Full Text of HB0398 94th General Assembly
HB0398sam002 94TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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Sen. Donne E. Trotter
Filed: 5/13/2005
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| AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 398
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| AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 398 by replacing | 3 |
| everything after the enacting clause with the following:
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| "Section 5. The Illinois State Auditing Act is amended by | 5 |
| changing Section 3-1 as follows:
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| (30 ILCS 5/3-1) (from Ch. 15, par. 303-1)
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| Sec. 3-1. Jurisdiction of Auditor General. The Auditor | 8 |
| General has
jurisdiction over all State agencies to make post | 9 |
| audits and investigations
authorized by or under this Act or | 10 |
| the Constitution.
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| The Auditor General has jurisdiction over local government | 12 |
| agencies
and private agencies only:
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| (a) to make such post audits authorized by or under | 14 |
| this Act as are
necessary and incidental to a post audit of | 15 |
| a State agency or of a
program administered by a State | 16 |
| agency involving public funds of the
State, but this | 17 |
| jurisdiction does not include any authority to review
local | 18 |
| governmental agencies in the obligation, receipt, | 19 |
| expenditure or
use of public funds of the State that are | 20 |
| granted without limitation or
condition imposed by law, | 21 |
| other than the general limitation that such
funds be used | 22 |
| for public purposes;
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| (b) to make investigations authorized by or under this | 24 |
| Act or the
Constitution; and
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| (c) to make audits of the records of local government | 2 |
| agencies to verify
actual costs of state-mandated programs | 3 |
| when directed to do so by the
Legislative Audit Commission | 4 |
| at the request of the State Board of Appeals
under the | 5 |
| State Mandates Act.
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| In addition to the foregoing, the Auditor General may | 7 |
| conduct an
audit of the Metropolitan Pier and Exposition | 8 |
| Authority, the
Regional Transportation Authority, the Suburban | 9 |
| Bus Division, the Commuter
Rail Division and the Chicago | 10 |
| Transit Authority and any other subsidized
carrier when | 11 |
| authorized by the Legislative Audit Commission. Such audit
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| be a financial, management or program audit, or any combination | 13 |
| thereof.
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| The audit shall determine whether they are operating in | 15 |
| accordance with
all applicable laws and regulations. Subject to | 16 |
| the limitations of this
Act, the Legislative Audit Commission | 17 |
| may by resolution specify additional
determinations to be | 18 |
| included in the scope of the audit. | 19 |
| In addition to the foregoing, the Auditor General shall | 20 |
| conduct or cause to be conducted a financial audit and | 21 |
| compliance attestation examination for the year ended December | 22 |
| 31, 2004, of the Chicago Transit Authority's use of funds and | 23 |
| moneys appropriated by the General Assembly to the Department | 24 |
| of Transportation which are distributed to the Regional | 25 |
| Transportation Authority, by the means of grants, awards, State | 26 |
| aid formula payments, construction funds, and direct or | 27 |
| indirect payments. The audits shall determine if these funds | 28 |
| have been and are being expended consistent with and in | 29 |
| furtherance of the purposes set forth in the Regional | 30 |
| Transportation Authority Act. In conjunction with those | 31 |
| audits, the Auditor General shall conduct a performance audit | 32 |
| to review the Chicago Transit Authority's actual service levels | 33 |
| for the most recent year for which statistics are available and | 34 |
| a comparison to projected service levels for the current budget |
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| year.
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| In addition to the foregoing, the Auditor General must also | 3 |
| conduct a
financial audit of
the Illinois Sports Facilities | 4 |
| Authority's expenditures of public funds in
connection with the | 5 |
| reconstruction, renovation, remodeling, extension, or
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| improvement of all or substantially all of any existing | 7 |
| "facility", as that
term is defined in the Illinois Sports | 8 |
| Facilities Authority Act.
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| The Auditor General may also conduct an audit, when | 10 |
| authorized by
the Legislative Audit Commission, of any hospital | 11 |
| which receives 10% or
more of its gross revenues from payments | 12 |
| from the State of Illinois,
Department of Public Aid, Medical | 13 |
| Assistance Program.
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| The Auditor General is authorized to conduct financial and | 15 |
| compliance
audits of the Illinois Distance Learning Foundation | 16 |
| and the Illinois
Conservation Foundation.
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| As soon as practical after the effective date of this | 18 |
| amendatory Act of
1995, the Auditor General shall conduct a | 19 |
| compliance and management audit of
the City of
Chicago and any | 20 |
| other entity with regard to the operation of Chicago O'Hare
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| International Airport, Chicago Midway Airport and Merrill C. | 22 |
| Meigs Field. The
audit shall include, but not be limited to, an | 23 |
| examination of revenues,
expenses, and transfers of funds; | 24 |
| purchasing and contracting policies and
practices; staffing | 25 |
| levels; and hiring practices and procedures. When
completed, | 26 |
| the audit required by this paragraph shall be distributed in
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| accordance with Section 3-14.
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| The Auditor General shall conduct a financial and | 29 |
| compliance and program
audit of distributions from the | 30 |
| Municipal Economic Development Fund
during the immediately | 31 |
| preceding calendar year pursuant to Section 8-403.1 of
the | 32 |
| Public Utilities Act at no cost to the city, village, or | 33 |
| incorporated town
that received the distributions.
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| The Auditor General must conduct an audit of the Health |
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| Facilities Planning
Board pursuant to Section 19.5 of the | 2 |
| Illinois Health Facilities Planning
Act.
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| The Auditor General of the State of Illinois shall annually | 4 |
| conduct or
cause to be conducted a financial and compliance | 5 |
| audit of the books and records
of any county water commission | 6 |
| organized pursuant to the Water Commission Act
of 1985 and | 7 |
| shall file a copy of the report of that audit with the Governor | 8 |
| and
the Legislative Audit Commission. The filed audit shall be | 9 |
| open to the public
for inspection. The cost of the audit shall | 10 |
| be charged to the county water
commission in accordance with | 11 |
| Section 6z-27 of the State Finance Act. The
county water | 12 |
| commission shall make available to the Auditor General its | 13 |
| books
and records and any other documentation, whether in the | 14 |
| possession of its
trustees or other parties, necessary to | 15 |
| conduct the audit required. These
audit requirements apply only | 16 |
| through July 1, 2007.
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| The Auditor General must conduct audits of the Rend Lake | 18 |
| Conservancy
District as provided in Section 25.5 of the River | 19 |
| Conservancy Districts Act.
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| The Auditor General must conduct financial audits of the | 21 |
| Southeastern Illinois Economic Development Authority as | 22 |
| provided in Section 70 of the Southeastern Illinois Economic | 23 |
| Development Authority Act.
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| (Source: P.A. 93-226, eff. 7-22-03; 93-259, eff. 7-22-03; | 25 |
| 93-275, eff. 7-22-03; 93-968, eff. 8-20-04.)
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| Section 10. The Abused and Neglected Long Term Care | 27 |
| Facility Residents Reporting Act is amended by changing Section | 28 |
| 6.8 as follows: | 29 |
| (210 ILCS 30/6.8) (from Ch. 111 1/2, par. 4166.8)
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| Sec. 6.8. Program audit. The Auditor General shall conduct | 31 |
| a biennial
program audit of the office of the Inspector General | 32 |
| in relation to the
Inspector General's compliance with this |
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| Act. The audit shall specifically
include the Inspector | 2 |
| General's effectiveness in investigating reports of
alleged | 3 |
| neglect or abuse of residents in any facility operated by the
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| Department of Human Services and in making recommendations for | 5 |
| sanctions to
the Departments of
Human Services and Public
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| Health. In conjunction with the audit required by this Section, | 7 |
| the Auditor General shall examine, on a test basis, facility | 8 |
| records concerning reports of injuries to and assaults on | 9 |
| facility staff by patients or residents. The Auditor General | 10 |
| shall conduct the program audit according to the
provisions of | 11 |
| the Illinois State Auditing Act and shall report its findings | 12 |
| to
the General Assembly no later than January 1 of each | 13 |
| odd-numbered year.
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| (Source: P.A. 92-358, eff. 8-15-01; 93-636, eff. 12-31-03.)
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| Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | 16 |
| becoming law.".
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