HB3691 96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

LRB096 07710 RCE 17811 b

96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2009 and 2010
HB3691

Introduced 2/24/2009, by Rep. Careen M Gordon

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:

30 ILCS 105/5.630 rep.
30 ILCS 105/8h
705 ILCS 25/3	from Ch. 37, par. 27
710 ILCS 40/10

Amends the State Finance Act, Appellate Court Act, and Reviewing Court Alternative Dispute Resolution Act. Eliminates the Reviewing Court Alternative Dispute Resolution Fund. Provides that any balance in the Fund shall be transferred into the Mandatory Arbitration Fund.

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:

(30 ILCS 105/5.630 rep.)

Section 5. The State Finance Act is amended by repealing Section 5.630.

Section 10. The State Finance Act is amended by changing Section 8h as follows:

(30 ILCS 105/8h)

Sec. 8h. Transfers to General Revenue Fund.

(a) Except as otherwise provided in this Section and Section 8n of this Act, and notwithstanding any other State law to the contrary, the Governor may, through June 30, 2007, from time to time direct the State Treasurer and Comptroller to transfer a specified sum from any fund held by the State Treasurer to the General Revenue Fund in order to help defray the State's operating costs for the fiscal year. The total transfer under this Section from any fund in any fiscal year shall not exceed the lesser of (i) 8% of the revenues to be deposited into the fund during that fiscal year or (ii) an amount that leaves a remaining fund balance of 25% of the July 1 fund balance of that fiscal year. In fiscal year 2005 only, prior to calculating the July 1, 2004 final balances, the Governor may calculate and direct the State Treasurer with the Comptroller to transfer additional amounts determined by applying the formula authorized in Public Act 93-839 to the funds balances on July 1, 2003. No transfer may be made from a fund under this Section that would have the effect of reducing the available balance in the fund to an amount less than the amount remaining unexpended and unreserved from the total appropriation from that fund estimated to be expended for that fiscal year. This Section does not apply to any funds that are restricted by federal law to a specific use, to any funds in the Motor Fuel Tax Fund, the Intercity Passenger Rail Fund, the Hospital Provider Fund, the Medicaid Provider Relief Fund, the Teacher Health Insurance Security Fund, the Reviewing Court Alternative Dispute Resolution Fund, the Voters' Guide Fund, the Foreign Language Interpreter Fund, the Lawyers' Assistance Program Fund, the Supreme Court Federal Projects Fund, the Supreme Court Special State Projects Fund, the Supplemental Low-Income Energy Assistance Fund, the Good Samaritan Energy Trust Fund, the Low-Level Radioactive Waste Facility Development and Operation Fund, the Horse Racing Equity Trust Fund, the Metabolic Screening and Treatment Fund, or the Hospital Basic Services Preservation Fund, or to any funds to which Section 70-50 of the Nurse Practice Act applies. No transfers may be made under this Section from the Pet Population Control Fund. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Section, for fiscal year 2004, the total transfer under this Section from the Road Fund or the State Construction Account Fund shall not exceed the lesser of (i) 5% of the revenues to be deposited into the fund during that fiscal year or (ii) 25% of the beginning balance in the fund. For fiscal year 2005 through fiscal year 2007, no amounts may be transferred under this Section from the Road Fund, the State Construction Account Fund, the Criminal Justice Information Systems Trust Fund, the Wireless Service Emergency Fund, or the Mandatory Arbitration Fund.

In determining the available balance in a fund, the Governor may include receipts, transfers into the fund, and other resources anticipated to be available in the fund in that fiscal year.

The State Treasurer and Comptroller shall transfer the amounts designated under this Section as soon as may be practicable after receiving the direction to transfer from the Governor.

(a-5) Transfers directed to be made under this Section on or before February 28, 2006 that are still pending on May 19, 2006 (the effective date of Public Act 94-774) shall be redirected as provided in Section 8n of this Act.

(b) This Section does not apply to: (i) the Ticket For The Cure Fund; (ii) any fund established under the Community Senior Services and Resources Act; or (iii) on or after January 1, 2006 (the effective date of Public Act 94-511), the Child Labor and Day and Temporary Labor Enforcement Fund.

(c) This Section does not apply to the Demutualization Trust Fund established under the Uniform Disposition of Unclaimed Property Act.

(d) This Section does not apply to moneys set aside in the Illinois State Podiatric Disciplinary Fund for podiatric scholarships and residency programs under the Podiatric Scholarship and Residency Act.

(e) Subsection (a) does not apply to, and no transfer may be made under this Section from, the Pension Stabilization Fund.

(f) Subsection (a) does not apply to, and no transfer may be made under this Section from, the Illinois Power Agency Operations Fund, the Illinois Power Agency Facilities Fund, the Illinois Power Agency Debt Service Fund, and the Illinois Power Agency Trust Fund.

(g) This Section does not apply to the Veterans Service Organization Reimbursement Fund.

(h) This Section does not apply to the Supreme Court Historic Preservation Fund.

(i) This Section does not apply to, and no transfer may be made under this Section from, the Money Follows the Person Budget Transfer Fund.

(Source: P.A. 94-91, eff. 7-1-05; 94-120, eff. 7-6-05; 94-511, eff. 1-1-06; 94-535, eff. 8-10-05; 94-639, eff. 8-22-05; 94-645, eff. 8-22-05; 94-648, eff. 1-1-06; 94-686, eff. 11-2-05; 94-691, eff. 11-2-05; 94-726, eff. 1-20-06; 94-773, eff. 5-18-06; 94-774, eff. 5-19-06; 94-804, eff. 5-26-06; 94-839, eff. 6-6-06; 95-331, eff. 8-21-07; 95-410, eff. 8-24-07; 95-481, eff. 8-28-07; 95-629, eff. 9-25-07; 95-639, eff. 10-5-07; 95-695, eff. 11-5-07; 95-744, eff. 7-18-08; 95-876, eff. 8-21-08.)

Section 15. The Appellate Court Act is amended by changing Section 3 as follows:

(705 ILCS 25/3) (from Ch. 37, par. 27)

Sec. 3. Clerk's salary - destruction of records. The ordinary and contingent expenses of operating the offices of the clerks of the branches of the Appellate Court, including salaries, shall be determined by the Supreme Court and paid from the State Treasury on the warrant of the Comptroller out of appropriations made for that purpose by the General Assembly. The clerk of each branch of the appellate court shall perform the duties usually devolving upon clerks of courts in this State, and shall provide books, stationery and seals for the appellate courts, and shall be entitled to receive the same fees for services in each branch of the appellate court as are allowed for like services in the Supreme Court. All fees paid to or received by any such clerk shall be paid into the State treasury as required by Section 2 of "An Act in relation to the payment and disposition of moneys received by officers and employees of the State of Illinois by virtue of their office or employment", approved June 9, 1911, as amended, except that any filing fees designated by Supreme Court Rule for alternative dispute resolution programs in the reviewing courts as provided in the Reviewing Court Alternative Dispute Resolution Act shall, within one month after receipt, be remitted to the State Treasurer for deposit in the Mandatory Arbitration Reviewing Court Alternative Dispute Resolution Fund.

The clerks shall, on the order and under the direction of the court, destroy any or all the records certified by the clerk (or a judge) of a trial court in cases finally decided more than 21 years prior to the entry of the order.

(Source: P.A. 93-801, eff. 7-22-04.)

Section 20. The Reviewing Court Alternative Dispute Resolution Act is amended by changing Section 10 as follows:

(710 ILCS 40/10)

Sec. 10. Reviewing Court Alternative Dispute Resolution Fund; Mandatory Arbitration Fund. The Reviewing Court Alternative Dispute Resolution Fund is eliminated. The Comptroller shall order and the Treasurer shall transfer all moneys in the Fund on the effective date of this amendatory Act of the 96th General Assembly into the Mandatory Arbitration Fund. created as a special fund in the State Treasury. The Supreme Court may designate an amount to be included in the filing fees collected by the clerks of the Appellate Court for the funding of alternative dispute resolution programs in the reviewing courts. The portion of the filing fees designated for alternative dispute resolution programs in the reviewing courts shall be remitted within one month after receipt to the State Treasurer for deposit in the Reviewing Court Alternative Dispute Resolution Fund. All money in the Reviewing Court Alternative Dispute Resolution Fund shall be maintained in separate accounts for each Appellate Court district that has established approved alternative dispute resolution programs pursuant to Supreme Court rule and used, subject to appropriation, by the Supreme Court solely for the purpose of funding alternative dispute resolution programs in the reviewing courts. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Section, the Reviewing Court Alternative Dispute Resolution Fund may be used for any other purpose authorized by the Supreme Court.

(Source: P.A. 95-707, eff. 1-11-08.)