HB1890 102ND GENERAL ASSEMBLY

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102ND GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2021 and 2022
HB1890

Introduced 2/17/2021, by Rep. Amy Elik

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:

30 ILCS 105/5h.5

Amends the State Finance Act. In provisions concerning cash flow borrowing and general funds liquidity, provides that moneys transferred to general funds and the Health Insurance Reserve Fund under specified provisions shall be repaid to the fund of origin within 24 months (currently, 48 months) after the date on which they were borrowed. Effective immediately.

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AN ACT concerning finance.

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

Section 5. The State Finance Act is amended by changing Section 5h.5 as follows:

(30 ILCS 105/5h.5)

Sec. 5h.5. Cash flow borrowing and general funds liquidity; Fiscal Years 2018, 2019, 2020, and 2021.

(a) In order to meet cash flow deficits and to maintain liquidity in general funds and the Health Insurance Reserve Fund, on and after July 1, 2017 and through June 30, 2021, the State Treasurer and the State Comptroller, in consultation with the Governor's Office of Management and Budget, shall make transfers to general funds and the Health Insurance Reserve Fund, as directed by the State Comptroller, out of special funds of the State, to the extent allowed by federal law.

No such transfer may reduce the cumulative balance of all of the special funds of the State to an amount less than the total debt service payable during the 12 months immediately following the date of the transfer on any bonded indebtedness of the State and any certificates issued under the Short Term Borrowing Act. At no time shall the outstanding total transfers made from the special funds of the State to general funds and the Health Insurance Reserve Fund under this Section exceed $1,500,000,000; once the amount of $1,500,000,000 has been transferred from the special funds of the State to general funds and the Health Insurance Reserve Fund, additional transfers may be made from the special funds of the State to general funds and the Health Insurance Reserve Fund under this Section only to the extent that moneys have first been re-transferred from general funds and the Health Insurance Reserve Fund to those special funds of the State. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Section, no such transfer may be made from any special fund that is exclusively collected by or directly appropriated to any other constitutional officer without the written approval of that constitutional officer.

(b) If moneys have been transferred to general funds and the Health Insurance Reserve Fund pursuant to subsection (a) of this Section, Public Act 100-23 shall constitute the continuing authority for and direction to the State Treasurer and State Comptroller to reimburse the funds of origin from general funds by transferring to the funds of origin, at such times and in such amounts as directed by the Comptroller when necessary to support appropriated expenditures from the funds, an amount equal to that transferred from them plus any interest that would have accrued thereon had the transfer not occurred, except that any moneys transferred pursuant to subsection (a) of this Section shall be repaid to the fund of origin within 24 48 months after the date on which they were borrowed. When any of the funds from which moneys have been transferred pursuant to subsection (a) have insufficient cash from which the State Comptroller may make expenditures properly supported by appropriations from the fund, then the State Treasurer and State Comptroller shall transfer from general funds to the fund only such amount as is immediately necessary to satisfy outstanding expenditure obligations on a timely basis.

(c) On the first day of each quarterly period in each fiscal year, until such time as a report indicates that all moneys borrowed and interest pursuant to this Section have been repaid, the Comptroller shall provide to the President and the Minority Leader of the Senate, the Speaker and the Minority Leader of the House of Representatives, and the Commission on Government Forecasting and Accountability a report on all transfers made pursuant to this Section in the prior quarterly period. The report must be provided in electronic format. The report must include all of the following:

(1) the date each transfer was made;

(2) the amount of each transfer;

(3) in the case of a transfer from general funds to a fund of origin pursuant to subsection (b) of this Section, the amount of interest being paid to the fund of origin; and

(4) the end of day balance of the fund of origin, the general funds, and the Health Insurance Reserve Fund on the date the transfer was made.

(Source: P.A. 100-23, eff. 7-6-17; 100-587, eff. 6-4-18; 101-10, eff. 6-5-19; 101-636, eff. 6-10-20.)

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