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| 1 | AN ACT concerning State government.
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| 2 | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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| 3 | represented in the General Assembly:
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| 4 | Section 1. Short title. This Act may be cited as the | ||||||
| 5 | Illinois Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform Act. | ||||||
| 6 | Section 10. Establishment of Commission. | ||||||
| 7 | (a) The Illinois Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and | ||||||
| 8 | Reform is established. The Commission shall consist of 22 | ||||||
| 9 | voting members as follows: 6 members of the Illinois House of | ||||||
| 10 | Representatives, 3 appointed by the Speaker of the House and 3 | ||||||
| 11 | appointed by the House Minority Leader; 6 members of the | ||||||
| 12 | Illinois Senate, 3 appointed by the Senate President and 3 | ||||||
| 13 | appointed by the Senate Minority Leader; 6 members, with no | ||||||
| 14 | more than 4 from the same political party, who shall be | ||||||
| 15 | appointed by the Governor; and 4 public members, one each | ||||||
| 16 | appointed by the Speaker of the House, the House Minority | ||||||
| 17 | Leader, the Senate President, and the Senate Minority Leader. | ||||||
| 18 | Members shall serve without compensation. | ||||||
| 19 | (b) As soon as possible after the effective date of this | ||||||
| 20 | Act, the Commission shall meet. | ||||||
| 21 | (c) The Commission shall be provided assistance and | ||||||
| 22 | necessary staff support services by the Commission on | ||||||
| 23 | Government Forecasting and Accountability and the Governor's | ||||||
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| 1 | Office of Management and Budget. | ||||||
| 2 | Section 15. Purposes of Commission. The purpose of the | ||||||
| 3 | Commission is to make recommendations to assist the State in | ||||||
| 4 | reducing State spending and to balance the State's budget in | ||||||
| 5 | order to improve the State's long-term fiscal stability. The | ||||||
| 6 | Commission's recommendations must focus on the following | ||||||
| 7 | areas: | ||||||
| 8 | (1) discretionary State spending, | ||||||
| 9 | (2) State tax reform and simplification, | ||||||
| 10 | (3) cost containment in publicly-financed health care, | ||||||
| 11 | (4) specific areas in which State agencies could be | ||||||
| 12 | required to reduce expenditures, | ||||||
| 13 | (5) State budget and accounting practices, and | ||||||
| 14 | (6) measures to reform the actuarial status of | ||||||
| 15 | State-managed pension systems. | ||||||
| 16 | Section 20. Report. Within 60 days after the effective date | ||||||
| 17 | of this Act, the Commission must vote on its recommendations | ||||||
| 18 | and submit a report to the Governor and the General Assembly. | ||||||
| 19 | If the Commission adopts the report by a three-fifths vote, | ||||||
| 20 | then the General Assembly must, within 14 days after the report | ||||||
| 21 | is filed by the Commission, vote on whether to accept the | ||||||
| 22 | report by the adoption of a resolution by a record vote of a | ||||||
| 23 | majority of the members elected in each house. If the General | ||||||
| 24 | Assembly is not in session on the day that the report is filed, | ||||||
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| 1 | then the General Assembly must vote on whether to accept the | ||||||
| 2 | report within 14 days after the General Assembly convenes for | ||||||
| 3 | the first time after the report is filed. | ||||||
| 4 | The Commission is abolished on the day after the report is | ||||||
| 5 | submitted to the Governor and the General Assembly.
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| 6 | Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | ||||||
| 7 | becoming law.
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