August 29, 2003
To the Honorable Members of the
Illinois Senate
93rd General Assembly
Pursuant to Article IV, Section
9(e) of the Illinois Constitution of 1970, I hereby return Senate Bill 699,
entitled “AN ACT concerning electronic transmissions”, with the following
specific recommendations for change:
on page 2, by replacing lines 16
through18 with “conference, or other electronic means, all locations at
which members of the public may attend must be disclosed in the agenda. An
agenda for each regular meeting shall be”; and
on page 5, line 22, by deleting “special,
emergency,”; and
on page 5, by replacing lines 26
and 27 with “place designated in the notice of the meeting, a public body
may allow a member of that body to attend the meeting by electronic means if
the”; and
on page 6, line 16, after “law”,
by inserting “other than a hearing conducted under Article 9 or 10 of the
Election Code”.
Several of these changes are
required to give the necessary flexibility to the State Board of Elections to
conduct their electoral board meetings and campaign disclosure hearings within
the limited timeframe required by the Election Code. With these changes,
Senate Bill 699 will have my approval. I respectfully request your concurrence.
Sincerely,
ROD R. BLAGOJEVICH
Governor