HB1680ham002 98TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

Rep. Sandra M. Pihos

Filed: 4/12/2013

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AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 1680

AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 1680 by replacing everything after the enacting clause with the following:

"Section 5. The State Finance Act is amended by changing Section 20 as follows:

(30 ILCS 105/20) (from Ch. 127, par. 156)

Sec. 20. Equipment. The term "equipment", when used in an appropriation act or rules, means and includes all expenditures for items having an original acquisition unit value of $1,000 or more. "Equipment" includes all purchases, acquisitions, replacements, increases, or transfers of tangible personal property of a non-consumable nature, including livestock, whether by purchase, lease-purchase, or installment purchase contract. In addition, the option price under a bona fide lease with an option to purchase is properly payable from a line item for "equipment".

"Equipment" does not include any expenditure in connection with the repair, maintenance, or improvement of real property, except that the disconnection or removal of fixed assets due to age, repair, or replacement from State-owned buildings shall be deemed an expenditure for "equipment". The item "equipment," when used in an appropriation act, shall mean and include all expenditures for library books, and expenditures, having a unit value exceeding $100, for the acquisition, replacement or increase of visible tangible personal property of a non-consumable nature, including livestock, whether by purchase, lease-purchase or installment purchase contract. In addition, the "option price" under a bona fide lease with option to purchase is properly payable from the item "equipment".

The item "equipment" does not include expenditures pursuant to multi-year lease, lease-purchase or installment purchase contracts for duplicating equipment authorized by Section 5.1 of "The Illinois Purchasing Act", approved July 11, 1957, as now or hereafter amended, and does not include any expenditure in connection with the repair, maintenance or improvement of real property.

(Source: P.A. 84-428.)

Section 10. The State Property Control Act is amended by changing Section 6.04 and by adding Section 1.07 as follows:

(30 ILCS 605/1.07 new)

Sec. 1.07. Equipment. The term "equipment", when used in an appropriation act or rules, means and includes all expenditures for items having an original acquisition unit value of $1,000 or more. "Equipment" includes all purchases, acquisitions, replacements, increases, or transfers of tangible personal property of a non-consumable nature, including livestock, whether by purchase, lease-purchase, or installment purchase contract. In addition, the option price under a bona fide lease with an option to purchase is properly payable from a line item for "equipment".

"Equipment" does not include any expenditure in connection with the repair, maintenance, or improvement of real property, except that the disconnection or removal of fixed assets due to age, repair, or replacement from State-owned buildings shall be deemed an expenditure for "equipment".

(30 ILCS 605/6.04) (from Ch. 127, par. 133b9.4)

Sec. 6.04. Annually, and upon at least 30 days notice, the administrator may require each responsible officer to make, or cause to be made, an actual physical inventory check of all items of property under his jurisdiction and control and said inventory shall be certified to the administrator with a full accounting of all errors or exceptions reported therein. With respect to all responsible officers that are subject to this Section, including, but not limited to, presidents of public universities and colleges, the administrator shall require a listing of only those equipment items valued in excess of (1) $500 for responsible officers of legislative branch agencies and (2) $1,000 for all other responsible officers, except that (A) the administrator shall require reporting of high theft equipment regardless of the value of that equipment, and (B) furniture with more than 10 years in service shall not be subject to reporting.

For the purposes of this Section, "high theft equipment" includes, but is not limited to, the following items:

(1) desktop and laptop computers, servers, and portable data storage devices valued at more than $250;

(2) flat screen, LCD, high definition, and plasma televisions and monitors valued at more than $250;

(3) wireless devices, including portable digital assistants (PDAs), iPads, iPods, tablets, and cellular telephones valued at more than $250;

(4) digital recording devices and video equipment valued at more than $250;

(5) tools and machine shop equipment valued at more than $250;

(6) all State-owned firearms and rifles regardless of value;

(7) all electric or gasoline-powered recreational vehicles or maintenance vehicles regardless of value;

(8) other items deemed susceptible to theft or less, as determined by the administrator and the responsible officer.

(Source: Laws 1955, p. 34.)".