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AMENDMENT TO HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION 45

2    AMENDMENT NO. ___. Amend House Joint Resolution 45 on page
32, by replacing lines 7 through 12 with the following:
 
4    "RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE
5NINETY-SEVENTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, THE
6SENATE CONCURRING HEREIN, that the State shall appropriate no
7amount for new wage increases associated with any and all
8collectively bargained contracts throughout State government
9until the State has demonstrated 2 years of operating
10surpluses; an operating surplus shall be determined by the
11Illinois Office of the Comptroller and shall be defined as a
12State fiscal year in which the expenditures authorized or
13incurred during the fiscal year are less than the revenues
14received during the same fiscal year; and be it further
 
15    RESOLVED, That until the State achieves operating
16surpluses in 2 consecutive fiscal years, as defined above, the

 

 

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1State shall not authorize or appropriate any funds for payment
2increases in lieu of pay raises for health insurance benefit
3increases or employee cost-sharing reductions or reductions
4for employee contributions to the State Employees Retirement
5System of Illinois; and be it further".