HB3307 99TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

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99TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2015 and 2016
HB3307

Introduced , by Rep. Dwight Kay

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:

15 ILCS 405/27 new

Amends the State Comptroller Act. Requires the Comptroller to post all contracts between the State or any State agency and another state or the federal government, or an agency thereof, on its official website in a searchable database. Provides that all such contracts must be posted at least 30 days before they become effective. Provides that such contracts may only be used for: (i) the joint administration or coordination of the administration of programs or government functions; or (ii) the joint purchase of goods or services. On and after the effective date of the amendatory Act, requires all contracts between the State or any State agency and another state or the federal government, or an agency thereof, that are valued at more than $250,000 to be approved by an Appropriations Committee.

FISCAL NOTE ACT MAY APPLY

A BILL FOR

AN ACT concerning State government.

Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly:

Section 5. The State Comptroller Act is amended by adding Section 27 as follows:

(15 ILCS 405/27 new)

Sec. 27. Electronic filing of State contracts; committee approval.

(a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the State Comptroller shall post all contracts between the State or any State agency and another state or the federal government, or an agency thereof, on its official website in a searchable database. All such contracts must be posted at least 30 days before they become effective.

(b) All contracts between the State or any State agency and another state or the federal government, or an agency thereof, may only be used for:

(1) the joint administration or coordination of the administration of programs or government functions; or

(2) the joint purchase of goods or services. No party to the contract may expend more than twice what the other party to the contract expends for that fiscal year. If a contract is for the purchase of goods, then the contract may only be used to purchase the goods specified in the contract. Any contract under this paragraph must also contain a cost analysis study conducted by the purchasing party to be posted with the contract for the required 30-day period under subsection (a) of this Section.

(c) On and after the effective date of this amendatory Act of the 99th General Assembly, contracts between the State or any State agency and another state or the federal government, or an agency thereof, that are valued at more than $250,000 may be entered into only after receiving approval by the appropriate Appropriations Committee in either the House of Representatives or the Senate.