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Public Act 096-1017 | ||||
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AN ACT concerning 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 State Designations Act is amended by adding | ||||
Section 212 as follows: | ||||
(5 ILCS 460/212 new) | ||||
Sec. 212. Official gubernatorial portraits. | ||||
(a) The portraits of the Governors of Illinois, painted or | ||||
otherwise created as visual images, displayed in the State | ||||
Capitol shall be the official State portraits of the Governors | ||||
of Illinois. | ||||
(b) No portrait or other image of any person who has served | ||||
as Governor of Illinois and who has been removed from that | ||||
office by impeachment and conviction shall be financed or paid | ||||
for by the State or any State entity or with State funds. | ||||
Notwithstanding this prohibition, a portrait or image of such a | ||||
person may be displayed or otherwise placed in the State | ||||
Capitol, and the State may maintain such official State | ||||
portrait of that person among the official State portraits of | ||||
the Governors of Illinois.
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