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1     AN ACT concerning government.
 
2     Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3 represented in the General Assembly:
 
4     Section 5. The Voluntary Payroll Deductions Act of 1983 is
5 amended by changing Section 3 as follows:
 
6     (5 ILCS 340/3)  (from Ch. 15, par. 503)
7     Sec. 3. Definitions. As used in this Act unless the context
8 otherwise requires:
9     (a) "Employee" means any regular officer or employee who
10 receives salary or wages for personal services rendered to the
11 State of Illinois, and includes an individual hired as an
12 employee by contract with that individual.
13     (b) "Qualified organization" means an organization
14 representing one or more benefiting agencies, which
15 organization is designated by the State Comptroller as
16 qualified to receive payroll deductions under this Act. An
17 organization desiring to be designated as a qualified
18 organization shall:
19         (1) Submit written designations on forms approved by
20     the State Comptroller by 4,000 or more employees or State
21     annuitants, in which such employees or State annuitants
22     indicate that the organization is one for which the
23     employee or State annuitant intends to authorize
24     withholding. The forms shall require the name, last 4
25     digits only of the social security number, and employing
26     State agency for each employee. Upon notification by the
27     Comptroller that such forms have been approved, the
28     organization shall, within 30 days, notify in writing the
29     Governor or his or her designee of its intention to obtain
30     the required number of designations. Such organization
31     shall have 12 months from that date to obtain the necessary
32     designations and return to the State Comptroller's office

 

 

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1     the completed designations, which shall be subject to
2     verification procedures established by the State
3     Comptroller;
4         (2) Certify that all benefiting agencies are tax exempt
5     under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code;
6         (3) Certify that all benefiting agencies are in
7     compliance with the Illinois Human Rights Act;
8         (4) Certify that all benefiting agencies are in
9     compliance with the Charitable Trust Act and the
10     Solicitation for Charity Act;
11         (5) Certify that all benefiting agencies actively
12     conduct health or welfare programs and provide services to
13     individuals directed at one or more of the following common
14     human needs within a community: service, research, and
15     education in the health fields; family and child care
16     services; protective services for children and adults;
17     services for children and adults in foster care; services
18     related to the management and maintenance of the home; day
19     care services for adults; transportation services;
20     information, referral and counseling services; services to
21     eliminate illiteracy; the preparation and delivery of
22     meals; adoption services; emergency shelter care and
23     relief services; disaster relief services; safety
24     services; neighborhood and community organization
25     services; recreation services; social adjustment and
26     rehabilitation services; health support services; or a
27     combination of such services designed to meet the special
28     needs of specific groups, such as children and youth, the
29     ill and infirm, and the physically handicapped; and that
30     all such benefiting agencies provide the above described
31     services to individuals and their families in the community
32     and surrounding area in which the organization conducts its
33     fund drive, or that such benefiting agencies provide relief
34     to victims of natural disasters and other emergencies on a
35     where and as needed basis;
36         (6) Certify that the organization has disclosed the

 

 

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1     percentage of the organization's total collected receipts
2     from employees or State annuitants that are distributed to
3     the benefiting agencies and the percentage of the
4     organization's total collected receipts from employees or
5     State annuitants that are expended for fund-raising and
6     overhead costs. These percentages shall be the same
7     percentage figures annually disclosed by the organization
8     to the Attorney General. The disclosure shall be made to
9     all solicited employees and State annuitants and shall be
10     in the form of a factual statement on all petitions and in
11     the campaign's brochures for employees and State
12     annuitants;
13         (7) Certify that all benefiting agencies receiving
14     funds which the employee or State annuitant has requested
15     or designated for distribution to a particular community
16     and surrounding area use a majority of such funds
17     distributed for services in the actual provision of
18     services in that community and surrounding area;
19         (8) Certify that neither it nor its member
20     organizations will solicit State employees for
21     contributions at their workplace, except pursuant to this
22     Act and the rules promulgated thereunder. Each qualified
23     organization, and each participating United Fund, is
24     encouraged to cooperate with all others and with all State
25     agencies and educational institutions so as to simplify
26     procedures, to resolve differences and to minimize costs;
27         (9) Certify that it will pay its share of the campaign
28     costs and will comply with the Code of Campaign Conduct as
29     approved by the Governor or other agency as designated by
30     the Governor; and
31         (10) Certify that it maintains a year-round office, the
32     telephone number, and person responsible for the
33     operations of the organization in Illinois. That
34     information shall be provided to the State Comptroller at
35     the time the organization is seeking participation under
36     this Act.

 

 

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1     Each qualified organization shall submit to the State
2 Comptroller between January 1 and March 1 of each year, a
3 statement that the organization is in compliance with all of
4 the requirements set forth in paragraphs (2) through (10). The
5 State Comptroller shall exclude any organization that fails to
6 submit the statement from the next solicitation period.
7     In order to be designated as a qualified organization, the
8 organization shall have existed at least 2 years prior to
9 submitting the written designation forms required in paragraph
10 (1) and shall certify to the State Comptroller that such
11 organization has been providing services described in
12 paragraph (5) in Illinois. If the organization seeking
13 designation represents more than one benefiting agency, it need
14 not have existed for 2 years but shall certify to the State
15 Comptroller that each of its benefiting agencies has existed
16 for at least 2 years prior to submitting the written
17 designation forms required in paragraph (1) and that each has
18 been providing services described in paragraph (5) in Illinois.
19     Organizations which have met the requirements of this Act
20 shall be permitted to participate in the State and Universities
21 Combined Appeal as of January 1st of the year immediately
22 following their approval by the Comptroller.
23     Where the certifications described in paragraphs (2), (3),
24 (4), (5), (6), (7), (8), (9), and (10) above are made by an
25 organization representing more than one benefiting agency they
26 shall be based upon the knowledge and belief of such qualified
27 organization. Any qualified organization shall immediately
28 notify the State Comptroller in writing if the qualified
29 organization receives information or otherwise believes that a
30 benefiting agency is no longer in compliance with the
31 certification of the qualified organization. A qualified
32 organization representing more than one benefiting agency
33 shall thereafter withhold and refrain from distributing to such
34 benefiting agency those funds received pursuant to this Act
35 until the benefiting agency is again in compliance with the
36 qualified organization's certification. The qualified

 

 

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1 organization shall immediately notify the State Comptroller of
2 the benefiting agency's resumed compliance with the
3 certification, based upon the qualified organization's
4 knowledge and belief, and shall pay over to the benefiting
5 agency those funds previously withheld.
6     The Comptroller shall, by February 1st of each year, so
7 notify any qualified organization that failed to receive at
8 least 250 500 payroll deduction pledges during each of the 3
9 immediately preceding solicitation periods period as set forth
10 in Section 6. Organizations found qualified for the 2004
11 solicitation period are deemed to be qualified for the 2005
12 solicitation period if they have received at least 250 payroll
13 deduction pledges in one of the 3 previous periods or if they
14 have been qualified for fewer than 3 years.
15     The notification shall give such qualified organization
16 until March 1st to provide the Comptroller with documentation
17 that the minimum 500 deduction requirement has been met or that
18 the organization has been qualified for fewer than 3 years. On
19 the basis of all the documentation, the Comptroller shall, by
20 March 30th 15th of each year, submit to the Governor or his or
21 her designee, or such other agency as may be determined by the
22 Governor, a list of all organizations which are qualified have
23 met the 500 payroll deduction requirement.
24      Only those organizations which have met such requirements,
25 as well as the other requirements of this Section, shall be
26 permitted to solicit State employees or State annuitants for
27 voluntary contributions, and the Comptroller shall discontinue
28 withholding for any such organization which fails to meet these
29 requirements.
30     (c) "United Fund" means the organization conducting the
31 single, annual, consolidated effort to secure funds for
32 distribution to agencies engaged in charitable and public
33 health, welfare and services purposes, which is commonly known
34 as the United Fund, or the organization which serves in place
35 of the United Fund organization in communities where an
36 organization known as the United Fund is not organized.

 

 

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1     In order for a United Fund to participate in the State and
2 Universities Employees Combined Appeal, it shall comply with
3 the provisions of paragraph (9) of subsection (b).
4     (d) "State and Universities Employees Combined Appeal",
5 otherwise known as "SECA", means the State-directed joint
6 effort of all of the qualified organizations, together with the
7 United Funds, for the solicitation of voluntary contributions
8 from State and University employees and State annuitants.
9     (e) "Retirement system" means any or all of the following:
10 the General Assembly Retirement System, the State Employees'
11 Retirement System of Illinois, the State Universities
12 Retirement System, the Teachers' Retirement System of the State
13 of Illinois, and the Judges Retirement System.
14     (f) "State annuitant" means a person receiving an annuity
15 or disability benefit under Article 2, 14, 15, 16, or 18 of the
16 Illinois Pension Code.
17 (Source: P.A. 91-357, eff. 7-29-99; 91-533, eff. 8-13-99;
18 91-896, eff. 7-6-00; 92-634, eff. 7-11-02.)
 
19     Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
20 becoming law.