Full Text of SB0294 95th General Assembly
SB0294 95TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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95TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2007 and 2008 SB0294
Introduced 2/7/2007, by Sen. Carole Pankau SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED: |
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Amends the Illinois Procurement Code. Provides that if the Comptroller on his or her official website announces the State's awarding of a contract, the announcement must include at least as much information as is required to be included in the notice of contract award in the Procurement Bulletin.
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| AN ACT concerning finance.
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| Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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| represented in the General Assembly:
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| Section 5. The Illinois Procurement Code is amended by | 5 |
| changing Section 20-80 as follows:
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| (30 ILCS 500/20-80)
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| Sec. 20-80. Contract files.
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| (a) Written determinations. All written determinations
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| required under this Article shall
be placed in the contract | 10 |
| file maintained by the chief procurement officer.
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| (b) Filing with Comptroller. Whenever a grant, defined | 12 |
| pursuant to
accounting standards established by the | 13 |
| Comptroller, or a contract
liability,
except for:
(1) contracts | 14 |
| paid
from personal services, or
(2) contracts between the State | 15 |
| and its
employees to defer
compensation in accordance with | 16 |
| Article 24 of the Illinois Pension Code,
exceeding $10,000 is | 17 |
| incurred by any
State agency, a copy of the contract, purchase | 18 |
| order, grant, or
lease shall be filed with the
Comptroller | 19 |
| within 15 days thereafter. Any cancellation or
modification to | 20 |
| any such contract
liability shall be filed with the Comptroller | 21 |
| within 15 days of
its execution. If the comptroller on his or | 22 |
| her official website announces the State's awarding of a | 23 |
| contract, the announcement must include at least as much |
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| information about the contract as is required to be included in | 2 |
| the notice of a contract award in the Procurement bulletin | 3 |
| under subsection (b) of Section 15-25.
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| (c) Late filing affidavit. When a contract, purchase order, | 5 |
| grant,
or lease required to be
filed by this Section has not | 6 |
| been filed within 30 days of
execution, the Comptroller shall | 7 |
| refuse
to issue a warrant for payment thereunder until the | 8 |
| agency files
with the Comptroller the
contract, purchase order, | 9 |
| grant, or lease and an affidavit, signed by the
chief executive | 10 |
| officer of the
agency or his or her designee, setting forth an | 11 |
| explanation of why
the contract liability was not
filed within | 12 |
| 30 days of execution. A copy of this affidavit shall
be filed | 13 |
| with the Auditor
General.
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| (d) Professional and artistic services contracts. No
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| voucher shall be submitted to the
Comptroller for a warrant to | 16 |
| be drawn for the payment of money
from the State treasury or | 17 |
| from
other funds held by the State Treasurer on account of any | 18 |
| contract
for services involving
professional or artistic | 19 |
| skills involving an expenditure of more
than $5,000 for the | 20 |
| same type of
service at the same location during any fiscal | 21 |
| year unless the
contract is reduced to writing
before the | 22 |
| services are performed and filed with the Comptroller.
When a | 23 |
| contract for
professional or artistic skills in excess of | 24 |
| $5,000 was not
reduced to writing before the services
were | 25 |
| performed, the Comptroller shall refuse to issue a warrant
for | 26 |
| payment for the services
until the State agency files with the |
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| Comptroller:
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| (1) a written
contract covering the services, and
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| (2) an affidavit, signed by the chief executive officer | 4 |
| of the
State agency or his or her designee,
stating that | 5 |
| the services for which payment is being made were
agreed to | 6 |
| before commencement
of the services and setting forth an | 7 |
| explanation of why the
contract was not reduced to writing
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| before the services commenced.
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| A copy of this affidavit shall be
filed with the Auditor | 10 |
| General.
The Comptroller shall maintain professional or | 11 |
| artistic service
contracts filed under this Section
separately | 12 |
| from other filed contracts.
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| (e) Method of source selection. When a contract is filed
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| with the Comptroller under this
Section, the Comptroller's file | 15 |
| shall identify the method of
source selection used in obtaining | 16 |
| the
contract.
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| (Source: P.A. 90-572, eff. date - See Sec. 99-5; 91-904, eff. | 18 |
| 7-6-00.)
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