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Sen. Julie A. Morrison
Filed: 3/11/2015
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| 1 | | AMENDMENT TO SENATE BILL 26
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| 2 | | AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend Senate Bill 26 by replacing |
| 3 | | everything after the enacting clause with the following:
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| 4 | | "Section 5. The Open Meetings Act is amended by adding |
| 5 | | Section 2.03.5 as follows:
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| 6 | | (5 ILCS 120/2.03.5 new) |
| 7 | | Sec. 2.03.5. Internet posting requirements. |
| 8 | | (a) A public body that serves a population of less than |
| 9 | | 1,000,000 that maintains an Internet website other than a |
| 10 | | social media website or social networking website shall, within |
| 11 | | 90 days of the effective date of this amendatory Act of the |
| 12 | | 99th General Assembly, post to its website for the current |
| 13 | | calendar year a mechanism, such as a uniform single email |
| 14 | | address, for members of the public to electronically |
| 15 | | communicate with elected officials of that public body, unless |
| 16 | | such officials have an individual email address for that |
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| 1 | | purpose. |
| 2 | | (b) In addition to any requirement to publish in any |
| 3 | | newspaper notices, agendas, records, or other information or |
| 4 | | material that is required to be published in a newspaper by law |
| 5 | | or court order including, but not limited to, this Act, the |
| 6 | | Illinois Municipal Budget Law, the Intergovernmental |
| 7 | | Cooperation Act, the Counties Code, the Township Code, the |
| 8 | | Illinois Municipal Code, the Election Code, the School Code, |
| 9 | | the Airport Authorities Act, or the Civic Center Code, a public |
| 10 | | body that maintains a website shall also publish this |
| 11 | | information on its website. |
| 12 | | (c) For the purposes of this Section "Internet website" |
| 13 | | shall not include any social media website, social networking |
| 14 | | website, or any other social media presence that a public body |
| 15 | | maintains. |
| 16 | | (d) A hyperlink to the information required to be posted |
| 17 | | under this Section must be easily accessible from the public |
| 18 | | body's home page. |
| 19 | | (e) The postings required by this Section are in addition |
| 20 | | to any other posting requirements required by law or ordinance. |
| 21 | | (f) No home rule unit may adopt posting requirements that |
| 22 | | are less restrictive than this Section. This Section is a |
| 23 | | limitation under subsection (i) of Section 6 of Article VII of |
| 24 | | the Illinois Constitution on the concurrent exercise by home |
| 25 | | rule units of powers and functions exercised by the State.
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