Full Text of SB1904 98th General Assembly
SB1904 98TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY |
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State of Illinois
2013 and 2014 SB1904 Introduced 2/15/2013, by Sen. Pamela J. Althoff SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED: |
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Creates the Dedicated Fund Impact Note Act. Requires every bill that provides for the transfer of moneys from a special fund in the State treasury to any other fund in the State treasury through sweeps, administrative charge-backs, or another other fiscal or budgetary maneuver to have prepared
for it, prior to second reading in each chamber, a brief explanatory
statement or note that discloses the amount to be transferred from each special fund and an estimate of the programmatic impact of that transfer. Authorizes any member of the General Assembly to request one of these notes. Requires the Director of the Governor's Office of Management and Budget to respond to requests for these notes.
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| 1 | | AN ACT concerning State government.
| 2 | | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
| 3 | | represented in the General Assembly:
| 4 | | Section 1. Short title. This Act may be cited as the | 5 | | Dedicated Fund Impact Note Act. | 6 | | Section 5. Dedicated fund impact note required. Every bill | 7 | | that provides for the transfer of moneys from a special fund in | 8 | | the State treasury to any other fund in the State treasury | 9 | | through sweeps, administrative charge-backs, or another other | 10 | | fiscal or budgetary maneuver shall have prepared
for it, prior | 11 | | to second reading in each chamber, a brief explanatory
| 12 | | statement or note that discloses the amount to be transferred | 13 | | from each special fund and an estimate of the programmatic | 14 | | impact of those transfers.
| 15 | | Section 10. Request for and delivery of note. Upon the | 16 | | request of any member of the General Assembly, the Director of | 17 | | the Governor's Office of Management and Budget, or any person
| 18 | | within the Office whom the Director may designate, shall | 19 | | prepare a written
statement setting forth the information | 20 | | specified in Section
5.
| 21 | | The statement prepared by the Director of the Governor's | 22 | | Office of Management and Budget shall be
designated a Dedicated |
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| 1 | | Fund Impact Note and shall be furnished to the
member who made | 2 | | the request within 10 calendar days thereafter, except that | 3 | | whenever, because of
the complexity of the bill, additional | 4 | | time is required for the preparation
of the note, the | 5 | | Governor's Office of Management and Budget may so notify the | 6 | | requester and ask for an extension of time not
to exceed 5 | 7 | | additional days within which the note is to be furnished. No
| 8 | | extension shall extend beyond May 15 following the date of the | 9 | | request. | 10 | | Section 15. Contents of note. The note shall be factual in | 11 | | nature, as brief and concise as
may be, and shall provide as | 12 | | reliable an estimate as is possible under the circumstances of | 13 | | the amounts to be transferred and the programmatic impacts of | 14 | | the transfers. The note shall
include both the immediate | 15 | | effect, and if determinable or reasonably
foreseeable,
the | 16 | | long-range effect of the measure.
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brief summary or work sheet of computations and all | 18 | | assumptions used in arriving at the Dedicated Fund Impact Note | 19 | | figures
shall be supplied. | 20 | | No comment or opinion shall be included in the note with | 21 | | regard
to the merits of the measure for which the note is | 22 | | prepared; however, technical
or mechanical defects may be | 23 | | noted.
| 24 | | The work sheet shall include, insofar as practicable, a | 25 | | breakdown of the
costs and benefits upon which the note is |
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The note shall also include such other information as is | 2 | | required by the
rules and regulations that may be promulgated | 3 | | by each house of the General
Assembly with respect to the | 4 | | preparation of such notes.
| 5 | | The note shall be prepared in quintuplicate and the | 6 | | original of both the
note and the work sheet shall be signed by | 7 | | the Governor's Office of Management and Budgets or such person | 8 | | as the Director may designate. | 9 | | Section 20. Appearance before legislative committee. The | 10 | | fact that a Dedicated Fund Impact Note is prepared
for any bill | 11 | | shall not preclude or restrict the appearance before any | 12 | | committee
of the General Assembly, of any official or | 13 | | authorized employee of any State
board, commission, | 14 | | department, agency, or other entity who desires to be heard
in | 15 | | support of, or in opposition to, the measure. | 16 | | Section 25. Applicability to amendments. Whenever any | 17 | | measure is amended on the floor of either house
in such manner | 18 | | as to bring it within the description of bills set forth
in | 19 | | Section 5 above, a majority of such house may propose that no | 20 | | action
shall be taken upon the amendment until the Director of | 21 | | the Governor's Office of Management and Budget presents
a note | 22 | | that complies with the requirements of this Act. | 23 | | Section 30. Confidentiality. The subject matter of bills |
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| 1 | | submitted to the Director of the Governor's Office of | 2 | | Management and Budget shall be kept in strict confidence, and | 3 | | no information
relating thereto or relating to the budget or | 4 | | impact thereof shall be divulged
by an official or employee of | 5 | | the Office, except to the requester, or his or her designee, | 6 | | prior
to the bill's introduction in the General Assembly.
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