2023 Illinois Compiled Statutes › Chapter 25 - LEGISLATURE › 25 ILCS 135/ - Legislative Reference Bureau Act.

(25 ILCS 135/0.01) (from Ch. 63, par. 24m)
Sec. 0.01. 
		Short title. 
		This Act may be cited as the
Legislative Reference Bureau Act.
(Source: P.A. 86-1324.)
(25 ILCS 135/1) (from Ch. 63, par. 25)
Sec. 1. 
		
		There is established a joint Legislative Reference Bureau,
hereafter in this Act referred to as the "Bureau", as a legislative support services
agency subject to the Legislative Commission Reorganization Act of 1984.
(Source: P.A. 83-1257.)
(25 ILCS 135/5) (from Ch. 63, par. 29)
Sec. 5. 
		
		The reference bureau has the duties enumerated in Sections
5.01 through 5.07.
(Source: P.A. 83-1257.)
(25 ILCS 135/5.01) (from Ch. 63, par. 29.1)
Sec. 5.01. 
		
		To establish in the State Capitol a reference bureau, which
shall be open daily, except Saturdays, Sundays and legal holidays, and at
other times when the General Assembly is in session, in which shall be
collected and kept, in such manner as to be readily accessible, such laws,
reports, books, periodicals, documents, catalogues, check-lists, digests,
summaries of the laws of other states upon current legislation, and such
other printed or written matter as may aid the members of the General
Assembly in the performance of their official duties.
(Source: Laws 1965, p. 2527.)
(25 ILCS 135/5.02) (from Ch. 63, par. 29.2)
Sec. 5.02. Legislative Synopsis and Digest.
(a) The Legislative Reference Bureau shall collect, catalogue, classify,
index, completely digest, topically index, and summarize all bills,
resolutions, and orders introduced in each branch of the General Assembly, as
well as related amendments, conference committee reports, and veto messages, as
soon as practicable after they have been printed or otherwise published.
(b) The Digest shall be published online each week during the regular and special sessions of the
General Assembly when practical. Cumulative editions of the Digest shall be published online and in printed form after the first year, and after adjournment sine die, of each General Assembly.
(c) The Legislative Reference Bureau shall furnish the printed cumulative edition of the Digest, without
cost, as follows: 2 copies of the  Digest to each member of the General Assembly, 1 copy to
each elected State officer in the executive department, 40 copies to the Chief
Clerk of the House of Representatives and 30 copies to the Secretary of the
Senate for the use of the committee clerks and employees of the respective
offices, 15 copies to the Commission on Government Forecasting and Accountability, and the number of copies
requested in writing by the President of the Senate, the Speaker of the House,
the Minority Leader of the Senate, and the Minority Leader of the House.
(d) The Legislative Reference Bureau shall also furnish to each county
clerk, without cost, one copy of the printed cumulative edition of the Digest for each 100,000 inhabitants or
fraction thereof in his or her county according to the last preceding federal
decennial census.
(d-5) Any person to whom a set number of copies of the printed cumulative edition is to be provided under subsection (c) or (d) may receive a lesser number of copies upon request.
(e) Upon receipt of an application from any other
person, signed by the applicant and accompanied by the payment of
a fee of $55, the Legislative Reference Bureau shall furnish to the
applicant a copy of the printed cumulative edition of the Digest for the calendar year issued after receipt of
the application.
(f) For the calendar year beginning January 1, 2018, and each calendar year thereafter, any person who receives one or more copies of the printed cumulative edition under subsection (c), (d), or (e) may, upon request, receive a set of the printed interim editions for that year. Requests for printed interim editions must be received before January 1 of the year to which the request applies.
(Source: P.A. 100-239, eff. 8-18-17; 100-1148, eff. 12-10-18.)
(25 ILCS 135/5.03) (from Ch. 63, par. 29.3)
Sec. 5.03. 
		
		The reference bureau shall afford to any member of the General
Assembly, upon his request, such legal assistance and information as may be
practicable in the preparation of bills, memorials, resolutions, orders and
amendments, alterations, changes thereto, and revisions and substitutes
thereof, proposed to be introduced into the General Assembly by that
member.
(Source: Laws 1965, p. 2527.)
(25 ILCS 135/5.04) (from Ch. 63, par. 29.4)
Sec. 5.04. 
		Codification and revision of statutes.
(a) As soon as possible after the effective date of this amendatory
Act of 1992, the Legislative Reference Bureau shall file with the Index
Division of the Office of the Secretary of State, the General Assembly, the
Governor, and the Supreme Court a compilation of the general Acts of
Illinois.  At that time and at any other time the Legislative Reference
Bureau may file with the Index Division of the Office of the Secretary of
State cross-reference tables comparing the compilation and the Illinois
Revised Statutes.  The Legislative Reference Bureau shall provide copies of
the documents that are filed to each individual or entity that delivers a
written request for copies to the Legislative Reference Bureau; the
Legislative Reference Bureau, by
resolution, may establish and charge a reasonable fee for providing copies.
The compilation shall take effect on January 1, 1993. The compilation shall
be cited as the "Illinois Compiled Statutes" or as "ILCS".  The Illinois
Compiled Statutes, including the statutes themselves and the organizational
and numbering scheme, shall be an official compilation of the general Acts
of Illinois and shall be entirely in the public domain for purposes of
federal copyright law.
(b) The compilation document that is filed under subsection (a) shall
divide the general Acts into major topic areas and into chapters within
those areas; the document shall list the general Acts by title or short
title, but need not contain the text of the statutes or specify individual
Sections of Acts.  Chapters shall be numbered.  Each Act shall be
assigned to a chapter and shall be ordered within that chapter.  An Act
prefix number shall be designated for each Act within each chapter.
Chapters may be divided into subheadings.  Citation to a section
of ILCS shall be in the form "X ILCS Y/Z(A)", where X is the chapter
number, Y is the Act prefix number, Z is the Section number of the Act, Y/Z
is the section number in the chapter of ILCS, and A is the year of
publication, if applicable.
(c) The Legislative Reference Bureau shall make additions, deletions,
and changes to the organizational or numbering scheme of the Illinois
Compiled Statutes by filing appropriate documents with the Index Division
of the Office of the Secretary of State. The Legislative Reference Bureau
shall also provide copies of the documents that are filed to each
individual or entity that delivers a written request for copies to the
Legislative Reference Bureau; the Legislative Reference Bureau, by
resolution, may establish and charge a reasonable fee for providing copies.
The additions, deletions, and changes to the organizational or numbering
scheme of the Illinois Compiled Statutes shall take effect 30 days after
filing with the Index Division.
(d) Omission of an effective Act or Section of an Act from ILCS does not
alter the effectiveness of that Act or Section.  Inclusion of a repealed
Act or Section of an Act in ILCS does not affect the repeal of that Act or Section.
(e) In order to allow for an efficient transition to the organizational
and numbering scheme of the Illinois Compiled Statutes, the State, units of
local government, school districts, and other governmental entities may,
for a reasonable period of time, continue to use forms, computer software,
systems, and data, published rules, and any other electronically stored
information and printed documents that contain references to the Illinois
Revised Statutes.
However, reports of criminal, traffic, and other offenses and violations
that are part of a state-wide reporting system shall continue to be made by
reference to the Illinois Revised Statutes until July 1, 1994, and on and
after that date shall be made by reference to the Illinois Compiled
Statutes, except that an earlier conversion date may be established
by agreement among all of the following:  the Supreme Court, the Secretary
of State, the Director of State Police, the Circuit Clerk of Cook County,
and the Circuit Clerk of DuPage County, or the designee of
each.  References to the Illinois Revised Statutes
are deemed to be references to the
corresponding provisions of the Illinois Compiled Statutes.
(f) The Legislative Reference Bureau, with the assistance of the Legislative
Information System, shall make its electronically stored  database of the
statutes and the compilation available in an electronically stored medium to
those who request it; the Legislative Reference Bureau, by resolution,
shall establish and charge a reasonable fee for providing the information.
(g) Amounts received under this Section shall be
deposited into the General Assembly Computer Equipment Revolving
Fund.
(h) The Legislative Reference Bureau shall select subjects and chapters of
the statutory law that
it considers most in need of a revision and present
to the next regular session of the General Assembly bills covering
those revisions. In connection with those
revisions, the Legislative Reference Bureau has full authority and responsibility
to recommend the revision,
simplification, and rearrangement of existing statutory law and the
elimination from that law of obsolete, superseded,
duplicated, and unconstitutional statutes or parts of statutes, but
shall make no other changes in the substance of existing statutes, except
to the extent those changes in substance are necessary for coherent
revision, simplification, rearrangement, or elimination.
Revisions reported to the General Assembly may be accompanied by
explanatory statements of changes in existing statutes or parts of statutes
that those revisions, if enacted, would effect.
(Source: P.A. 86-523; 87-1005.)
(25 ILCS 135/5.05) (from Ch. 63, par. 29.5)
Sec. 5.05. 
		Case Report. 
		The Legislative Reference Bureau shall
review all reported decisions of Federal courts, the Illinois Supreme
Court, and the Illinois Appellate Court that affect the interpretation of the
Illinois Constitution or statutes and shall report the results of its research
to the General Assembly by December 31 of each year. The report shall recommend
any necessary technical corrections in the Illinois laws to comply with the
decisions and may point out where substantive issues arise, without making any
judgment on those issues. The requirement for reporting to the General Assembly
shall be satisfied by filing copies of the report as required by Section 3.1 of
the General Assembly Organization Act and paragraph (t) of Section 7 of the
State Library Act.
(Source: P.A. 87-918.)
(25 ILCS 135/5.06) (from Ch. 63, par. 29.6)
Sec. 5.06. 
		
		The reference bureau shall prepare bills for introduction to
revise the existing statutory law to conform the statutes to any reorganization
of the executive branch taking effect pursuant to executive order of the
Governor under Article V, Section 11 of the Constitution and the Executive
Reorganization Implementation Act.  Such bills shall be prepared for introduction
in the annual session of the General Assembly next occurring after a reorganization
takes effect.
(Source: P.A. 81-984.)
(25 ILCS 135/5.07) (from Ch. 63, par. 29.7)
Sec. 5.07. 
		Uniform State Laws. 
		The Legislative Reference Bureau shall examine
all subjects on which uniformity is desirable with the laws of other states to
ascertain the best means to effect uniformity in the laws of the States. The
Legislative Reference Bureau shall supervise the participation of the State of
Illinois in the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws.  To
represent the State of Illinois on the National Conference of Commissioners on
Uniform State Laws, there shall be 9 persons: 5 persons appointed by the
Governor and one each by the President of the Senate, the Senate Minority
Leader, the Speaker of the House, and the House Minority Leader, who shall hold
office for the term of 4 years, respectively, and until their successors are
appointed, and the Executive Director of the Legislative Reference Bureau, who
shall be an ex-officio member of the National Conference.   The Legislative
Reference Bureau shall report to the Governor by December 31 of each year, and
the Governor shall submit the report to the General Assembly with his or her
recommendations, if any, in reference to the report. The requirement for
reporting to the General Assembly shall be satisfied by filing copies of the
report as required by Section 3.1 of the General Assembly Organization Act and
paragraph (t) of Section 7 of the State Library Act.
(Source: P.A. 87-918.)
(25 ILCS 135/6) (from Ch. 63, par. 30)
Sec. 6. The Architect of the Capitol shall provide
the Legislative Reference Bureau with
suitable offices in the legislative complex, as defined in the Legislative
Commission Reorganization Act of 1984, convenient to the
place of meeting
of the General Assembly.
(Source: P.A. 93-632, eff. 2-1-04.)
(25 ILCS 135/7) (from Ch. 63, par. 31)
Sec. 7. 
		
		The Secretary of State, as librarian of the State library, shall
cooperate with the reference bureau and shall make the facilities of the
State library accessible, so far as practicable, for the use of the
reference bureau, and may loan to the reference bureau any books,
periodicals, documents, reports or other printed or written matter
belonging to the State library.
(Source: Laws 1967, p. 2612.)