104TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2025 and 2026
SB1682
 
Introduced 2/5/2025, by Sen. Jil Tracy
 
SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
50 ILCS 105/1  from Ch. 102, par. 1
    Amends the Public Officer Prohibited Activities Act. In provisions concerning offices a member of a county board may hold during the member's term of office, provides that a member of the county board may serve as a member of an intergovernmental joint self-insurance pool board during the county board member's term of office. Effective immediately.


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A BILL FOR
 
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1    AN ACT concerning local government.
 
2    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, 
3represented in the General Assembly:
 
4    Section 5. The Public Officer Prohibited Activities Act is 
5amended by changing Section 1 as follows:
 
6    (50 ILCS 105/1)  (from Ch. 102, par. 1)
7    Sec. 1. County board. No member of a county board, during 
8the term of office for which he or she is elected, may be 
9appointed to, accept, or hold any office other than (i) 
10chairman of the county board or member of the regional 
11planning commission by appointment or election of the board of 
12which he or she is a member, (ii) alderperson of a city or 
13member of the board of trustees of a village or incorporated 
14town if the city, village, or incorporated town has fewer than 
151,000 inhabitants and is located in a county having fewer than 
1650,000 inhabitants, or (iii) trustee of a forest preserve 
17district created under Section 18.5 of the Conservation 
18District Act, unless he or she first resigns from the office of 
19county board member or unless the holding of another office is 
20authorized by law. Any such prohibited appointment or election 
21is void. This Section shall not preclude a member of the county 
22board from being appointed or selected to serve as (i) a member 
23of a County Extension Board as provided in Section 7 of the 
 
 
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1County Cooperative Extension Law, (ii) a member of an 
2Emergency Telephone System Board as provided in Section 15.4 
3of the Emergency Telephone System Act, (iii) a member of the 
4board of review as provided in Section 6-30 of the Property Tax 
5Code, or (iv) a public administrator or public guardian as 
6provided in Section 13-1 of the Probate Act of 1975, or (v) a 
7member of an intergovernmental joint self-insurance pool board 
8as provided in Section 6 of the Intergovernmental Cooperation 
9Act. Nothing in this Act shall be construed to prohibit an 
10elected county official from holding elected office in another 
11unit of local government so long as there is no contractual 
12relationship between the county and the other unit of local 
13government. This amendatory Act of 1995 is declarative of 
14existing law and is not a new enactment.
15(Source: P.A. 102-15, eff. 6-17-21.)
 
16    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon 
17becoming law.