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| 1 | AMENDMENT TO SENATE BILL 1602
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| 2 | AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend Senate Bill 1602 by replacing | ||||||
| 3 | everything after the enacting clause with the following:
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| 4 | "Section 5. The State Officials and Employees Ethics Act is | ||||||
| 5 | amended by changing Section 5-10 as follows: | ||||||
| 6 | (5 ILCS 430/5-10)
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| 7 | Sec. 5-10. Ethics training. Each officer, member, and | ||||||
| 8 | employee
must complete, at least
annually beginning in 2004, an | ||||||
| 9 | ethics training program conducted by the
appropriate
State | ||||||
| 10 | agency. Each ultimate jurisdictional authority
must implement | ||||||
| 11 | an ethics training program for its officers, members, and
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| 12 | employees that is designed, at a minimum, to ensure | ||||||
| 13 | comprehension of the substance of this Act.
These ethics | ||||||
| 14 | training programs shall be overseen by the appropriate Ethics
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| 15 | Commission and Inspector
General appointed pursuant to this Act | ||||||
| 16 | in consultation with the Office of the
Attorney
General.
The | ||||||
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| 1 | ethics training program must enable a person, upon completion, | ||||||
| 2 | to certify in writing that the person has completed the | ||||||
| 3 | training program, that the person understands that he or she is | ||||||
| 4 | subject to the ethics laws and rules of this State, and that | ||||||
| 5 | the person will not violate those ethics laws and rules. Each | ||||||
| 6 | person required to complete an ethics training program must | ||||||
| 7 | provide to his or her ethics officer a signed copy of that | ||||||
| 8 | certification by the deadline for completion of the ethics | ||||||
| 9 | training program.
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| 10 | Each Inspector General
shall set standards and
determine | ||||||
| 11 | the hours and frequency of training necessary for each
position | ||||||
| 12 | or category of positions. A person who fills a vacancy in an
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| 13 | elective or appointed position that requires training and a | ||||||
| 14 | person
employed in a position that requires training must | ||||||
| 15 | complete his or her
initial ethics training within one month 6 | ||||||
| 16 | months after commencement of his or
her office or employment.
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| 17 | (Source: P.A. 93-615, eff. 11-19-03; 93-617, eff. 12-9-03.)
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| 18 | Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | ||||||
| 19 | becoming law.".
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