HB2474 99TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

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99TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2015 and 2016
HB2474

Introduced 2/18/2015, by Rep. Elaine Nekritz

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:

55 ILCS 5/6-1001.5 new

Amends the Counties Code. Provides that the chairman, county executive, or president of the board of a county shall annually submit an approved executive budget prepared by the budget director to the committee on finance. Provides that the committee on finance shall then prepare a tentative annual appropriation ordinance which shall be made available for public inspection at least 10 days prior to finalizing the ordinance. Provides that the committee on finance shall hold at least one public hearing not less than one week prior to finalizing the ordinance. Further provides that notice of the tentative ordinance must be placed in a newspaper of general circulation in the county. Restricts home rule powers.

HOME RULE NOTE ACT MAY APPLY

A BILL FOR

AN ACT concerning local government.

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

Section 5. The Counties Code is amended by adding Section 6-1001.5 as follows:

(55 ILCS 5/6-1001.5 new)

Sec. 6-1001.5. Executive budget; annual appropriation ordinance. Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, on and after the effective date of this amendatory Act of the 99th General Assembly, the chairman, county executive, or president of the board shall submit to the committee on finance an executive budget as prepared by the budget director of the county and approved by the chairman, county executive, or president of the board. The executive budget shall provide the basis upon which the annual appropriation ordinance is prepared and enacted.

After considering the executive budget submitted by the chairman, county executive, or president of the board, the committee on finance shall prepare an annual appropriation ordinance in tentative form, which shall be made conveniently available to public inspection for at least 10 days prior to final action thereon, by publication in the journal of the proceedings of the county board or in such other form as the board may prescribe; and not less than one week after the publication of the tentative appropriation ordinance and prior to final action thereon, the committee on finance shall hold at least one public hearing thereon, notice of which shall be given by publication in a newspaper having general circulation in the county at least one week prior to the time of such hearing. It shall be the duty of the committee on finance to prepare the tentative appropriation ordinance and make it so available to public inspection and also to arrange for and hold the public hearing or hearings.

A home rule unit may not create a budget in a manner inconsistent with this Section. This Section is a limitation under subsection (i) of Section 6 of Article VII of the Illinois Constitution on the concurrent exercise by home rule units of powers and functions exercised by the State.