Full Text of SB0412 95th General Assembly
SB0412 95TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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95TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2007 and 2008 SB0412
Introduced 2/7/2007, by Sen. Matt Murphy SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED: |
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10 ILCS 5/9-3 |
from Ch. 46, par. 9-3 |
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Amends the Election Code. Provides that a political committee created within 30 days before an election must file its statement of organization within 24 hours (now, within 5 business days) after its creation and must file the statement electronically.
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A BILL FOR
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| AN ACT concerning elections.
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| Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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| represented in the General Assembly:
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| Section 5. The Election Code is amended by changing Section | 5 |
| 9-3 as follows: | 6 |
| (10 ILCS 5/9-3) (from Ch. 46, par. 9-3) | 7 |
| Sec. 9-3. Every state political committee and every local
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| political committee shall file with the State Board of | 9 |
| Elections, and
every local political committee shall file with | 10 |
| the county clerk, a
statement of organization within 10 | 11 |
| business days of the creation of
such
committee, except any | 12 |
| political committee created within the 30 days before
an
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| election shall electronically file a statement of organization | 14 |
| within 24 hours
5 business days . A
political committee that | 15 |
| acts as both a state political
committee and a local political | 16 |
| committee shall file a copy of each
statement of organization | 17 |
| with the State Board of Elections and the
county clerk.
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| Board shall impose a civil penalty of $25 per business day upon | 19 |
| political
committees for failing to file or late filing of a | 20 |
| statement of organization,
except that for committees formed to | 21 |
| support candidates for statewide office,
the civil penalty | 22 |
| shall be $50 per business day. Such penalties shall not
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| $5,000, and shall not exceed $10,000 for statewide office |
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| political
committees.
There shall be no fine if the statement | 2 |
| is mailed and postmarked at least 72
hours prior to the filing | 3 |
| deadline.
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| In addition to the civil penalties authorized by this | 5 |
| Section, the State
Board of Elections or any other affected | 6 |
| political committee may apply to the
circuit court for a | 7 |
| temporary restraining
order or a preliminary or permanent | 8 |
| injunction against the political committee
to cease the | 9 |
| expenditure of funds and to cease operations until the | 10 |
| statement
of organization is filed.
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| For the purpose of this Section,
"statewide office" means | 12 |
| the Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Secretary of State,
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| Attorney General, State Treasurer, and State Comptroller.
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| The statement of organization shall include -
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| (a) the name
and address of the political committee (the | 16 |
| name of the
political committee must include the name of any | 17 |
| sponsoring entity);
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| (b) the scope, area of activity, party affiliation, | 19 |
| candidate
affiliation and his county of residence, and purposes | 20 |
| of the political
committee;
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| (c) the name, address, and position of each custodian of | 22 |
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committee's books and accounts;
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| (d) the name, address, and position of the committee's | 24 |
| principal
officers, including the chairman, treasurer, and | 25 |
| officers and members of
its finance committee, if any;
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| (e) (Blank);
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| (f) a statement of what specific disposition of residual | 2 |
| fund will
be made in the event of the dissolution or
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| termination of the committee;
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| (g) a listing of all banks or other financial institutions, | 5 |
| safety
deposit boxes, and any other repositories or custodians | 6 |
| of funds used by
the committee;
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| (h) the amount of funds available for campaign expenditures | 8 |
| as of
the filing date of the committee's statement of | 9 |
| organization.
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| For purposes of this Section, a "sponsoring entity" is (i) | 11 |
| any person,
political committee, organization, corporation, or | 12 |
| association that contributes
at least 33% of the total funding | 13 |
| of the political committee or (ii) any person
or other entity | 14 |
| that is registered or is required to register under the
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| Lobbyist Registration Act and contributes at least 33% of the | 16 |
| total funding of
the political committee; except that a | 17 |
| political committee is not a "sponsoring entity" for purposes | 18 |
| of this Section if it is a political committee organized by (i) | 19 |
| an established political party as defined in Section 10-2, (ii) | 20 |
| a partisan caucus of either house of the General Assembly, or | 21 |
| (iii) the Speaker or Minority Leader of the House of | 22 |
| Representatives or the President or Minority Leader of the | 23 |
| Senate, in his or her capacity as a legislative leader of the | 24 |
| House of Representatives or Senate and not as a candidate for | 25 |
| Representative or Senator.
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| (Source: P.A. 93-574, eff. 8-21-03; 93-615, eff. 11-19-03; |
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| 94-645, eff. 8-22-05.)
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