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| 1 | AN ACT concerning government.
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| 2 | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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| 3 | represented in the General Assembly:
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| 4 | Section 5. The State Officials and Employees Ethics Act is | ||||||
| 5 | amended by changing Section 5-20 as follows: | ||||||
| 6 | (5 ILCS 430/5-20)
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| 7 | Sec. 5-20. Public service announcements; other promotional | ||||||
| 8 | material.
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| 9 | (a) Beginning January 1, 2004, no public service | ||||||
| 10 | announcement or
advertisement that is on behalf of
any State | ||||||
| 11 | administered program and contains the
proper name, image, or | ||||||
| 12 | voice of any executive branch constitutional officer
or member | ||||||
| 13 | of the General Assembly shall be (i) broadcast or aired on | ||||||
| 14 | radio or
television, (ii)
printed in a commercial newspaper or | ||||||
| 15 | a commercial magazine, or (iii) displayed on a billboard or | ||||||
| 16 | electronic message board at any
time.
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| 17 | (b) The proper name or image of any executive branch | ||||||
| 18 | constitutional officer
or member of the General Assembly may | ||||||
| 19 | not appear on any (i)
bumper stickers,
(ii) commercial | ||||||
| 20 | billboards, (iii) lapel pins or buttons, (iv) magnets, (v)
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| 21 | stickers, and
(vi) other similar promotional items, that are | ||||||
| 22 | not in furtherance of the person's official State duties or | ||||||
| 23 | governmental and public service functions, if
designed,
paid | ||||||
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| 1 | for, prepared, or distributed using public dollars. This | ||||||
| 2 | subsection does
not apply to stocks of items existing on the | ||||||
| 3 | effective date of this amendatory
Act of the 93rd General | ||||||
| 4 | Assembly.
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| 5 | (b-5) During a period beginning September 1 of the year of | ||||||
| 6 | a general election and ending the day after the general | ||||||
| 7 | election, the proper name or image of any officer or member | ||||||
| 8 | shall not be included in a public announcement on behalf of an | ||||||
| 9 | officer, member, or State agency related to any contract or | ||||||
| 10 | grant awarded by a State agency. Nothing in this subsection | ||||||
| 11 | (b-5) prohibits a State agency from issuing notification of the | ||||||
| 12 | award or grant of a contract, provided the notification does | ||||||
| 13 | not include the proper name or image of any officer or member. | ||||||
| 14 | This subsection (b-5) does not prohibit an officer or member | ||||||
| 15 | from attending any public or private event associated with the | ||||||
| 16 | award or grant of contract or from being included on a list of | ||||||
| 17 | attendees disseminated to the public. | ||||||
| 18 | (c) This Section does not apply to
communications
funded | ||||||
| 19 | through expenditures required to be reported under Article 9 of | ||||||
| 20 | the
Election Code.
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| 21 | (Source: P.A. 97-13, eff. 6-16-11.)
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