Rep. Daniel J. Burke

Filed: 3/30/2011

 

 


 

 


 
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AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 1964

2    AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 1964 by replacing
3everything after the enacting clause with the following:
 
4    "Section 5. The Department of Central Management Services
5Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois is amended by
6changing Section 405-335 as follows:
 
7    (20 ILCS 405/405-335)
8    Sec. 405-335. Illinois Transparency and Accountability
9Portal (ITAP).
10    (a) The Department, within 12 months after the effective
11date of this amendatory Act of the 96th General Assembly, shall
12establish and maintain a website, known as the Illinois
13Transparency and Accountability Portal (ITAP), with a
14full-time webmaster tasked with compiling and updating the ITAP
15database with information received from all State agencies as
16defined in this Section.

 

 

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1    (b) For purposes of this Section:
2    "State agency" means the offices of the constitutional
3officers identified in Article V of the Illinois Constitution,
4executive agencies, and departments, boards, commissions, and
5Authorities under the Governor.
6    "Contracts" means payment obligations with vendors on file
7with the Office of the Comptroller to purchase goods and
8services exceeding $10,000 in value (or, in the case of
9professional or artistic services, exceeding $5,000 in value).
10    "Appropriation" means line-item detail of spending
11approved by the General Assembly and Governor, categorized by
12object of expenditure.
13    "Individual consultants" means temporary workers eligible
14to receive State benefits paid on a State payroll.
15    "Recipients" means State agencies receiving
16appropriations.
17    (c) The ITAP shall provide direct access to each of the
18following:
19        (1) A database of all current State employees and
20    individual consultants, except sworn law enforcement
21    officers, sorted separately by:
22            (i) Name.
23            (ii) Employing State agency.
24            (iii) Employing State division.
25            (iv) Employment position title.
26            (v) Current pay rate and year-to-date pay.

 

 

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1        (2) A database of all current State expenditures,
2    sorted separately by agency, category, recipient, and
3    Representative District.
4        (3) A database of all development assistance
5    reportable pursuant to the Corporate Accountability for
6    Tax Expenditures Act, sorted separately by tax credit
7    category, taxpayer, and Representative District.
8        (4) A database of all revocations and suspensions of
9    State occupation and use tax certificates of registration
10    and all revocations and suspensions of State professional
11    licenses, sorted separately by name, geographic location,
12    and certificate of registration number or license number,
13    as applicable. Professional license revocations and
14    suspensions shall be posted only if resulting from a
15    failure to pay taxes, license fees, or child support.
16        (5) A database of all current State contracts, sorted
17    separately by contractor name, awarding officer or agency,
18    contract value, and goods or services provided.
19        (6) A database of all employees hired after the
20    effective date of this amendatory Act of 2010, sorted
21    searchably by each of the following at the time of
22    employment:
23            (i) Name.
24            (ii) Employing State agency.
25            (iii) Employing State division.
26            (iv) Employment position title.

 

 

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1            (v) Current pay rate and year-to-date pay.
2            (vi) County of employment location.
3            (vii) Rutan status.
4            (viii) Status of position as subject to collective
5        bargaining, subject to merit compensation, or exempt
6        under Section 4d of the Personnel Code.
7            (ix) Employment status as probationary, trainee,
8        intern, certified, or exempt from certification.
9            (x) Status as a military veteran.
10        (7) A database of all grant funds awarded by a State
11    agency during the current and previous fiscal years, sorted
12    separately by:
13            (i) Name of grantor agency.
14            (ii) Name of the grantee.
15            (iii) Total amount of grants per grantee by State
16        agency.
17    (d) The ITAP shall include all information required to be
18published by subsection (c) of this Section that is available
19to the Department in a format the Department can compile and
20publish on the ITAP. The Department shall update the ITAP as
21additional information becomes available in a format that can
22be compiled and published on the ITAP by the Department.
23    (e) Each State agency shall cooperate with the Department
24in furnishing the information necessary for the implementation
25of this Section within a timeframe specified by the Department.
26(Source: P.A. 96-225, eff. 1-1-10; 96-1387, eff. 1-1-11.)
 

 

 

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1    Section 10. The Illinois Grant Funds Recovery Act is
2amended by changing Section 4 as follows:
 
3    (30 ILCS 705/4)  (from Ch. 127, par. 2304)
4    Sec. 4. Grant Application and Agreement Requirements.
5    (a) Any person or organization, public or private, desiring
6to receive grant funds must submit a grant application to the
7appropriate grantor agency. Applications for grant funds shall
8be made on prescribed forms developed by the grantor agency,
9and shall include, without being limited to, the following
10provisions:
11        (1) the name, address, chief officers, and general
12    description of the applicant and the name of and the amount
13    of compensation paid to each of the 3 highest paid
14    employees of the applicant during the fiscal year preceding
15    the submission of the grant application;
16        (2) a general description of the program, project, or
17    use for which grant funding is requested;
18        (3) such plans, equipment lists, and other documents as
19    may be required to show the type, structure, and general
20    character of the program, project, or use for which grant
21    funding is requested;
22        (4) cost estimates of developing, constructing,
23    operating, or completing the program, project, or use for
24    which grant funding is requested; and

 

 

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1        (5) a program of proposed expenditures for the grant
2    funds, including but not limited to an itemization by
3    employee of all grant funds that will be expended for
4    compensation of grantee's employees.
5    (b) Grant funds may not be used except pursuant to a
6written grant agreement, and any disbursement of grant funds
7without a grant agreement is void. At a minimum, a grant
8agreement must:
9        (1) describe the purpose of the grant and be signed by
10    the grantor agency making the grant and all grantees of the
11    grant;
12        (2) specify how payments shall be made, what
13    constitutes permissible expenditure of the grant funds,
14    and the financial controls applicable to the grant,
15    including, for those grants in excess of $25,000, the
16    filing of quarterly reports describing the progress of the
17    program, project, or use and the expenditure of the grant
18    funds related thereto;
19        (3) specify the period of time for which the grant is
20    valid and, subject to the limitation of Section 5, the
21    period of time during which grant funds may be expended by
22    the grantee;
23        (4) contain a provision that any grantees receiving
24    grant funds are required to permit the grantor agency, the
25    Auditor General, or the Attorney General to inspect and
26    audit any books, records, or papers related to the program,

 

 

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1    project, or use for which grant funds were provided;
2        (5) contain a provision that all funds remaining at the
3    end of the grant agreement or at the expiration of the
4    period of time grant funds are available for expenditure or
5    obligation by the grantee shall be returned to the State
6    within 45 days; and
7        (6) contain a provision in which the grantee certifies
8    under oath that all information in the grant agreement is
9    true and correct to the best of the grantee's knowledge,
10    information, and belief; that the funds shall be used only
11    for the purposes described in the grant agreement; and that
12    the award of grant funds is conditioned upon such
13    certification.
14    (c) All information provided under this Section shall be
15open to the public.
16(Source: P.A. 96-795, eff. 7-1-10 (see Section 5 of P.A. 96-793
17for the effective date of changes made by P.A. 96-795).)
 
18    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
19becoming law.".