Full Text of HB0767 096th General Assembly
HB0767 96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2009 and 2010 HB0767
Introduced 2/9/2009, by Rep. Luis Arroyo SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED: |
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25 ILCS 115/4 |
from Ch. 63, par. 15.1 |
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Amends the General Assembly Compensation Act. Increases the base allowance for House members to $75,000 and Senate members to $87,000 beginning July 1, 2009 with annual cost of living increases beginning July 1, 2010 (instead of $61,000 for House members and $73,000 for Senate members beginning July 1, 2001 with annual cost of living increases beginning July 1, 2002). Effective immediately.
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A BILL FOR
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| AN ACT concerning State government.
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| Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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| represented in the General Assembly:
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| Section 5. The General Assembly Compensation Act is amended | 5 |
| by changing Section 4 as follows: | 6 |
| (25 ILCS 115/4) (from Ch. 63, par. 15.1)
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| Sec. 4. Office allowance. Beginning July 1, 2009 2001 , | 8 |
| each member
of the House
of Representatives is authorized to | 9 |
| approve the expenditure of not more than $75,000
$61,000 per | 10 |
| year and each member of the
Senate is authorized to approve the
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| expenditure of not more than $87,000 $73,000 per
year to pay | 12 |
| for "personal services",
"contractual services", | 13 |
| "commodities", "printing", "travel",
"operation of automotive | 14 |
| equipment", "telecommunications services", as
defined in the | 15 |
| State Finance Act, and the compensation of one or more
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| legislative assistants authorized pursuant to this Section, in | 17 |
| connection
with his or her legislative duties and not in | 18 |
| connection with any political
campaign.
On July 1, 2010 2002 | 19 |
| and on July 1 of each year thereafter, the amount authorized
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| per year under this Section for each member of the Senate and | 21 |
| each member of
the House of Representatives shall be increased | 22 |
| by a percentage increase
equivalent to the lesser of (i) the | 23 |
| increase in the designated cost of living
index or (ii) 5%. The |
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| designated cost of living index is the index known as
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| "Employment Cost Index, Wages and Salaries, By
Occupation and | 3 |
| Industry Groups: State and Local Government Workers: Public
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| Administration" as published by the Bureau of Labor Statistics | 5 |
| of the U.S.
Department of Labor for the calendar year | 6 |
| immediately preceding the year of the
respective July 1st | 7 |
| increase date. The increase shall be added to the then
current | 8 |
| amount, and the adjusted amount so determined shall be the | 9 |
| annual
amount beginning July 1 of the increase year until July | 10 |
| 1 of the next year. No
increase under this provision shall be | 11 |
| less than zero.
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| A member may purchase office equipment if the member | 13 |
| certifies
to the Secretary of the Senate or the Clerk of the | 14 |
| House, as applicable,
that the purchase price, whether paid in | 15 |
| lump sum or installments, amounts
to less than would be charged | 16 |
| for renting or leasing the equipment over
its anticipated | 17 |
| useful life. All such equipment must be purchased through
the | 18 |
| Secretary of the Senate or the Clerk of the House, as | 19 |
| applicable, for
proper identification and verification of | 20 |
| purchase.
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| Each member of the General Assembly is authorized to employ | 22 |
| one or more
legislative assistants, who shall be solely under | 23 |
| the direction and control
of that member, for the purpose of | 24 |
| assisting the member in the performance
of his or her official | 25 |
| duties. A legislative assistant may be employed
pursuant to | 26 |
| this Section as a full-time employee, part-time employee, or
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| contractual employee, at
the discretion of the member. If | 2 |
| employed as a State employee, a
legislative assistant shall | 3 |
| receive employment benefits on the same terms
and conditions | 4 |
| that apply to other employees of the General Assembly.
Each | 5 |
| member shall adopt and implement personnel policies
for | 6 |
| legislative assistants under his or her direction and
control | 7 |
| relating to work time requirements, documentation for | 8 |
| reimbursement for
travel on official State business, | 9 |
| compensation, and the earning and accrual of
State benefits for | 10 |
| those legislative assistants who may be eligible to receive
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| those benefits.
The policies shall also require legislative | 12 |
| assistants to
periodically submit time sheets documenting, in | 13 |
| quarter-hour increments, the
time
spent each day on official | 14 |
| State business.
The
policies shall require the time sheets to | 15 |
| be submitted on paper,
electronically, or both and to be | 16 |
| maintained in either paper or electronic
format by the | 17 |
| applicable fiscal office
for a period of at least 2 years.
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| Contractual employees may satisfy
the time sheets requirement | 19 |
| by complying with the terms of their contract,
which shall | 20 |
| provide for a means of compliance with this requirement.
A | 21 |
| member may
satisfy the requirements of this paragraph by | 22 |
| adopting and implementing the
personnel policies promulgated | 23 |
| by that
member's legislative leader under the State Officials | 24 |
| and Employees Ethics
Act
with respect to that member's | 25 |
| legislative
assistants.
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| As used in this Section the term "personal services" shall |
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| include
contributions of the State under the Federal Insurance | 2 |
| Contribution Act and
under Article 14 of the Illinois Pension | 3 |
| Code. As used in this Section the
term "contractual services" | 4 |
| shall not include improvements to real property
unless those | 5 |
| improvements are the obligation of the lessee under the lease
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| agreement. Beginning July 1, 1989, as used in the Section, the | 7 |
| term "travel"
shall be limited to travel in connection with a | 8 |
| member's legislative duties and
not in connection with any | 9 |
| political campaign. Beginning on the effective
date of this | 10 |
| amendatory Act of the 93rd General Assembly, as
used
in this | 11 |
| Section, the term "printing" includes, but is not limited to,
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| newsletters,
brochures, certificates,
congratulatory
mailings,
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| greeting or welcome messages, anniversary or
birthday cards, | 14 |
| and congratulations for prominent achievement cards. As used
in | 15 |
| this Section, the term "printing" includes fees for | 16 |
| non-substantive
resolutions charged by the Clerk of the House | 17 |
| of Representatives under
subsection (c-5) of Section 1 of the | 18 |
| Legislative Materials Act.
No newsletter or brochure that is | 19 |
| paid for, in whole or in part, with
funds
provided under this | 20 |
| Section may be printed or mailed during a period
beginning | 21 |
| December 15 of the year preceding a general primary
election | 22 |
| and ending the day after the general primary election and | 23 |
| during a
period beginning September 1 of the year of a general | 24 |
| election and ending the
day after the general election, except | 25 |
| that such a newsletter or brochure may
be mailed during
those | 26 |
| times if it is mailed to a constituent in response to that |
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| constituent's
inquiry concerning the needs of that constituent | 2 |
| or questions raised by that
constituent.
Nothing in
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| Section shall be construed to authorize expenditures for | 4 |
| lodging and meals
while a member is in attendance at sessions | 5 |
| of the General Assembly.
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| Any utility bill for service provided to a member's | 7 |
| district office for
a period including portions of 2 | 8 |
| consecutive fiscal years may be paid from
funds appropriated | 9 |
| for such expenditure in either fiscal year.
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| If a vacancy occurs in the office of Senator or | 11 |
| Representative in the General
Assembly, any office equipment in | 12 |
| the possession of the vacating member
shall transfer to the | 13 |
| member's successor; if the successor does not want
such | 14 |
| equipment, it shall be transferred to the Secretary of the | 15 |
| Senate or
Clerk of the House of Representatives, as the case | 16 |
| may be, and if not
wanted by other members of the General | 17 |
| Assembly then to the Department of
Central Management Services | 18 |
| for treatment as surplus property under the
State Property | 19 |
| Control Act. Each member, on or before June 30th of each
year, | 20 |
| shall conduct an inventory of all equipment purchased pursuant | 21 |
| to
this Act. Such inventory shall be filed with the Secretary | 22 |
| of the Senate
or the Clerk of the House, as the case may be. | 23 |
| Whenever a vacancy occurs,
the Secretary of the Senate or the | 24 |
| Clerk of the House, as the case may be,
shall conduct an | 25 |
| inventory of equipment purchased.
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| In the event that a member leaves office during his or her |
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| term, any
unexpended or unobligated portion of the allowance | 2 |
| granted under this Section
shall lapse. The vacating member's | 3 |
| successor shall be granted an allowance
in an amount, rounded | 4 |
| to the nearest dollar, computed by dividing the annual
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| allowance by 365 and multiplying the quotient by the number of | 6 |
| days remaining
in the fiscal year.
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| From any appropriation for the purposes of this Section for | 8 |
| a
fiscal year which overlaps 2 General Assemblies, no more than | 9 |
| 1/2 of the
annual allowance per member may be spent or | 10 |
| encumbered by any member of
either the outgoing or incoming | 11 |
| General Assembly, except that any member
of the incoming | 12 |
| General Assembly who was a member of the outgoing General
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| Assembly may encumber or spend any portion of his annual | 14 |
| allowance within
the fiscal year.
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| The appropriation for the annual allowances permitted by | 16 |
| this Section
shall be included in an appropriation to the | 17 |
| President of the Senate and to
the Speaker of the House of | 18 |
| Representatives for their respective members.
The President of | 19 |
| the Senate and the Speaker of the House shall voucher for
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| payment individual members' expenditures from their annual | 21 |
| office
allowances to the State Comptroller, subject to the | 22 |
| authority of the
Comptroller under Section 9 of the State | 23 |
| Comptroller Act.
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| (Source: P.A. 95-6, eff. 6-20-07.)
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| Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | 26 |
| becoming law.
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