Full Text of HB1158 94th General Assembly
HB1158 94TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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94TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2005 and 2006 HB1158
Introduced 02/08/05, by Rep. Patricia Reid Lindner SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED: |
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25 ILCS 115/1 |
from Ch. 63, par. 14 |
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Amends the General Assembly Compensation Act. Limits the number of special session days for which General Assembly members may receive a per diem allowance to 3 per calendar year. Effective immediately.
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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 1 as follows:
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| (25 ILCS 115/1) (from Ch. 63, par. 14)
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| 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
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| 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
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| Wednesday in January 1989, the Speaker and the minority leader | 16 |
| of the
House of Representatives and the
President and the | 17 |
| minority leader of the Senate, $16,000 each; the
majority | 18 |
| leader in the House of Representatives $13,500;
6 assistant
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| majority leaders and 5 assistant minority leaders in the | 20 |
| Senate,
$12,000
each; 6 assistant majority leaders and 6 | 21 |
| assistant minority leaders in
the House of Representatives, | 22 |
| $10,500 each; 2 Deputy
Majority leaders in the House of | 23 |
| Representatives $11,500 each; and 2 Deputy
Minority leaders in | 24 |
| the House of Representatives, $11,500 each; the majority
caucus | 25 |
| chairman and minority caucus chairman in the Senate, $12,000 | 26 |
| each;
and beginning the second Wednesday in January, 1989, the | 27 |
| majority
conference chairman and the minority conference | 28 |
| chairman
in the House of Representatives, $10,500 each; | 29 |
| beginning
the second Wednesday in January, 1989, the chairman | 30 |
| and minority spokesman
of each standing committee of the | 31 |
| Senate, except the Rules Committee, the
Committee on | 32 |
| Committees, and the Committee on Assignment of Bills, $6,000
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| each; and beginning the second Wednesday in January, 1989, the | 2 |
| chairman and
minority spokesman of each standing and select | 3 |
| committee of the House of
Representatives, $6,000 each. A | 4 |
| member who serves in more than one
position as an officer, | 5 |
| committee chairman, or committee minority spokesman
shall | 6 |
| receive only one additional amount based on the position paying | 7 |
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highest additional amount. The
compensation provided for in | 8 |
| this Section to be paid per year to members
of the General | 9 |
| Assembly, including the additional sums payable per year
to | 10 |
| officers of the General Assembly shall be paid in 12 equal | 11 |
| monthly
installments. The first such installment is payable on | 12 |
| January 31,
1977. All subsequent equal monthly installments are | 13 |
| payable on the last
working day of the month. A member who has | 14 |
| held office any part of a
month is entitled to compensation for | 15 |
| an entire month.
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| Mileage shall be paid at the rate of 20 cents per mile | 17 |
| before January
9, 1985, and at the mileage allowance rate in | 18 |
| effect under regulations
promulgated pursuant to 5 U.S.C. | 19 |
| 5707(b)(2) beginning January 9, 1985, for the number
of actual | 20 |
| highway miles necessarily and conveniently traveled by the
most | 21 |
| feasible route to be present upon convening of the sessions of | 22 |
| the
General Assembly by such member in each and every trip | 23 |
| during each
session in going to and returning from the seat of | 24 |
| government, to be
computed by the Comptroller. A member | 25 |
| traveling by public
transportation for such purposes, however, | 26 |
| shall be paid his actual cost
of that transportation instead of | 27 |
| on the mileage rate if his cost of
public transportation | 28 |
| exceeds the amount to which he would be entitled
on a mileage | 29 |
| basis. No member may be paid, whether on a mileage basis
or for | 30 |
| actual costs of public transportation, for more than one such
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| trip for each week the General Assembly is actually in session. | 32 |
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member shall also receive an allowance of $36 per day for | 33 |
| lodging and
meals while in attendance at sessions
of the | 34 |
| General Assembly before January 9, 1985; beginning January 9,
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| 1985, such food and lodging allowance shall be equal to the | 36 |
| amount per day
permitted to be deducted for such expenses under |
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| the Internal Revenue Code;
however, beginning May 31, 1995, no | 2 |
| allowance for food and lodging while in
attendance at sessions | 3 |
| is authorized for periods of time after the last day in
May of | 4 |
| each calendar year, except (i) if the General Assembly is | 5 |
| convened in
special session by either the Governor or the | 6 |
| presiding officers of both
houses, as provided by subsection | 7 |
| (b) of Section 5 of Article IV of the
Illinois Constitution , in | 8 |
| which case the allowance shall be paid for no more than an | 9 |
| aggregate of 3 days of one or more special sessions per | 10 |
| calendar year, or (ii) if the
General Assembly is convened to | 11 |
| consider bills vetoed, item vetoed, reduced, or
returned with | 12 |
| specific recommendations for change by the Governor as provided
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| in Section 9 of Article IV of the Illinois Constitution.
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| If a member dies having received only a portion of the | 15 |
| amount payable
as compensation, the unpaid balance shall be | 16 |
| paid to the surviving
spouse of such member, or, if there be | 17 |
| none, to the estate of such member.
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| (Source: P.A. 89-405, eff. 11-8-95.)
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| Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | 20 |
| becoming law.
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