HB0802 100TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

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100TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2017 and 2018
HB0802

Introduced , by Rep. Fred Crespo

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:

25 ILCS 170/3.1

Amends the Lobbyist Registration Act. On and after February 1, 2018, prohibits a person required to be registered under the Act, his or her spouse, and his or her immediate family members living with that registered lobbyist from serving in any countywide elective public office in a county with a population of 3,000,000 or more. Provides that the restriction imposed by the amendatory Act does not apply to a registered lobbyist, his or her spouse, or any immediate family member living with that registered lobbyist who was serving in a countywide elective public office prior to the effective date of the amendatory Act. Allows any such person to serve out the remainder of the term of the office to which he or she was elected. 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 Lobbyist Registration Act is amended by changing Section 3.1 as follows:

(25 ILCS 170/3.1)

Sec. 3.1. Prohibition on serving in countywide elective public office or on boards and commissions. Notwithstanding any other law of this State, on and after February 1, 2004, but not before that date, a person required to be registered under this Act, his or her spouse, and his or her immediate family members living with that person may not serve on a board, commission, authority, or task force authorized or created by State law or by executive order of the Governor. On and after February 1, 2018, but not before that date, a person required to be registered under this Act, his or her spouse, and his or her immediate family members living with that registered lobbyist may not serve in a countywide elective public office in a county with a population of 3,000,000 or more. These restrictions do ; except that this restriction does not apply to any of the following:

(1) a registered lobbyist, his or her spouse, or any immediate family member living with the registered lobbyist, who is serving in an elective public office, whether elected or appointed to fill a vacancy, other than a countywide elective public office in a county with a population of 3,000,000 or more on and after February 1, 2018, provided that registered lobbyists, their spouses, or any immediate family members living with a registered lobbyist serving in a countywide elective public office before the effective date of this amendatory Act of the 100th General Assembly shall serve out the remainder of the term of office to which they were elected; and

(2) a registered lobbyist, his or her spouse, or any immediate family member living with the registered lobbyist, who is serving on a State advisory body that makes nonbinding recommendations to an agency of State government but does not make binding recommendations or determinations or take any other substantive action.

(Source: P.A. 96-555, eff. 1-1-10; 96-1358, eff. 7-28-10.)

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