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1 AN ACT concerning audits.
2 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3 represented in the General Assembly:
4 Section 5. The Illinois State Auditing Act is amended by
5 changing Section 2-8 and adding Sections 3-1B and 3-14A as
6 follows:
7 (30 ILCS 5/2-8) (from Ch. 15, par. 302-8)
8 Sec. 2-8. Deputy Auditor General.
9 (a) There are created 3 2 positions of Deputy Auditor
10 General. Each person appointed as a Deputy Auditor General
11 shall be an officer in the office of Auditor General. Each
12 Deputy Auditor General shall be appointed by the Auditor
13 General, subject to the advice and consent of at least 3/5 of
14 the membership of the Commission. Each Deputy Auditor General
15 shall serve at the pleasure of the Auditor General. One
16 Deputy Auditor General shall be specifically responsible for
17 managing the annual post-audit of public transit agencies in
18 Illinois as provided in Section 3-1B. When appointing this
19 Deputy Auditor General, the Auditor General shall solicit
20 nominations from the public prior to making a nomination to
21 the Legislative Audit Commission and shall ensure that this
22 Deputy Auditor General has experience in managing or
23 evaluating public transit systems.
24 (b) If there are vacancies in all both offices of Deputy
25 Auditor General at the same time there is a vacancy in the
26 office of Auditor General, the Commission shall immediately
27 appoint a Deputy Auditor General by a vote of at least 3/5 of
28 its membership. The person so appointed as Deputy Auditor
29 General may, but is not required to, be a certified public
30 accountant. This paragraph does not apply, however, when the
31 former Auditor General is serving as Acting Auditor General
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1 pursuant to Section 2-2.
2 (c) Each Deputy Auditor General shall perform the duties
3 assigned by the Auditor General.
4 (d) The Auditor General shall dismiss a Deputy Auditor
5 General for violation of any provision of Section 2-7.
6 (Source: P.A. 88-504.)
7 (30 ILCS 5/3-1B new)
8 Sec. 3-1B. Audits of public transit agencies.
9 (a) In addition to the regular audits required by this
10 Act, the Auditor General shall conduct an annual post-audit
11 of all public transit agencies receiving State funding. The
12 purposes of these annual audits are:
13 (1) to provide consistent reports of performance
14 by public transit agencies in Illinois;
15 (2) to provide timely and detailed analyses of
16 proposed capital improvement projects at the initiation
17 stage, the design stage, and the point just prior to
18 their inclusion in annual budgets;
19 (3) to provide annual accounting of actual capital
20 spending by project; and
21 (4) to provide a detailed accounting of actual
22 capital spending on completed capital projects, including
23 the details of any variance from the original budget.
24 (b) As soon as practical after the effective date of
25 this amendatory Act of the 93rd General Assembly, the Auditor
26 General shall begin the annual post-audit of the public
27 transit agencies receiving State funding and located outside
28 the urbanized Chicago area, the Regional Transportation
29 Agency (RTA), the Chicago Transit Authority (CTA), Metra, and
30 Pace. The annual post-audit shall:
31 (1) Verify and publish details of any proposed
32 capital improvements where work has been approved or
33 authorized by the public transit agencies receiving State
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1 funding and located outside the urbanized Chicago area,
2 the RTA, the CTA, Metra, or Pace including initial
3 proposals, designs, and proposals prior to their
4 submission for inclusion in the budget of the transit
5 agency subject to the post-audit.
6 (2) Provide an accounting of actual capital
7 spending by project and provide a detailed accounting of
8 actual capital spending on completed capital projects,
9 including the details of any variance from the original
10 budget.
11 (3) Verify and compile in a single report the
12 following information that shall be supplied to the
13 Auditor General by the RTA, the CTA, Metra, and Pace by
14 route or line on a monthly basis unless otherwise
15 specified:
16 (i) On-time performance: the percentage of
17 trips arriving at the last stop within 5 minutes of
18 schedule, with reasons for annulments and the
19 principal causes of delays.
20 (ii) Service regularity: the percentage of
21 actual intervals between trips that are within plus
22 or minus 50% of the scheduled interval (for
23 intervals of less than 10 minutes), or within plus
24 or minus 5 minutes of the scheduled interval (for
25 intervals of 10 minutes or more).
26 (iii) Interruptions in service: the average
27 distance between service interruptions; that is, the
28 number of miles traveled by a vehicle divided by the
29 total number of chargeable "road calls", including
30 mechanical swaps, that interrupt service.
31 (iv) Crowding: one hour passenger volume per
32 vehicle at maximum load points at the a.m. and p.m.
33 rush, reported on a quarterly basis.
34 (v) Capacity utilization: daily passenger load
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1 divided by the rated capacity of the vehicles for
2 the a.m. and p.m. peaks, middays, evenings,
3 Saturdays, and Sundays.
4 (vi) Speeds of buses and trains.
5 (vii) Cleanliness of vehicle interiors.
6 (viii) Presence of correct and legible route
7 or line maps.
8 (ix) Absence of heat or air conditioning and
9 water leaks.
10 (x) Crime statistics.
11 (xi) State of Americans with Disabilities Act
12 compliance by rail lines and, for buses, by garage
13 operated out of with respect to frequency, adequacy,
14 and timeliness.
15 (xii) Annual assessment of service provided by
16 area served, such as community area or suburb, by
17 the service board, with respect to frequency of
18 items (i) through (x).
19 (xiii) Annual assessment of the status of
20 connections between routes of the CTA, Metra, and
21 Pace.
22 (4) Verify and compile in a single report the
23 following information that shall be supplied, as
24 specified, to the Auditor General by public transit
25 agencies receiving State funding and located outside the
26 urbanized Chicago area:
27 (i) On-time performance and the timeliness of
28 paratransit service, supplied on a monthly basis.
29 (ii) The current status of its system's
30 connections between routes, supplied on a quarterly
31 basis.
32 (iii) The hours of service on each route and
33 the additional cost to provide earlier, later, and
34 more frequent service on existing routes, reported
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1 on an annual basis.
2 (iv) An assessment of the public transit needs
3 of its county or transit district, the availability
4 of public transit in its county or transit district,
5 and its capital needs to provide adequate, timely,
6 and efficient service, supplied on an annual basis.
7 (30 ILCS 5/3-14A new)
8 Sec. 3-14A. Reports of public transit agency audits. The
9 Auditor General shall submit his or her audit of all public
10 transit agencies receiving State funding by April 30 each
11 year to the Commission, the General Assembly, and the
12 Governor. The Auditor General by April 30 each year shall
13 create a Registry of Interested Parties to whom summaries of
14 the audit of all public transit agencies shall be
15 disseminated. The Auditor General by April 30 each year
16 shall publish the complete audit of all public transit
17 agencies on a web site created and maintained by the Auditor
18 General. If requested by the General Assembly or any public
19 transit agency, the Auditor General or a designee shall
20 publicly present the results of the audit of public transit
21 agencies at a hearing set up by the General Assembly or by
22 the public transit agency.