Public Act 098-0700
 
HB4590 EnrolledLRB098 17439 OMW 52540 b

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