Sen. Terry Link
Filed: 3/25/2009
 
 

 




 

 		












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AMENDMENT TO SENATE BILL 1298 




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    AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend Senate Bill 1298, on page 1, 
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above line 4, by inserting the following:


 
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    "Section 3. The Executive Reorganization Implementation 
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Act is amended  by changing Section 3.1 as follows:
 



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    (15 ILCS 15/3.1)  (from Ch. 127, par. 1803.1)


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    Sec. 3.1. "Agency directly responsible to the Governor" or 
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"agency" means
any office, officer, division, or part thereof,

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and any other office, nonelective officer, department, 
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division, bureau,
board, or commission in the executive branch 
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of State government,
except that it does not apply to any 
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agency whose primary function is service
to the General 
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Assembly or the Judicial Branch of State government, or to
any 
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agency administered by the Attorney General, Secretary of 
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State, State
Comptroller or State Treasurer.  In addition the 
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term does not apply to
the following agencies created by law 
 


 






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with the primary responsibility of
exercising regulatory
or 
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adjudicatory functions independently of the Governor:

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    (1) the State Board of Elections;

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    (2) the State Board of Education;

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    (3) the Illinois Commerce Commission;

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    (4) the Illinois Workers' Compensation

Commission;

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    (5) the Civil Service Commission;

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    (6) the Fair Employment Practices Commission;

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    (7) the Pollution Control Board;

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    (8) the Department of State Police Merit Board;
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    (9) the Illinois Racing Board.

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(Source: P.A. 93-721, eff. 1-1-05.)"; and

  
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on page 1, line 5, by replacing "Sections" with "Sections 
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2.5,"; and
 
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on page 1, immediately below line 6, by inserting the 
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following:
 
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    "(230 ILCS 5/2.5 new)

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    Sec. 2.5. Separation from Department of Revenue. On the 
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effective date of this amendatory Act of the 96th General 
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Assembly, all of the powers, duties, assets, liabilities, 
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employees, contracts, property, records, pending business, and 
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unexpended appropriations of the Department of Revenue related 
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to the administration and enforcement of this Act are 
 


 






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transferred to the Illinois Racing Board.
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    The status and rights of the transferred employees, and the 
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rights of the State of Illinois and its agencies, under the 
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Personnel Code and applicable collective bargaining agreements 
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or under any pension, retirement, or annuity plan are not 
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affected (except as provided in the Illinois Pension Code) by 
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that transfer or by any other provision of this amendatory Act 
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of the 96th General Assembly.".