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 1        AN ACT concerning ethics.

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

 4        Section 5.  The Illinois Procurement Code is  amended  by
 5    changing Section 50-30 as follows:

 6        (30 ILCS 500/50-30)
 7        Sec.  50-30.  Revolving door prohibition. No former State
 8    officer or State employee may, within a  period  of  2  years
 9    immediately  after  termination  of  State employment, accept
10    employment or receive compensation from an employer if:
11        (1)  The  officer  or  employee,  during  the   2   years
12    immediately  preceding  termination  of State employment, was
13    engaged in the negotiation or administration on behalf of the
14    State or agency of one or more contracts with  that  employer
15    and  was  in  a  position  to  make  discretionary  decisions
16    affecting  the  outcome of such negotiation or nature of such
17    administration; or
18        (2)  The officer or employee was  the  chief  procurement
19    officer,  associate  procurement  officer,  State  purchasing
20    officer,  designee  of  one of those officers whose principal
21    duties  are  directly  related  to  State   procurement,   or
22    executive officer confirmed by the Senate.
23        This prohibition includes but is not limited to: lobbying
24    the  procurement process; specifying; bidding; proposing bid,
25    proposal, or contract documents; on his or her own behalf  or
26    on   behalf   of   any  firm,  partnership,  association,  or
27    corporation.   This  Section  applies  only  to  persons  who
28    terminate an affected position on or after the effective date
29    of this amendatory Act of the 93rd  General  Assembly.  Chief
30    procurement  officers,  associate procurement officers, State
31    purchasing officers, their designees whose  principal  duties
 
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 1    are  directly  related  to  State  procurement, and executive
 2    officers confirmed by the Senate are expressly prohibited for
 3    a period of 2 years after terminating  an  affected  position
 4    from  engaging  in  any  procurement activity relating to the
 5    State agency most recently  employing  them  in  an  affected
 6    position  for a period of at least 6 months.  The prohibition
 7    includes but is not  limited  to:  lobbying  the  procurement
 8    process;  specifying;  bidding;  proposing  bid, proposal, or
 9    contract documents; on their own behalf or on behalf  of  any
10    firm,  partnership, association, or corporation. This Section
11    applies only to persons who terminate an affected position on
12    or after January 15, 1999.
13    (Source: P.A. 90-572, eff. 2-6-98.)