Bill Text: IL SB3288 | 2013-2014 | 98th General Assembly | Chaptered


Bill Title: Amends the General Assembly Operations Act. Provides that the printer's copy shall be furnished and delivered to the Secretary of State by the Enrolling and Engrossing Department of the 2 Houses, in such format as the Secretary of State and the Enrolling and Engrossing Departments may agree. Provides that electronic copies of the bound volumes of the session laws of the General Assembly may be made available upon agreement. Effective immediately.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 2-1)

Status: (Passed) 2014-08-26 - Public Act . . . . . . . . . 98-1115 [SB3288 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2013-SB3288-Chaptered.html



Public Act 098-1115
SB3288 EnrolledLRB098 15248 OMW 50255 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 General Assembly Operations Act is amended
by changing Section 10 as follows:
(25 ILCS 10/10)
Sec. 10. General Assembly printing; session laws.
(a) Authority. Public printing for the use of either House
of the General Assembly shall be subject to its control.
(b) Time of delivery. Daily calendars, journals, and other
similar printing for which manuscript or copy is delivered to
the Legislative Printing Unit by the clerical officer of either
House shall be printed so as to permit delivery at any
reasonable time required by the clerical officer. Any petition,
bill, resolution, joint resolution, memorial, and similar
manuscript or copy delivered to the Legislative Printing Unit
by the clerical officer of either House shall be printed at any
reasonable time required by that officer.
(c) Style. The manner, form, style, size, and arrangement
of type used in printing the bills, resolutions, amendments,
conference reports, and journals, including daily journals, of
the General Assembly shall be as provided in the Rules of the
General Assembly.
(d) Daily journal. The Clerk of the House of
Representatives and the Secretary of the Senate shall each
prepare and deliver to the Legislative Printing Unit,
immediately after the close of each daily session, a printer's
copy of the daily journal for their respective House.
(e) Daily and bound journals.
(1) Subscriptions. The Legislative Printing Unit shall
have printed the number of copies of the daily journal as
may be requested by the clerical officer of each House. The
Secretary of the Senate and the Clerk of the House of
Representatives shall furnish a copy of each daily journal
of their respective House to those persons who apply
therefor upon payment of a reasonable subscription fee
established separately by the Secretary of the Senate and
the Clerk of the House for their respective House. Each
subscriber shall specify at the time he or she subscribes
the address where he or she wishes the journals mailed. The
daily journals shall be furnished free of charge on a
pickup basis to State offices and to the public as long as
the supply lasts. The Secretary of the Senate and the Clerk
of the House shall determine the number of journals
available for pickup at their respective offices.
(2) Other copies. After the General Assembly adjourns,
the Clerk of the House and the Secretary of the Senate
shall prepare and deliver to the Legislative Printing Unit
a printer's copy of matter for the regular House and Senate
journals, together with any matter, not previously printed
in the daily journals, that is required by law, by order of
either House, or by joint resolution to be printed in the
journals. The Legislative Printing Unit shall have printed
the number of copies of the bound journal as may be
requested by the clerical officer of each House. A
reasonable number of bound volumes of the journal of each
House of the General Assembly shall be provided to State
and local officers, boards, commissions, institutions,
departments, agencies, and libraries requesting them
through canvasses conducted separately by the Secretary of
the Senate and the Clerk of the House. Reasonable fees
established separately by the Secretary of the Senate and
the Clerk of the House may be charged for bound volumes of
the journal of each House of the General Assembly.
(f) Session laws. Immediately after the General Assembly
adjourns, the Secretary of State shall prepare a printer's copy
for the "Session Laws of Illinois" that shall set forth in full
all Acts and joint resolutions passed by the General Assembly
at the session just concluded and all executive orders of the
Governor taking effect under Article V, Section 11 of the
Constitution and the Executive Reorganization Implementation
Act. The printer's copy shall be furnished and delivered to the
Secretary of State by the Enrolling and Engrossing Department
of the 2 Houses. At the time an enrolled law is filed with the
Secretary of State, whether before or after the conclusion of
the session in which it was passed, it shall be assigned a
Public Act number, the first part of which shall be the number
of the General Assembly followed by a dash and then a number
showing the order in which that law was filed with the
Secretary of State. The title page of each volume of the
session laws shall contain the following: "Printed by the
authority of the General Assembly of the State of Illinois".
The laws shall be arranged by the Secretary of State and
printed in the chronological order of Public Act numbers. At
the end of each Act the dates when the Act was passed by the
General Assembly and when the Act was approved by the Governor
shall be stated. Any Act becoming law without the approval of
the Governor shall be marked at its end in the session laws by
the printed certificate of the Secretary of State. Executive
orders taking effect under Article V, Section 11 of the
Constitution and the Executive Reorganization Implementation
Act shall be printed in chronological order of executive order
number and shall state at the end of each executive order the
date it was transmitted to the General Assembly and the date it
takes effect. In the case of an amendatory Act, the changes
made by the amendatory Act shall be indicated in the session
laws in the following manner: (i) all new matter shall be
underscored; and (ii) all matter deleted by the amendatory Act
shall be shown crossed with a line. The Secretary of State
shall prepare and furnish a table of contents and an index to
each volume of the session laws.
(g) Distribution. The bound volumes of the session laws of
the General Assembly or, upon agreement, an electronic copy of
the bound volumes, shall be made available to the following:
(1) one copy of each to each State officer, board,
commission, institution, and department requesting a copy
in accordance with a canvass conducted by the Secretary of
State before the printing of the session laws except judges
of the appellate courts and judges and associate judges of
the circuit courts;
(2) 10 copies to the law library of the Supreme Court;
one copy each to the law libraries of the appellate courts;
and one copy to each of the county law libraries or, in
those counties without county law libraries, one copy to
the clerk of the circuit court;
(3) one copy of each to each county clerk;
(4) 10 copies of each to the library of the University
of Illinois;
(5) 3 copies of each to the libraries of the University
of Illinois at Chicago, Southern Illinois University at
Carbondale, Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville,
Northern Illinois University, Western Illinois University,
Eastern Illinois University, Illinois State University,
Chicago State University, Northeastern Illinois
University, Chicago Kent College of Law, DePaul
University, John Marshall Law School, Loyola University,
Northwestern University, Roosevelt University, and the
University of Chicago;
(6) a number of copies sufficient for exchange purposes
to the Legislative Reference Bureau and the University of
Illinois College of Law Library;
(7) a number of copies sufficient for public libraries
in the State to the State Library; and
(8) the remainder shall be retained for distribution as
the interests of the State may require to persons making
application in writing or in person for the publication.
(h) Messages and reports. The following shall be printed in
a quantity not to exceed the maximum stated in this subsection
and bound and distributed at public expense:
(1) messages to the General Assembly by the Governor,
10,000 copies;
(2) the biennial report of the Lieutenant Governor,
1,000 copies;
(3) the biennial report of the Secretary of State,
3,000 copies;
(4) the biennial report of the State Comptroller, 5,000
copies;
(5) the biennial report of the State Treasurer, 3,000
copies;
(6) the annual report of the State Board of Education,
6,000 copies; and
(7) the biennial report and annual opinions of the
Attorney General, 5,000 copies.
The reports of all other State officers, boards,
commissions, institutions, and departments shall be printed,
bound, and distributed at public expense in a number of copies
determined from previous experience not to exceed the probable
and reasonable demands of the State therefor. Any other report
required by law to be made to the Governor shall, upon his or
her order, be printed in the quantity ordered by the Governor,
bound and distributed at public expense.
(Source: P.A. 90-572, eff. date - See Sec. 99-5.)
Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
becoming law.
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