103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2023 and 2024
HB4939
 
Introduced 2/7/2024, by Rep. Katie Stuart
 
SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
15 ILCS 320/21  from Ch. 128, par. 121
    Amends the State Library Act. Provides that the term "publication" does not include reports, documents, or other publications of a public institution of higher learning, except to the extent that the State Librarian, by rule, requires the report, document, or publication to be deposited with the State Library. Effective immediately.


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A BILL FOR
 
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1    AN ACT concerning State government.
 
2    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, 
3represented in the General Assembly:
 
4    Section 5. The State Library Act is amended by changing 
5Section 21 as follows:
 
6    (15 ILCS 320/21)  (from Ch. 128, par. 121)
7    Sec. 21. Publications and lists; deposits by State 
8agencies. 
9    (a) All State agencies shall provide and deposit with the 
10Illinois State Library sufficient copies of all publications 
11issued by such State agencies for its collection and for 
12exchange purposes. The State Librarian shall by rule or 
13regulation specify the number of copies required and the 
14publications that must be deposited. The number of paper 
15copies of a publication that must be deposited may be reduced 
16if the documents are also submitted in an electric format 
17specified by the Illinois State Library. The State Librarian 
18shall set by rule the standard to be used for electronic data 
19exchange among State agencies and the State Library.
20    (b) For the purposes of this Section: 
21    "State agencies" means every State office, official, 
22department, division, section, unit, service, bureau, board, 
23commission, committee, and subdivision thereof of all branches 
 
 
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1of the State government and which agencies expend 
2appropriations of State funds.
3    "Publications" means any document, report, directory, 
4bibliography, rule, regulation, newsletter, pamphlet, 
5brochure, periodical or other printed material paid for in 
6whole or in part by funds appropriated by the General Assembly 
7or issued at the request of a State agency, excepting however, 
8correspondence, inter-office memoranda, and confidential 
9publications. "Publications" does not include reports, 
10documents, or other publications of a public institution of 
11higher learning, except to the extent that the State 
12Librarian, by rule, requires the report, document, or 
13publication to be deposited with the State Library.
14    "Published material" means publications in print and 
15electronic formats duplicated by any means of duplication, 
16including material downloaded from a publicly accessible 
17electronic network.
18    (c) The State Librarian shall from time to time provide a 
19listing, electronically, in printed form, or in both formats, 
20of the publications received by him or her under this Act.
21(Source: P.A. 91-507, eff. 8-13-99; 92-617, eff. 1-1-03.)
 
22    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon 
23becoming law.