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| AN ACT concerning State government.
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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 |
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| 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; |
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| public hearings;
reports. The Board shall meet as often as may |
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| be necessary and shall
determine, upon a vote requiring
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| least 7 affirmative votes, the compensation for members of
the |
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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 |
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| 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 |
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| Compensation
Review Board shall consider the following |
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| 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 |
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| comparable states,
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| (e) the value of such services as performed in the |
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| private sector in
Illinois and comparable states based on |
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| the responsibility and discretion
required in the office,
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| (f) the average consumer prices commonly known as the |
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| cost of living,
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| (g) the overall compensation presently received by the |
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| public officials
and all other benefits received,
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| (h) the interests and welfare of the public and the |
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| 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 |
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| 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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| report.
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| At the public hearings, the Board shall allow interested |
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| persons to present
their views and comments. The Board may |
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| prescribe reasonable rules for
the conduct of public hearings, |
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| to prevent undue repetition. The meetings
of the Board are |
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| subject to the Open Meetings Act.
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| The Board shall file an initial report with the House of |
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| Representatives,
the Senate, the Comptroller and the Secretary |
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| of State. Subsequent reports
shall be filed therewith before |
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| March
April 1 in each even-numbered
year thereafter stating the |
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| annual salary for members of the General Assembly,
the elected |
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| State constitutional officers and certain appointed State |
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| officers
and compensated employees and members of certain State |
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| departments, agencies,
boards and commissions whose terms |
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| begin in the next calendar year; the annual
salary for State's |
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| attorneys; and the annual salary for the Auditor General and
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| for Supreme Court, Appellate Court, Circuit Court and Associate |
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| judges. If the
report increases the annual salary of judges, |
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| State's attorneys, and the
Auditor General, such increase shall |
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| take effect as soon as the time period
for disapproval or |
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| reduction, as provided in subsection (b) of Section 5, has
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| expired.
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| The salaries in the report or as reduced by the General |
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| Assembly, other
than for judges, State's attorneys, and the |
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| 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 |
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| provided in subsection (b), and a
new term for any officer |
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| provided for in this Act begins, the salary for
the new term |
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| shall be the same as the salary in effect when the previous |
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| term ended.
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| (b) The General Assembly may disapprove the report of the |
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| Board in
whole, or reduce it in whole proportionately, (i) |
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| within 30 session days after each
house of the legislature next |
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| convenes after the report is filed or (ii) by the May 31st next |
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| occurring after the report is filed, whichever is earlier, by
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| adoption of a resolution by a record vote of the majority of |
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| the members
elected in each house directed to the Board. Such |
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| resolution shall be
binding upon the Board.
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| For the initial report filed by the Board after this Act |
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| takes effect,
the General Assembly may, by January 9,
1985, |
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| disapprove the report of the Board in whole, or reduce it in |
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| whole
proportionately, after the report is filed, by the |
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| adoption of a resolution
by a record vote of the majority of |
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| the members.
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| (Source: P.A. 83-1177.)
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| Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon |
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| becoming law.
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