Rep. Gary Hannig

Filed: 11/19/2008

 

 


 

 


 
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AMENDMENT TO SENATE BILL 2083

2     AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend Senate Bill 2083, AS AMENDED,
3 by replacing everything after the enacting clause with the
4 following:
 
5     "Section 1. Short title. This Act may be cited as the
6 Emergency Budget Act of Fiscal Year 2009.
 
7     Section 5. Contingency reserves.
8     (a) Notwithstanding any law to the contrary, including the
9 grant of continuing appropriation authority, the Governor may
10 designate the following as contingency reserves:
11         (1) For each executive State agency that is directly
12     responsible to the Governor, an amount no greater than 8%
13     of the total appropriations made from the General Funds to
14     that executive State agency that is directly responsible to
15     the Governor.
16         (2) An amount no greater than 8% of the total

 

 

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1     appropriations of State funds to the State Board of
2     Education.
3         (3) An amount no greater than 8% of the total
4     appropriations of State funds for higher education
5     purposes to each agency, board, commission, or university
6     receiving funding for higher education purposes.
7         (4) An amount no greater than 8% of the total
8     appropriations of State funds for contributions to the
9     State pension funds established under Articles 2, 14, 15,
10     16, and 18 of the Illinois Pension Code.
11         (5) An amount no greater than 8% of the total transfers
12     otherwise required to be made to the Local Government
13     Distributive Fund under Section 901(b) of the Illinois
14     Income Tax Act.
15     This subsection (a) does not apply to the General
16 Obligation Bond Retirement and Interest Fund or to the Build
17 Illinois Bond Retirement and Interest Fund.
18     (b) Amounts designated as a contingency reserve may not be
19 obligated, encumbered, or expended.
20     (c) Any periodic transfers or expenditures must be reduced
21 to accommodate a contingency reserve. Any necessary proration
22 of periodic payments shall be distributed equally among the
23 remaining payments for the fiscal year.
24     (d) In this Section, "executive State agency that is
25 directly responsible to the Governor" means any office,
26 officer, division, or part thereof, and other office,

 

 

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1 nonelective officer, department, division, bureau, board, or
2 commission in the executive branch of State government, except
3 that it does not apply to any agency whose primary function is
4 service to the General Assembly or the judicial branch of State
5 government, or to any agency administered by the Attorney
6 General, Secretary of State, State Comptroller, or State
7 Treasurer.
8     (e) The Lieutenant Governor, the Attorney General, the
9 Secretary of State, the State Comptroller, and the State
10 Treasurer have the same rights and powers granted the Governor
11 under subsection (a) with respect to those appropriations in
12 each of their respective budgets.
 
13     Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
14 becoming law.".