Bill Text: IL HB2810 | 2019-2020 | 101st General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Open Meetings Act. Provides that a unit of local government or school district with an operating budget of $1,000,000 or more shall maintain a website and post to its website for the current calendar or fiscal year specified information. Provides that the information required to be posted must be easily accessible from the unit of local government's or school district's website home page and searchable. Provides penalties for noncompliance. Provides that no home rule unit may adopt posting requirements that are less restrictive than those provided in the Act. Provides that all local records required to be posted shall remain posted on the entity's website, or subsequent websites, for 10 years. Exempts the School District of the Department of Juvenile Justice. Amends the Freedom of Information Act. Provides an exemption from inspection and copying of any record or information that a unit of local government or school district maintains an electronic copy of on its website to comply with the Open Meetings Act. Amends the Department of Central Management Services Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois. Provides that within 6 months after the effective date of the amendatory Act, the Illinois Transparency and Accountability Portal shall have the capability to compile and update its database with information received from all school districts and units of local government. Authorizes the Illinois Transparency and Accountability Portal to provide direct access to information compiled under specified provisions of the Open Meetings Act. Provides an exempt mandate provision. Provides a severability clause. Effective immediately.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-04-12 - Rule 19(a) / Re-referred to Rules Committee [HB2810 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2019-HB2810-Introduced.html

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101ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2019 and 2020 HB2810 Introduced , by Rep. Anna Moeller SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
5 ILCS 120/1.01 from Ch. 102, par. 41.01
Amends the Open Meetings Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title.
LRB101 11008 RJF 56202 b
A BILL FOR
HB2810 LRB101 11008 RJF 56202 b
AN ACT concerning government.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The Open Meetings Act is amended by changing
Section 1.01 as follows:
(5 ILCS 120/1.01) (from Ch. 102, par. 41.01)
Sec. 1.01. This Act shall be known and and may be cited as
the Open Meetings Act.
(Source: P.A. 82-378.)