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| 1 | AN ACT concerning local 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 Open Meetings Act is amended by changing | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 5 | Section 2 as follows:
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| 6 | (5 ILCS 120/2) (from Ch. 102, par. 42)
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| 7 | Sec. 2. Open meetings.
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| 8 | (a) Openness required. All meetings of public
bodies shall | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 9 | be open to the public unless excepted in subsection (c)
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| 10 | closed in accordance with Section 2a.
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| 11 | (b) Construction of exceptions. The exceptions contained | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 12 | in subsection
(c) are in derogation of the requirement that | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 13 | public bodies
meet in the open, and therefore, the exceptions | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 14 | are to be strictly
construed, extending only to subjects | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 15 | clearly within their scope.
The exceptions authorize but do not | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 16 | require the holding of
a closed meeting to discuss a subject | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 17 | included within an enumerated exception.
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| 18 | (c) Exceptions. A public body may hold closed meetings to | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 19 | consider the
following subjects:
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| 20 | (1) The appointment, employment, compensation, | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 21 | discipline, performance,
or dismissal of specific | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 22 | employees of the public body or legal counsel for
the | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 23 | public body, including hearing
testimony on a complaint | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 1 | lodged against an employee of the public body or
against | ||||||
| 2 | legal counsel for the public body to determine its | ||||||
| 3 | validity.
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| 4 | (2) Collective negotiating matters between the public | ||||||
| 5 | body and its
employees or their representatives, or | ||||||
| 6 | deliberations concerning salary
schedules for one or more | ||||||
| 7 | classes of employees.
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| 8 | (3) The selection of a person to fill a public office,
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| 9 | as defined in this Act, including a vacancy in a public | ||||||
| 10 | office, when the public
body is given power to appoint | ||||||
| 11 | under law or ordinance, or the discipline,
performance or | ||||||
| 12 | removal of the occupant of a public office, when the public | ||||||
| 13 | body
is given power to remove the occupant under law or | ||||||
| 14 | ordinance.
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| 15 | (4) Evidence or testimony presented in open hearing, or | ||||||
| 16 | in closed
hearing where specifically authorized by law, to
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| 17 | a quasi-adjudicative body, as defined in this Act, provided | ||||||
| 18 | that the body
prepares and makes available for public | ||||||
| 19 | inspection a written decision
setting forth its | ||||||
| 20 | determinative reasoning.
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| 21 | (5) The purchase or lease of real property for the use | ||||||
| 22 | of
the public body, including meetings held for the purpose | ||||||
| 23 | of discussing
whether a particular parcel should be | ||||||
| 24 | acquired.
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| 25 | (6) The setting of a price for sale or lease of | ||||||
| 26 | property owned
by the public body.
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| 1 | (7) The sale or purchase of securities, investments, or | ||||||
| 2 | investment
contracts. This exception shall not apply to the | ||||||
| 3 | investment of assets or income of funds deposited into the | ||||||
| 4 | Illinois Prepaid Tuition Trust Fund.
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| 5 | (8) Security procedures and the use of personnel and
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| 6 | equipment to respond to an actual, a threatened, or a | ||||||
| 7 | reasonably
potential danger to the safety of employees, | ||||||
| 8 | students, staff, the public, or
public
property.
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| 9 | (9) Student disciplinary cases.
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| 10 | (10) The placement of individual students in special | ||||||
| 11 | education
programs and other matters relating to | ||||||
| 12 | individual students.
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| 13 | (11) Litigation, when an action against, affecting or | ||||||
| 14 | on behalf of the
particular public body has been filed and | ||||||
| 15 | is pending before a court or
administrative tribunal, or | ||||||
| 16 | when the public body finds that an action is
probable or | ||||||
| 17 | imminent, in which case the basis for the finding shall be
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| 18 | recorded and entered into the minutes of the closed | ||||||
| 19 | meeting.
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| 20 | (12) The establishment of reserves or settlement of | ||||||
| 21 | claims as provided
in the Local Governmental and | ||||||
| 22 | Governmental Employees Tort Immunity Act, if
otherwise the | ||||||
| 23 | disposition of a claim or potential claim might be
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| 24 | prejudiced, or the review or discussion of claims, loss or | ||||||
| 25 | risk management
information, records, data, advice or | ||||||
| 26 | communications from or with respect
to any insurer of the | ||||||
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| 1 | public body or any intergovernmental risk management
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| 2 | association or self insurance pool of which the public body | ||||||
| 3 | is a member.
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| 4 | (13) Conciliation of complaints of discrimination in | ||||||
| 5 | the sale or rental
of housing, when closed meetings are | ||||||
| 6 | authorized by the law or ordinance
prescribing fair housing | ||||||
| 7 | practices and creating a commission or
administrative | ||||||
| 8 | agency for their enforcement.
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| 9 | (14) Informant sources, the hiring or assignment of | ||||||
| 10 | undercover personnel
or equipment, or ongoing, prior or | ||||||
| 11 | future criminal investigations, when
discussed by a public | ||||||
| 12 | body with criminal investigatory responsibilities.
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| 13 | (15) Professional ethics or performance when | ||||||
| 14 | considered by an advisory
body appointed to advise a | ||||||
| 15 | licensing or regulatory agency on matters
germane to the | ||||||
| 16 | advisory body's field of competence.
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| 17 | (16) Self evaluation, practices and procedures or | ||||||
| 18 | professional ethics,
when meeting with a representative of | ||||||
| 19 | a statewide association of which the
public body is a | ||||||
| 20 | member.
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| 21 | (17) The recruitment, credentialing, discipline or | ||||||
| 22 | formal peer review
of physicians or other
health care | ||||||
| 23 | professionals for a hospital, or
other institution | ||||||
| 24 | providing medical care, that is operated by the public | ||||||
| 25 | body.
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| 26 | (18) Deliberations for decisions of the Prisoner | ||||||
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| 1 | Review Board.
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| 2 | (19) Review or discussion of applications received | ||||||
| 3 | under the
Experimental Organ Transplantation Procedures | ||||||
| 4 | Act.
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| 5 | (20) The classification and discussion of matters | ||||||
| 6 | classified as
confidential or continued confidential by | ||||||
| 7 | the State Government Suggestion Award
Board.
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| 8 | (21) Discussion of minutes of meetings lawfully closed | ||||||
| 9 | under this Act,
whether for purposes of approval by the | ||||||
| 10 | body of the minutes or semi-annual
review of the minutes as | ||||||
| 11 | mandated by Section 2.06.
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| 12 | (22) Deliberations for decisions of the State
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| 13 | Emergency Medical Services Disciplinary
Review Board.
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| 14 | (23) The operation by a municipality of a municipal | ||||||
| 15 | utility or the
operation of a
municipal power agency or | ||||||
| 16 | municipal natural gas agency when the
discussion involves | ||||||
| 17 | (i) contracts relating to the
purchase, sale, or delivery | ||||||
| 18 | of electricity or natural gas or (ii) the results
or | ||||||
| 19 | conclusions of load forecast studies.
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| 20 | (24) Meetings of a residential health care facility | ||||||
| 21 | resident sexual
assault and death review
team or
the | ||||||
| 22 | Executive
Council under the Abuse Prevention Review
Team | ||||||
| 23 | Act.
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| 24 | (25) Meetings of an independent team of experts under | ||||||
| 25 | Brian's Law. | ||||||
| 26 | (26) Meetings of a mortality review team appointed | ||||||
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| 1 | under the Department of Juvenile Justice Mortality Review | ||||||
| 2 | Team Act. | ||||||
| 3 | (27) (Blank). | ||||||
| 4 | (28) Correspondence and records (i) that may not be | ||||||
| 5 | disclosed under Section 11-9 of the Public Aid Code or (ii) | ||||||
| 6 | that pertain to appeals under Section 11-8 of the Public | ||||||
| 7 | Aid Code. | ||||||
| 8 | (29) Meetings between internal or external auditors | ||||||
| 9 | and governmental audit committees, finance committees, and | ||||||
| 10 | their equivalents, when the discussion involves internal | ||||||
| 11 | control weaknesses, identification of potential fraud risk | ||||||
| 12 | areas, known or suspected frauds, and fraud interviews | ||||||
| 13 | conducted in accordance with generally accepted auditing | ||||||
| 14 | standards of the United States of America. | ||||||
| 15 | (30) Those meetings or portions of meetings of an | ||||||
| 16 | at-risk adult fatality review team or the Illinois At-Risk | ||||||
| 17 | Adult Fatality Review Team Advisory Council during which a | ||||||
| 18 | review of the death of an eligible adult in which abuse or | ||||||
| 19 | neglect is suspected, alleged, or substantiated is | ||||||
| 20 | conducted pursuant to Section 15 of the Adult Protective | ||||||
| 21 | Services Act. | ||||||
| 22 | (31) (30) Meetings and deliberations for decisions of | ||||||
| 23 | the Concealed Carry Licensing Review Board under the | ||||||
| 24 | Firearm Concealed Carry Act. | ||||||
| 25 | (32) Meetings between the Regional Transportation | ||||||
| 26 | Authority Board and its Service Boards when the discussion | ||||||
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| 1 | involves approval by the Regional Transportation Authority | ||||||
| 2 | Board of employment contracts under Section 28d of the | ||||||
| 3 | Metropolitan Transit Authority Act and Sections 3A.18 and | ||||||
| 4 | 3B.26 of the Regional Transportation Authority Act. | ||||||
| 5 | (d) Definitions. For purposes of this Section:
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| 6 | "Employee" means a person employed by a public body whose | ||||||
| 7 | relationship
with the public body constitutes an | ||||||
| 8 | employer-employee relationship under
the usual common law | ||||||
| 9 | rules, and who is not an independent contractor.
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| 10 | "Public office" means a position created by or under the
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| 11 | Constitution or laws of this State, the occupant of which is | ||||||
| 12 | charged with
the exercise of some portion of the sovereign | ||||||
| 13 | power of this State. The term
"public office" shall include | ||||||
| 14 | members of the public body, but it shall not
include | ||||||
| 15 | organizational positions filled by members thereof, whether
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| 16 | established by law or by a public body itself, that exist to | ||||||
| 17 | assist the
body in the conduct of its business.
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| 18 | "Quasi-adjudicative body" means an administrative body | ||||||
| 19 | charged by law or
ordinance with the responsibility to conduct | ||||||
| 20 | hearings, receive evidence or
testimony and make | ||||||
| 21 | determinations based
thereon, but does not include
local | ||||||
| 22 | electoral boards when such bodies are considering petition | ||||||
| 23 | challenges.
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| 24 | (e) Final action. No final action may be taken at a closed | ||||||
| 25 | meeting.
Final action shall be preceded by a public recital of | ||||||
| 26 | the nature of the
matter being considered and other information | ||||||
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| 1 | that will inform the
public of the business being conducted.
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| 2 | (Source: P.A. 97-318, eff. 1-1-12; 97-333, eff. 8-12-11; | ||||||
| 3 | 97-452, eff. 8-19-11; 97-813, eff. 7-13-12; 97-876, eff. | ||||||
| 4 | 8-1-12; 98-49, eff. 7-1-13; 98-63, eff. 7-9-13; revised | ||||||
| 5 | 7-23-13.)
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| 6 | Section 10. The Metropolitan Transit Authority Act is | ||||||
| 7 | amended by adding Section 28d as follows:
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| 8 | (70 ILCS 3605/28d new) | ||||||
| 9 | Sec. 28d. Employment contracts. Except as otherwise | ||||||
| 10 | provided in Section 28a, before the Chicago Transit Board may | ||||||
| 11 | enter into or amend any employment contract, the Chicago | ||||||
| 12 | Transit Board must obtain approval of that contract or | ||||||
| 13 | amendment from the Regional Transportation Authority Board. | ||||||
| 14 | This Section applies only to contracts entered into or amended | ||||||
| 15 | on or after the effective date of this amendatory Act of the | ||||||
| 16 | 98th General Assembly.
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| 17 | Section 15. The Regional Transportation Authority Act is | ||||||
| 18 | amended by adding Sections 3A.18 and 3B.26 as follows:
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| 19 | (70 ILCS 3615/3A.18 new) | ||||||
| 20 | Sec. 3A.18. Employment contracts. Except as otherwise | ||||||
| 21 | provided in Section 3A.14, before the Suburban Bus Board may | ||||||
| 22 | enter into or amend any employment contract, the Suburban Bus | ||||||
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| 1 | Board must obtain approval of that contract or amendment from | ||||||
| 2 | the Board. This Section applies only to contracts entered into | ||||||
| 3 | or amended on or after the effective date of this amendatory | ||||||
| 4 | Act of the 98th General Assembly.
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| 5 | (70 ILCS 3615/3B.26 new) | ||||||
| 6 | Sec. 3B.26. Employment contracts. Except as otherwise | ||||||
| 7 | provided in Section 3B.13, before the Commuter Rail Board may | ||||||
| 8 | enter into or amend any employment contract, the Commuter Rail | ||||||
| 9 | Board must obtain approval of that contract or amendment from | ||||||
| 10 | the Board. This Section applies only to contracts entered into | ||||||
| 11 | or amended on or after the effective date of this amendatory | ||||||
| 12 | Act of the 98th General Assembly.
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