Illinois General Assembly - Bill Status for HB3006

Amends the Freedom of Information Act. Deletes language providing that a public body that maintains a website shall also post specified information on its website. Provides that a unit of local government or school district with annual operating expenditures of more than $1 million for 2 consecutive years that has a website maintained by the full-time staff of the public body shall post to that website specified information. Provides that a public record is considered published on the public body's website even if it is hosted on a website that is maintained by another governmental entity if a hyperlink to the public record is provided on the public body's website. Amends the Local Records Act. Repeals a Section providing that specified units of local government and school districts shall post specified information to their websites. Amends the Notice By Publication Act. Provides that whenever an officer of a court, unit of local government, or school district is required by law to provide notice by publication in a newspaper, it is sufficient to publish, in lieu of the entire text of the notice, the following information: (1) a citation to the statutory basis for the requirement that the notice be published; and (2) the Internet website where the full text of the notice may be found.

Deletes changes to the Notice By Publication Act providing that whenever an officer of a court, unit of local government, or school district is required by law to provide notice by publication in a newspaper, it is sufficient to publish, in lieu of the entire text of the notice, the following information: (1) a citation to the statutory basis for the requirement that the notice be published; and (2) the Internet website where the full text of the notice may be found.

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