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| | 99TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2015 and 2016 HB0248 Introduced , by Rep. Dwight Kay SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED: |
| 5 ILCS 120/3 | from Ch. 102, par. 43 |
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Amends the Open Meetings Act. Provides that the court may declare null and void any final action taken at a closed or open meeting (instead of only a closed meeting) in violation of the Act. Effective immediately.
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| | HB0248 | | LRB099 04859 JLK 24888 b |
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1 | | AN ACT concerning government.
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2 | | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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3 | | represented in the General Assembly:
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4 | | Section 5. The Open Meetings Act is amended by changing |
5 | | Section 3 as follows:
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6 | | (5 ILCS 120/3) (from Ch. 102, par. 43)
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7 | | Sec. 3.
(a) Where the provisions of this Act are not |
8 | | complied with, or
where there is probable cause to believe that |
9 | | the provisions of this Act
will not be complied with, any |
10 | | person, including the State's Attorney
of the county in which |
11 | | such noncompliance
may occur, may bring a civil action in the |
12 | | circuit court for the judicial
circuit in which the alleged |
13 | | noncompliance has occurred or is about to occur,
or in which |
14 | | the affected public body has its principal office, prior to
or |
15 | | within 60 days of the meeting alleged to be in
violation of |
16 | | this Act or, if facts concerning the meeting are not discovered
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17 | | within the 60-day period,
within 60 days of the discovery of a |
18 | | violation by the State's
Attorney.
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19 | | Records that are obtained by a State's Attorney from a |
20 | | public body for purposes of reviewing whether the public body |
21 | | has complied with this Act may not be disclosed to the public. |
22 | | Those records, while in the possession of the State's Attorney, |
23 | | are exempt from disclosure under the Freedom of Information |