Full Text of HR1006 99th General Assembly
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| 1 | | HOUSE RESOLUTION
| 2 | | WHEREAS, The whole people of Illinois - who pay for a | 3 | | General Assembly to plan for the long-term
affairs of the State - | 4 | | deserve to have a budget planning document in place that | 5 | | considers medium-term
and long-term spending pressures in the | 6 | | setting of State spending priorities; and
| 7 | | WHEREAS, No budget has been enacted for fiscal year 2016, | 8 | | the fiscal year that began on July 1, 2015; as a result, the | 9 | | overall economic climates of many sections of Illinois are | 10 | | threatened, endangering jobs in the private and public sectors | 11 | | alike; as a result of these threats, local consumption of | 12 | | private-sector goods and services must drop; and | 13 | | WHEREAS, Central Illinois, with its traditional | 14 | | orientation towards the maintenance of State of Illinois | 15 | | operations is one of these threatened areas; and | 16 | | WHEREAS, With no budget enacted for fiscal year 2016, soon | 17 | | the State of Illinois will have operated under 4 different | 18 | | budgets in the span
of 2 years - the fiscal 2015 budget signed | 19 | | by former Governor Quinn, the revised fiscal year 2015
budget | 20 | | containing necessary "fixes" to the original, flawed FY15 | 21 | | budget, the fiscal year 2016 non-budgeted
State spending cycle | 22 | | being carried out right now under a series of State and federal |
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orders, and an enacted budget that will cover the | 2 | | remainder of FY16; and
| 3 | | WHEREAS, Under the fiscal year 2016 non-budgeted State | 4 | | spending cycle, State spending is
continuing without | 5 | | legislative participation, putting Illinois on the financial | 6 | | brink and setting our
State on a path to utter financial ruin | 7 | | and economic devastation for our taxpayers; and
| 8 | | WHEREAS, Political pressures associated with the 2016 | 9 | | election cycle will only increase with time,
further tainting | 10 | | the budget process with politics and raising the possibility | 11 | | that, in the absence of
corrective action, a repetition of this | 12 | | dismal pattern will occur as the spring 2016 deadline nears to
| 13 | | craft and enact a budget for fiscal year 2017; and | 14 | | WHEREAS, The General Assembly needs to re-establish a | 15 | | budget cycle and re-establish the
credibility it needs in order | 16 | | to shift its attention to pension reform, property tax relief, | 17 | | crime and violence, the jobs climate, the outmigration from | 18 | | Illinois of younger and highly-educated workers
and | 19 | | professionals, and other urgent issues; and | 20 | | WHEREAS, Many states such as Nebraska, Ohio, and Texas, and | 21 | | including the neighboring state of
Indiana, practice 2-year | 22 | | spending plans or full-scale biennial budgeting; and
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| 1 | | WHEREAS, The Constitution of Illinois directs the Governor | 2 | | of Illinois to present an annual budget
proposal to the General | 3 | | Assembly, but, as we have come to know all too well, nothing
| 4 | | constrains the General Assembly's actual responses to these | 5 | | proposals, and nothing prevents the
General Assembly from | 6 | | adopting a planning process that faces the fact that we, as a | 7 | | State, are on the
financial brink, and responds to it in a | 8 | | professional manner and in keeping with our identity as
| 9 | | legislators and our oaths of office; and
| 10 | | WHEREAS, In these times, moving toward a long-term budget | 11 | | planning cycle will enable State
agencies performing essential | 12 | | services, third-party service providers whose services are no | 13 | | less
essential, and institutions and entities of higher | 14 | | education to obtain the information that their leaders
have | 15 | | testified is essential to carrying out their duties; therefore, | 16 | | be it
| 17 | | RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE | 18 | | NINETY-NINTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we | 19 | | declare that it is expedient for the General Assembly to adopt | 20 | | a 2-year budget planning document to cover revenues in all of | 21 | | fiscal years 2016 and 2017, take account of moneys already | 22 | | spent, and control spending in the remainder of fiscal year | 23 | | 2016 and all of fiscal year 2017; and be it further |
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| 1 | | RESOLVED, That this planning document should rely upon an | 2 | | honest estimate, without false
promises or shoddy planning, of | 3 | | the actual financial income (especially general funds income) | 4 | | that
the State will take in during fiscal years 2016 and 2017; | 5 | | and be it further | 6 | | RESOLVED, That we urge the Commission on Government | 7 | | Forecasting and Accountability and the
Governor's Office of | 8 | | Management and Budget to work together to develop an | 9 | | extraordinary
consolidated revenue estimate for fiscal years | 10 | | 2016 and 2017, this estimate to be presented to both
chambers | 11 | | of the General Assembly no later than 30 days after the | 12 | | adoption of this resolution; and be it further | 13 | | RESOLVED, That we, the sponsors of this resolution, pledge | 14 | | to use this consolidated 2-year
revenue estimate to work with | 15 | | our colleagues to develop a 2-year State budget and financial
| 16 | | planning document; and be it further | 17 | | RESOLVED, That our goal, as we develop this budget planning | 18 | | document, will be to end the current
political cycle of | 19 | | reactive emergency measures and budget court orders; and be it | 20 | | further
| 21 | | RESOLVED, That suitable copies of this resolution be |
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| 1 | | presented to Michael J. Madigan, Speaker of
the House of | 2 | | Representatives, John Cullerton, President of the Senate, and | 3 | | Bruce Rauner, Governor.
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