Full Text of HB4590 098th General Assembly
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| 1 | | AN ACT concerning State government.
| 2 | | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
| 3 | | represented in the General Assembly:
| 4 | | Section 5. The State Comptroller Act is amended by adding | 5 | | Section 26 as follows: | 6 | | (15 ILCS 405/26 new) | 7 | | Sec. 26. Illinois Gives Initiative. | 8 | | (a) The Illinois Gives Initiative is hereby created to | 9 | | provide a mechanism whereby an employee or annuitant may | 10 | | authorize the withholding of a portion of his or her salary, | 11 | | wages, or annuity for payment to Illinois chapters of the | 12 | | American Red Cross whose territories include areas affected by | 13 | | a declaration of disaster issued in accordance with Section 7 | 14 | | of the Emergency Management Act. | 15 | | (b) The initiative shall be administered by the State | 16 | | Comptroller, who is authorized to: | 17 | | (1) develop an electronic mechanism whereby an | 18 | | employee or annuitant may register with the Office of the | 19 | | Comptroller for the withholding to be deducted from the | 20 | | next available scheduled pay period; | 21 | | (2) develop policies and procedures necessary for the | 22 | | efficient transmission of the notification of the | 23 | | withholding under this Section to the employee's Payroll |
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| 1 | | Officer or the annuitant's Retirement Agency; and | 2 | | (3) develop policies and procedures necessary for the | 3 | | efficient distribution of the withholdings under this | 4 | | Section to designated Illinois chapters of the American Red | 5 | | Cross. | 6 | | Section 10. The State Salary and Annuity Withholding Act is | 7 | | amended by changing Section 4 as follows:
| 8 | | (5 ILCS 365/4) (from Ch. 127, par. 354)
| 9 | | Sec. 4. Authorization of withholding. An employee or | 10 | | annuitant may
authorize the withholding of a portion of his | 11 | | salary, wages, or annuity for any
one or more of the following | 12 | | purposes:
| 13 | | (1) for purchase of United States Savings Bonds;
| 14 | | (2) for payment of premiums on life or accident and | 15 | | health insurance
as defined in Section 4 of the "Illinois | 16 | | Insurance Code", approved June
29, 1937, as amended, and | 17 | | for payment of premiums on policies of
automobile insurance | 18 | | as defined in Section 143.13 of the "Illinois
Insurance | 19 | | Code", as amended, and the personal multiperil coverages | 20 | | commonly
known as homeowner's insurance. However, no | 21 | | portion of salaries, wages or
annuities may be withheld to | 22 | | pay premiums on automobile, homeowner's,
life or accident | 23 | | and health insurance policies issued by any one insurance
| 24 | | company or insurance service company unless a minimum of |
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| 1 | | 100 employees or
annuitants insured by that company | 2 | | authorize the withholding by an Office
within 6 months | 3 | | after such withholding begins. If such minimum is not
| 4 | | satisfied the Office may discontinue withholding for such | 5 | | company. For any
insurance company or insurance service | 6 | | company which has not previously had
withholding, the | 7 | | Office may allow withholding for premiums, where less than
| 8 | | 100 policies have been written, to cover a probationary | 9 | | period. An
insurance company which has discontinued | 10 | | withholding may reinstate it upon
presentation of facts | 11 | | indicating new management or re-organization
satisfactory | 12 | | to the Office;
| 13 | | (3) for payment to any labor organization designated by | 14 | | the
employee;
| 15 | | (4) for payment of dues to any association the | 16 | | membership of which
consists of State employees and former | 17 | | State employees;
| 18 | | (5) for deposit in any credit union, in which State | 19 | | employees are within
the field of membership as a result of | 20 | | their employment;
| 21 | | (6) for payment to or for the benefit of an institution | 22 | | of higher
education by an employee of that institution;
| 23 | | (7) for payment of parking fees at the underground | 24 | | facility located
south of the William G. Stratton State | 25 | | Office Building in Springfield, the
parking ramp located at | 26 | | 401 South College Street, west of the William G.
Stratton |
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| 1 | | State Office Building in Springfield, or
at the parking | 2 | | facilities located on the Urbana-Champaign campus of the
| 3 | | University of Illinois;
| 4 | | (8) for voluntary payment to the State of Illinois of | 5 | | amounts then due
and payable to the State;
| 6 | | (9) for investment purchases made as a participant in | 7 | | College Savings
Programs established pursuant to Section | 8 | | 30-15.8a of the School Code;
| 9 | | (10) for voluntary payment to the Illinois Department | 10 | | of Revenue of
amounts due or to become due under the | 11 | | Illinois Income Tax Act;
| 12 | | (11) for payment of optional contributions to a | 13 | | retirement system
subject to the provisions of the Illinois | 14 | | Pension Code;
| 15 | | (12) for contributions to organizations found | 16 | | qualified by the
State Comptroller under the requirements | 17 | | set forth in the Voluntary Payroll
Deductions Act of 1983;
| 18 | | (13) for payment of fringe benefit contributions to | 19 | | employee benefit trust funds (whether such employee | 20 | | benefit trust funds are governed by the Employee Retirement | 21 | | Income Security Act of 1974, as amended, 29 U.S.C. §1001 et | 22 | | seq. or not) for State contractual employees hired through | 23 | | labor organizations and working pursuant to a signed | 24 | | agreement between a labor organization and a State agency, | 25 | | whether subject to the Illinois Prevailing Wage Act or not; | 26 | | this item (13) is not intended to limit employee benefit |
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| 1 | | trust funds and the contributions to be made thereto to be | 2 | | limited to those which are encompassed for purposes of | 3 | | computing the prevailing wage in any particular locale, but | 4 | | rather such employee benefit trusts are intended to include | 5 | | contributions to be made to such funds that are intended to | 6 | | assist in training, building and maintenance, industry | 7 | | advancement, and the like, including but not limited to | 8 | | those benefit trust funds such as pension and welfare that | 9 | | are normally computed in the prevailing wage rates and | 10 | | which otherwise would be subject to contribution | 11 | | obligations by private employers that are signatory to | 12 | | agreements with labor organizations ; . | 13 | | (14) for voluntary payment as part of the Illinois | 14 | | Gives Initiative under Section 26 of the State Comptroller | 15 | | Act.
| 16 | | (Source: P.A. 94-541, eff. 1-1-06.)
| 17 | | Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | 18 | | becoming law. |
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