SB2344 95TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

LRB095 18839 RCE 44966 b

95TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2007 and 2008
SB2344

Introduced 2/14/2008, by Sen. A. J. Wilhelmi

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:

30 ILCS 105/6p-3	from Ch. 127, par. 142p3
30 ILCS 105/8.8a	from Ch. 127, par. 144.8a
30 ILCS 105/5.107 rep.
30 ILCS 255/2	from Ch. 127, par. 176c
415 ILCS 20/3	from Ch. 111 1/2, par. 7053

Amends the State Finance Act. Provides that any disbursements on or after July 1, 2008 that otherwise would be made from the State Surplus Property Revolving Fund shall be made from the Facilities Management Revolving Fund. Any moneys that otherwise would be paid into the State Surplus Property Revolving Fund on or after that date shall be deposited into the Facilities Management Revolving Fund. Further provides that the State Surplus Property Revolving Fund shall cease to exist on October 31, 2008, and that any balance in the Fund as of that date shall be transferred into the Facilities Management Revolving Fund. Repeals the State Surplus Property Revolving Fund. Makes conforming changes in the State Finance Act and other Acts. Effective July 1, 2008, except that provisions repealing the State Surplus Property Revolving Fund are effective November 1, 2008.

FISCAL NOTE ACT MAY APPLY

A BILL FOR

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 Sections 6p-3, 6q, and 8.8a as follows:

(30 ILCS 105/6p-3) (from Ch. 127, par. 142p3)

Sec. 6p-3. (a) All The State Surplus Property Revolving Fund shall be initially financed by a transfer of funds from the General Revenue Fund. Thereafter all fees and other monies received by the Department of Central Management Services from the sale or transfer of surplus or transferable property pursuant to the "State Property Control Act" and "An Act to create and establish a State Agency for Federal Surplus Property, to prescribe its powers, duties and functions", approved August 2, 1965, as amended, shall be paid into the Facilities Management State Surplus Property Revolving Fund. Except as provided in paragraph (e) of this Section, the money in this fund shall be used by the Department of Central Management Services as reimbursement for expenditures incurred in relation to the sale of surplus or transferable property.

(b) If at the end of the lapse period the balance in the Facilities Management State Surplus Property Revolving Fund exceeds the amount of $500,000, all monies in excess of that amount shall be transferred and deposited into the General Revenue Fund.

(c) Provided, however, that the fund established by this Section shall contain a separate account for the deposit of all proceeds resulting from the sale of Federal surplus property, and the proceeds of this separate account shall be used solely to reimburse the Department of Central Management Services for expenditures incurred in relation to the sale of Federal surplus property.

(d) (Blank). Any funds on deposit in the State Agency for Surplus Property Utilization Fund on the effective date of this amendatory Act of 1983 shall be transferred to the Federal account of the State Surplus Property Revolving Fund.

(e) Revenues received from the sale of wastepaper through paper recycling programs shall be placed into a separate account in the Fund and shall be used to offset costs to the Department of establishing and operating wastepaper recycling programs. At the end of each calendar quarter, any amounts in the separate account that have not been used or designated for use shall be transferred to the Paper and Printing Revolving Fund.

(f) Any disbursements on or after July 1, 2008 that otherwise would be made from the State Surplus Property Revolving Fund shall be made from the Facilities Management Revolving Fund. Any moneys that otherwise would be paid into the State Surplus Property Revolving Fund on or after that date shall be deposited into the Facilities Management Revolving Fund. The State Surplus Property Revolving Fund shall cease to exist on October 31, 2008. Any balance in the Fund as of that date shall be transferred into the Facilities Management Revolving Fund.

(Source: P.A. 85-1197.)

(30 ILCS 105/8.8a) (from Ch. 127, par. 144.8a)

Sec. 8.8a. Appropriations for the sale or transfer of surplus or transferable property by the Department of Central Management Services, and for all other expenses incident to the handling, transportation, maintenance and storage of such surplus property, including personal services and contractual services connected therewith and for expenses incident to the establishment and operation of wastepaper recycling programs by the Department, are payable from the Facilities Management State Surplus Property Revolving Fund.

(Source: P.A. 85-1197.)

(30 ILCS 105/5.107 rep.)

Section 10. The State Finance Act is amended by repealing Section 5.107.

Section 15. The Federal Commodity Disbursement Act is amended by changing Section 2 as follows:

(30 ILCS 255/2) (from Ch. 127, par. 176c)

Sec. 2. Any officer, department or agency of this State who or which shall be designated by the Governor as the State Agency for Surplus Property Utilization is authorized to promulgate regulations for the carrying out of its distribution of surplus funds and commodities. All fees and moneys collected or received by the employees or agents of the State officer or agency who or which is designated as the receiving agency shall be paid or turned over to and held by the State Treasurer as ex officio custodian thereof separate and apart from all public funds or moneys of this State and shall be known as the Federal account of the Facilities Management State Surplus Property Revolving Fund, to be administered by the designated State officer or agency. All disbursements from this fund shall be made only upon warrants of the State Comptroller drawn upon the Treasurer as custodian of this fund upon vouchers signed by the designated State officer or agency, and the Comptroller is hereby authorized to draw such warrants upon vouchers so signed. The Treasurer shall accept all warrants so signed and shall be released from liability for all payments made thereon.

(Source: P.A. 83-9.)

Section 20. The Illinois Solid Waste Management Act is amended by changing Section 3 as follows:

(415 ILCS 20/3) (from Ch. 111 1/2, par. 7053)

Sec. 3. State agency materials recycling program.

(a) All State agencies responsible for the maintenance of public lands in the State shall, to the maximum extent feasible, give due consideration and preference to the use of compost materials in all land maintenance activities which are to be paid with public funds.

(b) The Department of Central Management Services, in coordination with the Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity, shall implement waste reduction programs, including source separation and collection, for office wastepaper, corrugated containers, newsprint and mixed paper, in all State buildings as appropriate and feasible. Such waste reduction programs shall be designed to achieve waste reductions of at least 25% of all such waste by December 31, 1995, and at least 50% of all such waste by December 31, 2000. Any source separation and collection program shall include, at a minimum, procedures for collecting and storing recyclable materials, bins or containers for storing materials, and contractual or other arrangements with buyers of recyclable materials. If market conditions so warrant, the Department of Central Management Services, in coordination with the Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity, may modify programs developed pursuant to this Section.

The Department of Commerce and Community Affairs (now Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity) shall conduct waste categorization studies of all State facilities for calendar years 1991, 1995 and 2000. Such studies shall be designed to assist the Department of Central Management Services to achieve the waste reduction goals established in this subsection.

(c) Each State agency shall, upon consultation with the Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity, periodically review its procurement procedures and specifications related to the purchase of products or supplies. Such procedures and specifications shall be modified as necessary to require the procuring agency to seek out products and supplies that contain recycled materials, and to ensure that purchased products or supplies are reusable, durable or made from recycled materials whenever economically and practically feasible. In choosing among products or supplies that contain recycled material, consideration shall be given to products and supplies with the highest recycled material content that is consistent with the effective and efficient use of the product or supply.

(d) Wherever economically and practically feasible, the Department of Central Management Services shall procure recycled paper and paper products as follows:

(1) Beginning July 1, 1989, at least 10% of the total dollar value of paper and paper products purchased by the Department of Central Management Services shall be recycled paper and paper products.

(2) Beginning July 1, 1992, at least 25% of the total dollar value of paper and paper products purchased by the Department of Central Management Services shall be recycled paper and paper products.

(3) Beginning July 1, 1996, at least 40% of the total dollar value of paper and paper products purchased by the Department of Central Management Services shall be recycled paper and paper products.

(4) Beginning July 1, 2000, at least 50% of the total dollar value of paper and paper products purchased by the Department of Central Management Services shall be recycled paper and paper products.

(e) Paper and paper products purchased from private vendors pursuant to printing contracts are not considered paper products for the purposes of subsection (d). However, the Department of Central Management Services shall report to the General Assembly on an annual basis the total dollar value of printing contracts awarded to private sector vendors that included the use of recycled paper.

(f)(1) Wherever economically and practically feasible, the recycled paper and paper products referred to in subsection (d) shall contain postconsumer or recovered paper materials as specified by paper category in this subsection:

(i) Recycled high grade printing and writing paper shall contain at least 50% recovered paper material. Such recovered paper material, until July 1, 1994, shall consist of at least 20% deinked stock or postconsumer material; and beginning July 1, 1994, shall consist of at least 25% deinked stock or postconsumer material; and beginning July 1, 1996, shall consist of at least 30% deinked stock or postconsumer material; and beginning July 1, 1998, shall consist of at least 40% deinked stock or postconsumer material; and beginning July 1, 2000, shall consist of at least 50% deinked stock or postconsumer material.

(ii) Recycled tissue products, until July 1, 1994, shall contain at least 25% postconsumer material; and beginning July 1, 1994, shall contain at least 30% postconsumer material; and beginning July 1, 1996, shall contain at least 35% postconsumer material; and beginning July 1, 1998, shall contain at least 40% postconsumer material; and beginning July 1, 2000, shall contain at least 45% postconsumer material.

(iii) Recycled newsprint, until July 1, 1994, shall contain at least 40% postconsumer material; and beginning July 1, 1994, shall contain at least 50% postconsumer material; and beginning July 1, 1996, shall contain at least 60% postconsumer material; and beginning July 1, 1998, shall contain at least 70% postconsumer material; and beginning July 1, 2000, shall contain at least 80% postconsumer material.

(iv) Recycled unbleached packaging, until July 1, 1994, shall contain at least 35% postconsumer material; and beginning July 1, 1994, shall contain at least 40% postconsumer material; and beginning July 1, 1996, shall contain at least 45% postconsumer material; and beginning July 1, 1998, shall contain at least 50% postconsumer material; and beginning July 1, 2000, shall contain at least 55% postconsumer material.

(v) Recycled paperboard, until July 1, 1994, shall contain at least 80% postconsumer material; and beginning July 1, 1994, shall contain at least 85% postconsumer material; and beginning July 1, 1996, shall contain at least 90% postconsumer material; and beginning July 1, 1998, shall contain at least 95% postconsumer material.

(2) For the purposes of this Section, "postconsumer material" includes:

(i) paper, paperboard, and fibrous wastes from retail stores, office buildings, homes, and so forth, after the waste has passed through its end usage as a consumer item, including used corrugated boxes, old newspapers, mixed waste paper, tabulating cards, and used cordage; and

(ii) all paper, paperboard, and fibrous wastes that are diverted or separated from the municipal solid waste stream.

(3) For the purposes of this Section, "recovered paper material" includes:

(i) postconsumer material;

(ii) dry paper and paperboard waste generated after completion of the papermaking process (that is, those manufacturing operations up to and including the cutting and trimming of the paper machine reel into smaller rolls or rough sheets), including envelope cuttings, bindery trimmings, and other paper and paperboard waste resulting from printing, cutting, forming, and other converting operations, or from bag, box and carton manufacturing, and butt rolls, mill wrappers, and rejected unused stock; and

(iii) finished paper and paperboard from obsolete inventories of paper and paperboard manufacturers, merchants, wholesalers, dealers, printers, converters, or others.

(g) The Department of Central Management Services may adopt regulations to carry out the provisions and purposes of this Section.

(h) Every State agency shall, in its procurement documents, specify that, whenever economically and practically feasible, a product to be procured must consist, wholly or in part, of recycled materials, or be recyclable or reusable in whole or in part. When applicable, if state guidelines are not already prescribed, State agencies shall follow USEPA guidelines for federal procurement.

(i) All State agencies shall cooperate with the Department of Central Management Services in carrying out this Section. The Department of Central Management Services may enter into cooperative purchasing agreements with other governmental units in order to obtain volume discounts, or for other reasons in accordance with the Governmental Joint Purchasing Act, or in accordance with the Intergovernmental Cooperation Act if governmental units of other states or the federal government are involved.

(j) The Department of Central Management Services shall submit an annual report to the General Assembly concerning its implementation of the State's collection and recycled paper procurement programs. This report shall include a description of the actions that the Department of Central Management Services has taken in the previous fiscal year to implement this Section. This report shall be submitted on or before November 1 of each year.

(k) The Department of Central Management Services, in cooperation with all other appropriate departments and agencies of the State, shall institute whenever economically and practically feasible the use of re-refined motor oil in all State-owned motor vehicles and the use of remanufactured and retread tires whenever such use is practical, beginning no later than July 1, 1992.

(l) (Blank).

(m) The Department of Central Management Services, in coordination with the Department of Commerce and Community Affairs (now Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity), shall implement an aluminum can recycling program in all State buildings within 270 days of the effective date of this amendatory Act of 1997. The program shall provide for (1) the collection and storage of used aluminum cans in bins or other appropriate containers made reasonably available to occupants and visitors of State buildings and (2) the sale of used aluminum cans to buyers of recyclable materials.

Proceeds from the sale of used aluminum cans shall be deposited into I-CYCLE accounts maintained in the Facilities Management State Surplus Property Revolving Fund and, subject to appropriation, shall be used by the Department of Central Management Services and any other State agency to offset the costs of implementing the aluminum can recycling program under this Section.

All State agencies having an aluminum can recycling program in place shall continue with their current plan. If a State agency has an existing recycling program in place, proceeds from the aluminum can recycling program may be retained and distributed pursuant to that program, otherwise all revenue resulting from these programs shall be forwarded to Central Management Services, I-CYCLE for placement into the appropriate account within the Facilities Management State Surplus Property Revolving Fund, minus any operating costs associated with the program.

(Source: P.A. 94-793, eff. 5-19-06.)

Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect July 1, 2008, except that Section 10 takes effect November 1, 2008.