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90_SB0537eng

      5 ILCS 340/2              from Ch. 15, par. 502
      5 ILCS 340/3              from Ch. 15, par. 503
          Amends the  Voluntary  Payroll  Deduction  Act  of  1983.
      Provides  that  the forms on which an employee indicates that
      the organization is one for which  the  employee  intends  to
      authorize withholding shall require the name, social security
      number,  and employing State agency and that the signed forms
      and signatures are  subject  to  verification  by  the  State
      Comptroller.  Requires  a "qualified organization" to certify
      that it maintains a  year-round  office,  phone  number,  and
      person  responsible for the operations of the organization in
      Illinois  and  provide  an  annual  audit,  Internal  Revenue
      Service Form 990 covering the same period  as  the  submitted
      audit, and an annual report of the organization's activities,
      current  to  within  12  months  of the organization's fiscal
      year. Requires each qualified organization to submit  to  the
      State Comptroller between January 1 and March 1 of each year,
      a  statement  that the organization is in compliance with the
      qualified organization requirements. Provides that failure to
      submit the statement shall result in  the  State  Comptroller
      excluding the organization from the next solicitation period.
      Effective immediately.
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 1        AN  ACT  to  amend the Voluntary Payroll Deduction Act by
 2    changing Sections 2 and 3.
 3        Be it enacted by the People of  the  State  of  Illinois,
 4    represented in the General Assembly:
 5        Section  5.  The Voluntary Payroll Deductions Act of 1983
 6    is amended by changing Sections 2 and 3 as follows:
 7        (5 ILCS 340/2) (from Ch. 15, par. 502)
 8        Sec. 2. Public policy. It is the public  policy  of  this
 9    State  and the objective of this Act to lessen the burdens of
10    State government and of local communities in meeting needs of
11    human health and welfare; to  provide  a  convenient  channel
12    through   which State public servants may contribute to these
13    efforts;  to  minimize  or  eliminate disruption of the State
14    workplace and costs to State taxpayers that such fund-raising
15    may entail; to serve needs of human health and  welfare;  and
16    to   ensure   that   recipient   organizations  agencies  are
17    responsible in the uses of the moneys so raised.
18    (Source: P.A. 83-843.)
19        (5 ILCS 340/3) (from Ch. 15, par. 503)
20        Sec. 3. Definitions. As  used  in  this  Act  unless  the
21    context otherwise requires:
22        (a)  "Employee" means any regular officer or employee who
23    receives  salary  or  wages for personal services rendered to
24    the State of Illinois.
25        (b)  "Qualified  organization"  means   an   organization
26    representing   one   or   more   benefiting  agencies,  which
27    organization  is  designated  by  the  State  Comptroller  as
28    qualified to receive payroll deductions under this Act.    An
29    organization   desiring  to  be  designated  as  a  qualified
30    organization shall:
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 1             (1)  Submit written designations on  forms  approved
 2        by  the  State Comptroller by 4,000 or more employees, in
 3        which such employees indicate that  the  organization  is
 4        one   for   which   the  employee  intends  to  authorize
 5        withholding. The forms shall  require  the  name,  social
 6        security  number,  and  employing  State  agency for each
 7        employee.  Upon notification by the Comptroller that such
 8        forms have been approved, the organization shall,  within
 9        30  days,  notify in writing the Governor or his designee
10        of  its  intention  to  obtain  the  required  number  of
11        designations.  Such organization  shall  have  12  months
12        from that date, to obtain the necessary designations. The
13        signed forms and signatures on the forms shall be subject
14        to verification by the State Comptroller;
15             (2)  Certify  that  all  benefiting agencies are tax
16        exempt under Section 501 (c)(3) of the  Internal  Revenue
17        Code;
18             (3)  Certify  that  all  benefiting  agencies are in
19        compliance with the Illinois Human Rights Act;
20             (4)  Certify that all  benefiting  agencies  are  in
21        compliance   with   the  Charitable  Trust  Act  and  the
22        Solicitation for Charity Act;
23             (5)  Certify that all benefiting  agencies  actively
24        conduct  health  or welfare programs and provide services
25        to individuals directed at one or more of  the  following
26        common human needs within a community: service, research,
27        and education in the health fields; family and child care
28        services;  protective  services  for children and adults;
29        services for children and adults in foster care; services
30        related to the management and maintenance  of  the  home;
31        day  care  services  for adults; transportation services;
32        information, referral and counseling  services;  services
33        to  eliminate illiteracy; the preparation and delivery of
34        meals; adoption  services;  emergency  shelter  care  and
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 1        relief   services;   disaster   relief  services;  safety
 2        services;   neighborhood   and   community   organization
 3        services;  recreation  services;  social  adjustment  and
 4        rehabilitation services; health support  services;  or  a
 5        combination of such services designed to meet the special
 6        needs of specific groups, such as children and youth, the
 7        ill  and infirm, and the physically handicapped; and that
 8        all such benefiting agencies provide the above  described
 9        services   to  individuals  and  their  families  in  the
10        community and surrounding area in which the  organization
11        conducts its fund drive, or that such benefiting agencies
12        provide  relief to victims of natural disasters and other
13        emergencies on a where and as needed basis;
14             (6)  Certify that the organization has disclosed the
15        percentage of the organization's total collected receipts
16        from employees that are  distributed  to  the  benefiting
17        agencies  and  the percentage of the organization's total
18        collected receipts from employees that are  expended  for
19        fund-raising and overhead costs.  These percentages shall
20        be  the same percentage figures annually disclosed by the
21        organization to the  Attorney  General.   The  disclosure
22        shall  be made to all solicited employees and shall be in
23        the form of a factual statement on all petitions  and  in
24        the campaign's employee brochure;
25             (7)  Certify  that all benefiting agencies receiving
26        funds which the employee has requested or designated  for
27        distribution  to  a  particular community and surrounding
28        area  use  a  majority  of  such  funds  distributed  for
29        services in the actual  provision  of  services  in  that
30        community and surrounding area;
31             (8)  Certify   that   neither   it  nor  its  member
32        organizations   will   solicit   State   employees    for
33        contributions at their workplace, except pursuant to this
34        Act and the rules promulgated thereunder.  Each qualified
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 1        organization,  and  each  participating  United  Fund, is
 2        encouraged to cooperate with  all  others  and  with  all
 3        State  agencies  and  educational  institutions  so as to
 4        simplify  procedures,  to  resolve  differences  and   to
 5        minimize costs; and
 6             (9)  Certify  that  it  will  pay  its  share of the
 7        campaign costs and will comply with the Code of  Campaign
 8        Conduct  as  approved  by the Governor or other agency as
 9        designated by the Governor;.
10             (10)  Certify that it maintains a year-round office,
11        the telephone number,  and  person  responsible  for  the
12        operations   of   the   organization  in  Illinois.  That
13        information shall be provided to the State Comptroller at
14        the time the organization is seeking participation  under
15        this Act; and
16             (11)  Provide  (i)  an  annual audit, in conformance
17        with generally accepted accounting procedures and current
18        to  within  18  months  of  the   organization's   fiscal
19        year-end, (ii) Internal Revenue Service Form 990 covering
20        the  same  period  as  the  submitted audit, and (iii) an
21        annual report of the organization's  activities,  current
22        to within 12 months of the organization's fiscal year. If
23        a   qualifying  organization  represents  more  than  one
24        benefiting  agency,  it  shall  also  certify  that   the
25        documentation  required  by this paragraph is on file for
26        those agencies. The Comptroller is authorized to  request
27        documentation  of  the qualifying organization for any or
28        all of the benefiting agencies upon written request.  The
29        qualifying  organization  shall  have 10 business days to
30        respond after it receives the request.
31        Each qualified organization shall  submit  to  the  State
32    Comptroller  between  January  1  and March 1 of each year, a
33    statement that the organization is in compliance with all  of
34    the  requirements  set  forth in paragraphs (2) through (11).
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 1    The State Comptroller shall  exclude  any  organization  that
 2    fails  to  submit  the  statement  from the next solicitation
 3    period.
 4        In  order  to  be   designated   as   a   qualified,   an
 5    organization,  the organization shall have existed at least 2
 6    years prior  to  submitting  the  written  designation  forms
 7    required  in  paragraph  (1)  and  shall certify to the State
 8    Comptroller  that  such  organization  has   been   providing
 9    services  described  in  paragraph  (5)  in  Illinois. If the
10    organization seeking designation  represents  more  than  one
11    benefiting  agency,  it need not have existed for 2 years but
12    shall certify to the  State  Comptroller  that  each  of  its
13    benefiting agencies has existed for at least 2 years prior to
14    submitting   the   written   designation  forms  required  in
15    paragraph (1) and  that  each  has  been  providing  services
16    described in paragraph (5) in Illinois.
17        Organizations which have met the requirements of this Act
18    shall   be   permitted   to  participate  in  the  State  and
19    Universities Combined Appeal as of January 1st  of  the  year
20    immediately following their approval by the Comptroller.
21        Where the certifications described in paragraphs 2, 3, 4,
22    5,  6,  7,  8,  and  9,  10,  and  11  above  are  made by an
23    organization representing more  than  one  benefiting  agency
24    they  shall  be  based  upon the knowledge and belief of such
25    qualified  organization.  Any  qualified  organization  shall
26    immediately notify the State Comptroller in  writing  if  the
27    qualified  organization  receives  information  or  otherwise
28    believes  that a benefiting agency is no longer in compliance
29    with the certification of  the  qualified  organization.    A
30    qualified  organization representing more than one benefiting
31    agency   shall   thereafter   withhold   and   refrain   from
32    distributing to such benefiting agency those  funds  received
33    pursuant  to this Act until the benefiting agency is again in
34    compliance with the qualified  organization's  certification.
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 1    The qualified organization shall immediately notify the State
 2    Comptroller  of  the  benefiting  agency's resumed compliance
 3    with   the   certification,   based   upon   the    qualified
 4    organization's  knowledge  and  belief, and shall pay over to
 5    the benefiting agency those funds previously withheld.
 6        The Comptroller shall, by February 1st of each  year,  so
 7    notify  any  qualified organization that failed to receive at
 8    least 500 payroll deduction  pledges  deductions  during  the
 9    solicitation period ending May 1, 1990, and thereafter during
10    each  immediately  preceding solicitation period as set forth
11    in Section 6.  The notification  shall  give  such  qualified
12    organization  until March 1st to provide the Comptroller with
13    documentation that the 500  deduction  requirement  has  been
14    met.   On the basis of all the documentation, the Comptroller
15    shall, by March 15th of each year, submit to the Governor  or
16    his  designee,  or  such other agency as may be determined by
17    the Governor, a list of all organizations which have met  the
18    500  payroll deduction requirement.  Only those organizations
19    which have met  such  requirements,  as  well  as  the  other
20    requirements  of  this Section, shall be permitted to solicit
21    State  employees  for   voluntary   contributions   and   the
22    Comptroller   shall  discontinue  withholding  for  any  such
23    organization which fails to meet these requirements.
24        (c)  "United Fund" means the organization conducting  the
25    single,  annual,  consolidated  effort  to  secure  funds for
26    distribution to agencies engaged  in  charitable  and  public
27    health,  welfare  and  services  purposes,  which is commonly
28    known as the United Fund, or the organization which serves in
29    place of the United Fund organization in communities where an
30    organization known as the United Fund is not organized.
31        (d)  "State and Universities Employees  Combined  Appeal"
32    (SECA),  otherwise  known as "SECA", means the State-directed
33    joint effort of all of the qualified organizations,  together
34    with  the  United  Funds,  for  the solicitation of voluntary
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 1    contributions from State and University employees.
 2        In order for a United Fund to participate  in  the  State
 3    and  Universities  Employees Combined Appeal, it shall comply
 4    with the provisions of Section 3, paragraph (9).
 5    (Source: P.A. 87-1053; 88-243.)
 6        Section 99.  Effective date.  This Act takes effect  upon
 7    becoming law.

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