96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2009 and 2010
HB5109

 

Introduced 1/29/2010, by Rep. William B. Black

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
5 ILCS 460/212 new

    Amends the State Designations Act. Designates portraits of Illinois Governors displayed in the State Capitol as the official State portraits of the Governors of Illinois. Prohibits inclusion among those official portraits any image of a Governor who has been removed from office by impeachment and conviction.


LRB096 18545 JAM 33927 b

 

 

A BILL FOR

 

HB5109 LRB096 18545 JAM 33927 b

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 State Designations Act is amended by adding
5 Section 212 as follows:
 
6     (5 ILCS 460/212 new)
7     Sec. 212. Official gubernatorial portraits.
8     (a) The portraits of the Governors of Illinois, painted or
9 otherwise created as visual images, displayed in the State
10 Capitol shall be the official State portraits of the Governors
11 of Illinois.
12     (b) No portrait or other image of any person who has served
13 as Governor of Illinois and who has been removed from that
14 office by impeachment and conviction shall be displayed or
15 otherwise placed in the State Capitol, and the State shall not
16 maintain an official State portrait of that person among the
17 official State portraits of the Governors of Illinois.