Office of the City Clerk - Record #: SO2019-285(2)

• Record #: SO2019-285(2)
• Type: Ordinance
• Status: Passed
• Intro date: 1/23/2019
• Current Controlling Legislative Body: Committee on Committees, Rules and Ethics
• Final action: 4/10/2019
• Title: Amendment of Municipal Code Section 2-156-445 regarding six-month prohibition on campaign contributions
• Sponsors: Emanuel, Rahm
• Topic: MUNICIPAL CODE AMENDMENTS - Title 2 - City Government & Administration - Ch. 156 Governmental Ethics

Date	Journal Page Number	Action By	Action	Result
4/10/2019	98812	City Council	Passed	Pass
4/8/2019		Committee on Committees, Rules and Ethics	Recommended to Pass
4/8/2019		Committee on Committees, Rules and Ethics	Substituted in Committee
1/23/2019		City Council	Referred

2
ORDINANCE
(Concerning the new 6-month prohibition on campaign contributions) BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CHICAGO:


SECTION 1. Section 2-156-445 of the Municipal Code of Chicago is hereby amended by deleting the language struck through and by inserting the language underscored, as follows:
2-156-445 Limitation of contributing to candidates and elected officials.
(a) No person who has done business with the city, or with the Chicago Transit Authority, Chicago Board of Education, Chicago Park District, Chicago City Colleges, or Metropolitan Pier and Exposition Authority within the preceding four reporting years or is seeking to do business with the eCity, or with any of the other aforementioned entities, no lobbyist registered with the bBoard of eEthics shall make contributions in an aggregate amount exceeding $1,500.00: (i) to any candidate for eCity office during a single candidacy; or (ii) to an elected official of the government of the eCity during any reporting year of his term; or (iii) to any official or employee of the eCity who is seeking election to any other office. For purposes of this section all contributions to a candidate's authorized political committees shall be considered contributions to the candidate. A reporting year shall be from January 1st to December 31st. For purposes of this subsection only "seeking to do business" means: (i) the definition set forth in Section 2-156-010(x); and (ii) any matter that was pending before the eCity eCouncil or any eCity eCouncil GCommittee in the six months prior to the date of the contribution or any matter that will be pending before the City Council or any City Council Committee in the six months after the date of the contribution, if that matter involved the award of loan funds, grant funds or bond proceeds, bond inducement ordinances, leases, land sales, zoning matters, the creation of tax increment financing districts, concession agreements or the establishment of a Class 6(b) Cook...