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:

25 ILCS 120/4	from Ch. 63, par. 904
25 ILCS 120/5	from Ch. 63, par. 905

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.

FISCAL NOTE ACT MAY APPLY

A BILL FOR

AN ACT concerning compensation.

Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly:

Section 5. The Compensation Review Act is amended by changing Sections 4 and 5 as follows:

(25 ILCS 120/4) (from Ch. 63, par. 904)

Sec. 4. Meetings of the Board; determining compensation; public hearings; reports. The Board shall meet as often as may be necessary and shall determine, upon a vote requiring at least 7 affirmative votes, the compensation for members of the General Assembly, judges, other than the county supplement, State's attorneys, other than the county supplement, the elected constitutional officers of State government, and certain appointed officers of State government.

In determining the compensation for each office, the Compensation Review Board shall consider the following factors:

(a) the skill required,

(b) the time required,

(c) the opportunity for other earned income,

(d) the value of public services as performed in comparable states,

(e) the value of such services as performed in the private sector in Illinois and comparable states based on the responsibility and discretion required in the office,

(f) the average consumer prices commonly known as the cost of living,

(g) the overall compensation presently received by the public officials and all other benefits received,

(h) the interests and welfare of the public and the financial ability of the State to meet those costs, and

(i) such other factors, not confined to the foregoing, which are normally or traditionally taken into consideration in the determination of such compensation.

The Board shall conduct public hearings prior to filing its reports report.

At the public hearings, the Board shall allow interested persons to present their views and comments. The Board may prescribe reasonable rules for the conduct of public hearings, to prevent undue repetition. The meetings of the Board are subject to the Open Meetings Act.

The Board shall file its reports an initial report with the House of Representatives, the Senate, the Comptroller, and the Secretary of State. Subsequent reports shall be filed therewith before April 1 in each even-numbered year. One report shall state thereafter stating the annual salary for members of the General Assembly, the elected State constitutional officers and certain appointed State officers and compensated employees and members of certain State departments, agencies, boards and commissions whose terms begin in the next calendar year; the annual salary for State's attorneys; and the annual salary for the Auditor General. The annual salary and for Supreme Court, Appellate Court, Circuit Court, and Associate judges shall be stated in a separate report. If the report increases the annual salary of judges, State's attorneys, and the Auditor General, such increase shall take effect as soon as the time period for disapproval or reduction, as provided in subsection (b) of Section 5, has expired. If the report recommends an increase in the annual salary of judges, that increase shall not take effect unless approved as provided in subsection (c) of Section 5.

The salaries in the report or as reduced by the General Assembly, other than for judges, State's attorneys, and the Auditor General, shall take effect as provided by law.

(Source: P.A. 90-375, eff. 8-14-97; 91-798, eff. 7-9-00.)

(25 ILCS 120/5) (from Ch. 63, par. 905)

Sec. 5. (a) If the Board fails to recommend a change in salary or the General Assembly disapproves the report as provided in subsection (b) or fails to approve a report as provided in subsection (c), and a new term for any officer provided for in this Act begins, the salary for the new term shall be the same as the salary in effect when the previous term ended.

(b) Except with respect to the salaries of judges, the The General Assembly may disapprove the report of the Board in whole, or reduce it in whole proportionately, within 30 session days after each house of the legislature next convenes after the report is filed, by adoption of a resolution by a record vote of the majority of the members elected in each house directed to the Board. Such resolution shall be binding upon the Board.

(c) With respect to the salaries of judges, the General Assembly may approve the report of the Board in whole, or as reduced in whole proportionately, within 30 session days after each house of the legislature next convenes after a report concerning salaries of judges is filed, by adoption of a resolution by a record vote of the majority of the members elected in each house directed to the Board. If the General Assembly does not so approve a report concerning salaries of judges, the recommendations of the Board do not take effect. The action or non-action of the General Assembly is binding upon the Board.

For the initial report filed by the Board after this Act takes effect, the General Assembly may, by January 9, 1985, disapprove the report of the Board in whole, or reduce it in whole proportionately, after the report is filed, by the adoption of a resolution by a record vote of the majority of the members.

(Source: P.A. 83-1177.)

Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon becoming law.