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| AN ACT concerning law.
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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 Whistleblower Reward and Protection Act is |
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| amended by changing Section 2 and by adding Section 9 as |
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| follows:
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| (740 ILCS 175/2) (from Ch. 127, par. 4102)
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| Sec. 2. Definitions. As used in this Act:
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| (a) "State" means the State of Illinois; any agency of |
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| State
government; and any of the following entities which may |
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| elect to adopt the provisions of this Act by ordinance, |
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| resolution, or referendum pursuant to Section 9 of this Act, a |
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| copy of which shall be filed with the Attorney General within |
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| 30 days of its adoption: the system of State colleges and |
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| universities, any school district, community college district, |
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| county, municipality, municipal corporation, unit of local |
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| government, and any combination of the above under an |
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| intergovernmental agreement that includes provisions for a |
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| governing body of the agency created by the agreement.
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| (b) "Guard" means the Illinois National Guard.
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| (c) "Investigation" means any inquiry conducted by any |
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| investigator for
the purpose of ascertaining whether any person |
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| is or has been engaged in
any violation of this Act.
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| (d) "Investigator" means a person who is charged by the |
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| Department of
State Police with the duty of conducting any |
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| investigation under this Act, or
any officer or employee of the |
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| State acting under the direction and
supervision of the |
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| Department of State Police, through the Division of
Operations |
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| or the Division of Internal
Investigation, in the course of
an |
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| investigation.
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| (e) "Documentary material" includes the original or any |
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| copy of any
book, record, report, memorandum, paper, |
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| communication, tabulation,
chart, or other document, or data |
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| compilations stored in or accessible
through computer or other |
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| information retrieval systems, together with
instructions and |
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| all other materials necessary to use or interpret such
data |
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| compilations, and any product of discovery.
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| (f) "Custodian" means the custodian, or any deputy |
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| custodian, designated
by the Attorney General under subsection |
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| (i)(1) of Section 6.
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| (g) "Product of discovery" includes:
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| (1) the original or duplicate of any deposition, |
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| interrogatory,
document, thing, result of the inspection |
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| of land or other property,
examination, or admission, which |
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| is obtained by any method of discovery in
any judicial or |
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| administrative proceeding of an adversarial nature;
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| (2) any digest, analysis, selection, compilation, or |
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| derivation of any
item listed in paragraph (1); and
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| (3) any index or other manner of access to any item |
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| listed in
paragraph (1).
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| (Source: P.A. 95-128, eff. 1-1-08.)
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| (740 ILCS 175/9 new)
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| Sec. 9. Referendum powers; initiative. |
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| (a) The electors of any school district, public community |
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| college district, municipality, municipal corporation, or unit |
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| of local government may pass, by initiative petition and |
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| referendum in the manner prescribed by this Section, a binding |
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| ordinance authorizing the adoption of the provisions of this |
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| Act. |
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| (b) In any of the units of government listed in subsection |
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| (a) of this Section, a
binding ordinance adopting the |
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| provisions of this Act may be proposed by a petition signed by |
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| the number of electors equal to at least 2% of
the total votes |
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| cast for Governor at the last general election in their
unit of |
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| government. The petition shall contain the text of the proposed |
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| ordinance and the date of the regular election at which the |
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| proposed ordinance is to be submitted, shall have been signed |
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| by petitioning electors not more than 12 months preceding the |
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| regular election, and shall be filed with the clerk or |
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| secretary of the unit of government at least 78 days before |
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| that regular election. |
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| (c) Except as otherwise provided in this Act, petitions |
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| filed under this Section shall be governed by Article 28 of the |
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| Election Code. |
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| (d) If no objection to a petition filed under subsection |
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| (b) of this Section is filed within 5 business days after the |
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| petition is filed, or if an objection is filed and the proper |
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| election authority rules the petition sufficient, then the |
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| clerk or secretary of the unit of government shall submit the |
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| petition to the proper election authority and the election |
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| authority shall order the proposed ordinance submitted to the |
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| electors of the unit of government at the election specified in |
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| the petition. |
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| (e) The proposition shall be in substantially the following
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| form: |
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| "Shall ............ adopt the provisions of the Illinois
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| Whistleblower Reward and Protection Act?" |
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| (f) If a majority of the electors of the unit of government |
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| voting on the proposition vote in favor thereof, the |
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| proposition shall be deemed adopted.
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