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| AN ACT concerning elections.
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| Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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| represented in the General Assembly:
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| Section 5. The Election Code is amended by changing Section |
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| 9-3 as follows:
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| (10 ILCS 5/9-3) (from Ch. 46, par. 9-3) |
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| Sec. 9-3. Every state political committee and every local
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| political committee shall file with the State Board of |
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| Elections, and
every local political committee shall file with |
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| the county clerk, a
statement of organization within 10 |
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| business days of the creation of
such
committee, except any |
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| political committee created within the 30 days before
an
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| election shall file a statement of organization within 24 hours |
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| via facsimile transmission or electronic mail
5 business days. |
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| A
political committee that acts as both a state political
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| committee and a local political committee shall file a copy of |
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| each
statement of organization with the State Board of |
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| Elections and the
county clerk.
The Board shall impose a civil |
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| penalty of $25 per business day upon political
committees for |
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| failing to file or late filing of a statement of organization,
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| except that for committees formed to support candidates for |
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| statewide office,
the civil penalty shall be $50 per business |
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| day. Such penalties shall not
exceed $5,000, and shall not |
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| exceed $10,000 for statewide office political
committees.
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| There shall be no fine if the statement is mailed and |
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| postmarked at least 72
hours prior to the filing deadline.
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| In addition to the civil penalties authorized by this |
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| Section, the State
Board of Elections or any other affected |
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| political committee may apply to the
circuit court for a |
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| temporary restraining
order or a preliminary or permanent |
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| injunction against the political committee
to cease the |
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| expenditure of funds and to cease operations until the |
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| statement
of organization is filed.
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| For the purpose of this Section,
"statewide office" means |
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| the Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Secretary of State,
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| Attorney General, State Treasurer, and State Comptroller.
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| The statement of organization shall include -
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| (a) the name
and address of the political committee (the |
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| name of the
political committee must include the name of any |
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| sponsoring entity);
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| (b) the scope, area of activity, party affiliation, |
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| candidate
affiliation and his county of residence, and purposes |
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| of the political
committee;
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| (c) the name, address, and position of each custodian of |
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| the
committee's books and accounts;
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| (d) the name, address, and position of the committee's |
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| principal
officers, including the chairman, treasurer, and |
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| officers and members of
its finance committee, if any;
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| (e) (Blank);
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| (f) a statement of what specific disposition of residual |
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| fund will
be made in the event of the dissolution or
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| termination of the committee;
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| (g) a listing of all banks or other financial institutions, |
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| safety
deposit boxes, and any other repositories or custodians |
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| of funds used by
the committee;
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| (h) the amount of funds available for campaign expenditures |
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| as of
the filing date of the committee's statement of |
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| organization.
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| For purposes of this Section, a "sponsoring entity" is (i) |
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| any person,
political committee, organization, corporation, or |
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| association that contributes
at least 33% of the total funding |
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| of the political committee or (ii) any person
or other entity |
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| that is registered or is required to register under the
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| Lobbyist Registration Act and contributes at least 33% of the |
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| total funding of
the political committee; except that a |
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| political committee is not a "sponsoring entity" for purposes |
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| of this Section if it is a political committee organized by (i) |
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| an established political party as defined in Section 10-2, (ii) |
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| a partisan caucus of either house of the General Assembly, or |
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| (iii) the Speaker or Minority Leader of the House of |
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| Representatives or the President or Minority Leader of the |
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| Senate, in his or her capacity as a legislative leader of the |
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| House of Representatives or Senate and not as a candidate for |
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| Representative or Senator.
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| (Source: P.A. 93-574, eff. 8-21-03; 93-615, eff. 11-19-03; |