100TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2017 and 2018
HB3323

 

Introduced , by Rep. Jeanne M Ives

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
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    Amends the Open Meetings Act. Requires a unit of local government or school district with an operating budget of $1 million or more to maintain an Internet website and post to that website, for the current calendar or fiscal year, the following information: (1) information about elected and appointed officials; (2) notice of and materials prepared for meetings; (3) procedures for requesting information from the unit of local government or school district; (4) annual budget; (5) ordinances; (6) procedures to apply for building permits and zoning variances; (7) financial reports and audits; (8) information concerning employee compensation; (9) contracts with lobbying firms; (10) taxes and fees imposed by the unit of local government or school district; (11) rules governing the award of contracts; (12) bids and contracts worth $25,000 or more; (13) a debt disclosure report; and (14) public notices. Provides that any citizen who is a resident of the unit of local government or school district may bring a mandamus or injunction action to compel the unit of local government or school district to comply with the Internet posting requirements. Limits home rule powers. Amends the State Mandates Act to require implementation without reimbursement. Amends the Freedom of Information Act. Provides that a public body may satisfy its obligation to produce a copy of a public record that is published on the public body's website by providing the requester an accessible link that results in direct access to the requested record in the format in which it is maintained. Provides that Amends the Department of Central Management Services Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois to make conforming changes. Effective immediately.


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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 1. The Open Meetings Act is amended by adding
5Section 2.03.5 as follows:
 
6    (5 ILCS 120/2.03.5 new)
7    Sec. 2.03.5. Internet posting requirements.
8    (a) A unit of local government or school district with an
9operating budget of $1 million or more shall maintain an
10Internet website and post to its website for the current
11calendar or fiscal year, as the case may be, the following
12information:
13        (1) The contact information, including the phone
14    number and e-mail address, for all elected and appointed
15    officials, the Freedom of Information Officer, the chief
16    administrator, and the head administrator for each
17    department.
18        (2) The agenda, board packets, and any other prepared
19    materials of all regular meetings shall be posted at least
20    72 hours before a meeting. The agenda, board packets, and
21    any other prepared materials of all special or emergency
22    meetings shall be posted at least 24 hours before a
23    meeting. The posting shall indicate if the agendas are in

 

 

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1    draft form. The minutes from any regular or special meeting
2    shall be posted within 72 hours of approval.
3        (3) In accordance with the Freedom of Information Act,
4    the procedure for requesting information from the unit of
5    local government or school district.
6        (4) The annual budget and appropriation ordinances.
7        (5) The ordinances under which the unit of local
8    government or school district operates as of the effective
9    date of this amendatory Act of the 100th General Assembly
10    and all ordinances thereafter adopted.
11        (6) The procedures required to apply for building
12    permits and zoning variances.
13        (7) Any budget, financial audit, audit schedule, or
14    special project report, including without limitation the
15    comprehensive annual financial report, performance audits,
16    and reports required under the Tax Increment Allocation
17    Redevelopment Act in the Illinois Municipal Code. All
18    reports should include the following:
19            (A) All actual revenues and expenditures for at
20        least the 3 previous fiscal years. Any report focusing
21        on any subset of Total should specify that only partial
22        amounts are shown and identify the Total amount and the
23        nature of items not included in the report.
24            (B) Revenues should be broken out by source,
25        including the broad categories of local, State, and
26        federal tax dollars.

 

 

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1            (C) Expenditures should be separated into current
2        operating, capital, and debt service.
3            (D) Expenditure summaries for units of local
4        government should reflect the per-resident calculation
5        for comparison to other governmental bodies. For
6        schools, a per-pupil calculation should be made based
7        on full-time or equivalent enrollment.
8            (E) Audits should include a management letter.
9        (8) A detailed list of the total compensation paid to
10    each employee including wages, salary, overtime, and
11    benefits, including health, dental, life, and pension.
12        (9) Contracts with lobbying firms hired by the unit of
13    local government or school district. The name and amount of
14    money paid to lobbying associations by the unit of local
15    government or school district.
16        (10) A detailed list of the taxes and fees imposed by
17    the unit of local government or school district.
18        (11) The ordinances and rules governing the award of
19    all bids and contracts for purchase in the amount of
20    $25,000 or more.
21        (12) All bids and contracts for purchase in the amount
22    of $25,000 or more.
23        (13) A debt disclosure report that includes the
24    following:
25            (A) sum total of all debts and liabilities;
26            (B) sum total of gross tax levy for the most recent

 

 

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1        tax year;
2            (C) gross operating budget revenue for the most
3        recent fiscal year;
4            (D) total pension liability;
5            (E) total unfunded pension liability; and
6            (F) actuarial cost method used to calculate total
7        pension liability and total unfunded pension
8        liability, and other post-employment benefits,
9        including:
10                (i) projected investment rate of return;
11                (ii) actual investment rate of return over the
12            past 10 years;
13                (iii) annual rate of salary increases;
14                (iv) participant mortality rate; and
15                (v) healthcare cost trend rate for Other
16            Post-Employment Benefits (OPEB).
17        (14) Public notices.
18    (b) No later than one year after the effective date of this
19amendatory Act of the 100th General Assembly, each unit of
20local government or school district shall develop, maintain,
21and make publicly available, in any format the unit of local
22government or school district would otherwise utilize for its
23own purposes, information concerning moneys collected and
24expended by the unit of local government or school distract.
25This information shall include the following:
26        (1) the name and principal location or address of the

 

 

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1    entity receiving moneys, except that information
2    concerning a payment to an employee of the unit of local
3    government or school district shall identify the
4    individual employee by name and business address or
5    location only;
6        (2) the amount of expended moneys;
7        (3) the funding source of the expended moneys;
8        (4) the date of the expenditure;
9        (5) the name of the budget program, activity, or
10    category supporting the expenditure;
11        (6) a description of the purpose for the expenditure;
12    and
13        (7) to the extent possible, a unique identifier for
14    each expenditure.
15    The website shall contain only information that is a public
16record or that is not confidential or otherwise protected from
17public disclosure pursuant to State or federal law.
18    The unit of local government or school district shall
19update the financial data contained on the website at least
20monthly, and archive the financial data, which shall remain
21accessible on the website. The financial data must be easily
22accessible from the main page of the unit of local government
23or school district's website. The unit of local government or
24school district shall create and make easily accessible an
25automated Rich Site Summary (RSS) feed to which users of the
26website may subscribe for notification of updates to the

 

 

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1information.
2    The unit of local government or school district may meet
3all requirements of this subsection by having the information
4and data required to be included on the unit's website database
5posted in the Illinois Transparency and Accountability Portal.
6The unit of local government or school district may also meet
7each requirement of this subsection by supplying labeled links
8on the unit of local government's or school district's website
9to the website of other units of local government or school
10districts that independently post and maintain the information
11and data online.
12    This subsection shall not apply until 6 months after the
13effective date of this amendatory Act of the 100th General
14Assembly.
15    (c) The information required to be posted under subsection
16(a) must be easily accessible from the unit of local
17government's or school district's home page and searchable.
18    (d) The postings required by this Section are in addition
19to any other posting requirements required by law or ordinance.
20    (e) If a unit of local government or school district fails
21to comply with this Section, then any citizen who is a resident
22of the unit of local government or school district may file
23suit in the circuit court for the county where the unit of
24local government or school district is located. The citizen may
25bring a mandamus or injunction action to compel the unit of
26local government or school district to comply with the

 

 

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1requirements set forth in subsection (a). The court may impose
2any penalty or other sanction as it deems appropriate. The
3court, in its discretion, may also award to the citizen
4bringing the action reasonable attorneys' fees and costs.
5    (f) No home rule unit may adopt posting requirements that
6are less restrictive than this Section. This Section is a
7limitation under subsection (i) of Section 6 of Article VII of
8the Illinois Constitution on the concurrent exercise by home
9rule units of powers and functions exercised by the State.
10    (g) All local records required to be posted by this
11amendatory Act of the 100th General Assembly shall remain
12posted on the entity's website, or subsequent websites, for 10
13years.
14    (h) This Section shall not apply to the Department of
15Juvenile Justice School District.
 
16    Section 5. The Freedom of Information Act is amended by
17changing Section 8.5 as follows:
 
18    (5 ILCS 140/8.5)
19    Sec. 8.5. Records maintained online.
20    (a) Notwithstanding any provision of this Act to the
21contrary, a public body may satisfy its obligation to produce a
22copy of a public record that is published on the public body's
23website by providing the requester an accessible link that
24results in direct access to the requested record in the format

 

 

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1in which it is maintained. A public body does not satisfy this
2provision by merely providing the address of a website where a
3requester can search for the requested record is not required
4to copy a public record that is published on the public body's
5website. The public body shall notify the requester that the
6public record is available online and direct the requester to
7the website where the record can be reasonably accessed.
8    (b) If the person requesting the public record is unable to
9reasonably access the record online after being directed to the
10website pursuant to subsection (a) of this Section, the
11requester may re-submit his or her request in person for the
12record stating his or her inability to reasonably access the
13record online, and the public body shall make the requested
14record available for inspection or copying as provided in
15Section 3 of this Act.
16(Source: P.A. 98-1129, eff. 12-3-14.)
 
17    Section 10. The Department of Central Management Services
18Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois is amended by
19changing Section 405-335 as follows:
 
20    (20 ILCS 405/405-335)
21    Sec. 405-335. Illinois Transparency and Accountability
22Portal (ITAP).
23    (a) The Department, within 12 months after the effective
24date of this amendatory Act of the 96th General Assembly, shall

 

 

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1establish and maintain a website, known as the Illinois
2Transparency and Accountability Portal (ITAP), with a
3full-time webmaster tasked with compiling and updating the ITAP
4database with information received from all State agencies as
5defined in this Section. Within 6 months of the effective date
6of this amendatory Act, the ITAP shall have the capability to
7compile and update the ITAP database with information received
8from all school districts and units of local government
9including, but not limited to, counties, townships, library
10districts, and municipalities. Subject to appropriation, the
11full-time webmaster must also compile and update the ITAP
12database with information received from all school districts
13and units of local government including, but not limited to,
14counties, townships, library districts, and municipalities.
15    (b) For purposes of this Section:
16    "State agency" means the offices of the constitutional
17officers identified in Article V of the Illinois Constitution,
18executive agencies, and departments, boards, commissions, and
19Authorities under the Governor.
20    "Contracts" means payment obligations with vendors on file
21with the Office of the Comptroller to purchase goods and
22services exceeding $10,000 in value (or, in the case of
23professional or artistic services, exceeding $5,000 in value).
24    "Appropriation" means line-item detail of spending
25approved by the General Assembly and Governor, categorized by
26object of expenditure.

 

 

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1    "Individual consultants" means temporary workers eligible
2to receive State benefits paid on a State payroll.
3    "Recipients" means State agencies receiving
4appropriations.
5    (c) The ITAP shall provide direct access to each of the
6following:
7        (1) A database of all current State employees and
8    individual consultants, except sworn law enforcement
9    officers, sorted separately by:
10            (i) Name.
11            (ii) Employing State agency.
12            (iii) Employing State division.
13            (iv) Employment position title.
14            (v) Current pay rate and year-to-date pay.
15        (2) A database of all current State expenditures,
16    sorted separately by agency, category, recipient, and
17    Representative District.
18        (3) A database of all development assistance
19    reportable pursuant to the Corporate Accountability for
20    Tax Expenditures Act, sorted separately by tax credit
21    category, taxpayer, and Representative District.
22        (4) A database of all revocations and suspensions of
23    State occupation and use tax certificates of registration
24    and all revocations and suspensions of State professional
25    licenses, sorted separately by name, geographic location,
26    and certificate of registration number or license number,

 

 

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1    as applicable. Professional license revocations and
2    suspensions shall be posted only if resulting from a
3    failure to pay taxes, license fees, or child support.
4        (5) A database of all current State contracts, sorted
5    separately by contractor name, awarding officer or agency,
6    contract value, and goods or services provided.
7        (6) A database of all employees hired after the
8    effective date of this amendatory Act of 2010, sorted
9    searchably by each of the following at the time of
10    employment:
11            (i) Name.
12            (ii) Employing State agency.
13            (iii) Employing State division.
14            (iv) Employment position title.
15            (v) Current pay rate and year-to-date pay.
16            (vi) County of employment location.
17            (vii) Rutan status.
18            (viii) Status of position as subject to collective
19        bargaining, subject to merit compensation, or exempt
20        under Section 4d of the Personnel Code.
21            (ix) Employment status as probationary, trainee,
22        intern, certified, or exempt from certification.
23            (x) Status as a military veteran.
24        (7) A searchable database of all current county,
25    township, library district, and municipal employees sorted
26    separately by:

 

 

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1            (i) Employing unit of local government.
2            (ii) Employment position title.
3            (iii) Current pay rate and year-to-date pay.
4        (8) A searchable database of all county, township, and
5    municipal employees hired on or after the effective date of
6    this amendatory Act of the 97th General Assembly, sorted
7    separately by each of the following at the time of
8    employment:
9            (i) Employing unit of local government.
10            (ii) Employment position title.
11            (iii) Current pay rate and year-to-date pay.
12        (9) A searchable database of all library district
13    employees hired on or after August 9, 2013 (the effective
14    date of Public Act 98-246), sorted separately by each of
15    the following at the time of employment:
16            (i) Employing unit of local government.
17            (ii) Employment position title.
18            (iii) Current pay rate and year-to-date pay.
19        (10) A link to a website maintained by the Department
20    that contains a list of contact information for each State
21    agency, including a telephone number and a link to the
22    Agency's website. Each State agency shall be responsible
23    for providing and updating the Department with this
24    information.
25        (11) Information provided to the ITAP pursuant to
26    Section 2.03.5 of the Open Meetings Act.

 

 

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1    (d) The ITAP shall include all information required to be
2published by subsection (c) of this Section that is available
3to the Department in a format the Department can compile and
4publish on the ITAP. The Department shall update the ITAP as
5additional information becomes available in a format that can
6be compiled and published on the ITAP by the Department.
7    (e) Each State agency, county, township, library district,
8and municipality shall cooperate with the Department in
9furnishing the information necessary for the implementation of
10this Section within a timeframe specified by the Department.
11    (f) Each county, township, library district, or
12municipality submitting information to be displayed on the
13Illinois Transparency and Accountability Portal (ITAP) is
14responsible for the accuracy of the information provided.
15    (g) The Department, within 6 months after January 1, 2014
16(the effective date of Public Act 98-283), shall distribute a
17spreadsheet or otherwise make data entry available to each
18State agency to facilitate the collection of data on the
19State's annual workforce characteristics, workforce
20compensation, and employee mobility. The Department shall
21determine the data to be collected by each State agency. Each
22State agency shall cooperate with the Department in furnishing
23the data necessary for the implementation of this subsection
24within the timeframe specified by the Department. The
25Department shall publish the data received from each State
26agency on the ITAP or another open data site annually.

 

 

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1(Source: P.A. 97-744, eff. 1-1-13; 98-246, eff. 8-9-13; 98-283,
2eff. 1-1-14; 98-756, eff. 7-16-14; 98-1084, eff. 1-1-15.)
 
3    Section 90. The State Mandates Act is amended by adding
4Section 8.41 as follows:
 
5    (30 ILCS 805/8.41 new)
6    Sec. 8.41. Exempt mandate. Notwithstanding Sections 6 and 8
7of this Act, no reimbursement by the State is required for the
8implementation of any mandate created by this amendatory Act of
9the 100th General Assembly.
 
10    Section 97. Severability. The provisions of this Act are
11severable under Section 1.31 of the Statute on Statutes.
 
12    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
13becoming law.

 

 

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1 INDEX
2 Statutes amended in order of appearance
3    5 ILCS 120/2.03.5 new
4    5 ILCS 140/8.5
5    20 ILCS 405/405-335
6    30 ILCS 805/8.41 new