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Public Act 094-0022
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| HB1079 Enrolled |
LRB094 06722 LCB 36821 b |
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AN ACT concerning civil law.
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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 Code of Civil Procedure is amended by adding |
Section 8-803.5 as follows:
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(735 ILCS 5/8-803.5 new) |
Sec. 8-803.5. Union agent and union member. |
(a) Except when required in subsection (b) of this Section, |
a union agent, during the agency or representative relationship |
or after termination of the agency or representative |
relationship with the bargaining unit member, shall not be |
compelled to disclose, in any court or to any administrative |
board or agency arbitration or proceeding, whether civil or |
criminal, any information he or she may have acquired in |
attending to his or her professional duties or while acting in |
his or her representative capacity. |
(b) A union agent may use or reveal information obtained |
during the course of fulfilling his or her professional |
representative duties:
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(1) to the extent it appears necessary to prevent the |
commission of a crime that is likely to result in a clear, |
imminent risk of serious physical injury or death of |
another person;
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(2) in actions, civil or criminal, against the union |
agent in his or her personal or official representative |
capacity, or against the local union or subordinate body |
thereof or international union or affiliated or |
subordinate body thereof or any agent thereof in their |
personal or official representative capacities;
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(3) when required by court order; or
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(4) when, after full disclosure has been provided, the |
written or oral consent of the bargaining unit member has |