98TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2013 and 2014
HB5533

 

Introduced , by Rep. Jeanne M Ives

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
5 ILCS 120/2  from Ch. 102, par. 42
5 ILCS 140/7  from Ch. 116, par. 207
5 ILCS 315/7  from Ch. 48, par. 1607
5 ILCS 315/24  from Ch. 48, par. 1624
115 ILCS 5/10  from Ch. 48, par. 1710
115 ILCS 5/18  from Ch. 48, par. 1718

    Amends the Illinois Public Labor Relations Act and the Illinois Educational Labor Relations Act. Provides that, once an agreement is reached between a public or educational employer and its employees regarding the terms of a collective bargaining agreement, the agreement shall be reduced to writing and published on the website of the public or educational employer. Requires the public or educational employer, not less than 14 days after publishing such an agreement, to hold an open public meeting on the ratification of that agreement. Makes conforming changes in the Open Meetings Act and the Freedom of Information Act. Effective immediately.


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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 Open Meetings Act is amended by changing
5Section 2 as follows:
 
6    (5 ILCS 120/2)  (from Ch. 102, par. 42)
7    Sec. 2. Open meetings.
8    (a) Openness required. All meetings of public bodies shall
9be open to the public unless excepted in subsection (c) and
10closed in accordance with Section 2a.
11    (b) Construction of exceptions. The exceptions contained
12in subsection (c) are in derogation of the requirement that
13public bodies meet in the open, and therefore, the exceptions
14are to be strictly construed, extending only to subjects
15clearly within their scope. The exceptions authorize but do not
16require the holding of a closed meeting to discuss a subject
17included within an enumerated exception.
18    (c) Exceptions. A public body may hold closed meetings to
19consider the following subjects:
20        (1) The appointment, employment, compensation,
21    discipline, performance, or dismissal of specific
22    employees of the public body or legal counsel for the
23    public body, including hearing testimony on a complaint

 

 

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1    lodged against an employee of the public body or against
2    legal counsel for the public body to determine its
3    validity.
4        (2) Collective negotiating matters between the public
5    body and its employees or their representatives, or
6    deliberations concerning salary schedules for one or more
7    classes of employees, except that any meeting required
8    under either subsection (e) of Section 7 of the Illinois
9    Public Labor Relations Act or subsection (d) of Section 10
10    of the Illinois Educational Labor Relations Act shall be
11    open to the public.
12        (3) The selection of a person to fill a public office,
13    as defined in this Act, including a vacancy in a public
14    office, when the public body is given power to appoint
15    under law or ordinance, or the discipline, performance or
16    removal of the occupant of a public office, when the public
17    body is given power to remove the occupant under law or
18    ordinance.
19        (4) Evidence or testimony presented in open hearing, or
20    in closed hearing where specifically authorized by law, to
21    a quasi-adjudicative body, as defined in this Act, provided
22    that the body prepares and makes available for public
23    inspection a written decision setting forth its
24    determinative reasoning.
25        (5) The purchase or lease of real property for the use
26    of the public body, including meetings held for the purpose

 

 

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1    of discussing whether a particular parcel should be
2    acquired.
3        (6) The setting of a price for sale or lease of
4    property owned by the public body.
5        (7) The sale or purchase of securities, investments, or
6    investment contracts. This exception shall not apply to the
7    investment of assets or income of funds deposited into the
8    Illinois Prepaid Tuition Trust Fund.
9        (8) Security procedures and the use of personnel and
10    equipment to respond to an actual, a threatened, or a
11    reasonably potential danger to the safety of employees,
12    students, staff, the public, or public property.
13        (9) Student disciplinary cases.
14        (10) The placement of individual students in special
15    education programs and other matters relating to
16    individual students.
17        (11) Litigation, when an action against, affecting or
18    on behalf of the particular public body has been filed and
19    is pending before a court or administrative tribunal, or
20    when the public body finds that an action is probable or
21    imminent, in which case the basis for the finding shall be
22    recorded and entered into the minutes of the closed
23    meeting.
24        (12) The establishment of reserves or settlement of
25    claims as provided in the Local Governmental and
26    Governmental Employees Tort Immunity Act, if otherwise the

 

 

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1    disposition of a claim or potential claim might be
2    prejudiced, or the review or discussion of claims, loss or
3    risk management information, records, data, advice or
4    communications from or with respect to any insurer of the
5    public body or any intergovernmental risk management
6    association or self insurance pool of which the public body
7    is a member.
8        (13) Conciliation of complaints of discrimination in
9    the sale or rental of housing, when closed meetings are
10    authorized by the law or ordinance prescribing fair housing
11    practices and creating a commission or administrative
12    agency for their enforcement.
13        (14) Informant sources, the hiring or assignment of
14    undercover personnel or equipment, or ongoing, prior or
15    future criminal investigations, when discussed by a public
16    body with criminal investigatory responsibilities.
17        (15) Professional ethics or performance when
18    considered by an advisory body appointed to advise a
19    licensing or regulatory agency on matters germane to the
20    advisory body's field of competence.
21        (16) Self evaluation, practices and procedures or
22    professional ethics, when meeting with a representative of
23    a statewide association of which the public body is a
24    member.
25        (17) The recruitment, credentialing, discipline or
26    formal peer review of physicians or other health care

 

 

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1    professionals for a hospital, or other institution
2    providing medical care, that is operated by the public
3    body.
4        (18) Deliberations for decisions of the Prisoner
5    Review Board.
6        (19) Review or discussion of applications received
7    under the Experimental Organ Transplantation Procedures
8    Act.
9        (20) The classification and discussion of matters
10    classified as confidential or continued confidential by
11    the State Government Suggestion Award Board.
12        (21) Discussion of minutes of meetings lawfully closed
13    under this Act, whether for purposes of approval by the
14    body of the minutes or semi-annual review of the minutes as
15    mandated by Section 2.06.
16        (22) Deliberations for decisions of the State
17    Emergency Medical Services Disciplinary Review Board.
18        (23) The operation by a municipality of a municipal
19    utility or the operation of a municipal power agency or
20    municipal natural gas agency when the discussion involves
21    (i) contracts relating to the purchase, sale, or delivery
22    of electricity or natural gas or (ii) the results or
23    conclusions of load forecast studies.
24        (24) Meetings of a residential health care facility
25    resident sexual assault and death review team or the
26    Executive Council under the Abuse Prevention Review Team

 

 

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1    Act.
2        (25) Meetings of an independent team of experts under
3    Brian's Law.
4        (26) Meetings of a mortality review team appointed
5    under the Department of Juvenile Justice Mortality Review
6    Team Act.
7        (27) (Blank).
8        (28) Correspondence and records (i) that may not be
9    disclosed under Section 11-9 of the Public Aid Code or (ii)
10    that pertain to appeals under Section 11-8 of the Public
11    Aid Code.
12        (29) Meetings between internal or external auditors
13    and governmental audit committees, finance committees, and
14    their equivalents, when the discussion involves internal
15    control weaknesses, identification of potential fraud risk
16    areas, known or suspected frauds, and fraud interviews
17    conducted in accordance with generally accepted auditing
18    standards of the United States of America.
19        (30) Those meetings or portions of meetings of an
20    at-risk adult fatality review team or the Illinois At-Risk
21    Adult Fatality Review Team Advisory Council during which a
22    review of the death of an eligible adult in which abuse or
23    neglect is suspected, alleged, or substantiated is
24    conducted pursuant to Section 15 of the Adult Protective
25    Services Act.
26        (31) (30) Meetings and deliberations for decisions of

 

 

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1    the Concealed Carry Licensing Review Board under the
2    Firearm Concealed Carry Act.
3    (d) Definitions. For purposes of this Section:
4    "Employee" means a person employed by a public body whose
5relationship with the public body constitutes an
6employer-employee relationship under the usual common law
7rules, and who is not an independent contractor.
8    "Public office" means a position created by or under the
9Constitution or laws of this State, the occupant of which is
10charged with the exercise of some portion of the sovereign
11power of this State. The term "public office" shall include
12members of the public body, but it shall not include
13organizational positions filled by members thereof, whether
14established by law or by a public body itself, that exist to
15assist the body in the conduct of its business.
16    "Quasi-adjudicative body" means an administrative body
17charged by law or ordinance with the responsibility to conduct
18hearings, receive evidence or testimony and make
19determinations based thereon, but does not include local
20electoral boards when such bodies are considering petition
21challenges.
22    (e) Final action. No final action may be taken at a closed
23meeting. Final action shall be preceded by a public recital of
24the nature of the matter being considered and other information
25that will inform the public of the business being conducted.
26(Source: P.A. 97-318, eff. 1-1-12; 97-333, eff. 8-12-11;

 

 

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197-452, eff. 8-19-11; 97-813, eff. 7-13-12; 97-876, eff.
28-1-12; 98-49, eff. 7-1-13; 98-63, eff. 7-9-13; revised
37-23-13.)
 
4    Section 10. The Freedom of Information Act is amended by
5changing Section 7 as follows:
 
6    (5 ILCS 140/7)  (from Ch. 116, par. 207)
7    Sec. 7. Exemptions.
8    (1) When a request is made to inspect or copy a public
9record that contains information that is exempt from disclosure
10under this Section, but also contains information that is not
11exempt from disclosure, the public body may elect to redact the
12information that is exempt. The public body shall make the
13remaining information available for inspection and copying.
14Subject to this requirement, the following shall be exempt from
15inspection and copying:
16        (a) Information specifically prohibited from
17    disclosure by federal or State law or rules and regulations
18    implementing federal or State law.
19        (b) Private information, unless disclosure is required
20    by another provision of this Act, a State or federal law or
21    a court order.
22        (b-5) Files, documents, and other data or databases
23    maintained by one or more law enforcement agencies and
24    specifically designed to provide information to one or more

 

 

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1    law enforcement agencies regarding the physical or mental
2    status of one or more individual subjects.
3        (c) Personal information contained within public
4    records, the disclosure of which would constitute a clearly
5    unwarranted invasion of personal privacy, unless the
6    disclosure is consented to in writing by the individual
7    subjects of the information. "Unwarranted invasion of
8    personal privacy" means the disclosure of information that
9    is highly personal or objectionable to a reasonable person
10    and in which the subject's right to privacy outweighs any
11    legitimate public interest in obtaining the information.
12    The disclosure of information that bears on the public
13    duties of public employees and officials shall not be
14    considered an invasion of personal privacy.
15        (d) Records in the possession of any public body
16    created in the course of administrative enforcement
17    proceedings, and any law enforcement or correctional
18    agency for law enforcement purposes, but only to the extent
19    that disclosure would:
20            (i) interfere with pending or actually and
21        reasonably contemplated law enforcement proceedings
22        conducted by any law enforcement or correctional
23        agency that is the recipient of the request;
24            (ii) interfere with active administrative
25        enforcement proceedings conducted by the public body
26        that is the recipient of the request;

 

 

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1            (iii) create a substantial likelihood that a
2        person will be deprived of a fair trial or an impartial
3        hearing;
4            (iv) unavoidably disclose the identity of a
5        confidential source, confidential information
6        furnished only by the confidential source, or persons
7        who file complaints with or provide information to
8        administrative, investigative, law enforcement, or
9        penal agencies; except that the identities of
10        witnesses to traffic accidents, traffic accident
11        reports, and rescue reports shall be provided by
12        agencies of local government, except when disclosure
13        would interfere with an active criminal investigation
14        conducted by the agency that is the recipient of the
15        request;
16            (v) disclose unique or specialized investigative
17        techniques other than those generally used and known or
18        disclose internal documents of correctional agencies
19        related to detection, observation or investigation of
20        incidents of crime or misconduct, and disclosure would
21        result in demonstrable harm to the agency or public
22        body that is the recipient of the request;
23            (vi) endanger the life or physical safety of law
24        enforcement personnel or any other person; or
25            (vii) obstruct an ongoing criminal investigation
26        by the agency that is the recipient of the request.

 

 

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1        (d-5) A law enforcement record created for law
2    enforcement purposes and contained in a shared electronic
3    record management system if the law enforcement agency that
4    is the recipient of the request did not create the record,
5    did not participate in or have a role in any of the events
6    which are the subject of the record, and only has access to
7    the record through the shared electronic record management
8    system.
9        (e) Records that relate to or affect the security of
10    correctional institutions and detention facilities.
11        (e-5) Records requested by persons committed to the
12    Department of Corrections if those materials are available
13    in the library of the correctional facility where the
14    inmate is confined.
15        (e-6) Records requested by persons committed to the
16    Department of Corrections if those materials include
17    records from staff members' personnel files, staff
18    rosters, or other staffing assignment information.
19        (e-7) Records requested by persons committed to the
20    Department of Corrections if those materials are available
21    through an administrative request to the Department of
22    Corrections.
23        (f) Preliminary drafts, notes, recommendations,
24    memoranda and other records in which opinions are
25    expressed, or policies or actions are formulated, except
26    that a specific record or relevant portion of a record

 

 

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1    shall not be exempt when the record is publicly cited and
2    identified by the head of the public body. The exemption
3    provided in this paragraph (f) extends to all those records
4    of officers and agencies of the General Assembly that
5    pertain to the preparation of legislative documents.
6        (g) Trade secrets and commercial or financial
7    information obtained from a person or business where the
8    trade secrets or commercial or financial information are
9    furnished under a claim that they are proprietary,
10    privileged or confidential, and that disclosure of the
11    trade secrets or commercial or financial information would
12    cause competitive harm to the person or business, and only
13    insofar as the claim directly applies to the records
14    requested.
15        The information included under this exemption includes
16    all trade secrets and commercial or financial information
17    obtained by a public body, including a public pension fund,
18    from a private equity fund or a privately held company
19    within the investment portfolio of a private equity fund as
20    a result of either investing or evaluating a potential
21    investment of public funds in a private equity fund. The
22    exemption contained in this item does not apply to the
23    aggregate financial performance information of a private
24    equity fund, nor to the identity of the fund's managers or
25    general partners. The exemption contained in this item does
26    not apply to the identity of a privately held company

 

 

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1    within the investment portfolio of a private equity fund,
2    unless the disclosure of the identity of a privately held
3    company may cause competitive harm.
4        Nothing contained in this paragraph (g) shall be
5    construed to prevent a person or business from consenting
6    to disclosure.
7        (h) Proposals and bids for any contract, grant, or
8    agreement, including information which if it were
9    disclosed would frustrate procurement or give an advantage
10    to any person proposing to enter into a contractor
11    agreement with the body, until an award or final selection
12    is made. Information prepared by or for the body in
13    preparation of a bid solicitation shall be exempt until an
14    award or final selection is made.
15        (i) Valuable formulae, computer geographic systems,
16    designs, drawings and research data obtained or produced by
17    any public body when disclosure could reasonably be
18    expected to produce private gain or public loss. The
19    exemption for "computer geographic systems" provided in
20    this paragraph (i) does not extend to requests made by news
21    media as defined in Section 2 of this Act when the
22    requested information is not otherwise exempt and the only
23    purpose of the request is to access and disseminate
24    information regarding the health, safety, welfare, or
25    legal rights of the general public.
26        (j) The following information pertaining to

 

 

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1    educational matters:
2            (i) test questions, scoring keys and other
3        examination data used to administer an academic
4        examination;
5            (ii) information received by a primary or
6        secondary school, college, or university under its
7        procedures for the evaluation of faculty members by
8        their academic peers;
9            (iii) information concerning a school or
10        university's adjudication of student disciplinary
11        cases, but only to the extent that disclosure would
12        unavoidably reveal the identity of the student; and
13            (iv) course materials or research materials used
14        by faculty members.
15        (k) Architects' plans, engineers' technical
16    submissions, and other construction related technical
17    documents for projects not constructed or developed in
18    whole or in part with public funds and the same for
19    projects constructed or developed with public funds,
20    including but not limited to power generating and
21    distribution stations and other transmission and
22    distribution facilities, water treatment facilities,
23    airport facilities, sport stadiums, convention centers,
24    and all government owned, operated, or occupied buildings,
25    but only to the extent that disclosure would compromise
26    security.

 

 

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1        (l) Minutes of meetings of public bodies closed to the
2    public as provided in the Open Meetings Act until the
3    public body makes the minutes available to the public under
4    Section 2.06 of the Open Meetings Act.
5        (m) Communications between a public body and an
6    attorney or auditor representing the public body that would
7    not be subject to discovery in litigation, and materials
8    prepared or compiled by or for a public body in
9    anticipation of a criminal, civil or administrative
10    proceeding upon the request of an attorney advising the
11    public body, and materials prepared or compiled with
12    respect to internal audits of public bodies.
13        (n) Records relating to a public body's adjudication of
14    employee grievances or disciplinary cases; however, this
15    exemption shall not extend to the final outcome of cases in
16    which discipline is imposed.
17        (o) Administrative or technical information associated
18    with automated data processing operations, including but
19    not limited to software, operating protocols, computer
20    program abstracts, file layouts, source listings, object
21    modules, load modules, user guides, documentation
22    pertaining to all logical and physical design of
23    computerized systems, employee manuals, and any other
24    information that, if disclosed, would jeopardize the
25    security of the system or its data or the security of
26    materials exempt under this Section.

 

 

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1        (p) Records relating to collective negotiating matters
2    between public bodies and their employees or
3    representatives, except that any final contract or
4    agreement and any agreement that is the subject of a
5    meeting held pursuant to either subsection (e) of Section 7
6    of the Illinois Public Labor Relations Act or subsection
7    (d) of Section 10 of the Illinois Educational Labor
8    Relations Act shall be subject to inspection and copying.
9        (q) Test questions, scoring keys, and other
10    examination data used to determine the qualifications of an
11    applicant for a license or employment.
12        (r) The records, documents, and information relating
13    to real estate purchase negotiations until those
14    negotiations have been completed or otherwise terminated.
15    With regard to a parcel involved in a pending or actually
16    and reasonably contemplated eminent domain proceeding
17    under the Eminent Domain Act, records, documents and
18    information relating to that parcel shall be exempt except
19    as may be allowed under discovery rules adopted by the
20    Illinois Supreme Court. The records, documents and
21    information relating to a real estate sale shall be exempt
22    until a sale is consummated.
23        (s) Any and all proprietary information and records
24    related to the operation of an intergovernmental risk
25    management association or self-insurance pool or jointly
26    self-administered health and accident cooperative or pool.

 

 

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1    Insurance or self insurance (including any
2    intergovernmental risk management association or self
3    insurance pool) claims, loss or risk management
4    information, records, data, advice or communications.
5        (t) Information contained in or related to
6    examination, operating, or condition reports prepared by,
7    on behalf of, or for the use of a public body responsible
8    for the regulation or supervision of financial
9    institutions or insurance companies, unless disclosure is
10    otherwise required by State law.
11        (u) Information that would disclose or might lead to
12    the disclosure of secret or confidential information,
13    codes, algorithms, programs, or private keys intended to be
14    used to create electronic or digital signatures under the
15    Electronic Commerce Security Act.
16        (v) Vulnerability assessments, security measures, and
17    response policies or plans that are designed to identify,
18    prevent, or respond to potential attacks upon a community's
19    population or systems, facilities, or installations, the
20    destruction or contamination of which would constitute a
21    clear and present danger to the health or safety of the
22    community, but only to the extent that disclosure could
23    reasonably be expected to jeopardize the effectiveness of
24    the measures or the safety of the personnel who implement
25    them or the public. Information exempt under this item may
26    include such things as details pertaining to the

 

 

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1    mobilization or deployment of personnel or equipment, to
2    the operation of communication systems or protocols, or to
3    tactical operations.
4        (w) (Blank).
5        (x) Maps and other records regarding the location or
6    security of generation, transmission, distribution,
7    storage, gathering, treatment, or switching facilities
8    owned by a utility, by a power generator, or by the
9    Illinois Power Agency.
10        (y) Information contained in or related to proposals,
11    bids, or negotiations related to electric power
12    procurement under Section 1-75 of the Illinois Power Agency
13    Act and Section 16-111.5 of the Public Utilities Act that
14    is determined to be confidential and proprietary by the
15    Illinois Power Agency or by the Illinois Commerce
16    Commission.
17        (z) Information about students exempted from
18    disclosure under Sections 10-20.38 or 34-18.29 of the
19    School Code, and information about undergraduate students
20    enrolled at an institution of higher education exempted
21    from disclosure under Section 25 of the Illinois Credit
22    Card Marketing Act of 2009.
23        (aa) Information the disclosure of which is exempted
24    under the Viatical Settlements Act of 2009.
25        (bb) Records and information provided to a mortality
26    review team and records maintained by a mortality review

 

 

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1    team appointed under the Department of Juvenile Justice
2    Mortality Review Team Act.
3        (cc) Information regarding interments, entombments, or
4    inurnments of human remains that are submitted to the
5    Cemetery Oversight Database under the Cemetery Care Act or
6    the Cemetery Oversight Act, whichever is applicable.
7        (dd) Correspondence and records (i) that may not be
8    disclosed under Section 11-9 of the Public Aid Code or (ii)
9    that pertain to appeals under Section 11-8 of the Public
10    Aid Code.
11        (ee) The names, addresses, or other personal
12    information of persons who are minors and are also
13    participants and registrants in programs of park
14    districts, forest preserve districts, conservation
15    districts, recreation agencies, and special recreation
16    associations.
17        (ff) The names, addresses, or other personal
18    information of participants and registrants in programs of
19    park districts, forest preserve districts, conservation
20    districts, recreation agencies, and special recreation
21    associations where such programs are targeted primarily to
22    minors.
23        (gg) Confidential information described in Section
24    1-100 of the Illinois Independent Tax Tribunal Act of 2012.
25        (hh) The report submitted to the State Board of
26    Education by the School Security and Standards Task Force

 

 

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1    under item (8) of subsection (d) of Section 2-3.157 of the
2    School Code and any information contained in that report.
3    (1.5) Any information exempt from disclosure under the
4Judicial Privacy Act shall be redacted from public records
5prior to disclosure under this Act.
6    (2) A public record that is not in the possession of a
7public body but is in the possession of a party with whom the
8agency has contracted to perform a governmental function on
9behalf of the public body, and that directly relates to the
10governmental function and is not otherwise exempt under this
11Act, shall be considered a public record of the public body,
12for purposes of this Act.
13    (3) This Section does not authorize withholding of
14information or limit the availability of records to the public,
15except as stated in this Section or otherwise provided in this
16Act.
17(Source: P.A. 97-333, eff. 8-12-11; 97-385, eff. 8-15-11;
1897-452, eff. 8-19-11; 97-783, eff. 7-13-12; 97-813, eff.
197-13-12; 97-847, eff. 9-22-12; 97-1065, eff. 8-24-12; 97-1129,
20eff. 8-28-12; 98-463, eff. 8-16-13; 98-578, eff. 8-27-13.)
 
21    Section 15. The Illinois Public Labor Relations Act is
22amended by changing Sections 7 and 24 as follows:
 
23    (5 ILCS 315/7)  (from Ch. 48, par. 1607)
24    Sec. 7. Duty to bargain.

 

 

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1    (a) A public employer and the exclusive representative have
2the authority and the duty to bargain collectively set forth in
3this Section.
4    For the purposes of this Act, "to bargain collectively"
5means the performance of the mutual obligation of the public
6employer or his designated representative and the
7representative of the public employees to meet at reasonable
8times, including meetings in advance of the budget-making
9process, and to negotiate in good faith with respect to wages,
10hours, and other conditions of employment, not excluded by
11Section 4 of this Act, or the negotiation of an agreement, or
12any question arising thereunder and the execution of a written
13contract incorporating any agreement reached if requested by
14either party, but such obligation does not compel either party
15to agree to a proposal or require the making of a concession.
16    The duty "to bargain collectively" shall also include an
17obligation to negotiate over any matter with respect to wages,
18hours and other conditions of employment, not specifically
19provided for in any other law or not specifically in violation
20of the provisions of any law. If any other law pertains, in
21part, to a matter affecting the wages, hours and other
22conditions of employment, such other law shall not be construed
23as limiting the duty "to bargain collectively" and to enter
24into collective bargaining agreements containing clauses which
25either supplement, implement, or relate to the effect of such
26provisions in other laws.

 

 

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1    The duty "to bargain collectively" shall also include
2negotiations as to the terms of a collective bargaining
3agreement. The parties may, by mutual agreement, provide for
4arbitration of impasses resulting from their inability to agree
5upon wages, hours and terms and conditions of employment to be
6included in a collective bargaining agreement. Such
7arbitration provisions shall be subject to the Illinois
8"Uniform Arbitration Act" unless agreed by the parties.
9    The duty "to bargain collectively" shall also mean that no
10party to a collective bargaining contract shall terminate or
11modify such contract, unless the party desiring such
12termination or modification:
13        (1) serves a written notice upon the other party to the
14    contract of the proposed termination or modification 60
15    days prior to the expiration date thereof, or in the event
16    such contract contains no expiration date, 60 days prior to
17    the time it is proposed to make such termination or
18    modification;
19        (2) offers to meet and confer with the other party for
20    the purpose of negotiating a new contract or a contract
21    containing the proposed modifications;
22        (3) notifies the Board within 30 days after such notice
23    of the existence of a dispute, provided no agreement has
24    been reached by that time; and
25        (4) continues in full force and effect, without
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1    conditions of the existing contract for a period of 60 days
2    after such notice is given to the other party or until the
3    expiration date of such contract, whichever occurs later.
4    The duties imposed upon employers, employees and labor
5organizations by paragraphs (2), (3) and (4) shall become
6inapplicable upon an intervening certification of the Board,
7under which the labor organization, which is a party to the
8contract, has been superseded as or ceased to be the exclusive
9representative of the employees pursuant to the provisions of
10subsection (a) of Section 9, and the duties so imposed shall
11not be construed as requiring either party to discuss or agree
12to any modification of the terms and conditions contained in a
13contract for a fixed period, if such modification is to become
14effective before such terms and conditions can be reopened
15under the provisions of the contract.
16    (b) Collective bargaining for home care and home health
17workers who function as personal care attendants, personal
18assistants, and individual maintenance home health workers
19under the Home Services Program shall be limited to the terms
20and conditions of employment under the State's control, as
21defined in Public Act 93-204 or this amendatory Act of the 97th
22General Assembly, as applicable.
23    (c) Collective bargaining for child and day care home
24providers under the child care assistance program shall be
25limited to the terms and conditions of employment under the
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1General Assembly.
2    (d) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Section,
3whenever collective bargaining is for the purpose of
4establishing an initial agreement following original
5certification of units with fewer than 35 employees, with
6respect to public employees other than peace officers, fire
7fighters, and security employees, the following apply:
8        (1) Not later than 10 days after receiving a written
9    request for collective bargaining from a labor
10    organization that has been newly certified as a
11    representative as defined in Section 6(c), or within such
12    further period as the parties agree upon, the parties shall
13    meet and commence to bargain collectively and shall make
14    every reasonable effort to conclude and sign a collective
15    bargaining agreement.
16        (2) If anytime after the expiration of the 90-day
17    period beginning on the date on which bargaining is
18    commenced the parties have failed to reach an agreement,
19    either party may notify the Illinois Public Labor Relations
20    Board of the existence of a dispute and request mediation
21    in accordance with the provisions of Section 14 of this
22    Act.
23        (3) If after the expiration of the 30-day period
24    beginning on the date on which mediation commenced, or such
25    additional period as the parties may agree upon, the
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1    conciliation, either the exclusive representative of the
2    employees or the employer may request of the other, in
3    writing, arbitration and shall submit a copy of the request
4    to the board. Upon submission of the request for
5    arbitration, the parties shall be required to participate
6    in the impasse arbitration procedures set forth in Section
7    14 of this Act, except the right to strike shall not be
8    considered waived pursuant to Section 17 of this Act, until
9    the actual convening of the arbitration hearing.
10    (e) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act, once
11an agreement is reached between a public employer and the
12exclusive representative of a bargaining unit concerning all of
13the terms of a collective bargaining agreement, that agreement
14shall be reduced to writing and published on the website of the
15public employer. Not less than 14 days after publication of the
16agreement on its website, the public employer shall hold an
17open public meeting on ratification of the agreement. No
18agreement shall be ratified by the parties until after the
19public employer publishes the agreement on its website and
20holds an open public meeting on ratification of the agreement
21as required under this subsection (e). Upon ratification, the
22agreement shall be signed by the parties.
23    (f) No collective bargaining agreement shall be binding on
24any government agency until it has been ratified by a majority
25vote of the agency's governing body, with that vote taking
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1this Section.
2(Source: P.A. 96-598, eff. 1-1-10; 97-1158, eff. 1-29-13.)
 
3    (5 ILCS 315/24)  (from Ch. 48, par. 1624)
4    Sec. 24. Meetings. Except as provided in Section 7 of this
5Act, the The provisions of the Open Meetings Act shall not
6apply to collective bargaining negotiations and grievance
7arbitration conducted pursuant to this Act.
8(Source: P.A. 83-1012.)
 
9    Section 20. The Illinois Educational Labor Relations Act is
10amended by changing Sections 10 and 18 as follows:
 
11    (115 ILCS 5/10)  (from Ch. 48, par. 1710)
12    Sec. 10. Duty to bargain. (a) An educational employer and
13the exclusive representative have the authority and the duty to
14bargain collectively as set forth in this Section. Collective
15bargaining is the performance of the mutual obligations of the
16educational employer and the representative of the educational
17employees to meet at reasonable times and confer in good faith
18with respect to wages, hours and other terms and conditions of
19employment, and to execute a written contract incorporating any
20agreement reached by such obligation, provided such obligation
21does not compel either party to agree to a proposal or require
22the making of a concession.
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1not effect or implement a provision in a collective bargaining
2agreement if the implementation of that provision would be in
3violation of, or inconsistent with, or in conflict with any
4statute or statutes enacted by the General Assembly of
5Illinois. The parties to the collective bargaining process may
6effect or implement a provision in a collective bargaining
7agreement if the implementation of that provision has the
8effect of supplementing any provision in any statute or
9statutes enacted by the General Assembly of Illinois pertaining
10to wages, hours or other conditions of employment; provided
11however, no provision in a collective bargaining agreement may
12be effected or implemented if such provision has the effect of
13negating, abrogating, replacing, reducing, diminishing, or
14limiting in any way any employee rights, guarantees or
15privileges pertaining to wages, hours or other conditions of
16employment provided in such statutes. Any provision in a
17collective bargaining agreement which has the effect of
18negating, abrogating, replacing, reducing, diminishing or
19limiting in any way any employee rights, guarantees or
20privileges provided in an Illinois statute or statutes shall be
21void and unenforceable, but shall not affect the validity,
22enforceability and implementation of other permissible
23provisions of the collective bargaining agreement.
24    (c) The collective bargaining agreement negotiated between
25representatives of the educational employees and the
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1procedure which shall apply to all employees in the unit and
2shall provide for binding arbitration of disputes concerning
3the administration or interpretation of the agreement. The
4agreement shall also contain appropriate language prohibiting
5strikes for the duration of the agreement. The costs of such
6arbitration shall be borne equally by the educational employer
7and the employee organization.
8    (d) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act, once
9Once an agreement is reached between representatives of the
10educational employees and the educational employer concerning
11the terms of a collective bargaining agreement, that and is
12ratified by both parties, the agreement shall be reduced to
13writing and published on the website of the educational
14employer. Not less than 14 days after publication of the
15agreement on its website, the educational employer shall hold
16an open public meeting on ratification of the agreement. No
17agreement concerning all of the terms of a collective
18bargaining agreement shall be ratified by the parties until
19after the educational employer publishes the agreement on its
20website and holds an open public meeting on ratification of the
21agreement as required under this subsection (d). Upon
22ratification, the agreement shall be signed by the parties.
23    (e) No collective bargaining agreement shall be binding on
24any school board until it has been ratified by a majority vote
25of the district's school board, with that vote taking place
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1Section.
2(Source: P.A. 84-832.)
 
3    (115 ILCS 5/18)  (from Ch. 48, par. 1718)
4    Sec. 18. Meetings. Except as provided in Section 10 of this
5Act, the The provisions of the Open Meetings Act shall not
6apply to collective bargaining negotiations and grievance
7arbitrations conducted pursuant to this Act.
8(Source: P.A. 83-1014.)
 
9    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
10becoming law.