Full Text of SB2172 97th General Assembly
SB2172ham002 97TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY | Rep. Barbara Flynn Currie Filed: 5/30/2011
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| 1 | | AMENDMENT TO SENATE BILL 2172
| 2 | | AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend Senate Bill 2172 by replacing | 3 | | everything after the enacting clause with the following:
| 4 | | "Section 5. The State Finance Act is amended by changing | 5 | | Section 25 as follows:
| 6 | | (30 ILCS 105/25) (from Ch. 127, par. 161)
| 7 | | Sec. 25. Fiscal year limitations.
| 8 | | (a) All appropriations shall be
available for expenditure | 9 | | for the fiscal year or for a lesser period if the
Act making | 10 | | that appropriation so specifies. A deficiency or emergency
| 11 | | appropriation shall be available for expenditure only through | 12 | | June 30 of
the year when the Act making that appropriation is | 13 | | enacted unless that Act
otherwise provides.
| 14 | | (b) Outstanding liabilities as of June 30, payable from | 15 | | appropriations
which have otherwise expired, may be paid out of | 16 | | the expiring
appropriations during the 2-month period ending at |
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close of business on August 31. Any service involving
| 2 | | professional or artistic skills or any personal services by an | 3 | | employee whose
compensation is subject to income tax | 4 | | withholding must be performed as of June
30 of the fiscal year | 5 | | in order to be considered an "outstanding liability as of
June | 6 | | 30" that is thereby eligible for payment out of the expiring
| 7 | | appropriation.
| 8 | | (b-1) However, payment of tuition reimbursement claims | 9 | | under Section 14-7.03 or
18-3 of the School Code may be made by | 10 | | the State Board of Education from its
appropriations for those | 11 | | respective purposes for any fiscal year, even though
the claims | 12 | | reimbursed by the payment may be claims attributable to a prior
| 13 | | fiscal year, and payments may be made at the direction of the | 14 | | State
Superintendent of Education from the fund from which the | 15 | | appropriation is made
without regard to any fiscal year | 16 | | limitations, except as required by subsection (j) of this | 17 | | Section. Beginning on June 30, 2021, payment of tuition | 18 | | reimbursement claims under Section 14-7.03 or 18-3 of the | 19 | | School Code as of June 30, payable from appropriations that | 20 | | have otherwise expired, may be paid out of the expiring | 21 | | appropriation during the 4-month period ending at the close of | 22 | | business on October 31.
| 23 | | (b-2) All outstanding liabilities as of June 30, 2010, | 24 | | payable from appropriations that would otherwise expire at the | 25 | | conclusion of the lapse period for fiscal year 2010, and | 26 | | interest penalties payable on those liabilities under the State |
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| 1 | | Prompt Payment Act, may be paid out of the expiring | 2 | | appropriations until December 31, 2010, without regard to the | 3 | | fiscal year in which the payment is made, as long as vouchers | 4 | | for the liabilities are received by the Comptroller no later | 5 | | than August 31, 2010. | 6 | | (b-2.5) All outstanding liabilities as of June 30, 2011, | 7 | | payable from appropriations that would otherwise expire at the | 8 | | conclusion of the lapse period for fiscal year 2011, and | 9 | | interest penalties payable on those liabilities under the State | 10 | | Prompt Payment Act, may be paid out of the expiring | 11 | | appropriations until December 31, 2011, without regard to the | 12 | | fiscal year in which the payment is made, as long as vouchers | 13 | | for the liabilities are received by the Comptroller no later | 14 | | than August 31, 2011. | 15 | | (b-3) Medical payments may be made by the Department of | 16 | | Veterans' Affairs from
its
appropriations for those purposes | 17 | | for any fiscal year, without regard to the
fact that the | 18 | | medical services being compensated for by such payment may have
| 19 | | been rendered in a prior fiscal year, except as required by | 20 | | subsection (j) of this Section. Beginning on June 30, 2021, | 21 | | medical payments payable from appropriations that have | 22 | | otherwise expired may be paid out of the expiring appropriation | 23 | | during the 4-month period ending at the close of business on | 24 | | October 31.
| 25 | | (b-4) Medical payments may be made by the Department of | 26 | | Healthcare and Family Services and medical payments and child |
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| 1 | | care
payments may be made by the Department of
Human Services | 2 | | (as successor to the Department of Public Aid) from
| 3 | | appropriations for those purposes for any fiscal year,
without | 4 | | regard to the fact that the medical or child care services | 5 | | being
compensated for by such payment may have been rendered in | 6 | | a prior fiscal
year; and payments may be made at the direction | 7 | | of the Department of
Healthcare and Family Services from the | 8 | | Health Insurance Reserve Fund and the
Local Government Health | 9 | | Insurance Reserve Fund without regard to any fiscal
year | 10 | | limitations, except as required by subsection (j) of this | 11 | | Section. Beginning on June 30, 2021, medical payments made by | 12 | | the Department of Healthcare and Family Services, child care | 13 | | payments made by the Department of Human Services, and payments | 14 | | made at the discretion of the Department of Healthcare and | 15 | | Family Services from the Health Insurance Reserve Fund and the | 16 | | Local Government Health Insurance Reserve Fund payable from | 17 | | appropriations that have otherwise expired may be paid out of | 18 | | the expiring appropriation during the 4-month period ending at | 19 | | the close of business on October 31.
| 20 | | (b-5) Medical payments may be made by the Department of | 21 | | Human Services from its appropriations relating to substance | 22 | | abuse treatment services for any fiscal year, without regard to | 23 | | the fact that the medical services being compensated for by | 24 | | such payment may have been rendered in a prior fiscal year, | 25 | | provided the payments are made on a fee-for-service basis | 26 | | consistent with requirements established for Medicaid |
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| 1 | | reimbursement by the Department of Healthcare and Family | 2 | | Services, except as required by subsection (j) of this Section. | 3 | | Beginning on June 30, 2021, medical payments made by the | 4 | | Department of Human Services relating to substance abuse | 5 | | treatment services payable from appropriations that have | 6 | | otherwise expired may be paid out of the expiring appropriation | 7 | | during the 4-month period ending at the close of business on | 8 | | October 31. | 9 | | (b-6) Additionally, payments may be made by the Department | 10 | | of Human Services from
its appropriations, or any other State | 11 | | agency from its appropriations with
the approval of the | 12 | | Department of Human Services, from the Immigration Reform
and | 13 | | Control Fund for purposes authorized pursuant to the | 14 | | Immigration Reform
and Control Act of 1986, without regard to | 15 | | any fiscal year limitations, except as required by subsection | 16 | | (j) of this Section. Beginning on June 30, 2021, payments made | 17 | | by the Department of Human Services from the Immigration Reform | 18 | | and Control Fund for purposes authorized pursuant to the | 19 | | Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 payable from | 20 | | appropriations that have otherwise expired may be paid out of | 21 | | the expiring appropriation during the 4-month period ending at | 22 | | the close of business on October 31.
| 23 | | (b-7) Payments may be made in accordance with a plan | 24 | | authorized by paragraph (11) or (12) of Section 405-105 of the | 25 | | Department of Central Management Services Law from | 26 | | appropriations for those payments without regard to fiscal year |
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| 1 | | limitations. | 2 | | (c) Further, payments may be made by the Department of | 3 | | Public Health, the
Department of Human Services (acting as | 4 | | successor to the Department of Public
Health under the | 5 | | Department of Human Services Act), and the Department of | 6 | | Healthcare and Family Services
from their respective | 7 | | appropriations for grants for medical care to or on
behalf of | 8 | | persons
suffering from chronic renal disease, persons | 9 | | suffering from hemophilia, rape
victims, and premature and | 10 | | high-mortality risk infants and their mothers and
for grants | 11 | | for supplemental food supplies provided under the United States
| 12 | | Department of Agriculture Women, Infants and Children | 13 | | Nutrition Program,
for any fiscal year without regard to the | 14 | | fact that the services being
compensated for by such payment | 15 | | may have been rendered in a prior fiscal year, except as | 16 | | required by subsection (j) of this Section. Beginning on June | 17 | | 30, 2021, payments made by the Department of Public Health, the | 18 | | Department of Human Services, and the Department of Healthcare | 19 | | and Family Services from their respective appropriations for | 20 | | grants for medical care to or on behalf of persons suffering | 21 | | from chronic renal disease, persons suffering from hemophilia, | 22 | | rape victims, and premature and high-mortality risk infants and | 23 | | their mothers and for grants for supplemental food supplies | 24 | | provided under the United States Department of Agriculture | 25 | | Women, Infants and Children Nutrition Program payable from | 26 | | appropriations that have otherwise expired may be paid out of |
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| 1 | | the expiring appropriations during the 4-month period ending at | 2 | | the close of business on October 31.
| 3 | | (d) The Department of Public Health and the Department of | 4 | | Human Services
(acting as successor to the Department of Public | 5 | | Health under the Department of
Human Services Act) shall each | 6 | | annually submit to the State Comptroller, Senate
President, | 7 | | Senate
Minority Leader, Speaker of the House, House Minority | 8 | | Leader, and the
respective Chairmen and Minority Spokesmen of | 9 | | the
Appropriations Committees of the Senate and the House, on | 10 | | or before
December 31, a report of fiscal year funds used to | 11 | | pay for services
provided in any prior fiscal year. This report | 12 | | shall document by program or
service category those | 13 | | expenditures from the most recently completed fiscal
year used | 14 | | to pay for services provided in prior fiscal years.
| 15 | | (e) The Department of Healthcare and Family Services, the | 16 | | Department of Human Services
(acting as successor to the | 17 | | Department of Public Aid), and the Department of Human Services | 18 | | making fee-for-service payments relating to substance abuse | 19 | | treatment services provided during a previous fiscal year shall | 20 | | each annually
submit to the State
Comptroller, Senate | 21 | | President, Senate Minority Leader, Speaker of the House,
House | 22 | | Minority Leader, the respective Chairmen and Minority | 23 | | Spokesmen of the
Appropriations Committees of the Senate and | 24 | | the House, on or before November
30, a report that shall | 25 | | document by program or service category those
expenditures from | 26 | | the most recently completed fiscal year used to pay for (i)
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| 1 | | services provided in prior fiscal years and (ii) services for | 2 | | which claims were
received in prior fiscal years.
| 3 | | (f) The Department of Human Services (as successor to the | 4 | | Department of
Public Aid) shall annually submit to the State
| 5 | | Comptroller, Senate President, Senate Minority Leader, Speaker | 6 | | of the House,
House Minority Leader, and the respective | 7 | | Chairmen and Minority Spokesmen of
the Appropriations | 8 | | Committees of the Senate and the House, on or before
December | 9 | | 31, a report
of fiscal year funds used to pay for services | 10 | | (other than medical care)
provided in any prior fiscal year. | 11 | | This report shall document by program or
service category those | 12 | | expenditures from the most recently completed fiscal
year used | 13 | | to pay for services provided in prior fiscal years.
| 14 | | (g) In addition, each annual report required to be | 15 | | submitted by the
Department of Healthcare and Family Services | 16 | | under subsection (e) shall include the following
information | 17 | | with respect to the State's Medicaid program:
| 18 | | (1) Explanations of the exact causes of the variance | 19 | | between the previous
year's estimated and actual | 20 | | liabilities.
| 21 | | (2) Factors affecting the Department of Healthcare and | 22 | | Family Services' liabilities,
including but not limited to | 23 | | numbers of aid recipients, levels of medical
service | 24 | | utilization by aid recipients, and inflation in the cost of | 25 | | medical
services.
| 26 | | (3) The results of the Department's efforts to combat |
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| 1 | | fraud and abuse.
| 2 | | (h) As provided in Section 4 of the General Assembly | 3 | | Compensation Act,
any utility bill for service provided to a | 4 | | General Assembly
member's district office for a period | 5 | | including portions of 2 consecutive
fiscal years may be paid | 6 | | from funds appropriated for such expenditure in
either fiscal | 7 | | year.
| 8 | | (i) An agency which administers a fund classified by the | 9 | | Comptroller as an
internal service fund may issue rules for:
| 10 | | (1) billing user agencies in advance for payments or | 11 | | authorized inter-fund transfers
based on estimated charges | 12 | | for goods or services;
| 13 | | (2) issuing credits, refunding through inter-fund | 14 | | transfers, or reducing future inter-fund transfers
during
| 15 | | the subsequent fiscal year for all user agency payments or | 16 | | authorized inter-fund transfers received during the
prior | 17 | | fiscal year which were in excess of the final amounts owed | 18 | | by the user
agency for that period; and
| 19 | | (3) issuing catch-up billings to user agencies
during | 20 | | the subsequent fiscal year for amounts remaining due when | 21 | | payments or authorized inter-fund transfers
received from | 22 | | the user agency during the prior fiscal year were less than | 23 | | the
total amount owed for that period.
| 24 | | User agencies are authorized to reimburse internal service | 25 | | funds for catch-up
billings by vouchers drawn against their | 26 | | respective appropriations for the
fiscal year in which the |
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| 1 | | catch-up billing was issued or by increasing an authorized | 2 | | inter-fund transfer during the current fiscal year. For the | 3 | | purposes of this Act, "inter-fund transfers" means transfers | 4 | | without the use of the voucher-warrant process, as authorized | 5 | | by Section 9.01 of the State Comptroller Act.
| 6 | | (i-1) Beginning on July 1, 2021, all outstanding | 7 | | liabilities, not payable during the 4-month lapse period as | 8 | | described in subsections (b-1), (b-3), (b-4), (b-5), (b-6), and | 9 | | (c) of this Section, that are made from appropriations for that | 10 | | purpose for any fiscal year, without regard to the fact that | 11 | | the services being compensated for by those payments may have | 12 | | been rendered in a prior fiscal year, are limited to only those | 13 | | claims that have been incurred but for which a proper bill or | 14 | | invoice as defined by the State Prompt Payment Act has not been | 15 | | received by September 30th following the end of the fiscal year | 16 | | in which the service was rendered. | 17 | | (j) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act, the | 18 | | aggregate amount of payments to be made without regard for | 19 | | fiscal year limitations as contained in subsections (b-1), | 20 | | (b-3), (b-4), (b-5), (b-6), and (c) of this Section, and | 21 | | determined by using Generally Accepted Accounting Principles, | 22 | | shall not exceed the following amounts: | 23 | | (1) $6,000,000,000 for outstanding liabilities related | 24 | | to fiscal year 2012; | 25 | | (2) $5,300,000,000 for outstanding liabilities related | 26 | | to fiscal year 2013; |
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| 1 | | (3) $4,600,000,000 for outstanding liabilities related | 2 | | to fiscal year 2014; | 3 | | (4) $4,000,000,000 for outstanding liabilities related | 4 | | to fiscal year 2015; | 5 | | (5) $3,300,000,000 for outstanding liabilities related | 6 | | to fiscal year 2016; | 7 | | (6) $2,600,000,000 for outstanding liabilities related | 8 | | to fiscal year 2017; | 9 | | (7) $2,000,000,000 for outstanding liabilities related | 10 | | to fiscal year 2018; | 11 | | (8) $1,300,000,000 for outstanding liabilities related | 12 | | to fiscal year 2019; | 13 | | (9) $600,000,000 for outstanding liabilities related | 14 | | to fiscal year 2020; and | 15 | | (10) $0 for outstanding liabilities related to fiscal | 16 | | year 2021 and fiscal years thereafter. | 17 | | (Source: P.A. 95-331, eff. 8-21-07; 96-928, eff. 6-15-10; | 18 | | 96-958, eff. 7-1-10; 96-1501, eff. 1-25-11.)
| 19 | | Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | 20 | | becoming law.".
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