HB0485ham002 100TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

Rep. Anthony DeLuca

Filed: 4/21/2017

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AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 485

AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 485, AS AMENDED, by replacing everything after the enacting clause with the following:

"Section 5. The State Officials and Employees Ethics Act is amended by changing Section 5-20 as follows:

(5 ILCS 430/5-20)

Sec. 5-20. Public service announcements; other promotional material.

(a) Beginning January 1, 2004, no public service announcement or advertisement that is on behalf of any State administered program and contains the proper name, image, or voice of any executive branch constitutional officer or member of the General Assembly shall be (i) broadcast or aired on radio or television, (ii) printed in a commercial newspaper or a commercial magazine, or (iii) displayed on a billboard or electronic message board at any time.

(b) The proper name or image of any executive branch constitutional officer or member of the General Assembly may not appear on any (i) bumper stickers, (ii) commercial billboards, (iii) lapel pins or buttons, (iv) magnets, (v) stickers, and (vi) other similar promotional items, that are not in furtherance of the person's official State duties or governmental and public service functions, if designed, paid for, prepared, or distributed using public dollars. This subsection does not apply to stocks of items existing on the effective date of this amendatory Act of the 93rd General Assembly.

(b-5) During a period beginning September 1 of the year of a general election and ending the day after the general election, the proper name, image, or voice of any executive branch constitutional officer or member of the General Assembly shall not be included in any public announcement related to the award of any contract or grant paid for with State dollars.

Nothing in this subsection (b-5) prohibits: (i) a State agency from making a public announcement about the issuance of a grant or a contract, provided the public announcement does not include the proper name, image, or voice of any executive branch constitutional officer or member of the General Assembly; (ii) a legislative committee or commission from meeting and conducting business; or (iii) an executive branch constitutional officer or member of the General Assembly from attending any public or private event associated with the award or grant of contract or from being included on a list of attendees disseminated to the public.

For purposes of this subsection (b-5), a "public announcement" means any written or oral statement disseminated to the public, by any medium, that is designed, paid for, prepared, or distributed using State dollars.

(c) This Section does not apply to communications funded through expenditures required to be reported under Article 9 of the Election Code.

(Source: P.A. 97-13, eff. 6-16-11.)

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