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1     AN ACT concerning State government.
 
2     Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3 represented in the General Assembly:
 
4     Section 5. The Compensation Review Act is amended by
5 changing Sections 4 and 5 as follows:
 
6     (25 ILCS 120/4)  (from Ch. 63, par. 904)
7     Sec. 4. Meetings of the Board; determining compensation;
8 public hearings; reports. The Board shall meet as often as may
9 be necessary and shall determine, upon a vote requiring at
10 least 7 affirmative votes, the compensation for members of the
11 General Assembly, judges, other than the county supplement,
12 State's attorneys, other than the county supplement, the
13 elected constitutional officers of State government, and
14 certain appointed officers of State government. The Board's
15 determination of compensation requires the affirmative vote of
16 at least 7 Board members. The determination of the compensation
17 for judges must be voted upon separately from that for other
18 positions.
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,

 

 

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1         (c) the opportunity for other earned income,
2         (d) the value of public services as performed in
3     comparable states,
4         (e) the value of such services as performed in the
5     private sector in Illinois and comparable states based on
6     the responsibility and discretion required in the office,
7         (f) the average consumer prices commonly known as the
8     cost of living,
9         (g) the overall compensation presently received by the
10     public officials and all other benefits received,
11         (h) the interests and welfare of the public and the
12     financial ability of the State to meet those costs, and
13         (i) such other factors, not confined to the foregoing,
14     which are normally or traditionally taken into
15     consideration in the determination of such compensation.
16     The Board shall conduct public hearings prior to filing its
17 reports report.
18     At the public hearings, the Board shall allow interested
19 persons to present their views and comments. The Board may
20 prescribe reasonable rules for the conduct of public hearings,
21 to prevent undue repetition. The meetings of the Board are
22 subject to the Open Meetings Act.
23     The Board shall file (i) one an initial report with respect
24 to all offices and positions, except judges, (known as "report
25 A") and (ii) one report with respect to judges (known as
26 "report B"). The Board shall file the reports with the House of

 

 

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1 Representatives, the Senate, the Comptroller, and the
2 Secretary of State. Subsequent reports shall be filed therewith
3 before April 1 in each even-numbered year. Report A shall state
4 thereafter stating the annual salary for all offices and
5 positions, except judges, for which the Board files reports.
6 Report B shall state members of the General Assembly, the
7 elected State constitutional officers and certain appointed
8 State officers and compensated employees and members of certain
9 State departments, agencies, boards and commissions whose
10 terms begin in the next calendar year; the annual salary for
11 State's attorneys; and the annual salary for the Auditor
12 General and for Supreme Court, Appellate Court, Circuit Court,
13 and Associate judges. If a the report increases the annual
14 salary of judges, State's attorneys, and the Auditor General,
15 such increase shall take effect as soon as the time period for
16 disapproval or reduction, as provided in subsection (b) of
17 Section 5, has expired.
18     The salaries in a the report or as reduced by the General
19 Assembly, other than for judges, State's attorneys, and the
20 Auditor General, shall take effect as provided by law.
21 (Source: P.A. 90-375, eff. 8-14-97; 91-798, eff. 7-9-00.)
 
22     (25 ILCS 120/5)  (from Ch. 63, par. 905)
23     Sec. 5. (a) If the Board fails to recommend a change in
24 salary or the General Assembly disapproves the report as
25 provided in subsection (b), and a new term for any officer

 

 

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1 provided for in this Act begins, the salary for the new term
2 shall be the same as the salary in effect when the previous
3 term ended.
4     (b) The General Assembly may disapprove a the report of the
5 Board in whole, or reduce it in whole proportionately, within
6 30 session days after each house of the legislature next
7 convenes after the report is filed, by adoption of a resolution
8 by a record vote of the majority of the members elected in each
9 house directed to the Board. Such resolution shall be binding
10 upon the Board. A resolution may disapprove or reduce no more
11 than one report, and no more than one resolution may be adopted
12 by a single vote.
13     For the initial report filed by the Board after this Act
14 takes effect, the General Assembly may, by January 9, 1985,
15 disapprove the report of the Board in whole, or reduce it in
16 whole proportionately, after the report is filed, by the
17 adoption of a resolution by a record vote of the majority of
18 the members.
19 (Source: P.A. 83-1177.)