94TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2005 and 2006
SB3017

 

Introduced 1/20/2006, by Sen. Dave Syverson - Dale A. Righter - Peter J. Roskam - Christine Radogno

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
New Act

    Creates the Employment Impact Note Act. Requires that a note be prepared for a bill before second reading in the house of introduction concerning the impact of the bill on employment opportunities in Illinois. Also, requires a note for administrative rules before approval by JCAR. Requires the Commission on Government Forecasting and Accountability to prepare the notes.


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FISCAL NOTE ACT MAY APPLY

 

 

A BILL FOR

 

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1     AN ACT concerning jobs.
 
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 Employment Impact Note Act.
 
6     Section 5. Applicability.
7     (a) Every bill, except those making a direct appropriation,
8 the purpose or effect of which is to directly increase or
9 decrease employment opportunities in Illinois, shall have
10 prepared for it, before second reading in the house of
11 introduction, a brief explanatory statement or note that shall
12 include a reliable estimate of the anticipated impact.
13     (b) Every proposed rule of an agency, the purpose or effect
14 of which is to directly increase or decrease employment
15 opportunities in Illinois, shall have prepared for it, before
16 approval by the Joint Committee on Administrative Rules
17 pursuant to the Illinois Administrative Procedure Act, a brief
18 explanatory statement or note that shall include a reliable
19 estimate of the anticipated impact. As used in this Act, "rule"
20 and "agency" have the same meanings as in the Illinois
21 Administrative Procedure Act.
22     (c) These statements or notes shall be known as employment
23 impact notes.
 
24     Section 10. Preparation. The sponsor of each bill, or the
25 agency proposing a rule, to which Section 5 applies, shall
26 present a copy of the bill or proposed rule, with the request
27 for an employment impact note, to the Commission on Government
28 Forecasting and Accountability (the "Commission"). The
29 employment impact note shall be prepared by the Commission and
30 submitted to the sponsor of the bill or the agency within 5
31 calendar days, except that whenever, because of the complexity

 

 

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1 of the measure, additional time is required for the preparation
2 of the note, the Commission may inform the sponsor of the bill
3 or the agency, and the sponsor or agency may approve an
4 extension of the time within which the note is to be submitted,
5 not to extend, however, beyond June 15, following the date of
6 the request. If, in the opinion of the Commission, there is
7 insufficient information to prepare a reliable estimate of the
8 anticipated impact, a statement to that effect can be filed and
9 shall meet the requirements of this Act.
 
10     Section 15. Vote on necessity of employment impact notes.
11 Whenever the sponsor of any bill is of the opinion that no
12 employment impact note is required, any member of either house
13 may request that a note be obtained, and in that case the
14 applicability of this Act shall be decided by the majority of
15 those present and voting in the house of which the sponsor is a
16 member.
 
17     Section 20. Requisites and contents. The note shall be
18 factual in nature, as brief and concise as may be, and shall
19 provide a reliable estimate of the employment opportunities
20 that will be created or lost, and, in addition, it shall
21 include both the immediate effect and, if determinable or
22 reasonably foreseeable, the long range effect of the measure.
23 If, after careful investigation, it is determined that no
24 estimate is possible, the note shall contain a statement to
25 that effect, setting forth the reasons why no estimate can be
26 given. A brief summary or work sheet of computations used in
27 arriving at employment impact note figures shall be included.
 
28     Section 25. Comment or opinion; technical or mechanical
29 defects. No comment or opinion shall be included in the
30 employment impact note with regard to the merits of the measure
31 for which the note is prepared; however, technical or
32 mechanical defects may be noted.
 

 

 

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1     Section 30. Appearance of State officials and employees in
2 support or opposition of measure. The fact that an employment
3 impact note is prepared for any bill or proposed rule shall not
4 preclude or restrict the appearance before any committee of the
5 General Assembly, or before the Joint Committee on
6 Administrative Rules, of any official or authorized employee of
7 the Commission who desires to be heard in support of or in
8 opposition to the measure.
 
9     Section 35. Amendment of bill necessitating statement of
10 effect of proposed amendment. Whenever any committee of either
11 house reports any bill with an amendment that will
12 substantially affect the figures stated in the employment
13 impact note attached to the measure at the time of its referral
14 to the committee, there shall be included with the report of
15 the committee a statement of the effect of the change proposed
16 by the amendment reported if desired by a majority of the
17 committee. Whenever any bill is amended on the floor of either
18 house to substantially affect the figures as stated in the
19 employment impact note attached to the bill before the
20 amendment, a majority of the members of that house may propose
21 that no action shall be taken on the amendment until the
22 sponsor of the amendment presents to the members a statement of
23 the employment impact of the proposed amendment.