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1		AN ACT concerning government.
2		Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3		represented in the General Assembly:
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)
7		Sec. 5-20. Public service announcements; other promotional
8		material.
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.
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)
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.
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.
21		(Source: P.A. 97-13, eff. 6-16-11.)