Public Act 097-0013
 
SB1344 EnrolledLRB097 06903 JDS 46996 b



    AN ACT concerning government.

 
    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
 
represented in the General Assembly:


 
    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)
or 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.


    (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. 93-615, eff. 11-19-03; 93-617, eff. 12-9-03; 
93-685, eff. 7-8-04.)
 

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