Public Act 096-0881
 		





HB2240 Enrolled
LRB096 11004 RCE 21289 b






    AN ACT in relation to budget implementation. 

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



 
    Section 5. The State Budget Law of the Civil Administrative 
Code of Illinois is amended  by changing Section 50-5 as 
follows:
 
    (15 ILCS 20/50-5)
    Sec. 50-5. Governor to submit State budget.  
    (a) The Governor shall, as soon as
possible and not later 
than the second third

Wednesday in March in 2010 2009 (March 
10, 2010 18, 2009) and the third
Wednesday in February of each 
year beginning in 2011 2010, except as otherwise provided in 
this Section, submit a
State budget, embracing therein the 
amounts recommended by the Governor to be
appropriated to the 
respective departments, offices, and institutions, and
for all 
other public purposes, the estimated revenues from taxation, 
the
estimated revenues from sources other than taxation, and an 
estimate of the
amount required to be raised by taxation. The 
amounts recommended by the
Governor for appropriation to the 
respective departments, offices and
institutions shall be 
formulated according to the various functions and
activities 
for which the respective department, office or institution of

the State government (including the elective officers in the 
executive
department and including the University of Illinois 
and the judicial
department) is responsible. The amounts 
relating to particular functions
and activities shall be 
further formulated in accordance with the object

classification specified in Section 13 of the State Finance 
Act.
    The Governor shall not propose expenditures and the General 
Assembly shall
not enact appropriations that exceed the 
resources estimated to be available,
as provided in this 
Section.
    For the purposes of Article VIII, Section 2 of the 1970

Illinois Constitution, the State budget for the following funds 
shall be
prepared on the basis of revenue and expenditure 
measurement concepts that are
in concert with generally 
accepted accounting principles for governments:
        (1) General Revenue Fund.
        (2) Common School Fund.
        (3) Educational Assistance Fund.
        (4) Road Fund.
        (5) Motor Fuel Tax Fund.
        (6) Agricultural Premium Fund.
    These funds shall be known as the "budgeted funds".  The 
revenue
estimates used in the State budget for the budgeted 
funds shall include the
estimated beginning fund balance, plus

revenues estimated to be received during the budgeted year, 
plus the estimated
receipts due the State as of June 30 of the 
budgeted year that are expected to
be collected during the 
lapse period following the budgeted year, minus the
receipts 
collected during the first 2 months of the budgeted year that 
became
due to the State in the year before the budgeted year.  
Revenues shall also
include estimated federal reimbursements 
associated with the recognition of
Section 25 of the State 
Finance Act liabilities.  For any budgeted fund
for which 
current year revenues are anticipated to exceed expenditures, 
the
surplus shall be considered to be a resource available for 
expenditure in the
budgeted fiscal year.
    Expenditure estimates for the budgeted funds included in 
the State budget
shall include the costs to be incurred by the 
State for the budgeted year,
to be paid in the next fiscal 
year, excluding costs paid in the budgeted year
which were 
carried over from the prior year, where the payment is 
authorized by
Section
25 of the State Finance Act.  For any 
budgeted fund
for which expenditures are expected to exceed 
revenues in the current fiscal
year, the deficit shall be 
considered as a use of funds in the budgeted fiscal
year.
    Revenues and expenditures shall also include transfers 
between funds that are
based on revenues received or costs 
incurred during the budget year.
    Appropriations for expenditures shall also include all 
anticipated statutory continuing appropriation obligations 
that are expected to be incurred during the budgeted fiscal 
year.
    By
March 15 of each year, the
Commission on Government 
Forecasting and Accountability shall prepare
revenue and fund 
transfer estimates in accordance with the requirements of this

Section and report those estimates to the General Assembly and 
the Governor.
    For all funds other than the budgeted funds, the proposed 
expenditures shall
not exceed funds estimated to be available 
for the fiscal year as shown in the
budget.  Appropriation for a 
fiscal year shall not exceed funds estimated by
the General 
Assembly to be available during that year.
    (b) This subsection applies only to the process for the 
proposed fiscal year 2011 budget.
    By February 24, 2010, the Governor must file a written 
report with the Secretary of the Senate and the Clerk of the 
House of Representatives containing the following:
        (1)   for fiscal year 2010, the revenues for all budgeted 
    funds, both actual to date and estimated for the full 
    fiscal year;
        (2)    for fiscal year 2010, the expenditures for all 
    budgeted funds, both actual to date and estimated for the 
    full fiscal year;
        (3)    for fiscal year 2011, the  estimated revenues for 
    all budgeted funds, including without limitation  the 
    affordable General Revenue Fund appropriations, for the 
    full fiscal year; and
        (4)    for fiscal year 2011, an estimate of the 
    anticipated liabilities for all budgeted funds, including 
    without limitation the affordable General Revenue Fund 
    appropriations,  debt service on bonds issued, and the 
    State's contributions to the pension systems, for the full 
    fiscal year. 
    Between February 24, 2010 and March 10, 2010, the members 
of the General Assembly and members of the public may make 
written budget recommendations to the Governor, and the 
Governor shall promptly make those recommendations available 
to the public through the Governor's Internet website. 
(Source: P.A. 96-1, eff. 2-17-09; 96-320, eff. 1-1-10; revised 
9-4-09.)
 

    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon 
becoming law.