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Full Text of HR0658 96th General Assembly

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HR0658 96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

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1 HOUSE RESOLUTION

2     WHEREAS, The Department of Central Management Services Law
3 of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois vests the
4 Department of Central Management Services with responsibility
5 for acquiring, maintaining, and administering the fleet of
6 passenger cars used by State executive agencies and their
7 employees; and

8     WHEREAS, It is in the interest of the State of Illinois to
9 have the cars in that fleet used only for official State
10 business; and

11     WHEREAS, The public must be assured that the Department of
12 Central Management Services is effectively regulating,
13 providing adequate oversight over, and disciplining State
14 employees who improperly use passenger cars in the State fleet;
15 therefore, be it

16     RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE
17 NINETY-SIXTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that
18 the Auditor General is directed to conduct an audit of the
19 Department of Central Management Services's operation of the
20 fleet of passenger cars used by State executive agencies and
21 employees; and be it further

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1     RESOLVED, That the audit must include a review and written
2 assessment of the following:
3         (1) the total number of passenger cars in the State
4     fleet as well as the number of those cars that each
5     executive agency operates;
6         (2) the total number of passenger cars in the State
7     fleet that employees in each executive agency may take to
8     their homes;
9         (3) whether it is necessary or advisable for State
10     employees to take vehicles identified under paragraph (2)
11     to their homes;
12         (4) the total annual cost that the State, as a whole,
13     and each executive agency spent in fiscal year 2009 on
14     vehicles in the State fleet, including, but not limited to,
15     any sums paid for purchasing, insuring, maintaining, and
16     operating passenger cars in the State fleet;
17         (5) the adequacy of the system used by the Department
18     of Central Management Services to record the use and
19     maintenance of passenger cars in the State fleet;
20         (6) the adequacy of the system of checks used by the
21     Department of Central Management Services to ensure that
22     passenger vehicles in the State fleet are not used by State
23     employees for non-official business; and
24         (7) whether it is possible to implement a system that
25     would allow the Department of Central Management Services
26     to track vehicles and identify whether they are being used

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1     only for official business; and be it further

2     RESOLVED, That the Department of Central Management
3 Services and any other entity or person that may have
4 information relevant to this audit shall cooperate fully and
5 promptly with the Auditor General's Office in the conduct of
6 this audit; and be it further

7     RESOLVED, That the Auditor General commence this audit as
8 soon as possible and distribute a report of the audit upon
9 completion in accordance with Section 3-14 of the Illinois
10 State Auditing Act; and be it further

11     RESOLVED, That a copy of this resolution be delivered to
12 the Auditor General and the Department of Central Management
13 Services.

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