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Full Text of HB5623 98th General Assembly

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HB5623enr 98TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

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1     AN ACT concerning local government.

2     Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3 represented in the General Assembly:

4     Section 5. The Local Records Act is amended by adding
5 Section 20 as follows:

6     (50 ILCS 205/20 new)
7     Sec. 20. Internet posting requirements.
8     (a) A unit of local government or school district that
9 serves a population of less than 1,000,000 that maintains an
10 Internet website other than a social media website or social
11 networking website shall, within 90 days of the effective date
12 of this amendatory Act of the 98th General Assembly, post to
13 its website for the current calendar year a mechanism, such as
14 a uniform single email address, for members of the public to
15 electronically communicate with elected officials of that unit
16 of local government or school district, unless such officials
17 have an individual email address for that purpose.
18     (b) For the purposes of this Section "Internet website"
19 shall not include any social media website, social networking
20 website, or any other social media presence that a unit of
21 local government or school district maintains.
22     (c) A hyperlink to the information required to be posted
23 under this Section must be easily accessible from the unit of

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1 local government's or school district's home page.
2     (d) The postings required by this Section are in addition
3 to any other posting requirements required by law or ordinance.
4     (e) No home rule unit may adopt posting requirements that
5 are less restrictive than this Section. This Section is a
6 limitation under subsection (i) of Section 6 of Article VII of
7 the Illinois Constitution on the concurrent exercise by home
8 rule units of powers and functions exercised by the State.

9     Section 90. The State Mandates Act is amended by adding
10 Section 8.38 as follows:

11     (30 ILCS 805/8.38 new)
12     Sec. 8.38. Exempt mandate. Notwithstanding Sections 6 and 8
13 of this Act, no reimbursement by the State is required for the
14 implementation of any mandate created by this amendatory Act of
15 the 98th General Assembly.

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