100TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2017 and 2018
HB1787

 

Introduced , by Rep. Avery Bourne - Terri Bryant - Tim Butler - C.D. Davidsmeyer - Sara Wojcicki Jimenez, et al.

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
15 ILCS 20/50-22

    Amends the State Budget Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois. For FY17, provides a continuing appropriation for each State agency to meet personnel expenditures for each payroll period during which appropriations for personnel expenditures have not been made available to that State agency. Defines "State agency" to include all State agencies, the office of any constitutional officer, and any agency, board, commission, or other instrumentality of State government to which an appropriation for personnel expenditures was made from a State fund in FY15. Defines "personnel expenditure" and "applicable State fund". 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 Budget Law of the Civil Administrative
5Code of Illinois is amended by changing Section 50-22 as
6follows:
 
7    (15 ILCS 20/50-22)
8    Sec. 50-22. Funding for salaries of General Assembly
9members, State employees, and judges; legislative operations.
10    (a) Beginning July 1, 2014, the aggregate appropriations
11available for salaries for members of the General Assembly and
12judges from all State funds for each State fiscal year shall be
13no less than the total aggregate appropriations made available
14for salaries for members of the General Assembly and judges for
15the immediately preceding fiscal year.
16    (b) Beginning July 1, 2014, the aggregate appropriations
17available for legislative operations from all State funds for
18each State fiscal year shall be no less than the total
19aggregate appropriations made available for legislative
20operations for the immediately preceding fiscal year. For
21purposes of this subsection (b), "legislative operations"
22means any expenditure for the operation of the Office of the
23Auditor General, the House of Representatives, the Senate, the

 

 

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1Legislative Ethics Commission, the Office of the Legislative
2Inspector General, the Joint Committee on Legislative Support
3Services, and the legislative support services agencies.
4    (b-5) Beginning July 1, 2015 and continuing through June
530, 2017, there is hereby appropriated to each State agency
6from the applicable State funds, on a continuing basis, the
7amount necessary for personnel expenditures of the State
8agency, as determined solely and exclusively by the State
9agency and the Governor's Office of Management and Budget, for
10each payroll period during which appropriations for personnel
11expenditures have not been made available to the State agency
12for Fiscal Years 2016 and 2017.
13    A continuing appropriation provided by this subsection
14(b-5) does not confer any right or expectation on any person,
15group, or entity in continued employment or the payment of
16personnel expenditures.
17    For the purposes of this subsection (b-5):
18        (1) "State agency" means the office of any
19    constitutional officer of the State government and any
20    agency, authority, board, commission, department, or other
21    instrumentality of the State government to which an
22    appropriation for personnel expenditures from a State fund
23    was made in Fiscal Year 2015, or under which personnel
24    expenditures were paid in Fiscal Year 2015.
25        (2) "Personnel expenditure" means an expenditure for
26    personal services, including any merit incentive and

 

 

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1    gain-sharing payments, as determined solely and
2    exclusively by the State agency and the Governor's Office
3    of Management and Budget; State contributions to Social
4    Security; and State contributions to a State retirement
5    system, other than an expenditure described in subsection
6    (a) or (b) of this Section.
7        (3) "Applicable State fund" means, with respect to a
8    State agency, the General Revenue Fund or other State fund
9    from which moneys were appropriated in Fiscal Year 2015 to
10    the State agency for personnel expenditures.
11    (c) If for any reason the aggregate appropriations made
12available are insufficient to meet the levels required by
13subsections (a), and (b), and (b-5) of this Section, this
14Section shall constitute a continuing appropriation of all
15amounts necessary for these purposes. The General Assembly may
16appropriate lesser amounts by law.
17(Source: P.A. 98-682, eff. 6-30-14.)
 
18    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
19becoming law.