(5 ILCS 430/25-55)
Sec. 25-55. Decisions; recommendations.
(a) All decisions of the Legislative Ethics Commission
must include a description of the alleged misconduct, the decision of
the Commission, including any fines levied and any recommendation
of discipline, and the reasoning for that decision. All decisions of the
Commission shall be delivered to the head of the appropriate State
agency, the appropriate ultimate jurisdictional authority, and the
Legislative Inspector General. The Legislative Ethics
Commission shall promulgate rules for the decision and
recommendation process.
(b) If the Legislative Ethics Commission issues a
recommendation of discipline to an agency head or ultimate
jurisdictional authority, that agency head or ultimate jurisdictional
authority must respond to that recommendation in 30 days with a
written response to the Legislative Ethics Commission. This
response must include any disciplinary action the agency head or
ultimate jurisdictional authority has taken with respect to the officer or
employee in question. If the agency head or ultimate jurisdictional
authority did not take any disciplinary action, or took a different
disciplinary action than that recommended by the Legislative
Ethics Commission, the agency head or ultimate jurisdictional
authority must describe the different action and explain the reasons for the
different action in the
written response. This response must be served upon the Legislative
Ethics Commission and
the Legislative Inspector General within the 30-day period and is not
exempt from the provisions of the Freedom of Information Act.
(Source: P.A. 93-617, eff. 12-9-03.)
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