Public Act 103-0738
 
HB4939 EnrolledLRB103 38115 SPS 68247 b

    AN ACT concerning State government.
 
    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, 
represented in the General Assembly:
 
    Section 5. The State Library Act is amended by changing 
Section 21 as follows:
 
    (15 ILCS 320/21)  (from Ch. 128, par. 121)
    Sec. 21. Publications and lists; deposits by State 
agencies. 
    (a) All State agencies shall provide and deposit with the 
Illinois State Library sufficient copies of all publications 
issued by such State agencies for its collection and for 
exchange purposes. The State Librarian shall by rule or 
regulation specify the number of copies required and the 
publications that must be deposited. The number of paper 
copies of a publication that must be deposited may be reduced 
if the documents are also submitted in an electric format 
specified by the Illinois State Library. The State Librarian 
shall set by rule the standard to be used for electronic data 
exchange among State agencies and the State Library.
    (b) For the purposes of this Section: 
    "State agencies" means every State office, official, 
department, division, section, unit, service, bureau, board, 
commission, committee, and subdivision thereof of all branches 
of the State government and which agencies expend 
appropriations of State funds.
    "Publications" means any document, report, directory, 
bibliography, rule, regulation, newsletter, pamphlet, 
brochure, periodical or other printed material paid for in 
whole or in part by funds appropriated by the General Assembly 
or issued at the request of a State agency, excepting however, 
correspondence, inter-office memoranda, and confidential 
publications. "Publications" does not include reports, 
documents, or other publications of a public institution of 
higher learning, except to the extent that the State 
Librarian, by rule, requires the report, document, or 
publication to be deposited with the State Library.
    "Published material" means publications in print and 
electronic formats duplicated by any means of duplication, 
including material downloaded from a publicly accessible 
electronic network.
    (c) The State Librarian shall from time to time provide a 
listing, electronically, in printed form, or in both formats, 
of the publications received by him or her under this Act.
(Source: P.A. 91-507, eff. 8-13-99; 92-617, eff. 1-1-03.)
 
    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon 
becoming law.