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| 1 | | HOUSE RESOLUTION
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| 2 | | WHEREAS, Zero-based budgeting is a method of budgeting that |
| 3 | | is
designed with the purpose of justifying every expenditure |
| 4 | | within the State budget, regardless of whether the expenditure |
| 5 | | was
included in previous budgets; and
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| 6 | | WHEREAS, Zero-based budgeting, which requires each |
| 7 | | activity to be justified on the basis of cost-benefit analysis, |
| 8 | | assumes that only certain present commitments exist and that no |
| 9 | | balance is carried forward; zero-based budgeting forces |
| 10 | | activities and expenditures to be ranked according to priority; |
| 11 | | and
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| 12 | | WHEREAS, Zero-based budgeting stands in distinct contrast |
| 13 | | to the
traditional Illinois form of budgeting, which projects a
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| 14 | | spending level based on the previous year's expenditures plus
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| 15 | | anticipated growth in resources; and
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| 16 | | WHEREAS, Zero-based budgeting is a method of budgeting that |
| 17 | | has
been embraced and pursued in a bipartisan manner elsewhere |
| 18 | | as a
means of controlling State government spending; and
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| 19 | | WHEREAS, Illinois has a bill backlog of approximately $7.5 |
| 20 | | billion and
an unfunded pension liability of nearly $100 |
| 21 | | billion; and
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