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90_HB0229enr
25 ILCS 105/1 from Ch. 63, par. 801
25 ILCS 115/4 from Ch. 63, par. 15.1
Amends the Legislative Materials Act. Authorizes the
Clerk of the House, to the extent authorized by House Rules,
to establish a schedule of reasonable fees to be charged to
members for the preparation, filing, and reproduction of
non-substantive resolutions. Amends the General Assembly
Compensation Act to authorize members to pay resolution fees
from their office allowances. Effective immediately.
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1 AN ACT concerning the General Assembly.
2 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3 represented in the General Assembly:
4 Section 5. The Legislative Materials Act is amended by
5 changing Section 1 as follows:
6 (25 ILCS 105/1) (from Ch. 63, par. 801)
7 Sec. 1. Fees.
8 (a) The Clerk of the House of Representatives may
9 establish a schedule of reasonable fees to be charged for
10 providing copies of daily and bound journals, committee
11 documents, committee tape recordings, transcripts of
12 committee proceedings, and committee notices, for providing
13 copies of bills on a continuing or individual basis, and for
14 providing tape recordings and transcripts of floor debates
15 and other proceedings of the House.
16 (b) The Secretary of the Senate may establish a schedule
17 of reasonable fees to be charged for providing copies of
18 daily and bound journals, committee notices, for providing
19 copies of bills on a continuing or individual basis, and for
20 providing tape recordings and transcripts of floor debates
21 and other proceedings of the Senate.
22 (c) The Clerk of the House of Representatives and the
23 Secretary of the Senate may establish a schedule of
24 reasonable fees to be charged for providing live audio of
25 floor debates and other proceedings of the House of
26 Representatives and the Senate. The Clerk and the Secretary
27 shall have complete discretion over the distribution of live
28 audio under this subsection (c), including discretion over
29 the conditions under which live audio shall be distributed,
30 except that live audio shall be distributed to the General
31 Assembly and its staffs. Nothing in this subsection (c)
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1 shall be construed to create an obligation on the part of the
2 Clerk or Secretary to provide live audio to any person or
3 entity other than to the General Assembly and its staffs.
4 (c-5) The Clerk of the House of Representatives, to the
5 extent authorized by the House Rules, may establish a
6 schedule of reasonable fees to be charged to members for the
7 preparation, filing, and reproduction of non-substantive
8 resolutions.
9 (d) Receipts from all fees established under subsections
10 (a), (b), and (c), and (c-5) shall be deposited by the Clerk
11 and the Secretary into the General Assembly Operations
12 Revolving Fund, a special fund in the State treasury. Amounts
13 in the Fund may be appropriated for the operations of the
14 offices of the Clerk of the House of Representatives and the
15 Secretary of the Senate.
16 (Source: P.A. 88-535; 88-656, eff. 9-16-94.)
17 Section 10. The General Assembly Compensation Act is
18 amended by changing Section 4 as follows:
19 (25 ILCS 115/4) (from Ch. 63, par. 15.1)
20 Sec. 4. Office allowance. Beginning July 1, 1989, each
21 member of the House of Representatives is authorized to
22 approve the expenditure of not more than $57,000 $47,000 per
23 year and each member of the Senate is authorized to approve
24 the expenditure of not more than $67,000 $57,000 per year to
25 pay for "personal services", "contractual services",
26 "commodities", "printing", "travel", "operation of automotive
27 equipment", "telecommunications services", as defined in the
28 State Finance Act, and the compensation of one or more
29 legislative assistants authorized pursuant to this Section,
30 in connection with his or her legislative duties and not in
31 connection with any political campaign. A member may
32 purchase office equipment if the member certifies to the
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1 Secretary of the Senate or the Clerk of the House, as
2 applicable, that the purchase price, whether paid in lump sum
3 or installments, amounts to less than would be charged for
4 renting or leasing the equipment over its anticipated useful
5 life. All such equipment must be purchased through the
6 Secretary of the Senate or the Clerk of the House, as
7 applicable, for proper identification and verification of
8 purchase.
9 Each member of the General Assembly is authorized to
10 employ one or more legislative assistants, who shall be
11 solely under the direction and control of that member, for
12 the purpose of assisting the member in the performance of his
13 or her official duties. A legislative assistant may be
14 employed pursuant to this Section either under contract or as
15 a State employee, at the discretion of the member. If
16 employed as a State employee, a legislative assistant shall
17 receive employment benefits on the same terms and conditions
18 that apply to other employees of the General Assembly.
19 As used in this Section the term "personal services"
20 shall include contributions of the State under the Federal
21 Insurance Contribution Act and under Article 14 of the
22 Illinois Pension Code. As used in this Section the
23 term"contractual services" shall not include improvements to
24 real property unless those improvements are the obligation of
25 the lessee under the lease agreement. Beginning July 1, 1989,
26 as used in the Section, the term "travel" shall be limited to
27 travel in connection with a member's legislative duties and
28 not in connection with any political campaign. Beginning
29 July 1, 1989, as used in this Section, the term "printing"
30 includes congratulatory mailings, including but not limited
31 to greeting or welcome messages, anniversary or birthday
32 cards, and congratulations for prominent achievement cards.
33 As used in this Section, the term "printing" includes fees
34 for non-substantive resolutions charged by the Clerk of the
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1 House of Representatives under subsection (c-5) of Section 1
2 of the Legislative Materials Act. Nothing in this Section
3 shall be construed to authorize expenditures for lodging and
4 meals while a member is in attendance at sessions of the
5 General Assembly.
6 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.
10 If a vacancy occurs in the office of Senator or
11 Representative in the General Assembly, any office equipment
12 in the possession of the vacating member shall transfer to
13 the 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
18 Services for treatment as surplus property under the State
19 Property Control Act. Each member, on or before June 30th of
20 each year, shall conduct an inventory of all equipment
21 purchased pursuant to this Act. Such inventory shall be
22 filed with the Secretary of the Senate or the Clerk of the
23 House, as the case may be. Whenever a vacancy occurs, the
24 Secretary of the Senate or the Clerk of the House, as the
25 case may be, shall conduct an inventory of equipment
26 purchased.
27 In the event that a member leaves office during his or
28 her term, any unexpended or unobligated portion of the
29 allowance granted under this Section shall lapse. The
30 vacating member's successor shall be granted an allowance in
31 an amount, rounded to the nearest dollar, computed by
32 dividing the annual allowance by 365 and multiplying the
33 quotient by the number of days remaining in the fiscal year.
34 From any appropriation for the purposes of this Section
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1 for a fiscal year which overlaps 2 General Assemblies, no
2 more than 1/2 of the annual allowance per member may be spent
3 or encumbered by any member of either the outgoing or
4 incoming General Assembly, except that any member of the
5 incoming General Assembly who was a member of the outgoing
6 General Assembly may encumber or spend any portion of his
7 annual allowance within the fiscal year.
8 The appropriation for the annual allowances permitted by
9 this Section shall be included in an appropriation to the
10 President of the Senate and to the Speaker of the House of
11 Representatives for their respective members. The President
12 of the Senate and the Speaker of the House shall voucher for
13 payment individual members' expenditures from their annual
14 office allowances to the State Comptroller, subject to the
15 authority of the Comptroller under Section 9 of the State
16 Comptroller Act.
17 (Source: P.A. 87-1142; 88-656, eff. 9-16-94.)
18 Section 15. The State Paper Purchasing Act is amended by
19 changing Sections 1 and 11 as follows:
20 (30 ILCS 510/1) (from Ch. 127, par. 132.101)
21 Sec. 1. As used in this Act, unless the context
22 otherwise requires: "Department" means the Department of
23 Central Management Services.
24 "Envelopes" means covers which are fabricated or
25 manufactured from paper and are suitable for, or similar in
26 form to items suitable for, use in transmitting materials
27 through the mails. It does not include paper boxes.
28 "Printing paper" and "letter paper" means paper that is
29 normally used in mechanical or manual printing, duplicating
30 or writing, where the principal function or purpose of the
31 resulting product is primarily dependent on the printed or
32 written content.
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1 "State agency" means and includes any State officer,
2 department, institution, hospital, penitentiary, board,
3 bureau, commission or other administrative unit of the State
4 government, but does not include the General Assembly or any
5 of the legislative support services agencies, the Illinois
6 Mathematics and Science Academy, the University of Illinois,
7 Southern Illinois University, Chicago State University,
8 Eastern Illinois University, Governors State University,
9 Illinois State University, Northeastern Illinois University,
10 Northern Illinois University, or Western Illinois University.
11 This amendatory Act of 1997 is declarative of existing
12 law and restates the intent of Public Acts 83-1257 and 88-535
13 that the General Assembly controls all aspects of legislative
14 printing operations and the acquisition of related supplies.
15 "Stationery" means letter paper.
16 (Source: P.A. 89-4, eff. 1-1-96.)
17 (30 ILCS 510/11) (from Ch. 127, par. 132.111)
18 Sec. 11. No State agency may purchase an item covered by
19 this Act without the prior written approval of the Department
20 stating that the terms of the purchase are consistent with
21 this Act.
22 The General Assembly and the legislative support services
23 agencies may, but are not required to, purchase items covered
24 by this Act in accordance with its provisions.
25 (Source: Laws 1965, p. 1992.)
26 Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
27 becoming law.