Section 600.10  Definitions

 

"General Assembly" − This term shall include the Illinois House of Representatives, the Illinois State Senate, the Clerk of the House, the Secretary of the Senate, committees created by rules of the legislative body, committee chairpersons and spokespersons, legislators and legislative staffs assigned to the leadership and standing committees.

 

"Legislative Agencies" − This term shall include all committees, joint committees, select committees, commissions, boards, councils, bureaus, etc. comprised of any legislative members appointed by the Speaker of the House, President of the Senate or the respective minority leaders that are not covered under the definition for General Assembly or Legislative Support Service Agencies.

 

"Legislative Support Service Agencies" − This term shall mean those agencies as defined by Section 1-3, of the Legislative Commission Reorganization Act of 1984 (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1987, ch. 63, par. 1001.3).

 

"LIS" − This term means the Legislative Information System.

 

"Outside Users" − This term shall include all other government entities, organizations and private persons requesting access to the Legislative computer and information available from the computer except the General Assembly, Legislative Management, Legislative and State agencies.

 

"Report Subscription Users" − This term shall include all users of LIS subscribing to the weekly report service except The General Assembly, Legislative Management, Legislative and State agencies.

 

"State Agencies" − This term shall include Departments, Boards and Commissions of the Executive and Judicial Branches of government who are annually appropriated funds for their operations by the Illinois General Assembly.

 

"System" − This term represents the membership of the Legislative Information System created by "AN ACT in relation to a Legislative Information System" (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1987, ch. 63, par. 42.11 et seq.).

 

(Source:  Amended at 14 Ill. Reg. 12531, effective July 20, 1990)

 

Section 600.20  Priority of Access

 

a)         The Executive Director shall be responsible for the establishment of priority of access wherever necessary, based on the following listing of priority users from highest to lowest priority.

 

1)         General Assembly

 

2)         Legislative Support Service Agencies

 

3)         Legislative Agencies

 

4)         State Agencies

 

5)         Outside Users

 

6)         Report Subscription Users

 

b)         The Executive Director shall assign lower priority, temporarily terminate access or take other suitable action when required to maintain services to the General Assembly and/or Legislative Support Service agencies.

 

c)         Access to non-legislative users shall be granted in such a manner that the quality of service available to the General Assembly, Legislative Support Service Agencies and Legislative Agencies is in no way reduced.

 

(Source:  Amended at 14 Ill. Reg. 12531, effective July 20, 1990)

 

Section 600.30  Access by the General Assembly

 

LIS shall provide access to the programs developed and/or maintained by LIS, develop new programs and applications, provide such technical services as required, conduct such studies and make recommendations as requested and provide the data processing equipment required for the operation of the General Assembly pursuant to appropriations made to the System.

 

Section 600.40  Access by Legislative Support Service Agencies

 

LIS shall provide access to the programs developed and/or maintained by LIS, develop new programs and applications, provide such technical services as required and provide the data processing equipment required for access to the system pursuant to appropriations made to the System.

 

(Source:  Amended at 14 Ill. Reg. 12531, effective July 20, 1990)

 

Section 600.50  Access by Legislative Agencies

 

a)         LIS shall provide access to the programs developed and/or maintained by LIS at no cost and provide such technical services as may be requested.

 

b)         The lease and/or purchase of equipment and the installation of such equipment for accessing the legislative computer will be the responsibility of the legislative agency.

 

c)         LIS shall provide the Legislative agency when requested with lists of equipment compatible with the system for their consideration.  Equipment not included on the list will not be supported by the Legislative Computer facility.

 

d)         Whenever possible, LIS shall maintain master contracts on file and obligation documents to allow Legislative agencies to lease equipment from vendors without the necessity to negotiate individual contracts and will assist agencies in completing leasing arrangements if requested.

 

e)         LIS shall maintain the final approval of equipment to be utilized, the communications access method to be utilized and the applications to be accessed.

 

Section 600.60  Access by State Agencies

 

a)         The Director may provide access to information made available to agencies of state government provided however, that the granting of such access in no way reduces the quality of service available to and required by legislative users.

 

b)         State agencies shall request such access in writing indicating the services it requests to be provided.

 

c)         State agencies requesting access shall provide equipment for that access compatible with the LIS equipment.

 

d)         State agencies shall be responsible for all costs of communicating with the System (e.g., terminal rental and telephone lines), unless this provision is specifically waived by the System.

 

Section 600.70  Access by Outside Users

 

a)         Pursuant to Section 42.16 of "AN ACT in relation to a Legislative Information System", LIS may provide direct access to computer data to private persons, organizations and non-state agencies, and may sell copies of computer data residing on its systems, subject to the provisions specified in Section 600.20.

 

b)         LIS shall, annually, establish a fee for direct access and/or copies of data that shall be based on the State's cost of providing such service or data and may include a provision for a charge based on the usage of the System or other charges incurred by LIS in providing such service and/or data.

 

c)         Charges for direct access shall be governed by the following conditions, which shall also be made part of a standard contract between LIS and Outside Users of the computer data.

 

1)         Access shall be provided by dial-up telephone lines unless other forms of access are specifically approved for an individual paying user of the System.

 

2)         Access will be provided only at times when the computer data is available to its regular legislative users.

 

3)         Paying users of the computer data shall have access to the system via telephones lines shared with other users.

 

4)         Paying users are not to allow third parties to use the accessing capabilities of the computer data, unless this provision is waived by contractual agreement between LIS and the user.

 

5)         LIS will make available reasonable amounts of training in the usage of the computer data at its Springfield office. The costs incurred for training at the user's location or any location outside of Springfield shall be payable by the user.

 

6)         Paying users shall, in addition to the fee charged by LIS, be responsible for all costs of communicating with the System (e.g., terminal rental, telephone line costs).

 

(Source:  Amended at 14 Ill. Reg. 12531, effective July 20, 1990)

 

Section 600.80  Access by Report Subscription Users

 

Based on a calendar year subscription fee established annually by the System, the general public may subscribe to receive reports prepared periodically from the computer data.  The subscription fee shall be based on the costs of printing, postage and handling necessary for the distribution of the reports.

 

(Source:  Amended at 14 Ill. Reg. 12531, effective July 20, 1990)

 

Section 600.85  Copies of the Administrative Code Data Base (Repealed)

 

(Source:  Repealed at 14 Ill. Reg. 12531, effective July 20, 1990)

 

Section 600.90  Billing and Collection of User Fees

 

a)         LIS shall provide access to the computer data based on the completion of the Standard Contract for Access to the System and the payment of the annual fee set by the System.  The fee shall be based on a calendar year and may be prorated by the System.

 

b)         The Report Subscription Service fee shall be based on a calendar year and may be prorated by the System.

 

c)         Failure of a subscriber to reimburse LIS within 90 days of the billing date will result in the termination of service, unless an extension is appropriate.

 

d)         If a monthly charge based on usage is applied the charges will be billed monthly by LIS.

 

e)         The amounts collected shall be paid to the State Treasury for deposit in the State Treasury.

 

(Source:  Amended at 14 Ill. Reg. 12531, effective July 20, 1990)