HB4010 102ND GENERAL ASSEMBLY

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102ND GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2021 and 2022
HB4010

Introduced 3/4/2021, by Rep. Anne Stava-Murray

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:

65 ILCS 5/3.1-55-30 new

Amends the Illinois Municipal Code. Provides that a municipality may not prohibit a speaker at a public meeting from addressing an individual member of the city council, a municipal official, or a staff member of these individuals, except that these provisions do not prohibit a municipality from limiting when a speaker may speak at a meeting. Limits home rule powers. Effective immediately.

A BILL FOR

AN ACT concerning local government.

Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly:

Section 5. The Illinois Municipal Code is amended by adding Section 3.1-55-30 as follows:

(65 ILCS 5/3.1-55-30 new)

Sec. 3.1-55-30. Addressing city council members at public meetings.

(a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a municipality may not prohibit a speaker at a public meeting from addressing an individual member of the city council, a municipal official, or a staff member of these individuals. This subsection does not prohibit a municipality from limiting when a speaker may speak at a meeting.

(b) A home rule municipality may not regulate addressing individual city council members, municipal officials, or staff members of these individuals at a city council meeting in a manner inconsistent with this Section. This Section is a limitation under subsection (i) of Section 6 of Article VII of the Illinois Constitution on the concurrent exercise by home rule units of powers and functions exercised by the State.

Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon becoming law.