93RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2003 and 2004
HB4196

 

Introduced 1/26/2004, by Dave Winters

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
25 ILCS 120/5.5

    Amends the Compensation Review Act. Provides that the cost of living adjustments to the compensation of judges that were approved by the 86th General Assembly are no longer operative. Applies beginning with the next term of office after the bill's effective date. Provides that in any report filed by the Compensation Review Board it may not recommend more than 2 annual cost of living increases for the office of judge.


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FISCAL NOTE ACT MAY APPLY

 

 

A BILL FOR

 

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1     AN ACT concerning compensation of State personnel.
 
2     Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3 represented in the General Assembly:
 
4     Section 5. The Compensation Review Act is amended by
5 changing Section 5.5 as follows:
 
6     (25 ILCS 120/5.5)
7     Sec. 5.5. Cost-of-living adjustments FY03 COLA's
8 prohibited.
9     (a) Notwithstanding any provision of this Act, any other
10 law, or any resolution of the General Assembly to the contrary,
11 members of the General Assembly, judges, other than the county
12 supplement, State's attorneys, other than the county
13 supplement, the elected constitutional officers of State
14 government, and certain appointed officers of State
15 government, including members of State departments, agencies,
16 boards, and commissions whose annual compensation is
17 determined by the Board, are prohibited from receiving and
18 shall not receive any increase in compensation based on a cost
19 of living adjustment, as authorized by Senate Joint Resolution
20 192 of the 86th General Assembly, for or during the fiscal year
21 beginning July 1, 2002.
22     (b) For terms of office of judges to which this subsection
23 applies, the cost of living increase authorized by Senate Joint
24 Resolution 192 of the 86th General Assembly is no longer
25 operative. There shall be no cost of living increase for those
26 terms unless recommended in a report filed by the Board in 2004
27 or thereafter and not disapproved or reduced by the General
28 Assembly as provided in Section 5. In any report filed by the
29 Board, it may not recommend more than 2 annual cost of living
30 increases for the office of judge. This subsection applies
31 beginning with the next term of office occurring after the
32 effective date of this amendatory Act of the 93rd General

 

 

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1 Assembly. This subsection is not intended to
2 unconstitutionally reduce in mid-term the compensation of any
3 judge.
4 (Source: P.A. 92-607, eff. 6-28-02.)