SB0904sam001 99TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

Sen. Christine Radogno

Filed: 7/8/2015

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AMENDMENT TO SENATE BILL 904

AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend Senate Bill 904 by replacing everything after the enacting clause with the following:

"Section 5. The State Budget Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois is amended by changing Section 50-22 as follows:

(15 ILCS 20/50-22)

Sec. 50-22. Funding for salaries of General Assembly members, State employees, and judges; legislative operations.

(a) Beginning July 1, 2014, the aggregate appropriations available for salaries for members of the General Assembly and judges from all State funds for each State fiscal year shall be no less than the total aggregate appropriations made available for salaries for members of the General Assembly and judges for the immediately preceding fiscal year.

(b) Beginning July 1, 2014, the aggregate appropriations available for legislative operations from all State funds for each State fiscal year shall be no less than the total aggregate appropriations made available for legislative operations for the immediately preceding fiscal year. For purposes of this subsection (b), "legislative operations" means any expenditure for the operation of the Office of the Auditor General, the House of Representatives, the Senate, the Legislative Ethics Commission, the Office of the Legislative Inspector General, the Joint Committee on Legislative Support Services, and the legislative support services agencies.

(b-5) Beginning July 1, 2015 and continuing through June 30, 2016, there is hereby appropriated to each State agency from the applicable State funds, on a continuing basis, the amount necessary for personnel expenditures of the State agency, as jointly certified by the State agency and the Governor's Office of Management and Budget, for each payroll period during which appropriations for personnel expenditures have not been made available to the State agency for Fiscal Year 2016.

A continuing appropriation provided by this subsection (b-5) is authority, and not an obligation, to expend up to the amount appropriated. A continuing appropriation provided by this subsection (b-5) does not confer any right or expectation on any person, group, or entity in continued employment or the payment of personnel expenditures. This subsection (b-5) does not affect the establishment of particular wages, salaries, or other personnel expenditure amounts.

For the purposes of this subsection (b-5):

(1) "State agency" means the office of any constitutional officer of the State government and any agency, authority, board, commission, department, State university, or other instrumentality of the State government to which an appropriation for personnel expenditures from a State fund was made in Fiscal Year 2015, or under which personnel expenditures were paid in Fiscal Year 2015. "State agency" also includes any community college district.

(2) "Personnel expenditure" means an expenditure for personal services, group insurance for employees paid out of funds other than the General Revenue Fund, State contributions to Social Security, and State contributions to a State retirement system, other than an expenditure described in subsection (a) or (b) of this Section.

(3) "Applicable State fund" means, with respect to a State agency, the General Revenue Fund or other State fund from which moneys were appropriated in Fiscal Year 2015 to the State agency for personnel expenditures.

(c) If for any reason the aggregate appropriations made available are insufficient to meet the levels required by subsections (a), and (b), and (b-5) of this Section, this Section shall constitute a continuing appropriation of all amounts necessary for these purposes. The General Assembly may appropriate lesser amounts by law.

(Source: P.A. 98-682, eff. 6-30-14.)

Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon becoming law.".