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| 1 | HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION 45
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| 2 | WHEREAS, The Illinois House of Representatives has | ||||||
| 3 | established prudent fiscal parameters for the
State budget with | ||||||
| 4 | House Resolution 110, which required the House Revenue & | ||||||
| 5 | Finance Committee to set the total amount
of general fund | ||||||
| 6 | expenses for Fiscal Year 2012, and House Resolution 158, which | ||||||
| 7 | required that any amount of additional State revenue be used to | ||||||
| 8 | pay the
backlog of unpaid State obligations rather than being | ||||||
| 9 | spent on more State services; and
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| 10 | WHEREAS, The Illinois House of Representatives passed the | ||||||
| 11 | two fiscally responsible
resolutions by a vote of 112-0-0 for | ||||||
| 12 | House Resolution 110 and 114-0-2 for House Resolution 158, | ||||||
| 13 | respectively; and | ||||||
| 14 | WHEREAS, The Illinois House of Representatives established | ||||||
| 15 | prudent fiscal parameters for the
State budget with House | ||||||
| 16 | Resolution 707, which required the House Revenue & Finance | ||||||
| 17 | Committee to set the total amount
of general fund expenses for | ||||||
| 18 | Fiscal Year 2013, and House Resolution 706, which required that | ||||||
| 19 | any amount of additional State revenue be used to pay the
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| 20 | backlog of unpaid State obligations rather than being spent on | ||||||
| 21 | more State services; and | ||||||
| 22 | WHEREAS, The Illinois House of Representatives passed the | ||||||
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| 1 | two fiscally responsible
resolutions by a vote of 93-11-5 for | ||||||
| 2 | House Resolution 707 and 91-16-3 for House Resolution 706, | ||||||
| 3 | respectively; and | ||||||
| 4 | WHEREAS, The Illinois House and the Illinois Senate passed | ||||||
| 5 | several State budget bills that held spending under the House | ||||||
| 6 | Revenue & Finance Committee's State revenue estimate; and
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| 7 | WHEREAS, The State of Illinois would have paid employees | ||||||
| 8 | represented by the American Federation of State, County, and | ||||||
| 9 | Municipal Employees (AFSCME) an estimated $2,762,956,700 in | ||||||
| 10 | all funds for payroll costs before the House of Representatives | ||||||
| 11 | and the Senate reduced the budget for Fiscal Year 2012; and | ||||||
| 12 | WHEREAS, The Cost of Living Allowance (COLA) for employees | ||||||
| 13 | represented by the American Federation of State, County, and | ||||||
| 14 | Municipal Employees (AFSCME) has averaged an increase of 4.25% | ||||||
| 15 | over the past 5 fiscal years; and | ||||||
| 16 | WHEREAS, The Consumer Price Index has averaged an increase | ||||||
| 17 | of 1.95% from the years 2007 to 2010; therefore, be it | ||||||
| 18 | RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE | ||||||
| 19 | NINETY-SEVENTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, THE | ||||||
| 20 | SENATE CONCURRING HEREIN, that the State shall appropriate no | ||||||
| 21 | amount for
new wage increases associated with any and all | ||||||
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| 1 | collectively bargained contracts throughout State
government | ||||||
| 2 | for the Fiscal Year 2013 budget; and be it further
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| 3 | RESOLVED, That it shall be the policy of the State of | ||||||
| 4 | Illinois that the size of, or a reduction in, the State | ||||||
| 5 | employee workforce shall not be a topic of collective | ||||||
| 6 | bargaining.
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