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This bill allows various local government entities in Illinois, including counties, townships, municipalities, conservation districts, forest preserve districts, and park districts, to use web-based signatures on documents if they have a secure web-based platform. Importantly, the bill explicitly excludes nominating, candidate, and referendum petitions from this web-based signature provision, meaning those specific types of documents must still use traditional signature methods. The bill amends multiple existing laws across different local government codes to insert nearly identical language allowing for web-based signatures, effectively creating a standardized approach for digital document signing across different types of local government entities. The goal appears to be modernizing administrative processes by enabling digital signatures while maintaining traditional methods for critical political documents like petitions. By specifying a "secure web-based platform," the bill implies that there will be some technological standards or security requirements for implementing these digital signatures, though the specific details of what constitutes a "secure" platform are not defined in the provided text.

Government Affairs

https://www.ilga.gov/legislation/BillStatus.asp?DocNum=2044&GAID=18&DocTypeID=SB&SessionID=114&GA=104