Full Text of HB4319 93rd General Assembly
HB4319 93RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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93RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2003 and 2004 HB4319
Introduced 02/02/04, by William B. Black SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED: |
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25 ILCS 120/4 |
from Ch. 63, par. 904 |
25 ILCS 120/5 |
from Ch. 63, par. 905 |
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Amends the Compensation Review Act. Provides that the Board must file a separate report concerning the salaries of judges. Provides that the recommendations of the Board concerning salaries of judges do not take effect unless approved by record vote of a majority of the members elected to each house of the General Assembly within 30 session days after the report is filed. Effective immediately.
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A BILL FOR
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LRB093 18550 RCE 44271 b |
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| AN ACT concerning compensation.
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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 Compensation Review Act is amended by | 5 |
| changing Sections 4 and 5 as follows:
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| (25 ILCS 120/4) (from Ch. 63, par. 904)
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| Sec. 4. Meetings of the Board; determining compensation; | 8 |
| public hearings;
reports. The Board shall meet as often as may | 9 |
| be necessary and shall
determine, upon a vote requiring
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| least 7 affirmative votes, the compensation for members of
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| General Assembly, judges, other than the county supplement,
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| State's attorneys, other than the county supplement, the | 13 |
| elected
constitutional officers of State government, and
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| certain appointed officers of State government.
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| In determining the compensation for each office, the | 16 |
| Compensation
Review Board shall consider the following | 17 |
| factors:
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| (a) the skill required,
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| (b) the time required,
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| (c) the opportunity for other earned income,
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| (d) the value of public services as performed in | 22 |
| comparable states,
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| (e) the value of such services as performed in the | 24 |
| private sector in
Illinois and comparable states based on | 25 |
| the responsibility and discretion
required in the office,
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| (f) the average consumer prices commonly known as the | 27 |
| cost of living,
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| (g) the overall compensation presently received by the | 29 |
| public officials
and all other benefits received,
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| (h) the interests and welfare of the public and the | 31 |
| financial ability of
the State to meet those costs, and
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| (i) such other factors, not confined to the foregoing, |
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| which are
normally or traditionally taken into | 2 |
| consideration in the determination of
such compensation.
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| The Board shall conduct public hearings prior to filing its
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| reports
report .
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| At the public hearings, the Board shall allow interested | 6 |
| persons to present
their views and comments. The Board may | 7 |
| prescribe reasonable rules for
the conduct of public hearings, | 8 |
| to prevent undue repetition. The meetings
of the Board are | 9 |
| subject to the Open Meetings Act.
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| The Board shall file its reports
an initial report with the | 11 |
| House of Representatives,
the Senate, the Comptroller , and the | 12 |
| Secretary of State . Subsequent reports
shall be filed therewith
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| before April 1 in each even-numbered
year . One report shall | 14 |
| state
thereafter stating the annual salary for members of the | 15 |
| General Assembly,
the elected State constitutional officers | 16 |
| and certain appointed State officers
and compensated employees | 17 |
| and members of certain State departments, agencies,
boards and | 18 |
| commissions whose terms begin in the next calendar year; the | 19 |
| annual
salary for State's attorneys; and the annual salary for | 20 |
| the Auditor General . The annual salary
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for Supreme Court, | 21 |
| Appellate Court, Circuit Court , and Associate judges shall be | 22 |
| stated in a separate report . If the
report increases the | 23 |
| annual salary of judges, State's attorneys , and the
Auditor | 24 |
| General, such increase shall take effect as soon as the time | 25 |
| period
for disapproval or reduction, as provided in subsection | 26 |
| (b) of Section 5, has
expired. If the report recommends an | 27 |
| increase in the annual salary of judges, that increase shall | 28 |
| not take effect unless approved as provided in subsection (c) | 29 |
| of Section 5.
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| The salaries in the report or as reduced by the General | 31 |
| Assembly, other
than for judges, State's attorneys , and the | 32 |
| Auditor General, shall take
effect as provided by law.
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| (Source: P.A. 90-375, eff. 8-14-97; 91-798, eff. 7-9-00.)
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| (25 ILCS 120/5) (from Ch. 63, par. 905)
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| Sec. 5. (a) If the Board fails to recommend a change in |
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| salary or the
General Assembly disapproves the report as | 2 |
| provided in subsection (b) or fails to approve a report as | 3 |
| provided in subsection (c) , and a
new term for any officer | 4 |
| provided for in this Act begins, the salary for
the new term | 5 |
| shall be the same as the salary in effect when the previous | 6 |
| term ended.
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| (b) Except with respect to the salaries of judges, the
The
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| General Assembly may disapprove the report of the Board in
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| whole, or reduce it in whole proportionately, within 30 session | 10 |
| days after each
house of the legislature next convenes after | 11 |
| the report is filed, by
adoption of a resolution by a record | 12 |
| vote of the majority of the members
elected in each house | 13 |
| directed to the Board. Such resolution shall be
binding upon | 14 |
| the Board.
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| (c) With respect to the salaries of judges, the General | 16 |
| Assembly may approve the report of the Board in whole, or as | 17 |
| reduced in whole proportionately, within 30 session days after | 18 |
| each house of the legislature next convenes after a report | 19 |
| concerning salaries of judges is filed, by adoption of a | 20 |
| resolution by a record vote of the majority of the members | 21 |
| elected in each house directed to the Board. If the General | 22 |
| Assembly does not so approve a report concerning salaries of | 23 |
| judges, the recommendations of the Board do not take effect. | 24 |
| The action or non-action of the General Assembly is binding | 25 |
| upon the Board.
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| For the initial report filed by the Board after this Act | 27 |
| takes effect,
the General Assembly may, by January 9,
1985, | 28 |
| disapprove the report of the Board in whole, or reduce it in | 29 |
| whole
proportionately, after the report is filed, by the | 30 |
| adoption of a resolution
by a record vote of the majority of | 31 |
| the members.
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| (Source: P.A. 83-1177.)
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| Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | 34 |
| becoming law.
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