SB2533 97TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

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97TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2011 and 2012
SB2533

Introduced 11/29/2011, by Sen. John O. Jones

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:

30 ILCS 608/5-5
30 ILCS 608/5-12 new
30 ILCS 608/5-15 new

Amends the State Facilities Closure Act. Provides that the term "State facility" does not include any facility of a public institution of higher education. Creates the State Facilities Panel. Provides that the Panel shall perform a detailed examination of the State's facilities. Sets forth the membership of the panel. Provides that no facility managed or operated by a State agency may be closed, eliminated, or otherwise required to reduce its 2011 average daily population or average daily workforce by more than 20% prior to the completion of the submission of the final report by the State Facilities Panel. Effective immediately.

FISCAL NOTE ACT MAY APPLY

A BILL FOR

AN ACT concerning State government.

Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly:

Section 5. The State Facilities Closure Act is amended by changing Section 5-5 and by adding Sections 5-12 and 5-15 as follows:

(30 ILCS 608/5-5)

Sec. 5-5. Definitions. In this Act:

"Commission" means the Commission on Government Forecasting and Accountability.

"State facility" means any facility (i) that is owned and operated by the State or leased and operated by the State and (ii) that is the primary stationary work location for 25 or more State employees. "State facility" does not include any facility under the jurisdiction of the legislative branch, including the Auditor General, or the judicial branch, or any facility of a public institution of higher education.

"State Facilities Panel" means the study panel created and authorized in Section 5-15 of this Act.

(Source: P.A. 93-839, eff. 7-30-04; 93-1067, eff. 1-15-05.)

(30 ILCS 608/5-12 new)

Sec. 5-12. State facilities closure moratorium. Beginning on the effective date of this amendatory Act of the 97th General Assembly, no State facility managed or operated by any State agency may be closed, eliminated, or otherwise required to reduce its 2011 average daily population or average daily workforce by more than 20% prior to the completion of the required review by the State Facilities Panel and submission of the panel's final report as required in Section 5-15 of this Act.

(30 ILCS 608/5-15 new)

Sec. 5-15. State Facilities Panel.

(a) The State Facilities Panel is hereby created and shall comprise the Director of Central Management Services, or his or her designee; 4 members of the General Assembly: one appointed by the President of the Senate, one appointed by the Minority Leader of the Senate, one appointed by the Speaker of the House of Representatives, and one appointed by the Minority Leader of the House of Representatives; 2 representatives of the employees who work within the State's facilities, to be appointed by the Commission on Government Forecasting and Accountability; and 2 persons or representatives of organizations with expertise in State leasing or procurement, to be appointed by the Commission on Government Forecasting and Accountability.

All members of the Panel are to be appointed within 90 days after the effective date of this amendatory Act of the 97th General Assembly.

(b) The State Facilities Panel shall review the physical condition, the size and composition of the staff population, and any specific and immediate needs of each State facility.

(c) The Panel is authorized to hold public hearings, take testimony, and request detailed and specific information relating to the staff of any individual State facility.

Any data or information requested from any agency of the State is to be provided within 30 days of any written request for information being submitted by the Panel. If the requested information or data is not available within 30 days, the head of the agency to which the request was originally submitted shall provide the Panel, in writing, a detailed explanation as to why the data or information requested cannot be timely provided, whether the information exists, and when it can be expected to be received by the Panel.

(d) The review conducted by the Panel must include, but not be limited to, a detailed composition of (i) respective requirements for effective reform for each agency, (ii) employee locations, staffing levels, and the demands being placed on staffs within the State, (iii) the physical condition of each of the State's facilities and their respective needs, and (iv) the economic impacts created, at both the State and local levels, by each of the State's facilities, with special attention given to any State facility recommended to be immediately or abruptly decommissioned.

(e) The Commission on Government Forecasting and Accountability shall provide staff and administrative assistance to the State Facilities Panel. All agencies of the State must cooperate to the fullest extent possible to assist the State Facilities Panel in the completion of its work.

(f) The Panel shall perform a detailed examination of the State's facilities and the respective populations and workforces of the facilities, including information concerning the families of the staff of the facility. The Panel shall issue its findings and recommendations in a final report to the General Assembly outlining a long-term objective plan for the State's facilities and the workforce needed to best serve the citizens of Illinois. The final report must be submitted to the General Assembly no later than September 1, 2012.

(g) Sixty days after submission of its final report to the General Assembly, the State Facilities Panel shall be dissolved.

Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon becoming law.