district; and
18        (3) post to its website for the current calendar year 
19    the contact information, including an electronic mail 
20    address, for all elected and appointed officials.
21    (b) The information required to be posted under this 
22Section must be easily accessible from the unit of local 
23government's or school district's home page and searchable.
 
 
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1    (c) The postings required by this Section are in addition 
2to any other posting requirements required by law or ordinance.
3    (d) No home rule unit may adopt posting requirements that 
4are less restrictive than this Section. This Section is a 
5limitation under subsection (i) of Section 6 of Article VII of 
6the Illinois Constitution on the concurrent exercise by home 
7rule units of powers and functions exercised by the State. 
  
 
8    Section 90. The State Mandates Act is amended  by adding 
9Section 8.38 as follows:
 
10    (30 ILCS 805/8.38 new)
11    Sec. 8.38. Exempt mandate. Notwithstanding Sections 6 and 8 
12of this Act, no reimbursement by the State is required for the 
13implementation of any mandate created by this amendatory Act of 
14the 98th General Assembly.