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| | 101ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2019 and 2020
HB5013 Introduced 2/18/2020, by Rep. Anne Stava-Murray SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
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Amends the Illinois Municipal Code. Provides that a municipality may not prohibit a speaker at a public meeting from addressing an individual member of the city council, a municipal official, or a staff member of these individuals, except that these provisions do not prohibit a municipality from limiting when a speaker may speak at a meeting. Limits home rule powers. Effective immediately.
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| | HB5013 | | LRB101 19436 AWJ 68908 b |
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| 1 | | AN ACT concerning local government.
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| 2 | | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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| 3 | | represented in the General Assembly:
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| 4 | | Section 5. The Illinois Municipal Code is amended by adding |
| 5 | | Section 3.1-55-30 as follows:
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| 6 | | (65 ILCS 5/3.1-55-30 new) |
| 7 | | Sec. 3.1-55-30. Addressing city council members at public |
| 8 | | meetings. |
| 9 | | (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a |
| 10 | | municipality may not prohibit a speaker at a public meeting |
| 11 | | from addressing an individual member of the city council, a |
| 12 | | municipal official, or a staff member of these individuals. |
| 13 | | This subsection does not prohibit a municipality from limiting |
| 14 | | when a speaker may speak at a meeting. |
| 15 | | (b) A home rule municipality may not regulate addressing |
| 16 | | individual city council members, municipal officials, or staff |
| 17 | | members of these individuals at a city council meeting in a |
| 18 | | manner inconsistent with this Section. This Section is a |
| 19 | | limitation under subsection (i) of Section 6 of Article VII of |
| 20 | | the Illinois Constitution on the concurrent exercise by home |
| 21 | | rule units of powers and functions exercised by the State.
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| 22 | | Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon |