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 1        AN ACT concerning compensation of public officials.

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

 4        Section 5.  The Compensation Review  Act  is  amended  by
 5    changing Sections 4 and 5.5 as follows:

 6        (25 ILCS 120/4) (from Ch. 63, par. 904)
 7        Sec. 4.  Meetings of the Board; determining compensation;
 8    public  hearings;  reports.  The Board shall meet as often as
 9    may be necessary and shall determine, upon a  vote  requiring
10    at least 7 affirmative votes, the compensation for members of
11    the   General   Assembly,   judges,  other  than  the  county
12    supplement,  State's  attorneys,  other   than   the   county
13    supplement,  the  elected  constitutional  officers  of State
14    government,  and  certain   appointed   officers   of   State
15    government.
16        In  determining  the  compensation  for  each office, the
17    Compensation  Review  Board  shall  consider  the   following
18    factors:
19             (a)  the skill required,
20             (b)  the time required,
21             (c)  the opportunity for other earned income,
22             (d)  the  value  of  public services as performed in
23        comparable states,
24             (e)  the value of such services as performed in  the
25        private sector in Illinois and comparable states based on
26        the responsibility and discretion required in the office,
27             (f)  the  average  consumer prices commonly known as
28        the cost of living,
29             (g)  the overall compensation presently received  by
30        the public officials and all other benefits received,
31             (h)  the interests and welfare of the public and the
 
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 1        financial ability of the State to meet those costs, and
 2             (i)  such   other   factors,  not  confined  to  the
 3        foregoing, which are normally or traditionally taken into
 4        consideration in the determination of such compensation.
 5        The Board shall conduct public hearings prior  to  filing
 6    its report.
 7        At  the public hearings, the Board shall allow interested
 8    persons to present their views and comments.  The  Board  may
 9    prescribe   reasonable   rules  for  the  conduct  of  public
10    hearings, to prevent undue repetition.  The meetings  of  the
11    Board are subject to the Open Meetings Act.
12        The  Board shall file an initial report with the House of
13    Representatives,  the  Senate,  the   Comptroller   and   the
14    Secretary  of  State.  No  report  shall  be  filed  in 2004.
15    Subsequent Reports shall be filed therewith before April 1 in
16    each odd-numbered even-numbered year thereafter  stating  the
17    annual  salary  for  members  of  the  General  Assembly, the
18    elected State constitutional officers and  certain  appointed
19    State  officers  and  compensated  employees  and  members of
20    certain State departments, agencies, boards  and  commissions
21    whose  terms  begin  in  the  next  calendar year; the annual
22    salary for State's attorneys; and the annual salary  for  the
23    Auditor  General  and  for  Supreme  Court,  Appellate Court,
24    Circuit Court and Associate judges.  If the report  increases
25    the  annual  salary  of  judges,  State's  attorneys, and the
26    Auditor General, such increase shall take effect as  soon  as
27    the  time period for disapproval or reduction, as provided in
28    subsection (b) of Section 5, has expired.
29        The salaries in the report or as reduced by  the  General
30    Assembly,  other  than for judges, State's attorneys, and the
31    Auditor General, shall take effect as provided by law.
32    (Source: P.A. 90-375, eff. 8-14-97; 91-798, eff. 7-9-00.)

33        (25 ILCS 120/5.5)
 
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 1        Sec. 5.5.  FY03 COLA's  prohibited.  Notwithstanding  any
 2    provision  of  this  Act, any other law, or any resolution of
 3    the General Assembly to the contrary, members of the  General
 4    Assembly,  judges,  other than the county supplement, State's
 5    attorneys, other than  the  county  supplement,  the  elected
 6    constitutional  officers  of  State  government,  and certain
 7    appointed officers of State government, including members  of
 8    State  departments,  agencies,  boards, and commissions whose
 9    annual  compensation  is  determined  by   the   Board,   are
10    prohibited  from receiving and shall not receive any increase
11    in compensation based on a  cost  of  living  adjustment,  as
12    authorized by Senate Joint Resolution 192 of the 86th General
13    Assembly,  for  or  during  the fiscal year beginning July 1,
14    2002.
15    (Source: P.A. 92-607, eff. 6-28-02.)

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