SB2086 96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

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96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2009 and 2010
SB2086

Introduced 2/20/2009, by Sen. Chris Lauzen

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:

20 ILCS 405/405-335 new

Amends the Department of Central Management Services Law. Requires the Department to establish and maintain a website known as the Illinois Accountability Portal. The website shall provide direct access to information concerning State employees and individual consultants, State expenditures, State tax credits, State contracts, and revocations and suspensions of occupation and use tax certificates of registration and professional licenses.

FISCAL NOTE ACT MAY APPLY

A BILL FOR

AN ACT concerning State government.

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

Section 5. The Department of Central Management Services Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois is amended by adding Section 405-335 as follows:

(20 ILCS 405/405-335 new)

Sec. 405-335. Illinois Accountability Portal.

(a) To establish and maintain a website, known as the Illinois Accountability Portal, with a full-time webmaster.

(b) As used in this Section:

"Director" means the Director of Central Management Services.

"Funding action or expenditure" includes details on the type of spending (grant, contract, appropriation, etc.). The term includes tax exemptions, credits, and deductions.

"Funding source" means the State account from which the expenditure is appropriated.

"State audit or report" includes any audit or report issued by the Auditor General relating to the recipient of funds or the budgetary program, activity, or agency.

(c) The website shall provide direct access to each of the following:

(1) A database of all current State employees and individual consultants, sorted separately by name, agency, and position title, listing for each their current pay rate and year-to-date pay.

(2) A database of all current State expenditures, sorted separately by agency, category, customer, and Representative District.

(3) A database of all current State tax credits, sorted separately by tax credit category, customer, and Representative District.

(4) A database of all revocations and suspensions of State occupation and use tax certificates of registration and all revocations and suspensions of State professional licenses, sorted separately by name, geographic location, and certificate of registration number or license number, as applicable. Professional license revocations and suspensions shall be posted only if resulting from a failure to pay taxes, license fees, or child support.

(5) A database of all current State contracts, sorted separately by contractor name, awarding officer or agency, contract value, and goods or services provided.

(d) Any database created shall allow public access at no cost to search and aggregate information.

(e) Searchable data maintained shall include, but not be limited to, the following:

(1) name and principal location or residence of the entity receiving State funds;

(2) amount of funds expended;

(3) funding or expending agency;

(4) funding source of the revenue expended;

(5) budgetary program or activity of the expenditure;

(6) descriptive purpose for the funding action or expenditure;

(7) expected performance outcome for the funding action or expenditure;

(8) past performance outcomes achieved for the funding action or expenditure; and

(9) any related State audit or report.

(f) The Director shall not be considered in compliance with this Section if (i) the data required to be maintained on a searchable database are not available in a searchable and aggregate manner or (ii) the public is redirected to other government websites, unless each of those sites has information from all agencies of the State and each category of information required can be searched electronically by field in a single search.