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1     AN ACT concerning State government.
 
2     Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3 represented in the General Assembly:
 
4     Section 5. The Lobbyist Registration Act is amended by
5 changing Section 2 as follows:
 
6     (25 ILCS 170/2)  (from Ch. 63, par. 172)
7     Sec. 2. Definitions. As used in this Act, unless the
8 context otherwise requires:
9     (a) "Person" means any individual, firm, partnership,
10 committee, association, corporation, or any other organization
11 or group of persons.
12     (b) "Expenditure" means a payment, distribution, loan,
13 advance, deposit, or gift of money or anything of value, and
14 includes a contract, promise, or agreement, whether or not
15 legally enforceable, to make an expenditure, for the ultimate
16 purpose of influencing executive, legislative, or
17 administrative action, other than compensation as defined in
18 subsection (d).
19     (c) "Official" means:
20         (1) the Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Secretary of
21     State, Attorney General, State Treasurer, and State
22     Comptroller;
23         (2) Chiefs of Staff for officials described in item

 

 

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1     (1);
2         (3) Cabinet members of any elected constitutional
3     officer, including Directors, Assistant Directors and
4     Chief Legal Counsel or General Counsel;
5         (3.5) Members of boards and commissions created by or
6     pursuant to the Illinois Constitution, State statute, or
7     executive order of the Governor; and
8         (4) Members of the General Assembly.
9     (d) "Compensation" means any money, thing of value or
10 financial benefits received or to be received in return for
11 services rendered or to be rendered, for lobbying as defined in
12 subsection (e).
13     Monies paid to members of the General Assembly by the State
14 as remuneration for performance of their Constitutional and
15 statutory duties as members of the General Assembly shall not
16 constitute compensation as defined by this Act.
17     (e) "Lobbying" means any communication with an official of
18 the executive or legislative branch of State government as
19 defined in subsection (c) for the ultimate purpose of
20 influencing executive, legislative, or administrative action.
21     (f) "Influencing" means any communication, action,
22 reportable expenditure as prescribed in Section 6 or other
23 means used to promote, support, affect, modify, oppose or delay
24 any executive, legislative or administrative action or to
25 promote goodwill with officials as defined in subsection (c).
26     (g) "Executive action" means the proposal, drafting,

 

 

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1 development, consideration, amendment, adoption, approval,
2 promulgation, issuance, modification, rejection or
3 postponement by a State entity of a rule, regulation, order,
4 decision, determination, contractual arrangement, purchasing
5 agreement or other quasi-legislative or quasi-judicial action
6 or proceeding.
7     (h) "Legislative action" means the development, drafting,
8 introduction, consideration, modification, adoption,
9 rejection, review, enactment, or passage or defeat of any bill,
10 amendment, resolution, report, nomination, administrative rule
11 or other matter by either house of the General Assembly or a
12 committee thereof, or by a legislator. Legislative action also
13 means the action of the Governor in approving or vetoing any
14 bill or portion thereof, and the action of the Governor or any
15 agency in the development of a proposal for introduction in the
16 legislature.
17     (i) "Administrative action" means the execution or
18 rejection of any rule, regulation, legislative rule, standard,
19 fee, rate, contractual arrangement, purchasing agreement or
20 other delegated legislative or quasi-legislative action to be
21 taken or withheld by any executive agency, department, board or
22 commission of the State.
23     (j) "Lobbyist" means any person who undertakes to lobby
24 State government as provided in subsection (e).
25 (Source: P.A. 88-187.)