SB1723eng 98TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

SB1723 Engrossed LRB098 10437 JDS 40649 b

AN ACT concerning State government.

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

Section 5. The State Comptroller Act is amended by changing Sections 10.10 and 20 as follows:

(15 ILCS 405/10.10) (from Ch. 15, par. 210.10)

Sec. 10.10. (a) If any Comptroller's comptroller's warrant is lost, mislaid or destroyed, or becomes void after issuance, so that it cannot be presented for payment by the person entitled thereto, the Comptroller comptroller, at any time before that warrant is paid by the State Treasurer, but within 5 years of the date of issuance, may issue a replacement warrant to the person entitled thereto. If the original warrant was not cancelled or did not become void, the Comptroller comptroller, before issuing the replacement warrant, shall issue a stop payment order on the State Treasurer and receive a confirmation of the stop payment order on the original warrant from the State Treasurer.

(b) Only the person entitled to the original warrant, or his heirs or legal representatives, or a third party to whom it was properly negotiated or the heirs or legal representatives of such party, may request a replacement warrant. In the case of a warrant issued to a payee who dies before the warrant is paid by the State Treasurer and whose estate has been probated pursuant to law, the Comptroller comptroller, upon receipt of a certified copy of a judicial order establishing the person or entity entitled to payment, may issue a replacement warrant to such person or entity.

(c) Within 12 months from the date of issuance of the original warrant, if the original warrant has not been canceled for redeposit, the Comptroller comptroller may issue a replacement warrant on the original voucher drawing upon the same fund and charging the same appropriation or other expenditure authorization as the original warrant.

(d) Within 12 months from the date of issuance of the original warrant, if the original warrant has been canceled for redeposit, and if the issuance of the replacement warrant would not over-obligate the appropriation or other expenditure authority against which it is drawn, the Comptroller comptroller may issue the replacement warrant. If the original warrant was issued against an appropriation or other expenditure authority which has lapsed, the replacement warrant shall be drawn on the Warrant Escheat Fund. If the appropriation or other obligational authority against which the replacement warrant is drawn has not lapsed, the Comptroller comptroller shall notify the originating agency of the request for a replacement warrant and shall receive a replacement voucher from that agency before drawing the replacement warrant, which shall be drawn on the same fund and charged to the same appropriation or other expenditure authority as the original warrant.

(e) Within 12 months from the date of issuance of the original warrant, if the original warrant has been canceled for redeposit, the Comptroller comptroller may not issue a replacement warrant where such issuance would over-obligate the appropriation or other expenditure authority against which the original warrant was drawn. Whenever the Comptroller comptroller is presented with a request for a replacement warrant which may not be issued under the limitation of this subsection, if the appropriation or other expenditure authority against which the original warrant was drawn has not lapsed, the Comptroller comptroller shall immediately inform the originating agency of the request and that the request may not be honored because of the resulting over-obligation, and shall request the agency to determine whether or not that agency will take some corrective action before the applicable expenditure authorization lapses. The originating agency shall respond to the Comptroller's comptroller's inquiry within 5 business days.

(f) After 12 months from the date of issuance of the original warrant, if the original warrant has not been cancelled for redeposit, the Comptroller comptroller shall issue the replacement warrant on the Warrant Escheat Fund.

(f-5) After 5 years from the date of issuance of the original warrant but no later than 10 years after that date, the Comptroller may issue a replacement warrant on the Warrant Escheat Fund to a person or entity entitled thereto, as those persons and entities are described in subsection (b) of this Section, if the following requirements are met:

(1) the person or entity verifies that they are entitled to the original warrant;

(2) in the case of a warrant that is not presented by the requestor, the paying agency certifies that the original payee is still entitled to the payment; and

(3) the Comptroller's records are available and confirm that the warrant was not replaced.

(g) Except as provided in this Section, requests for replacement warrants for more than $500 shall show entitlement to such warrant by including an affidavit, in writing, sworn before a person authorized to administer oaths and affirmations, stating the loss or destruction of the warrant, or the fact that the warrant is void. However, when the written request for a replacement warrant submitted by the person to whom the original warrant was issued is accompanied by the original warrant, no affidavit is required. Requests for replacement warrants for $500 or less shall show entitlement to such warrant by submitting a written statement of the loss or destruction of the warrant, or the fact that the warrant is void on an application form prescribed by the Comptroller. If the person requesting the replacement is in possession of the original warrant, or any part thereof, the original warrant or the part thereof must accompany the request for replacement. The Comptroller comptroller shall then draw such replacement warrant, and the treasurer shall pay the replacement warrant. If at the time of a loss or destruction a warrant was negotiated to a third party, however (which fact shall be ascertained by the oath of the party making the application, or otherwise), before the replacement warrant is drawn by the Comptroller comptroller, the person requesting the replacement warrant must give the Comptroller comptroller a bond or bonds with sufficient sureties, to be approved by the Comptroller comptroller, when required by regulation of the Comptroller comptroller, payable to the People of the State of Illinois, for the refunding of the amount, together with all costs and charges, should the State afterwards be compelled to pay the original warrant.

(Source: P.A. 89-285, eff. 1-1-96.)

(15 ILCS 405/20) (from Ch. 15, par. 220)

Sec. 20. Annual report. The Comptroller comptroller shall annually, as soon as possible after the close of the fiscal year but no later than December 31, make out and present to the Governor, the President of the Senate, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, the Minority Leader of the Senate, and the Minority Leader of the House of Representatives a report, showing the amount of warrants drawn on the treasury, on other funds held by the State Treasurer and on any public funds held by State agencies, during the preceding fiscal year, and stating, particularly, on what account they were drawn, and if drawn on the contingent fund, to whom and for what they were issued. He or she shall, also, at the same time, report to the Governor, the President of the Senate, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, the Minority Leader of the Senate, and the Minority Leader of the House of Representatives the amount of money received into the treasury, into other funds held by the State Treasurer and into any other funds held by State agencies during the preceding fiscal year, and stating particularly, the source from which the same may be derived, and also a general account of all the business of his office during the preceding fiscal year. The report shall also summarize for the previous fiscal year the information required under Section 19.

Within 60 days after the expiration of each calendar year, the Comptroller comptroller shall compile, from records maintained and available in his office, a list of all persons including those employed in the Office of the Comptroller office of the comptroller, who have been employed by the State during the past calendar year and paid from funds in the hands of the State Treasurer.

The list shall be arranged according to counties and shall state in alphabetical order the name of each employee, the address in the county in which he votes, except as specified below, the position and the total salary paid to him or her during the past calendar year. For persons employed by the Department of Corrections, Department of Children and Family Services, and the Department of State Police, as well as their spouses, no address shall be listed. The list so compiled and arranged shall be kept on file in the office of the Comptroller comptroller and be open to inspection by the public at all times.

No person who utilizes the names obtained from this list for solicitation shall represent that such solicitation is authorized by any officer or agency of the State of Illinois. Violation of this provision is a Business Offense punishable by a fine not to exceed $3,000.

(Source: P.A. 86-1003.)

(15 ILCS 405/10.13 rep.)

Section 10. The State Comptroller Act is amended by repealing Section 10.13.

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