104TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2025 and 2026 SB1783 Introduced 2/5/2025, by Sen. Chris Balkema SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED: New Act Creates the Prohibition on Government Sponsored Sexual Performances. Provides that a unit of local government or a school district may not allow a live adult performance to be held on publicly owned or operated property under its control. Requires the State to stop distributing all funds to a unit of local government or school district that violates the provisions. Limits home rule powers. Effective immediately. LRB104 12034 RTM 22129 b A BILL FOR 104TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2025 and 2026 SB1783 Introduced 2/5/2025, by Sen. Chris Balkema SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED: New Act New Act Creates the Prohibition on Government Sponsored Sexual Performances. Provides that a unit of local government or a school district may not allow a live adult performance to be held on publicly owned or operated property under its control. Requires the State to stop distributing all funds to a unit of local government or school district that violates the provisions. Limits home rule powers. Effective immediately. LRB104 12034 RTM 22129 b LRB104 12034 RTM 22129 b A BILL FOR
104TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2025 and 2026 SB1783 Introduced 2/5/2025, by Sen. Chris Balkema SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
New Act New Act
New Act
Creates the Prohibition on Government Sponsored Sexual Performances. Provides that a unit of local government or a school district may not allow a live adult performance to be held on publicly owned or operated property under its control. Requires the State to stop distributing all funds to a unit of local government or school district that violates the provisions. Limits home rule powers. Effective immediately.
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1 AN ACT concerning live adult performances.
2 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3 represented in the General Assembly:
4 Section 1. Short title. This Act may be cited as the
5 Prohibition on Government Sponsored Sexual Performances Act.
6 Section 5. Definitions. As used in this Act:
7 "Live adult performance" means:
8 (1) a live performance in which persons appear in a
9 state of nudity or semi-nudity;
10 (2) a live performance that is characterized by actual
11 or simulated acts of sexual penetration or sexual conduct
12 as defined in Section 11-0.1 of the Criminal Code of 2012;
13 or
14 (3) a live performance that features dancers, exotic
15 dances, strippers, vogue type movements, or male or female
16 impersonators who provide entertainment that appeals to
17 the prurient interest of persons under 18 years of age.
18 "Nudity" or "state of nudity" means (i) the showing of the
19 human male or female genitals, pubic area, vulva, anus, anal
20 cleft or cleavage with less than a fully opaque covering; (ii)
21 the showing of the female breast with less than a fully opaque
22 covering of any part of the nipple; or (iii) the showing of the
23 covered male genitals in a discernibly turgid state.
104TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2025 and 2026 SB1783 Introduced 2/5/2025, by Sen. Chris Balkema SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
New Act New Act
New Act
Creates the Prohibition on Government Sponsored Sexual Performances. Provides that a unit of local government or a school district may not allow a live adult performance to be held on publicly owned or operated property under its control. Requires the State to stop distributing all funds to a unit of local government or school district that violates the provisions. Limits home rule powers. Effective immediately.
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1 "Semi-nudity" means a state of dress in which opaque
2 clothing fails to cover the genitals, anus, anal cleft or
3 cleavage, pubic area, vulva, and nipple and areola of the
4 female breast below a horizontal line across the top of the
5 areola at its highest point. "Semi-nudity" includes the entire
6 lower portion of the female breast, but does not include any
7 portion of the cleavage of the human female breast exhibited
8 by wearing apparel provided the areola is not exposed in whole
9 or part.
10 Section 10. Prohibition of live performances containing
11 adult content for persons under the age of 18.
12 (a) A unit of local government or a school district may not
13 allow a live adult performance to be held on publicly owned or
14 operated property under its control.
15 (b) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the State
16 must stop distributing all funds to a unit of local government
17 or school district that violates this Section.
18 Section 15. Home rule preemption. A home rule unit may not
19 regulate live adult performances in a manner inconsistent with
20 this Act. This Section is a limitation under subsection (i) of
21 Section 6 of Article VII of the Illinois Constitution on the
22 concurrent exercise by home rule units of powers and functions
23 exercised by the State.
24 Section 999. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
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