94TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2005 and 2006
SB1296

 

Introduced 2/18/2005, by Sen. Don Harmon - Kimberly A. Lightford

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
5 ILCS 120/1.02   from Ch. 102, par. 41.02

    Amends the Open Meetings Act. Provides that the definition of "meeting" means any gathering of a majority of a quorum of the members of a public body held for the purpose of discussing public business, except when the public body is the council of a municipality with a commission form of government consisting of 4 commissioners and a mayor, in which case "meeting" shall mean any gathering of a majority of the members held for the purpose of discussing public business.


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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,
3 represented in the General Assembly:
 
4     Section 5. 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)
7     Sec. 1.02. For the purposes of this Act:
8     "Meeting" means any gathering of a majority of a quorum of
9 the members of a public body held for the purpose of discussing
10 public business, except when the public body is the council of
11 a municipality with a commission form of government consisting
12 of 4 commissioners and a mayor, in which case a "meeting" means
13 any gathering of a majority of the members of the public body
14 held for the purpose of discussing public business.
15     "Public body" includes all legislative, executive,
16 administrative or advisory bodies of the State, counties,
17 townships, cities, villages, incorporated towns, school
18 districts and all other municipal corporations, boards,
19 bureaus, committees or commissions of this State, and any
20 subsidiary bodies of any of the foregoing including but not
21 limited to committees and subcommittees which are supported in
22 whole or in part by tax revenue, or which expend tax revenue,
23 except the General Assembly and committees or commissions
24 thereof. "Public body" includes tourism boards and convention
25 or civic center boards located in counties that are contiguous
26 to the Mississippi River with populations of more than 250,000
27 but less than 300,000. "Public body" includes the Health
28 Facilities Planning Board. "Public body" does not include a
29 child death review team or the Illinois Child Death Review
30 Teams Executive Council established under the Child Death
31 Review Team Act or an ethics commission acting under the State
32 Officials and Employees Ethics Act.

 

 

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1 (Source: P.A. 92-468, eff. 8-22-01; 93-617, eff. 12-9-03.)