Illinois General Assembly - Full Text of HB1937

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104TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2025 and 2026
HB1937

Introduced 2/4/2025, by Rep. Jed Davis

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:

5 ILCS 100/5-132 new
30 ILCS 5/1-14.5 new

Amends the Illinois State Auditing Act. Requires the Auditor General to conduct a survey of the Illinois Administrative Code to determine how many mandates and restrictions are imposed by the Illinois Administrative Code on (i) persons, firms, and other entities within the Illinois private sector and (ii) units of local government and taxing bodies other than the State of Illinois. Allows the Auditor General to contract with a private entity to fulfill some or all of these requirements. Allows the use of artificial intelligence for these requirements. Requires the Auditor General to prepare and submit a report within 2 years of the effective date of the Act. Amends the Illinois Administrative Procedure Act. Provides that each State agency shall, within 9 months of the submission of the report by the Auditor General, submit a follow-up report to the Governor, the General Assembly, and the Joint Committee on Administrative Rules acknowledging the findings within the report. Allows a State agency to use artificial intelligence for these requirements. Requires the Joint Committee on Administrative Rules to supervise. Provides that the Joint Committee shall, within 3 months of the submission of the follow-up reports, calculate each State agency's share of the total amount of mandates and restrictions and submit a report with these calculations. Provides that each State agency shall, within 2 years of the submission of the follow-up reports, adopt, amend, or repeal rules sufficient to effectuate a reduction in the total amount of mandates and restrictions to 250,000 or 80% of the amount in the Auditor General's report, whichever is lesser.

A BILL FOR

AN ACT concerning government.

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

Section 5. The Illinois Administrative Procedure Act is amended by adding Section 5-132 as follows:

(5 ILCS 100/5-132 new)

Sec. 5-132. Restriction on burdensome content within the Illinois Administrative Code.

(a) Each State agency shall, within 9 months of the submission of the report under Section 1-14.5 of the Illinois State Auditing Act, submit a follow-up report to the Governor, the General Assembly, and the Joint Committee on Administrative Rules acknowledging the findings of the relevant portions of the report under Section 1-14.5 of the Illinois State Auditing Act for the State agency. Each follow-up report shall contain an explicit numerical acknowledgment of how many rules with mandates and restrictions under subsection (a) of Section 1-14.5 of the Illinois State Auditing Act that State agency is maintaining. A State agency may use artificial intelligence or similar software to assist in this numerical acknowledgment under this subsection. The requirements of this subsection (a) shall be supervised by the Joint Committee on Administrative Rules.

(b) The Joint Committee on Administrative Rules shall, within 3 months of the submission of the follow-up reports under this Section, calculate each State agency's share of the total amount of mandates and restrictions under subsection (a) of Section 1-14.5 of the Illinois State Auditing Act and submit a report to the Governor and the General Assembly with these calculations. The Joint Committee shall make available this report to each State agency.

(c) Each State agency shall, within 2 years of the submission of the follow-up reports under subsection (a) of this Section, adopt, amend, or repeal rules sufficient to effectuate the lesser of the following requirements with respect to the total amount of mandates and restrictions under subsection (a) of Section 1-14.5 of the Illinois State Auditing Act:

(1) a total amount of mandates and restrictions in the Illinois Administrative Code of 250,000, inclusive of all State agencies; or

(2) a total amount of mandates and restrictions in the Illinois Administrative Code of 80% of the mandates and restrictions enumerated in the report under Section 1-14.5 of the Illinois State Auditing Act, inclusive of all State agencies.

The requirements of this subsection (c) shall be supervised by the Joint Committee on Administrative Rules. The Joint Committee shall report quarterly to the Governor and the General Assembly on the implementation of this subsection (c) and shall submit a final report to the Governor and the General Assembly when the implementation of this subsection (c) is complete.

Section 10. The Illinois State Auditing Act is amended by adding Section 1-14.5 as follows:

(30 ILCS 5/1-14.5 new)

Sec. 1-14.5. Survey of the Illinois Administrative Code.

(a) The Auditor General shall conduct a survey of the Illinois Administrative Code to determine how many mandates and restrictions are imposed by the Illinois Administrative Code on (i) persons, firms, and other entities within the Illinois private sector and (ii) units of local government and taxing bodies other than the State of Illinois.

(b) The Auditor General may contract with a private entity to fulfill some or all of the requirements under this Section, subject to the determination by the Auditor General that the private entity is capable and qualified of performing the requirements under this Section, subject to appropriation, and subject to the requirements of the Illinois Procurement Code. The Auditor General or a contracted private entity under this subsection may use artificial intelligence or similar software to scrutinize the Illinois Administrative Code.

(c) The Auditor General shall prepare a report with the results of the survey under this Section. The report shall pinpoint the locations within the Illinois Administrative Code, and the responsible individual State agencies, over each and every enumerated mandate and restriction uncovered by the survey under this Section to enable the effective repeal of mandates and restrictions that may require repeal. The Auditor General shall submit the report under this subsection within 2 years of the effective date of this Act to the Governor and the General Assembly.