Public Act 101-0595
 
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    AN ACT concerning State government.
  
 
    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
 
represented in the General Assembly:
  









 
    Section 5. The Lobbyist Registration Act is amended  by 
changing Sections 2, 5, and 7 as follows:
 
    (25 ILCS 170/2)  (from Ch. 63, par. 172)
    Sec. 2. Definitions. As used in this Act, unless the 
context otherwise
requires:
    (a) "Person" means any individual, firm, partnership, 
committee,
association, corporation, or any other organization 
or group of persons.
    (b) "Expenditure" means a payment, distribution, loan, 
advance, deposit,
or gift of money or anything of value, and 
includes a contract, promise, or
agreement, whether or not 
legally enforceable, to make an expenditure, for
the ultimate 
purpose of influencing executive, legislative, or 
administrative
action, other than compensation as defined in 
subsection (d).
    (c) "Official" means:
        (1) the Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Secretary of 
    State, Attorney
General, State Treasurer, and State 
    Comptroller;
        (2) Chiefs of Staff for officials described in item 
    (1);
        (3) Cabinet members of any elected constitutional 
    officer, including
Directors, Assistant Directors and 
    Chief Legal Counsel or General Counsel;
        (4) Members of the General Assembly; and
        (5) Members of any board, commission, authority, or 
    task force of the State authorized or created by State law 
    or by executive order of the Governor. 
    (d) "Compensation" means any money, thing of value or 
financial benefits
received or to be received in return for 
services rendered or to be
rendered, for lobbying as defined in 
subsection (e).
    Monies paid to members of the General Assembly by the State 
as
remuneration for performance of their Constitutional and 
statutory duties
as members of the General Assembly shall not 
constitute compensation as
defined by this Act.
    (e) "Lobby" and "lobbying"
means any communication with an 
official of the
executive or legislative branch of State 
government as defined in subsection
(c) for the ultimate 
purpose of influencing any executive, legislative, or

administrative action.
    (f) "Influencing" means any communication, action, 
reportable
expenditure as prescribed in Section 6 or other 
means used to promote,
support, affect, modify, oppose or delay 
any executive, legislative or
administrative action or to 
promote goodwill with officials as defined in
subsection (c).
    (g) "Executive action" means the proposal, drafting, 
development,
consideration, amendment, adoption, approval, 
promulgation, issuance,
modification, rejection or 
postponement by a State entity of a rule,
regulation, order, 
decision, determination, contractual arrangement, purchasing

agreement or other quasi-legislative or quasi-judicial action 
or proceeding.
    (h) "Legislative action" means the development, drafting, 
introduction,
consideration, modification, adoption, 
rejection, review, enactment, or passage
or defeat of any bill, 
amendment, resolution, report, nomination,
administrative rule 
or other matter by either house of the General Assembly or
a 
committee thereof, or by a legislator.  Legislative action also 
means the
action of the Governor in approving or vetoing any 
bill or portion thereof, and
the action of the Governor or any 
agency in the development of a proposal for
introduction in the 
legislature.
    (i) "Administrative action" means the execution or 
rejection of any rule,
regulation, legislative rule, standard, 
fee, rate, contractual arrangement,
purchasing agreement or 
other delegated legislative or quasi-legislative action
to be 
taken or withheld by any executive agency, department, board or

commission of the State.
    (j) "Lobbyist" means any natural person who undertakes to 
lobby State government
as provided in subsection (e).
    (k) "Lobbying entity" means any entity that hires, retains, 
employs, or compensates a natural person to lobby State 
government as provided in subsection (e).

    (l) "Authorized agent" means the person designated by an 
entity or lobbyist registered under this Act as the person 
responsible for submission and retention of reports required 
under this Act. 
    (m) "Client" means any person or entity that provides 
compensation to a lobbyist to lobby State government as 
provided in subsection (e) of this Section.
    (n) "Client registrant" means a client who is required to 
register under this Act. 
    (o) "Unit of local government" has the meaning ascribed to 
it in Section 1 of Article VII of the Illinois Constitution and 
also includes school districts and community college 
districts. 
(Source: P.A. 98-459, eff. 1-1-14.)
 
    (25 ILCS 170/5)
    Sec. 5. Lobbyist registration and disclosure. Every 
natural person and every entity required to
register under this 
Act shall
before any service
is performed which requires the 
natural person or entity to register, but in any event not

later than 2 business days after being employed or retained, 
file in the Office of the
Secretary of State a statement in a 
format prescribed by the Secretary of State containing the

following
information
with respect to each person or entity

employing, retaining, or benefitting from the services of the 
natural person or entity required to register:

        (a) The registrant's name, permanent address, e-mail

    address, if any,
fax
number, if any, business telephone 
    number, and temporary address, if the
registrant has a 
    temporary address while lobbying.

        (a-5) If the registrant is an entity, the
information 
    required under subsection (a) for each natural person 
    associated with the
registrant who will be lobbying,

    regardless of whether lobbying is a significant part of his 
    or her duties.

        (b) The name and address of the client or clients 
    employing or retaining
the registrant to perform such 
    services or on whose behalf the registrant appears.
If the 
    client employing or retaining the registrant is a client 
    registrant, the statement shall also include the name and 
    address of the client or clients of the client registrant 
    on whose behalf the registrant will be or anticipates 
    performing services. 
        (b-5) If the registrant employs or retains a 
    sub-registrant, the statement shall include the name and 
    address of the sub-registrant and identify the client or 
    clients of the registrant on whose behalf the 
    sub-registrant will be or is anticipated to be performing 
    services. 
        (c) A brief description of the executive, legislative, 
    or administrative
action in reference to which such service 
    is to be rendered.

        (c-5) Each executive and legislative branch agency the 
    registrant
expects
to lobby during the registration 
    period.

        (c-6) The nature of the client's business, by 
    indicating all
of the following categories that apply: (1) 
    banking and financial services, (2)
manufacturing, (3) 
    education, (4) environment, (5) healthcare, (6)
insurance, 
    (7) community interests, (8) labor, (9) public relations or

    advertising, (10) marketing or sales, (11) hospitality, 
    (12) engineering,
(13) information or technology products 
    or services, (14) social services,
(15) public utilities, 
    (16) racing or wagering, (17) real estate or
construction, 
    (18) telecommunications, (19) trade or professional

    association, (20) travel or tourism, (21) transportation, 
    (22) agriculture, and (23) other
(setting forth the nature 
    of that other business).

        (d) A confirmation that the registrant has a sexual 
    harassment policy as required by Section 4.7, that such 
    policy shall be made available to any individual within 2 
    business days upon written request (including electronic 
    requests), that any person may contact the authorized agent 
    of the registrant to report allegations of sexual 
    harassment, and that the registrant recognizes the 
    Inspector General has jurisdiction to review any 
    allegations of sexual harassment alleged against the 
    registrant or lobbyists hired by the registrant. 
        (e) Each unit of local government in this State for 
    which the registrant is or expects to be required to 
    register to lobby the local government during the 
    registration period. "Lobby" shall have the meaning 
    ascribed to it by the relevant unit of local government.
        (f) Each elected or appointed public office in this 
    State to be held by the registrant at any time during the 
    registration period. 
    Every natural person and every entity required to register 
under this Act shall annually submit the registration required 
by this Section on or before each January 31. The registrant 
has a continuing duty to report any substantial change or 
addition to the information contained in the registration.

Registrants registered as of the effective date of this 
amendatory Act of the 101st General Assembly shall update their 
registration to add the information required under subsections 
(b-5), (e), and (f), if applicable, within 30 days after the 
effective date of this amendatory Act of the 101st General 
Assembly. 
    The Secretary of State shall make all filed statements and 
amendments to statements publicly available by means of a 
searchable database that is accessible through the World Wide 
Web.  The Secretary of State shall provide all software 
necessary to comply with this provision to all natural persons 
and entities required to file.  The Secretary of State shall 
implement a plan to provide computer access and assistance to 
natural persons and entities required to file electronically. 
    All natural persons
and entities required to register under 
this Act shall remit a single, annual, and
nonrefundable $300 
registration fee. Each natural person required to register

under this Act shall submit, on an annual basis, a picture of 
the registrant. A registrant may, in lieu of submitting a

picture on an annual basis, authorize the Secretary of State to 
use any photo
identification available in any database 
maintained by the Secretary of State
for other purposes. Each 
registration fee collected for registrations on
or after 
January 1, 2010 shall be deposited into the Lobbyist

Registration Administration Fund for administration and 
enforcement
of this
Act.


(Source: P.A. 100-554, eff. 11-16-17.)
 
    (25 ILCS 170/7)  (from Ch. 63, par. 177)
    Sec. 7. Duties of the Secretary of State.

    (a) It shall be the duty of the Secretary of State to 
provide appropriate
forms for the registration and reporting of 
information required by this
Act and to keep such registrations 
and reports on file in his office for 3
years from the date of 
filing. He shall also provide and maintain a
register with 
appropriate blanks and indexes so that the information
required 
in Sections 5 and 6 of this Act may be accordingly entered. 
Such
records shall be considered public information and open to 
public
inspection.

    (b) Within 5 business days after a filing deadline, the 
Secretary of State shall notify
persons he determines are 
required to file but have failed to do so.

    (c) The Secretary of State shall provide adequate software 
to the persons required to file under this Act, and all 
registrations, reports, statements, and amendments required to 
be filed shall be filed electronically.
 The Secretary of
State 
shall promptly make all filed reports publicly available by 
means of a
searchable database that is accessible through the 
World Wide Web. The
Secretary of State shall provide all 
software necessary to comply with this
provision to all persons 
required to file. The Secretary of State shall
implement a plan 
to provide computer access and assistance to persons
required 
to file electronically.
    (d) The Secretary of State shall include registrants'

pictures when publishing
or posting on his or her website the 
information required in Section 5.

    (d-5) Within 90 days after the effective date of this 
amendatory Act of the 101st General Assembly, the Secretary of 
State shall create a publicly accessible and searchable 
database bringing together disclosures by registered lobbyists 
under this Act, contributions by registered lobbyists required 
to be disclosed under the Election Code, and statements of 
economic interests required to be filed by State officials and 
employees under the Illinois Governmental Ethics Act. 
    (e) The Secretary of State shall receive and investigate 
allegations of violations of this Act.  Any employee of the 
Secretary of State who receives an allegation shall immediately 
transmit it to the Secretary of State Inspector General.

(Source: P.A. 96-555, eff. 1-1-10; 96-1358, eff. 7-28-10.)
 

    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon 
becoming law.