Illinois General Assembly - Bill Status for HB5424

Amends the Illinois Identification Card Act, Vital Records Act, and Illinois Vehicle Code to provide that if a military veteran who is currently participating in a skills training, rehabilitation, or employment program that is either operated by a State agency or operated by a non-State organization that is currently receiving grant funds from the State for the purposes of the program makes a written request or application for a copy or a certified copy of a birth certificate, a driver's license or the renewal of a driver's license, or an identification card, then the military veteran shall not be charged any fee for such request or application. Provides that the Secretary of State in consultation with the Department of Public Health shall develop rules to implement the provisions concerning fee waivers for military veterans participating in skills training programs. Contains a nonacceleration clause.

Deletes everything after the enacting clause. Amends the Illinois Identification Card Act. Provides that if an indigent military veteran makes a written request or application for an identification card and that veteran provides documentation certified by an Illinois Veteran's Assistance Commission verifying his or her status as an indigent veteran, then the indigent military veteran shall not be charged any fee for such request or application. Provides that the Secretary of State in consultation with County Veterans Assistance Commissions, shall develop a form appropriate for the verification of a person's status as both a veteran and an indigent person and shall develop rules to implement the provisions concerning fee waivers for indigent military veterans. Contains a nonacceleration clause.

Further amends the Illinois Identification Card Act to provide that the Secretary of State shall collect no fees concerning standard Illinois Identification Cards from an indigent military veteran.

Replaces everything after the enacting clause. Amends the Illinois Identification Card Act. Makes technical changes in a Section concerning the short title.

Replaces everything after the enacting clause. Amends the State Budget Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois. Provides that the Governor is required to submit written quarterly financial reports (instead of written quarterly budget statements) on all appropriated funds. Provides that the reports shall be submitted to the State Comptroller and General Assembly no later than 45 days after the last day of each quarter of the fiscal year (instead of Wednesday of the last week of the last month of each quarter) and shall be posted on a website maintained by the Governor's Office of Management and Budget (instead of the Comptroller's website) on the same day. Provides that revenue estimates must be based solely on (i) revenue sources, rates, and levels that exist as of the date of the submission of the State budget for the fiscal year and (ii) revenue sources, rates, and levels that have been passed by the General Assembly as of the date of the submission of the State budget for the fiscal year and that will take effect in that fiscal year. Provides that the Governor shall establish available revenue, deduct the cost of essential government services, and assign a percentage of the remaining revenue to each statewide prioritized goal. Provides that, no later than July 31 of each fiscal year beginning in 2012, the Governor shall establish a commission for the purpose of setting statewide outcomes and goals. Requires the commission to submit a report to the Governor and the General Assembly by November 1 of each year. Provides that the General Assembly may object to the commission's report by joint resolution. Provides that the budgets submitted by the Governor and appropriations made by the General Assembly for all executive branch State agencies must adhere to a method of budgeting where each priority must be justified each year according to merit rather than according to the amount appropriated for the preceding year. Amends the Illinois Public Labor Relations Act. Provides that no collective bargaining agreement entered into on or after the effective date of the amendatory Act between an executive branch constitutional officer or any agency or department of an executive branch constitutional officer and a labor organization may extend beyond June 30th of the year in which the terms of office of executive branch constitutional officers begin. Provides that no collective bargaining agreement entered into on or after the effective date of the amendatory Act between an executive branch constitutional officer or any agency or department of an executive branch constitutional officer and a labor organization may provide for an increase in salary, wages, or benefits starting on or after the first day of the terms of office of executive branch constitutional officers and ending June 30th of that same year. Provides that any collective bargaining agreement in violation of these provisions is terminated and rendered null and void by operation of law. Amends the Illinois Grant Funds Recovery Act. Provides that: any grant funds and any grant program administered by a grantor agency subject to the Act are indefinitely suspended on July 1, 2012, and on July 1st of every 5th year thereafter, unless the General Assembly, by law, authorizes that grantor agency to make grants or lifts the suspension of the authorization of that grantor agency to make grants; in the case of a suspension of the authorization of a grantor agency to make grants, the authority of that grantor agency to make grants is suspended until the suspension is explicitly lifted by law by the General Assembly, even if an appropriation has been made for the explicit purpose of such grants; and the suspension of grant making authority supersedes any other law or rule to the contrary. Effective immediately.

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