Full Text of HB1670 95th General Assembly
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Sen. Mike Jacobs
Filed: 5/18/2007
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| AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 1670
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| AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 1670, immediately | 3 |
| below the enacting clause, by inserting the following:
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| "Section 3. The Open Meetings Act is amended by changing | 5 |
| Section 1.02 as follows: | 6 |
| (5 ILCS 120/1.02) (from Ch. 102, par. 41.02)
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| Sec. 1.02. For the purposes of this Act:
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| "Meeting" means any gathering, whether in person or by | 9 |
| video or audio conference, telephone call, electronic means | 10 |
| (such as, without limitation, electronic mail, electronic | 11 |
| chat, and instant messaging), or other means of contemporaneous | 12 |
| interactive communication, of a majority of a quorum of the | 13 |
| members of a
public body held for the purpose of discussing | 14 |
| public
business or, for a 5-member public body, a quorum of the | 15 |
| members of a public body held for the purpose of discussing | 16 |
| public business. |
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| Accordingly, for a 5-member public body, 3 members of the | 2 |
| body constitute a quorum and the affirmative vote of 3 members | 3 |
| is necessary to adopt any motion, resolution, or ordinance, | 4 |
| unless a greater number is otherwise required .
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| "Public body" includes all legislative, executive, | 6 |
| administrative or advisory
bodies of the State, counties, | 7 |
| townships, cities, villages, incorporated
towns, school | 8 |
| districts and all other municipal corporations, boards, | 9 |
| bureaus,
committees or commissions of this State, and any | 10 |
| subsidiary bodies of any
of the foregoing including but not | 11 |
| limited to committees and subcommittees
which are supported in | 12 |
| whole or in part by tax revenue, or which expend tax
revenue, | 13 |
| except the General Assembly and committees or commissions | 14 |
| thereof.
"Public body" includes tourism boards and convention | 15 |
| or civic center
boards located in counties that are contiguous | 16 |
| to the Mississippi River with
populations of more than 250,000 | 17 |
| but less than 300,000. "Public body"
includes the Health | 18 |
| Facilities Planning Board. "Public body" does not
include a | 19 |
| child death review team or the Illinois Child Death Review | 20 |
| Teams
Executive Council established under
the Child Death | 21 |
| Review Team Act or an ethics commission acting under the State | 22 |
| Officials and
Employees Ethics Act.
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| (Source: P.A. 93-617, eff. 12-9-03; 94-1058, eff. 1-1-07.)".
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