96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2009 and 2010
HB4903


 
Introduced 1/15/2010, by Rep. Elizabeth Coulson
 
SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 		













5 ILCS 430/5-20










    Amends the State Officials and Employees Ethics Act.  Prohibits a public service announcement on behalf of a State administered program that contains the proper name, image, or voice of a State executive branch constitutional officer or legislator from being displayed on a billboard or electronic message board.  Effective immediately.
















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    AN ACT concerning government.

 
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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 State Officials and Employees Ethics Act is 
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amended  by changing Section 5-20 as follows:
 
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    (5 ILCS 430/5-20)

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


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


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    (b) The proper name or image of any executive branch 
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constitutional officer
or member of the General Assembly may 
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not appear on any (i)
bumper stickers,
(ii) commercial 
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billboards, (iii) lapel pins or buttons, (iv) magnets, (v)

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stickers, and
(vi) other similar promotional items, that are 
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not in furtherance of the person's official State duties or 
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governmental and public service functions, if
designed,
paid 
 


 






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for, prepared, or distributed using public dollars. This 
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subsection does
not apply to stocks of items existing on the 
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effective date of this amendatory
Act of the 93rd General 
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Assembly.


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


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

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