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| AN ACT concerning State government.
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| Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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| represented in the General Assembly:
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| Section 1. Short title. This Act may be cited as the |
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| Sunshine Commission Act.
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| Section 5. Commission; members; compensation; |
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| organization.
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| (a) The Sunshine Commission is created. The Commission |
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| shall consist of 4 members of the General Assembly and 4 public |
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| members. The President and Minority Leader of the Senate and |
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| the Speaker and Minority Leader of the House of Representatives |
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| shall each appoint one of the legislative members and one of |
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| the public members. |
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| (b) Each public member shall have professional, private |
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| sector experience in the field of banking, finance, or |
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| accounting, with at least one public member experienced in each |
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| of those fields. |
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| A public member, and any of that member's immediate family, |
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| may not have a direct financial relationship with the State, |
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| including through current employment, a current elected or |
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| appointed position, a current contract, or a contract awarded |
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| during the 5 years before that member's appointment. A public |
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| member may not have had any public employment or position, |
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| other than elected office, during the 2 years before that |
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| member's appointment. |
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| (c) Members shall receive no compensation for, and shall |
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| not be reimbursed for their expenses incurred with respect to, |
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| their membership on the Sunshine Commission. |
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| (d) The Commission members shall elect 2 of their number to |
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| serve as co-chairs. The appointing authorities of the co-chairs |
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| may not be affiliated with the same political party. |
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| The Commission shall meet at the call of the co-chairs and |
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| as frequently as necessary to perform its function.
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| Section 10. Review of programs. The Commission shall |
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| conduct a thorough review of each State executive branch |
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| program with respect to its relevance, efficiency, and |
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| effectiveness in obtaining the results required by, or |
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| achieving the goals expressed in, the program's enacting |
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| legislation. |
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| The Auditor General and each State executive branch |
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| official, agency, and department shall cooperate with and |
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| provide information to the Commission in the Commission's |
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| performance of the review. |
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| Within 6 months after the effective date of this Act, the |
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| Commission shall submit to the General Assembly a written, |
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| comprehensive, and detailed report of the Commission's review, |
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| including without limitation recommendations as to: |
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| (1) Elimination of obsolete or ineffective programs. |
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| (2) Consolidation of duplicative programs. |
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| (3) Steps to improve a program's efficiency or |
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| effectiveness.
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| Section 15. Action upon report. Within 60 session days |
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| after the Commission's report is filed with the General |
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| Assembly, each house must vote upon the same joint resolution |
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| to accept the Commission's report. If the resolution is adopted |
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| by a record vote of a majority of the members elected in each |
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| house, the recommendations contained in the Commission's |
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| report are approved in whole; if the resolution is not so |
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| adopted, the recommendations in the Commission's report are |
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| rejected in whole.
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| Section 20. Repeal. This Act is repealed 2 years after its |
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| effective date.
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| Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon |
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| becoming law.
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