101ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2019 and 2020
HB5217
 
Introduced , by Rep. Tim Butler
 
SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 

 
5 ILCS 430/5-20

     Amends the State Officials and Employees Ethics Act. Provides that 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 posted on any social media platform (in addition to the existing prohibition on such announcements and advertisements in other media). Makes conforming changes.
  


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A BILL FOR
 

  
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1    AN ACT concerning government.
  
 
2    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
 
3represented in the General Assembly:
  
 
 
4    Section 5. The State Officials and Employees Ethics Act is 
5amended  by changing Section 5-20 as follows:
 
6    (5 ILCS 430/5-20)

7    Sec. 5-20. Public service announcements; other promotional 
8material.

9    (a) Beginning January 1, 2004, no public service 
10announcement or
advertisement that is on behalf of
any State 
11administered program and contains the
proper name, image, or 
12voice of any executive branch constitutional officer
or member 
13of the General Assembly shall be (i) broadcast or aired on 
14radio or
television, (ii)
 printed in a commercial newspaper or 
15a commercial magazine, or (iii) displayed on a billboard or 
16electronic message board at any
time, or (iv) posted on any 
17social media platform.


18    (b) The proper name or image of any executive branch 
19constitutional officer
or member of the General Assembly may 
20not appear on any (i)
bumper stickers,
(ii) commercial 
21billboards, (iii) lapel pins or buttons, (iv) magnets, (v)

22stickers, and
(vi) other similar promotional items, that are 
23not in furtherance of the person's official State duties or 
 
 
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1governmental and public service functions, if
designed,
paid 
2for, prepared, or distributed using public dollars. This 
3subsection does
not apply to stocks of items existing on the 
4effective date of this amendatory
Act of the 93rd General 
5Assembly.


6    (c) This Section does not apply to
communications
funded 
7through expenditures required to be reported under Article 9 of 
8the
Election Code.


9(Source: P.A. 97-13, eff. 6-16-11.)