SB0095 103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY

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103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2023 and 2024
SB0095

Introduced 1/24/2023, by Sen. Laura M. Murphy

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:

5 ILCS 420/2-101

from Ch. 127, par. 602-101

Amends the Illinois Governmental Ethics Act. Prohibits a legislator from engaging in compensated lobbying of the governing body of a municipality, county, or township, or an official thereof, or the executive branch of the State of Illinois, or an official thereof. Effective immediately.

A BILL FOR

AN ACT concerning State government.

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

Section 5. The Illinois Governmental Ethics Act is amended by changing Section 2-101 as follows:

(5 ILCS 420/2-101) (from Ch. 127, par. 602-101)

Sec. 2-101. Government official lobbying.

(a) No legislator may engage in promoting or opposing in any manner the passage by the General Assembly of any legislative matter affecting the interests of any individual, association, or corporation as distinct from those of the people of the State as a whole, if he or she accepts compensation specifically attributable to such lobbying, other than that provided by law for members of the General Assembly. Nothing in this Section prohibits a legislator from lobbying without compensation.

No legislator shall engage in compensated lobbying of the governing body of a municipality, county, or township, or an official thereof, or the executive branch of the State of Illinois, or an official thereof.

No legislator or executive branch constitutional officer shall engage in compensated lobbying of the governing body of a municipality, county, or township, or an official thereof, on behalf of any lobbyist or lobbying entity that is registered to lobby the General Assembly or the executive branch of the State of Illinois.

(b) No elected or appointed county executive or legislative official shall engage in compensated lobbying of the governing body of a county, municipality, township, the General Assembly, a State executive branch office or agency, or an official thereof, on behalf of any lobbyist or lobbying entity that is registered to lobby the county in which the official is elected or appointed.

(c) No elected or appointed municipal executive or legislative official shall engage in compensated lobbying of the governing body of a county, municipality, township, the General Assembly, a State executive branch office or agency, or an official thereof, on behalf of any lobbyist or lobbying entity that is registered to lobby the municipality in which the official is elected or appointed.

(d) No elected or appointed township executive or legislative official shall engage in compensated lobbying of the governing body of a county, municipality, township, the General Assembly, a State executive branch office or agency, or an official thereof, on behalf of any lobbyist or lobbying entity that is registered to lobby the township in which the official is elected or appointed.

(e) No elected or appointed municipal executive or legislative official shall engage in compensated lobbying of the governing body of a county, municipality, or township, the General Assembly, a State executive branch office or agency, or an official thereof, on behalf of any lobbyist or lobbying entity if the person is an elected or appointed municipal executive or legislative official from a municipality exempted by the preemption provision of Section 11.2 of the Lobbyist Registration Act.

(f) A violation of this Section shall constitute a Class A misdemeanor.

(Source: P.A. 102-664, eff. 1-1-22.)

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