99TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2015 and 2016
HB1365

 

Introduced 2/4/2015, by Rep. Kelly M. Cassidy

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
15 ILCS 320/7  from Ch. 128, par. 107
25 ILCS 5/3.1  from Ch. 63, par. 3.1

    Amends the General Assembly Organization Act. Provides that whenever any law or resolution requires a report to the General Assembly, the reporting requirement shall be satisfied by filing one electronic copy (currently, one copy) of the report with each of the following: the Speaker, the Minority Leader and the Clerk of the House of Representatives, and the President, the Minority Leader, and the Secretary of the Senate and the Legislative Research Unit. Requires the reporting entity to make paper copies available of those reports available upon request. Provides that additional electronic copies (currently, copies) shall be filed with the State Government Report Distribution Center for the General Assembly. Amends the State Library Act to make conforming changes.


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FISCAL NOTE ACT MAY APPLY

 

 

A BILL FOR

 

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1    AN ACT concerning State government.
 
2    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3represented in the General Assembly:
 
4    Section 5. The State Library Act is amended by changing
5Section 7 as follows:
 
6    (15 ILCS 320/7)  (from Ch. 128, par. 107)
7    Sec. 7. Purposes of the State Library. The Illinois State
8Library shall:
9    (a) Maintain a library for officials and employees of the
10State, consisting of informational material and resources
11pertaining to the phases of their work, and serve as the
12State's library by extending its resources to citizens of
13Illinois.
14    (b) Maintain and provide research library services for all
15State agencies.
16    (c) Administer the Illinois Library System Act.
17    (d) Promote and administer the law relating to Interstate
18Library Compacts.
19    (e) Enter into interagency agreements, pursuant to the
20Intergovernmental Cooperation Act, including agreements to
21promote access to information by Illinois students and the
22general public.
23    (f) Promote and develop a cooperative library network

 

 

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1operating regionally or statewide for providing effective
2coordination of the library resources of public, academic,
3school, and special libraries.
4    (g) Administer grants of federal library funds pursuant to
5federal law and requirements.
6    (h) Assist libraries in their plans for library services,
7including funding the State-funded library systems for the
8purpose of local library development and networking.
9    (i) Assist local library groups in developing programs by
10which library services can be established and enhanced in areas
11without those services.
12    (j) Be a clearing house, in an advisory capacity, for
13questions and problems pertaining to the administration and
14functioning of libraries in Illinois and to publish booklets
15and pamphlets to implement this service.
16    (k) Seek the opinion of the Attorney General for legal
17questions pertaining to public libraries and their function as
18governmental agencies.
19    (l) Contract with any other library or library agency to
20carry out the purposes of the State Library. If any such
21contract requires payments by user libraries for goods and
22services, the State Library may distribute billings from
23contractors to applicable user libraries and may receive and
24distribute payments from user libraries to contractors. There
25is hereby created in the State Treasury the Library Trust Fund,
26into which all moneys payable to contractors which are received

 

 

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1from user libraries under this paragraph (l) shall be paid. The
2Treasurer shall pay such funds to contractors at the direction
3of the State Librarian.
4    (m) Compile, preserve and publish public library
5statistical information.
6    (n) Compile the annual report of local public libraries and
7library systems submitted to the State Librarian pursuant to
8law.
9    (o) Conduct and arrange for library training programs for
10library personnel, library directors and others involved in
11library services.
12    (p) Prepare an annual report for each fiscal year.
13    (q) Make available to the public, by means of access by way
14of the largest nonproprietary nonprofit cooperative public
15computer network, certain records of State agencies.
16    As used in this subdivision (q), "State agencies" means all
17officers, boards, commissions and agencies created by the
18Constitution; all officers, departments, boards, commissions,
19agencies, institutions, authorities, universities, and bodies
20politic and corporate of the State; administrative units or
21corporate outgrowths of the State government which are created
22by or pursuant to statute, other than units of local government
23and their officers, school districts and boards of election
24commissioners; and all administrative units and corporate
25outgrowths of the above and as may be created by executive
26order of the Governor; however, "State agencies" does not

 

 

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1include any agency, officer, or other entity of the judicial or
2legislative branch.
3    As used in this subdivision (q), "records" means public
4records, as defined in the Freedom of Information Act, that are
5not exempt from inspection and copying under that Act.
6    The State Librarian and each appropriate State agency shall
7specify the types and categories of records that shall be
8accessible through the public computer network and the types
9and categories of records that shall be inaccessible. Records
10currently held by a State agency and documents that are
11required to be provided to the Illinois State Library in
12accordance with Section 21 shall be provided to the Illinois
13State Library in an appropriate electronic format. The cost to
14each State agency of making records accessible through the
15public computer network or of providing records in an
16appropriate electronic format shall be considered in making
17determinations regarding accessibility.
18    As soon as possible and no later than 18 months after the
19effective date of this amendatory Act of 1995, the types and
20categories of information, specified by the State Librarian and
21each appropriate State agency, shall be made available to the
22public by means of access by way of the largest nonproprietary,
23nonprofit cooperative public computer network. The information
24shall be made available in one or more formats and by one or
25more means in order to provide the greatest feasible access to
26the general public in this State. Any person who accesses the

 

 

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1information may access all or any part of the information. The
2information may also be made available by any other means of
3access that would facilitate public access to the information.
4The information shall be made available in the shortest
5feasible time after it is publicly available.
6    Any documentation that describes the electronic digital
7formats of the information shall be made available by means of
8access by way of the same public computer network.
9    Personal information concerning a person who accesses the
10information may be maintained only for the purpose of providing
11service to the person.
12    The electronic public access provided by way of the public
13computer network shall be in addition to other electronic or
14print distribution of the information.
15    No action taken under this subdivision (q) shall be deemed
16to alter or relinquish any copyright or other proprietary
17interest or entitlement of the State of Illinois relating to
18any of the information made available under this subdivision
19(q).
20    (r) Coordinate literacy programs for the Secretary of
21State.
22    (s) Provide coordination of statewide preservation
23planning, act as a focal point for preservation advocacy,
24assess statewide needs and establish specific programs to meet
25those needs, and manage state funds appropriated for
26preservation work relating to the preservation of the library

 

 

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1and archival resources of Illinois.
2    (t) Create and maintain a State Government Report
3Distribution Center for the General Assembly. The Center shall
4receive all reports in electronic format all formats available
5required by law or resolution to be filed with the General
6Assembly and shall furnish copies of such reports on the same
7day on which the report is filed with the Clerk of the House of
8Representatives and the Secretary of the Senate, as required by
9the General Assembly Organization Act, without charge to
10members of the General Assembly upon request. The Center shall
11also make paper copies of reports received under this
12subsection (t) available to members of the General Assembly
13upon request. This paragraph does not affect the requirements
14of Section 21 of this Act relating to the deposit of State
15publications with the State library.
16(Source: P.A. 91-507, eff. 8-13-99; 92-16, eff. 6-28-01;
1792-617, eff. 1-1-03.)
 
18    Section 10. The General Assembly Organization Act is
19amended by changing Section 3.1 as follows:
 
20    (25 ILCS 5/3.1)  (from Ch. 63, par. 3.1)
21    Sec. 3.1. Whenever any law or resolution requires a report
22to the General Assembly, that reporting requirement shall be
23satisfied by filing one electronic copy of the report with each
24of the following: the Speaker, the Minority Leader and the

 

 

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1Clerk of the House of Representatives and the President, the
2Minority Leader and the Secretary of the Senate and the
3Legislative Research Unit. In addition, the reporting entity
4must make a copy of the report available for a reasonable time
5on its Internet site or on the Internet site of the public
6entity that hosts the reporting entity's World Wide Web page,
7if any. The reporting entity must also make paper copies of the
8report available upon request. Additional electronic copies
9shall be filed with the State Government Report Distribution
10Center for the General Assembly as required under paragraph (t)
11of Section 7 of the State Library Act.
12(Source: P.A. 94-565, eff. 1-1-06.)