96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2009 and 2010
SB2240

 

Introduced 2/20/2009, by Sen. Chris Lauzen

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
5 ILCS 430/5-20

    Amends the State Officials and Employees Ethics Act. Adds Illinois State Toll Highway Authority signs and structures to the list of items that may not bear the proper name or image of an executive branch constitutional officer or a General Assembly member if the item is designed, paid for, prepared, or distributed using public funds and the item is not in furtherance of the person's official State duties or governmental and public service functions.


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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 State Officials and Employees Ethics Act is
5 amended by changing Section 5-20 as follows:
 
6     (5 ILCS 430/5-20)
7     Sec. 5-20. Public service announcements; other promotional
8 material.
9     (a) Beginning January 1, 2004, no public service
10 announcement or advertisement that is on behalf of any State
11 administered program and contains the proper name, image, or
12 voice of any executive branch constitutional officer or member
13 of the General Assembly shall be broadcast or aired on radio or
14 television or printed in a commercial newspaper or a commercial
15 magazine at any time.
16     (b) The proper name or image of any executive branch
17 constitutional officer or member of the General Assembly may
18 not appear on any (i) bumper stickers, (ii) commercial
19 billboards, (iii) lapel pins or buttons, (iv) magnets, (v)
20 stickers, (vi) signs or structures of the Illinois State Toll
21 Highway Authority, and (vii) (vi) other similar promotional
22 items, that are not in furtherance of the person's official
23 State duties or governmental and public service functions, if

 

 

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1 designed, paid for, prepared, or distributed using public
2 dollars. This subsection does not apply to stocks of items
3 existing on the effective date of this amendatory Act of the
4 93rd General Assembly.
5     (c) This Section does not apply to communications funded
6 through expenditures required to be reported under Article 9 of
7 the Election Code.
8 (Source: P.A. 93-615, eff. 11-19-03; 93-617, eff. 12-9-03;
9 93-685, eff. 7-8-04.)