June 15, 2021
To
the Honorable Members of
The
Illinois Senate,
102nd
General Assembly:
Today,
I return Senate Bill 2800 with specific recommendations for change so that the
various sets of appropriations included in the bill will take effect at the
necessary time.
Senate
Bill 2800 is the omnibus appropriation bill for Fiscal Year 2022. It includes
the Fiscal Year 2022 appropriations for both the operating budget and the
capital budget. In addition, it includes a number of necessary supplemental
appropriations for Fiscal Year 2021. Appropriations to implement the Fiscal
Year 2022 budget require an effective date of July 1, 2021 so that they take
effect on the first day of the fiscal year. In contrast, supplemental
appropriations for Fiscal Year 2021 require an immediate effective date so that
they can be available for use during the remainder of Fiscal Year 2021.
Article
999 – the effective date provision in Senate Bill 2800 – references many of the
bill’s articles and, depending on whether the particular article contains new
appropriations for Fiscal Year 2022 or supplemental appropriations for Fiscal
Year 2021, specifies either a July 1, 2021 or an immediate effective date for each
article. However, as is evident from the language in the bill, some
articles were assigned the incorrect effective date, and many articles of the
bill were not referenced in Article 999 and thus were not assigned a specific
effective date.
It
is evident that the errors and omissions in the effective date provision of
Senate Bill 2800 were inadvertent as all appropriations bills traditionally
have effective dates that align with the language of the appropriations. I
believe that the legislative intent for Senate Bill 2800 was for new
appropriations for Fiscal Year 2022 to have a July 1, 2021 effective date and
for supplemental appropriations for Fiscal Year 2021 to have an immediate
effective date. Without this amendatory veto, many of the appropriations in the
bill would not take effect until June 1, 2022, eleven months into Fiscal Year
2022.
Therefore,
pursuant to Article IV, Section 9(e) of the Illinois Constitution of 1970, I
hereby return Senate Bill 2800, entitled, “An ACT concerning appropriations,”
with the following specific recommendations for change:
On
page 3088, delete lines 8 through 12 and insert in lieu thereof the following:
“ARTICLE 999
Section 999. Effective Date. This Act takes effect upon becoming law, except
that Articles 25 through 129, Articles 137 through 173, and Article 997 take
effect July 1, 2021."
With
this change, Senate Bill 2800 will have my approval. I respectfully request
your concurrence.
Sincerely,
JB Pritzker
GOVERNOR
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