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| 1 | | AMENDMENT TO HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION 45
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| 2 | | AMENDMENT NO. ___. Amend House Joint Resolution 45 by |
| 3 | | replacing everything after the heading with the following:
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| 4 | | "WHEREAS, The Illinois House of Representatives has |
| 5 | | established prudent fiscal parameters for the
State budget with |
| 6 | | House Resolution 110, which required the House Revenue & |
| 7 | | Finance Committee to set the total amount
of general fund |
| 8 | | expenses for Fiscal Year 2012, and House Resolution 158, which |
| 9 | | required that any amount of additional State revenue be used to |
| 10 | | pay the
backlog of unpaid State obligations rather than being |
| 11 | | spent on more State services; and
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| 12 | | WHEREAS, The Illinois House of Representatives passed the |
| 13 | | two fiscally responsible
resolutions by a vote of 112-0-0 for |
| 14 | | House Resolution 110 and 114-0-2 for House Resolution 158, |
| 15 | | respectively; and
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| 1 | | WHEREAS, The Illinois House of Representatives established |
| 2 | | prudent fiscal parameters for the
State budget with House |
| 3 | | Resolution 707, which required the House Revenue & Finance |
| 4 | | Committee to set the total amount
of general fund expenses for |
| 5 | | Fiscal Year 2013, and House Resolution 706, which required that |
| 6 | | any amount of additional State revenue be used to pay the
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| 7 | | backlog of unpaid State obligations rather than being spent on |
| 8 | | more State services; and
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| 9 | | WHEREAS, The Illinois House of Representatives passed the |
| 10 | | two fiscally responsible
resolutions by a vote of 93-11-5 for |
| 11 | | House Resolution 707 and 91-16-3 for House Resolution 706, |
| 12 | | respectively; and
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| 13 | | WHEREAS, The Illinois House and the Illinois Senate passed |
| 14 | | several State budget bills that held spending under the House |
| 15 | | Revenue & Finance Committee's State revenue estimate; and
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| 16 | | WHEREAS, The State of Illinois would have paid employees |
| 17 | | represented by the American Federation of State, County, and |
| 18 | | Municipal Employees (AFSCME) an estimated $2,762,956,700 in |
| 19 | | all funds for payroll costs before the House of Representatives |
| 20 | | and the Senate reduced the budget for Fiscal Year 2012; and
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| 21 | | WHEREAS, The Cost of Living Allowance (COLA) for employees |
| 22 | | represented by the American Federation of State, County, and |
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| 1 | | Municipal Employees (AFSCME) has averaged an increase of 4.25% |
| 2 | | over the past 5 fiscal years; and
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| 3 | | WHEREAS, The Consumer Price Index has averaged an increase |
| 4 | | of 1.95% from the years 2007 to 2010; therefore, be it
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| 5 | | RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE |
| 6 | | NINETY-SEVENTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, THE |
| 7 | | SENATE CONCURRING HEREIN, that the State shall appropriate no |
| 8 | | amount for
new wage increases associated with any and all |
| 9 | | collectively bargained contracts throughout State
government |
| 10 | | for the Fiscal Year 2013 budget; and be it further
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| 11 | | RESOLVED, That it shall be the policy of the State of |
| 12 | | Illinois that the size of, or a reduction in, the State |
| 13 | | employee workforce shall not be a topic of collective |
| 14 | | bargaining.". |