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92_HB0741 LRB9205558JMmb 1 AN ACT concerning audits. 2 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, 3 represented in the General Assembly: 4 Section 5. The Illinois State Auditing Act is amended by 5 changing Section 2-8 and adding Sections 3-1B and 3-14A as 6 follows: 7 (30 ILCS 5/2-8) (from Ch. 15, par. 302-8) 8 Sec. 2-8. Deputy Auditor General. 9 (a) There are created 32positions of Deputy Auditor 10 General. Each person appointed as a Deputy Auditor General 11 shall be an officer in the office of Auditor General. Each 12 Deputy Auditor General shall be appointed by the Auditor 13 General, subject to the advice and consent of at least 3/5 of 14 the membership of the Commission. Each Deputy Auditor General 15 shall serve at the pleasure of the Auditor General. One 16 Deputy Auditor General shall be specifically responsible for 17 managing the annual post-audit of public transit agencies in 18 Illinois as provided in Section 3-1B. When appointing this 19 Deputy Auditor General, the Auditor General shall solicit 20 nominations from the public prior to making a nomination to 21 the Legislative Audit Commission and shall ensure that this 22 Deputy Auditor General has experience in managing or 23 evaluating public transit systems. 24 (b) If there are vacancies in allbothoffices of Deputy 25 Auditor General at the same time there is a vacancy in the 26 office of Auditor General, the Commission shall immediately 27 appoint a Deputy Auditor General by a vote of at least 3/5 of 28 its membership. The person so appointed as Deputy Auditor 29 General may, but is not required to, be a certified public 30 accountant. This paragraph does not apply, however, when the 31 former Auditor General is serving as Acting Auditor General -2- LRB9205558JMmb 1 pursuant to Section 2-2. 2 (c) Each Deputy Auditor General shall perform the duties 3 assigned by the Auditor General. 4 (d) The Auditor General shall dismiss a Deputy Auditor 5 General for violation of any provision of Section 2-7. 6 (Source: P.A. 88-504.) 7 (30 ILCS 5/3-1B new) 8 Sec. 3-1B. Audits of public transit agencies. 9 (a) In addition to the regular audits required by this 10 Act, the Auditor General shall conduct an annual post-audit 11 of all public transit agencies receiving State funding. The 12 purposes of these annual audits are: 13 (1) to provide consistent reports of performance 14 by public transit agencies in Illinois; 15 (2) to provide timely and detailed analyses of 16 proposed capital improvement projects at the initiation 17 stage, the design stage, and the point just prior to 18 their inclusion in annual budgets; 19 (3) to provide annual accounting of actual capital 20 spending by project; and 21 (4) to provide a detailed accounting of actual 22 capital spending on completed capital projects, including 23 the details of any variance from the original budget. 24 (b) As soon as practical after the effective date of 25 this amendatory Act of the 92nd General Assembly, the Auditor 26 General shall begin the annual post-audit of the public 27 transit agencies receiving State funding and located outside 28 the urbanized Chicago area, the Regional Transportation 29 Agency (RTA), the Chicago Transit Authority (CTA), Metra, and 30 Pace. The annual post-audit shall: 31 (1) Verify and publish details of any proposed 32 capital improvements where work has been approved or 33 authorized by the public transit agencies receiving State -3- LRB9205558JMmb 1 funding and located outside the urbanized Chicago area, 2 the RTA, the CTA, Metra, or Pace including initial 3 proposals, designs, and proposals prior to their 4 submission for inclusion in the budget of the transit 5 agency subject to the post-audit. 6 (2) Provide an accounting of actual capital 7 spending by project and provide a detailed accounting of 8 actual capital spending on completed capital projects, 9 including the details of any variance from the original 10 budget. 11 (3) Verify and compile in a single report the 12 following information that shall be supplied to the 13 Auditor General by the RTA, the CTA, Metra, and Pace by 14 route or line on a monthly basis unless otherwise 15 specified: 16 (i) On-time performance: the percentage of 17 trips arriving at the last stop within 5 minutes of 18 schedule, with reasons for annulments and the 19 principal causes of delays. 20 (ii) Service regularity: the percentage of 21 actual intervals between trips that are within plus 22 or minus 50% of the scheduled interval (for 23 intervals of less than 10 minutes), or within plus 24 or minus 5 minutes of the scheduled interval (for 25 intervals of 10 minutes or more). 26 (iii) Interruptions in service: the average 27 distance between service interruptions; that is, the 28 number of miles traveled by a vehicle divided by the 29 total number of chargeable "road calls", including 30 mechanical swaps, that interrupt service. 31 (iv) Crowding: one hour passenger volume per 32 vehicle at maximum load points at the a.m. and p.m. 33 rush, reported on a quarterly basis. 34 (v) Capacity utilization: daily passenger load -4- LRB9205558JMmb 1 divided by the rated capacity of the vehicles for 2 the a.m. and p.m. peaks, middays, evenings, 3 Saturdays, and Sundays. 4 (vi) Speeds of buses and trains. 5 (vii) Cleanliness of vehicle interiors. 6 (viii) Presence of correct and legible route 7 or line maps. 8 (ix) Absence of heat or air conditioning and 9 water leaks. 10 (x) Crime statistics. 11 (xi) State of Americans with Disabilities Act 12 compliance by rail lines and, for buses, by garage 13 operated out of with respect to frequency, adequacy, 14 and timeliness. 15 (xii) Annual assessment of service provided by 16 area served, such as community area or suburb, by 17 the service board, with respect to frequency of 18 items (i) through (x). 19 (xiii) Annual assessment of the status of 20 connections between routes of the CTA, Metra, and 21 Pace. 22 (4) Verify and compile in a single report the 23 following information that shall be supplied, as 24 specified, to the Auditor General by public transit 25 agencies receiving State funding and located outside the 26 urbanized Chicago area: 27 (i) On-time performance and the timeliness of 28 paratransit service, supplied on a monthly basis. 29 (ii) The current status of its system's 30 connections between routes, supplied on a quarterly 31 basis. 32 (iii) The hours of service on each route and 33 the additional cost to provide earlier, later, and 34 more frequent service on existing routes, reported -5- LRB9205558JMmb 1 on an annual basis. 2 (iv) An assessment of the public transit needs 3 of its county or transit district, the availability 4 of public transit in its county or transit district, 5 and its capital needs to provide adequate, timely, 6 and efficient service, supplied on an annual basis. 7 (30 ILCS 5/3-14A new) 8 Sec. 3-14A. Reports of public transit agency audits. The 9 Auditor General shall submit his or her audit of all public 10 transit agencies receiving State funding by April 30 each 11 year to the Commission, the General Assembly, and the 12 Governor. The Auditor General by April 30 each year shall 13 create a Registry of Interested Parties to whom summaries of 14 the audit of all public transit agencies shall be 15 disseminated. The Auditor General by April 30 each year 16 shall publish the complete audit of all public transit 17 agencies on a web site created and maintained by the Auditor 18 General. If requested by the General Assembly or any public 19 transit agency, the Auditor General or a designee shall 20 publicly present the results of the audit of public transit 21 agencies at a hearing set up by the General Assembly or by 22 the public transit agency.