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91_HB3544
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1 AN ACT to amend the Compensation Review Act by changing
2 Sections 2 and 4.
3 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
4 represented in the General Assembly:
5 Section 5. The Compensation Review Act is amended by
6 changing Sections 2 and 4 as follows:
7 (25 ILCS 120/2) (from Ch. 63, par. 902)
8 Sec. 2. There is created the Compensation Review Board,
9 hereinafter referred to as the Board.
10 The Board shall consist of l2 members, appointed 3 each
11 by the Speaker of the House of Representatives, the Minority
12 Leader thereof, the President of the Senate, and the Minority
13 Leader thereof. Members shall be adults and be residents of
14 Illinois. Members may not be members or employees or former
15 members or employees of the judicial, executive or
16 legislative branches of State government, but members may be
17 current or former clerks of the circuit courts.; nor may
18 Members may not be persons registered under the Lobbyist
19 Registration Act. Any member may be reappointed for a
20 consecutive term but no member may serve for more than 10
21 years total on the Board. The respective appointing
22 legislative leader may remove any such appointed member prior
23 to the expiration of his term on the Board for official
24 misconduct, incompetence or neglect of duty.
25 Members shall serve without compensation but shall
26 receive an allowance for living expenses incurred in the
27 performance of their official duties in an amount per day
28 equal to the amount permitted to be deducted for such
29 expenses by members of the General Assembly under the federal
30 Internal Revenue Code, as now or hereafter amended. The rate
31 for reimbursement of mileage expenses shall be equal to the
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1 amount established from time to time for members of the
2 General Assembly. The Board may, without regard to the
3 Personnel Code, employ and fix the compensation or
4 remuneration of employees as it considers necessary or
5 desirable. The General Assembly shall appropriate the funds
6 necessary to operate the Board.
7 (Source: P.A. 91-357, eff. 7-29-99.)
8 (25 ILCS 120/4) (from Ch. 63, par. 904)
9 Sec. 4. Meetings of the Board; determining compensation;
10 public hearings; reports. The Board shall meet as often as
11 may be necessary and shall determine, upon a vote requiring
12 at least 7 affirmative votes, the compensation for members of
13 the General Assembly, judges, other than the county
14 supplement, State's attorneys, other than the county
15 supplement, clerks of the circuit courts, other than the
16 county supplement, the elected constitutional officers of
17 State government, and certain appointed officers of State
18 government.
19 In determining the compensation for each office, the
20 Compensation Review Board shall consider the following
21 factors:
22 (a) the skill required,
23 (b) the time required,
24 (c) the opportunity for other earned income,
25 (d) the value of public services as performed in
26 comparable states,
27 (e) the value of such services as performed in the
28 private sector in Illinois and comparable states based on the
29 responsibility and discretion required in the office,
30 (f) the average consumer prices commonly known as the
31 cost of living,
32 (g) the overall compensation presently received by the
33 public officials and all other benefits received,
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1 (h) the interests and welfare of the public and the
2 financial ability of the State to meet those costs, and
3 (i) such other factors, not confined to the foregoing,
4 which are normally or traditionally taken into consideration
5 in the determination of such compensation.
6 The Board shall conduct public hearings prior to filing
7 its report.
8 At the public hearings, the Board shall allow interested
9 persons to present their views and comments. The Board may
10 prescribe reasonable rules for the conduct of public
11 hearings, to prevent undue repetition. The meetings of the
12 Board are subject to the Open Meetings Act.
13 The Board shall file an initial report with the House of
14 Representatives, the Senate, the Comptroller and the
15 Secretary of State. Subsequent reports shall be filed
16 therewith before May 1 in each even-numbered year thereafter
17 stating the annual salary for members of the General
18 Assembly, the elected State constitutional officers and
19 certain appointed State officers and compensated employees
20 and members of certain State departments, agencies, boards
21 and commissions whose terms begin in the next calendar year;
22 the annual salary for State's attorneys; the annual salary
23 for clerks of the circuit courts; and the annual salary for
24 the Auditor General and for Supreme Court, Appellate Court,
25 Circuit Court and Associate judges. If the report increases
26 the annual salary of judges, State's attorneys, clerks of the
27 circuit courts, and the Auditor General, such increase shall
28 take effect as soon as the time period for disapproval or
29 reduction, as provided in subsection (b) of Section 5, has
30 expired.
31 The salaries in the report or as reduced by the General
32 Assembly, other than for judges, State's attorneys, clerks of
33 circuit courts, and the Auditor General, shall take effect as
34 provided by law.
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1 (Source: P.A. 90-375, eff. 8-14-97.)