HB7313 93RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY

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93RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2003 and 2004
HB7313

Introduced 07/08/04, by Rep. Bill Mitchell

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:

25 ILCS 120/4

from Ch. 63, par. 904

Amends the Compensation Review Act. Provides that it is the policy of the State to provide compensation parity between those State employees who are subject to a collective bargaining agreement and those who are not. Requires the Board to enforce that policy by evaluating the compensation of all State employees and reporting its findings and recommendations in its biennial reports. Effective immediately.

FISCAL NOTE ACT MAY APPLY

A BILL FOR

AN ACT concerning compensation.

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

Section 5. The Compensation Review Act is amended by changing Section 4 as follows:

(25 ILCS 120/4) (from Ch. 63, par. 904)

Sec. 4. Meetings of the Board; determining compensation; public hearings; reports. The Board shall meet as often as may be necessary and shall determine, upon a vote requiring at least 7 affirmative votes, the compensation for members of the General Assembly, judges, other than the county supplement, State's attorneys, other than the county supplement, the elected constitutional officers of State government, and certain appointed officers of State government.

In determining the compensation for each office, the Compensation Review Board shall consider the following factors:

(a) the skill required,

(b) the time required,

(c) the opportunity for other earned income,

(d) the value of public services as performed in comparable states,

(e) the value of such services as performed in the private sector in Illinois and comparable states based on the responsibility and discretion required in the office,

(f) the average consumer prices commonly known as the cost of living,

(g) the overall compensation presently received by the public officials and all other benefits received,

(h) the interests and welfare of the public and the financial ability of the State to meet those costs, and

(i) such other factors, not confined to the foregoing, which are normally or traditionally taken into consideration in the determination of such compensation.

The Board shall conduct public hearings prior to filing its report.

At the public hearings, the Board shall allow interested persons to present their views and comments. The Board may prescribe reasonable rules for the conduct of public hearings, to prevent undue repetition. The meetings of the Board are subject to the Open Meetings Act.

The Board shall file an initial report with the House of Representatives, the Senate, the Comptroller and the Secretary of State. Subsequent reports shall be filed therewith before April 1 in each even-numbered year thereafter stating the annual salary for members of the General Assembly, the elected State constitutional officers and certain appointed State officers and compensated employees and members of certain State departments, agencies, boards and commissions whose terms begin in the next calendar year; the annual salary for State's attorneys; and the annual salary for the Auditor General and for Supreme Court, Appellate Court, Circuit Court and Associate judges. If the report increases the annual salary of judges, State's attorneys, and the Auditor General, such increase shall take effect as soon as the time period for disapproval or reduction, as provided in subsection (b) of Section 5, has expired.

The salaries in the report or as reduced by the General Assembly, other than for judges, State's attorneys, and the Auditor General, shall take effect as provided by law.

It is the policy of this State to provide compensation parity between those State employees who are subject to a collective bargaining agreement and those who are not. Therefore, notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, the Board is authorized to enforce compensation parity for all State employees by evaluating the compensation of all State employees who are subject to a collective bargaining agreement and those who are not and including its findings and recommendations in each biennial report required under this Section.

(Source: P.A. 90-375, eff. 8-14-97; 91-798, eff. 7-9-00.)

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