Full Text of HB0088 96th General Assembly
HB0088eng 96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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| AN ACT concerning State government.
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| Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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| represented in the General Assembly:
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| Section 5. The Lobbyist Registration Act is amended by | 5 |
| changing Section 5 as follows: | 6 |
| (25 ILCS 170/5)
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| Sec. 5. Lobbyist registration and disclosure. Every person | 8 |
| required to
register under Section 3 shall
before any service
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| is performed which requires the person to register, but in any | 10 |
| event not
later than 2 business days after being employed or | 11 |
| retained, and on or before
each
January 31 and July 31 | 12 |
| thereafter, file in the Office of the
Secretary of State a | 13 |
| written statement containing the
following
information
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| respect to each person or entity
employing or retaining the | 15 |
| person required to register:
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| (a) The registrant's name, permanent address, e-mail
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| address, if any,
fax
number, if any, business telephone | 18 |
| number, and temporary address, if the
registrant has a | 19 |
| temporary address while lobbying.
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| (a-5) If the registrant is an organization or business | 21 |
| entity, the
information required under subsection (a) for | 22 |
| each person associated with the
registrant who will be | 23 |
| lobbying,
regardless of whether lobbying is a significant |
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| part of his or her duties.
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| (b) The name and address of the person or persons | 3 |
| employing or retaining
registrant to perform such services | 4 |
| or on whose behalf the registrant appears.
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| (c) A brief description of the executive, legislative, | 6 |
| or administrative
action in reference to which such service | 7 |
| is to be rendered.
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| (c-5) Each executive and legislative branch agency the | 9 |
| registrant
expects
to lobby during the registration | 10 |
| period.
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| (c-6) The nature of the client's business, by | 12 |
| indicating all
of the following categories that apply: (1) | 13 |
| banking and financial services, (2)
manufacturing, (3) | 14 |
| education, (4) environment, (5) healthcare, (6)
insurance, | 15 |
| (7) community interests, (8) labor, (9) public relations or
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| advertising, (10) marketing or sales, (11) hospitality, | 17 |
| (12) engineering,
(13) information or technology products | 18 |
| or services, (14) social services,
(15) public utilities, | 19 |
| (16) racing or wagering, (17) real estate or
construction, | 20 |
| (18) telecommunications, (19) trade or professional
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| association, (20) travel or tourism, (21) transportation, | 22 |
| and (22) other
(setting forth the nature of that other | 23 |
| business).
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| The registrant must file an amendment to the statement | 25 |
| within 14 calendar
days
to report any substantial change or | 26 |
| addition to the information previously
filed, except that a |
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| registrant must file an amendment to the statement to
disclose | 2 |
| a new agreement to retain the registrant for lobbying services
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| before any service is performed which requires the person to | 4 |
| register, but in
any event not later than 2 business days after | 5 |
| entering into the retainer
agreement.
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| Not later than 12 months after the effective date of this | 7 |
| amendatory
Act of the 93rd General Assembly, or as soon | 8 |
| thereafter as the Secretary of
State has provided adequate | 9 |
| software to the persons required to file, all
statements and | 10 |
| amendments to statements required to be filed shall be filed
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| electronically. The Secretary of State shall promptly make all | 12 |
| filed
statements and amendments to statements publicly | 13 |
| available by means of a
searchable database that is accessible | 14 |
| through the World Wide Web. The
Secretary of State shall | 15 |
| provide all software necessary to comply with this
provision to | 16 |
| all persons required to file. The Secretary of State shall
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| implement a plan to provide computer access and assistance to | 18 |
| persons
required to file electronically.
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| Persons required to register under this Act prior to July | 20 |
| 1, 2003,
shall
remit a single, annual and nonrefundable $50 | 21 |
| registration fee.
All fees collected for registrations prior to | 22 |
| July 1, 2003, shall be deposited
into the Lobbyist Registration | 23 |
| Administration Fund for administration and
enforcement of this | 24 |
| Act. Except as otherwise provided in this Section, beginning | 25 |
| Beginning July 1, 2003, all persons other than
entities | 26 |
| qualified under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code
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| required to register under this Act shall remit a single, | 2 |
| annual, and
nonrefundable $350 registration fee. Entities | 3 |
| required to register under this
Act
which are qualified under | 4 |
| Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code and, beginning | 5 |
| July 1, 2009, entities required to register under this Act that | 6 |
| are qualified under any other provision of Section 501(c) of | 7 |
| the Internal Revenue Code shall
remit a single, annual,
and | 8 |
| nonrefundable $150 registration fee. Each individual required | 9 |
| to register
under this Act shall submit, on an annual basis, a | 10 |
| picture of the registrant. A registrant may, in lieu of | 11 |
| submitting a
picture on an annual basis, authorize the | 12 |
| Secretary of State to use any photo
identification available in | 13 |
| any database maintained by the Secretary of State
for other | 14 |
| purposes. Of each registration fee collected for registrations | 15 |
| on
or after July 1, 2003, $50 shall be deposited into the | 16 |
| Lobbyist
Registration Administration Fund for administration | 17 |
| and enforcement
of this
Act and is intended to be used to | 18 |
| implement and maintain
electronic
filing of
reports under this | 19 |
| Act, the next
$100 shall be deposited into the Lobbyist
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| Registration Administration Fund for administration and | 21 |
| enforcement of this
Act, and any balance shall be deposited | 22 |
| into the General Revenue Fund.
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| (Source: P.A. 93-32, eff. 7-1-03; 93-615, eff. 11-19-03; | 24 |
| 93-617, eff. 12-9-03.)
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| Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect July 1, | 26 |
| 2009.
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