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Rep. Tom Cross
Filed: 3/3/2011
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| 1 | | AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 197
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| 2 | | AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 197 by replacing |
| 3 | | everything after the enacting clause with the following:
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| 4 | | "Section 1. Short title. This Act may be cited as the |
| 5 | | Illinois Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform Act.
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| 6 | | Section 10. Establishment of Commission. |
| 7 | | (a) The Illinois Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and |
| 8 | | Reform is established. The Commission shall consist of 22 |
| 9 | | voting members as follows: 6 members of the Illinois House of |
| 10 | | Representatives, 3 appointed by the Speaker of the House and 3 |
| 11 | | appointed by the House Minority Leader; 6 members of the |
| 12 | | Illinois Senate, 3 appointed by the Senate President and 3 |
| 13 | | appointed by the Senate Minority Leader; 6 members, with no |
| 14 | | more than 4 from the same political party, who shall be |
| 15 | | appointed by the Governor; and 4 public members, one each |
| 16 | | appointed by the Speaker of the House, the House Minority |
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| 1 | | Leader, the Senate President, and the Senate Minority Leader. |
| 2 | | Members shall serve without compensation. |
| 3 | | (b) As soon as possible after the effective date of this |
| 4 | | Act, the Commission shall meet. |
| 5 | | (c) The Commission shall be provided assistance and |
| 6 | | necessary staff support services by the Commission on |
| 7 | | Government Forecasting and Accountability and the Governor's |
| 8 | | Office of Management and Budget.
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| 9 | | Section 15. Purposes of Commission. The purpose of the |
| 10 | | Commission is to make recommendations to assist the State in |
| 11 | | reducing State spending and to balance the State's budget in |
| 12 | | order to improve the State's long-term fiscal stability. The |
| 13 | | Commission's recommendations must focus on the following |
| 14 | | areas: |
| 15 | | (1) discretionary State spending, |
| 16 | | (2) State tax reform and simplification, |
| 17 | | (3) cost containment in publicly-financed health care, |
| 18 | | (4) specific areas in which State agencies could be |
| 19 | | required to reduce expenditures, |
| 20 | | (5) State budget and accounting practices, and |
| 21 | | (6) measures to reform the actuarial status of |
| 22 | | State-managed pension systems.
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| 23 | | Section 20. Report. Within 60 days after the effective date |
| 24 | | of this Act, the Commission must vote on its recommendations |
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| 1 | | and submit a report to the Governor and the General Assembly. |
| 2 | | If the Commission adopts the report by a three-fifths vote, |
| 3 | | then the General Assembly must, within 14 days after the report |
| 4 | | is filed by the Commission, vote on whether to accept the |
| 5 | | report by the adoption of a resolution by a record vote of a |
| 6 | | majority of the members elected in each house. If the General |
| 7 | | Assembly is not in session on the day that the report is filed, |
| 8 | | then the General Assembly must vote on whether to accept the |
| 9 | | report within 14 days after the General Assembly convenes for |
| 10 | | the first time after the report is filed. |
| 11 | | The Commission is abolished on the day after the report is |
| 12 | | submitted to the Governor and the General Assembly.
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| 13 | | Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon |
| 14 | | becoming law.".
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