Full Text of HB1857 100th General Assembly
HB1857ham001 100TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY | Rep. Jeanne M Ives Filed: 3/29/2017
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| 1 | | AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 1857
| 2 | | AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 1857 by replacing | 3 | | everything after the enacting clause with the following:
| 4 | | "Section 5. The General Assembly Compensation Act is | 5 | | amended by changing Section 1 as follows:
| 6 | | (25 ILCS 115/1) (from Ch. 63, par. 14) | 7 | | Sec. 1. Each member of the General Assembly shall receive | 8 | | an annual salary
of $28,000 or as set by the Compensation | 9 | | Review Board, whichever is
greater. The
following named | 10 | | officers, committee chairmen and committee minority spokesmen
| 11 | | shall receive additional amounts per year for
their services as | 12 | | such officers, committee chairmen and committee
minority | 13 | | spokesmen respectively, as set by the Compensation
Review Board | 14 | | or, as follows, whichever is greater: Beginning the second
| 15 | | Wednesday in January 1989, the Speaker and the minority leader | 16 | | of the
House of Representatives and the
President and the |
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| 1 | | minority leader of the Senate, $16,000 each; the
majority | 2 | | leader in the House of Representatives $13,500;
6 assistant
| 3 | | majority leaders and 5 assistant minority leaders in the | 4 | | Senate,
$12,000
each; 6 assistant majority leaders and 6 | 5 | | assistant minority leaders in
the House of Representatives, | 6 | | $10,500 each; 2 Deputy
Majority leaders in the House of | 7 | | Representatives $11,500 each; and 2 Deputy
Minority leaders in | 8 | | the House of Representatives, $11,500 each; the majority
caucus | 9 | | chairman and minority caucus chairman in the Senate, $12,000 | 10 | | each;
and beginning the second Wednesday in January, 1989, the | 11 | | majority
conference chairman and the minority conference | 12 | | chairman
in the House of Representatives, $10,500 each; | 13 | | beginning the second Wednesday in January, 2019, the chairman | 14 | | and minority spokesperson of each standing and select committee | 15 | | of the Senate shall receive $100 per posted committee hearing; | 16 | | and beginning the second Wednesday in January, 2019, the | 17 | | chairman and minority spokesperson of each standing and select | 18 | | committee of the House of Representatives shall receive $100 | 19 | | per posted committee hearing beginning
the second Wednesday in | 20 | | January, 1989, the chairman and minority spokesman
of each | 21 | | standing committee of the Senate, except the Rules Committee, | 22 | | the
Committee on Committees, and the Committee on Assignment of | 23 | | Bills, $6,000
each; and beginning the second Wednesday in | 24 | | January, 1989, the chairman and
minority spokesman of each | 25 | | standing and select committee of the House of
Representatives, | 26 | | $6,000 each . A member who serves in more than one
position as |
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| 1 | | an officer, committee chairman, or committee minority | 2 | | spokesman
shall receive only one additional amount based on the | 3 | | position paying the
highest additional amount. The
| 4 | | compensation provided for in this Section to be paid per year | 5 | | to members
of the General Assembly, including the additional | 6 | | sums payable per year
to officers of the General Assembly shall | 7 | | be paid in 12 equal monthly
installments. The first such | 8 | | installment is payable on January 31,
1977. All subsequent | 9 | | equal monthly installments are payable on the last
working day | 10 | | of the month. A member who has held office any part of a
month | 11 | | is entitled to compensation for an entire month. | 12 | | Mileage shall be paid at the rate of 20 cents per mile | 13 | | before January
9, 1985, and at the mileage allowance rate in | 14 | | effect under regulations
promulgated pursuant to 5 U.S.C. | 15 | | 5707(b)(2) beginning January 9, 1985, for the number
of actual | 16 | | highway miles necessarily and conveniently traveled by the
most | 17 | | feasible route to be present upon convening of the sessions of | 18 | | the
General Assembly by such member in each and every trip | 19 | | during each
session in going to and returning from the seat of | 20 | | government, to be
computed by the Comptroller. A member | 21 | | traveling by public
transportation for such purposes, however, | 22 | | shall be paid his actual cost
of that transportation instead of | 23 | | on the mileage rate if his cost of
public transportation | 24 | | exceeds the amount to which he would be entitled
on a mileage | 25 | | basis. No member may be paid, whether on a mileage basis
or for | 26 | | actual costs of public transportation, for more than one such
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| 1 | | trip for each week the General Assembly is actually in session. | 2 | | Each
member shall also receive an allowance of $36 per day for | 3 | | lodging and
meals while in attendance at sessions
of the | 4 | | General Assembly before January 9, 1985; beginning January 9,
| 5 | | 1985, such food and lodging allowance shall be equal to the | 6 | | amount per day
permitted to be deducted for such expenses under | 7 | | the Internal Revenue Code;
however, beginning May 31, 1995, no | 8 | | allowance for food and lodging while in
attendance at sessions | 9 | | is authorized for periods of time after the last day in
May of | 10 | | each calendar year, except (i) if the General Assembly is | 11 | | convened in
special session by either the Governor or the | 12 | | presiding officers of both
houses, as provided by subsection | 13 | | (b) of Section 5 of Article IV of the
Illinois Constitution or | 14 | | (ii) if the
General Assembly is convened to consider bills | 15 | | vetoed, item vetoed, reduced, or
returned with specific | 16 | | recommendations for change by the Governor as provided
in | 17 | | Section 9 of Article IV of the Illinois Constitution. For | 18 | | fiscal year 2011 and for session days in fiscal years 2012, | 19 | | 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, and 2017 only (i) the allowance for | 20 | | lodging and meals is $111 per day and (ii) mileage for | 21 | | automobile travel shall be reimbursed at a rate of $0.39 per | 22 | | mile. | 23 | | Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, | 24 | | beginning in fiscal year 2012, travel reimbursement for
General | 25 | | Assembly members on non-session days shall be
calculated using | 26 | | the guidelines set forth by the Legislative
Travel Control |
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| 1 | | Board, except that fiscal year 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, | 2 | | and 2017 mileage reimbursement is set at a rate of $0.39 per | 3 | | mile. | 4 | | If a member dies having received only a portion of the | 5 | | amount payable
as compensation, the unpaid balance shall be | 6 | | paid to the surviving
spouse of such member, or, if there be | 7 | | none, to the estate of such member. | 8 | | (Source: P.A. 98-30, eff. 6-24-13; 98-682, eff. 6-30-14; | 9 | | 99-355, eff. 8-13-15; 99-523, eff. 6-30-16.)".
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