SB1655 94TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

LRB094 11262 RSP 42027 b

94TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2005 and 2006
SB1655

Introduced 2/24/2005, by Sen. Christine Radogno

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:

30 ILCS 105/8h
30 ILCS 105/8j

Amends the State Finance Act. Provides that the Governor may, through June 30, 2005 (now, June 30, 2007), direct the State Treasurer and Comptroller to transfer a specified sum from any fund held by the State Treasurer to the General Revenue Fund in order to help defray the State's operating costs for the fiscal year. Provides that no transfers may be made in this manner after June 30, 2005. On January 1, 2006, or as soon as may be practical after than date, the State Treasurer and the Comptroller shall reverse all transfers previously made under this authority unless the General Assembly has specifically authorized the transfers prior to that date. Places the same restrictions and requires the same reverse transfers with respect to the allocation and transfer of amounts generated by certain new and increased fees. Effective immediately.

FISCAL NOTE ACT MAY APPLY

A BILL FOR

AN ACT concerning finance.

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

Section 5. The State Finance Act is amended by changing Sections 8h and 8j as follows:

(30 ILCS 105/8h)

Sec. 8h. Transfers to General Revenue Fund.

(a) Except as provided in subsection (b), notwithstanding any other State law to the contrary, the Governor may, through June 30, 2005 2007, from time to time direct the State Treasurer and Comptroller to transfer a specified sum from any fund held by the State Treasurer to the General Revenue Fund in order to help defray the State's operating costs for the fiscal year. The total transfer under this Section from any fund in any fiscal year shall not exceed the lesser of (i) 8% of the revenues to be deposited into the fund during that fiscal year or (ii) an amount that leaves a remaining fund balance of 25% of the July 1 fund balance of that fiscal year. In fiscal year 2005 only, prior to calculating the July 1, 2004 final balances, the Governor may calculate and direct the State Treasurer with the Comptroller to transfer additional amounts determined by applying the formula authorized in Public Act 93-839 to the funds balances on July 1, 2003. No transfer may be made from a fund under this Section that would have the effect of reducing the available balance in the fund to an amount less than the amount remaining unexpended and unreserved from the total appropriation from that fund estimated to be expended for that fiscal year. This Section does not apply to any funds that are restricted by federal law to a specific use, to any funds in the Motor Fuel Tax Fund, the Hospital Provider Fund, the Medicaid Provider Relief Fund, or the Reviewing Court Alternative Dispute Resolution Fund, or to any funds to which subsection (f) of Section 20-40 of the Nursing and Advanced Practice Nursing Act applies. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Section, for fiscal year 2004, the total transfer under this Section from the Road Fund or the State Construction Account Fund shall not exceed the lesser of (i) 5% of the revenues to be deposited into the fund during that fiscal year or (ii) 25% of the beginning balance in the fund. For fiscal year 2005 through fiscal year 2007, no amounts may be transferred under this Section from the Road Fund, the State Construction Account Fund, the Criminal Justice Information Systems Trust Fund, the Wireless Service Emergency Fund, or the Mandatory Arbitration Fund.

In determining the available balance in a fund, the Governor may include receipts, transfers into the fund, and other resources anticipated to be available in the fund in that fiscal year.

The State Treasurer and Comptroller shall transfer the amounts designated under this Section as soon as may be practicable after receiving the direction to transfer from the Governor.

(b) This Section does not apply to any fund established under the Community Senior Services and Resources Act.

(c) No transfers may be made under this Section after June 30, 2005. On January 1, 2006, or as soon as may be practical after than date, the State Treasurer and the Comptroller shall reverse all transfers previously made under the authority of this Section unless the General Assembly has specifically authorized the transfers prior to that date.

(Source: P.A. 93-32, eff. 6-20-03; 93-659, eff. 2-3-04; 93-674, eff. 6-10-04; 93-714, eff. 7-12-04; 93-801, eff. 7-22-04; 93-839, eff. 7-30-04; 93-1054, eff. 11-18-04; 93-1067, eff. 1-15-05.)

(30 ILCS 105/8j)

Sec. 8j. Allocation and transfer of fee receipts to General Revenue Fund. If and only if any one or more of Senate Bills 774, 841, 842, and 1903 of the 93rd General Assembly become law, Notwithstanding any other law to the contrary, through June 30, 2005, additional amounts generated by the new and increased fees created or authorized by Public Acts 93-22, 93-23, 93-24, and 93-32 these amendatory Acts of the 93rd General Assembly this amendatory Act of the 93rd General Assembly and by Senate Bill 774, Senate Bill 841, and Senate Bill 842 of the 93rd General Assembly, if those bills become law, shall be allocated between the fund otherwise entitled to receive the fee and the General Revenue Fund by the Governor's Office of Management and Budget Bureau of the Budget. In determining the amount of the allocation to the General Revenue Fund, the Director of the Governor's Office of Management and Budget Bureau of the Budget shall calculate whether the available resources in the fund are sufficient to satisfy the unexpended and unreserved appropriations from the fund for the fiscal year.

In calculating the available resources in a fund, the Director of the Governor's Office of Management and Budget Bureau of the Budget may include receipts, transfers into the fund, and other resources anticipated to be available in the fund in that fiscal year.

Upon determining the amount of an allocation to the General Revenue Fund under this Section, the Director of the Governor's Office of Management and Budget Bureau of the Budget may direct the State Treasurer and Comptroller to transfer the amount of that allocation from the fund in which the fee amounts have been deposited to the General Revenue Fund; provided, however, that the Director shall not direct the transfer of any amount that would have the effect of reducing the available resources in the fund to an amount less than the amount remaining unexpended and unreserved from the total appropriation from that fund for that fiscal year.

The State Treasurer and Comptroller shall transfer the amounts designated under this Section as soon as may be practicable after receiving the direction to transfer from the Director of the Governor's Office of Management and Budget Bureau of the Budget.

After June 30, 2005, no funds may be allocated and transferred under this Section to the General Revenue Fund. On January 1, 2006, or as soon as may be practical after that date, the Treasurer and the Comptroller shall reverse all transfers previously made under the authority of this Section unless the General Assembly has specifically authorized the transfers prior to that date.

(Source: P.A. 93-25, eff. 6-20-03; 93-32, eff. 6-20-03; revised 8-21-03.)

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