102ND GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2021 and 2022
HB1244

 

Introduced 2/17/2021, by Rep. Emanuel Chris Welch

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
30 ILCS 105/14.1  from Ch. 127, par. 150.1

    Amends the State Finance Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the State Employees' Retirement System.


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A BILL FOR

 

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1    AN ACT concerning finance.
 
2    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3represented in the General Assembly:
 
4    Section 5. The State Finance Act is amended by changing
5Section 14.1 as follows:
 
6    (30 ILCS 105/14.1)   (from Ch. 127, par. 150.1)
7    Sec. 14.1. Appropriations for State contributions to the
8State Employees' Retirement System; payroll requirements.
9    (a) Appropriations for State contributions to the the
10State Employees' Retirement System of Illinois shall be
11expended in the manner provided in this Section. Except as
12otherwise provided in subsection (a-4) at the time of each
13payment of salary to an employee under the personal services
14line item, payment shall be made to the State Employees'
15Retirement System, from the amount appropriated for State
16contributions to the State Employees' Retirement System, of an
17amount calculated at the rate certified for the applicable
18fiscal year by the Board of Trustees of the State Employees'
19Retirement System under Section 14-135.08 of the Illinois
20Pension Code. If a line item appropriation to an employer for
21this purpose is exhausted or is unavailable due to any
22limitation on appropriations that may apply, (including, but
23not limited to, limitations on appropriations from the Road

 

 

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1Fund under Section 8.3 of the State Finance Act), the amounts
2shall be paid under the continuing appropriation for this
3purpose contained in the State Pension Funds Continuing
4Appropriation Act.
5    (a-1) (Blank).
6    (a-2) (Blank).
7    (a-3) (Blank).
8    (a-4) In fiscal year 2012 and each fiscal year thereafter,
9at the time of each payment of salary to an employee under the
10personal services line item from a fund other than the General
11Revenue Fund, payment shall be made for deposit into the State
12Employees' Retirement System of Illinois from the amount
13appropriated for State contributions to the State Employees'
14Retirement System of Illinois of an amount calculated at the
15rate certified for the applicable fiscal year by the Board of
16Trustees of the State Employees' Retirement System of Illinois
17under Section 14-135.08 of the Illinois Pension Code. In
18fiscal year 2012 and each fiscal year thereafter, no payment
19from appropriations for State contributions shall be made in
20conjunction with payment of salary to an employee under the
21personal services line item from the General Revenue Fund.
22    (b) Except during the period beginning on March 5, 2004
23(the effective date of Public Act 93-665) and ending at the
24time of the payment of the final payroll from fiscal year 2004
25appropriations, the State Comptroller shall not approve for
26payment any payroll voucher that (1) includes payments of

 

 

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1salary to eligible employees in the State Employees'
2Retirement System of Illinois and (2) does not include the
3corresponding payment of State contributions to that
4retirement system at the full rate certified under Section
514-135.08 for that fiscal year for eligible employees, unless
6the balance in the fund on which the payroll voucher is drawn
7is insufficient to pay the total payroll voucher, or
8unavailable due to any limitation on appropriations that may
9apply, including, but not limited to, limitations on
10appropriations from the Road Fund under Section 8.3 of the
11State Finance Act. If the State Comptroller approves a payroll
12voucher under this Section for which the fund balance is
13insufficient to pay the full amount of the required State
14contribution to the State Employees' Retirement System, the
15Comptroller shall promptly so notify the Retirement System.
16    (b-1) (Blank).
17    (c) Notwithstanding any other provisions of law, beginning
18July 1, 2007, required State and employee contributions to the
19State Employees' Retirement System of Illinois relating to
20affected legislative staff employees shall be paid out of
21moneys appropriated for that purpose to the Commission on
22Government Forecasting and Accountability, rather than out of
23the lump-sum appropriations otherwise made for the payroll and
24other costs of those employees.
25    These payments must be made pursuant to payroll vouchers
26submitted by the employing entity as part of the regular

 

 

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1payroll voucher process.
2    For the purpose of this subsection, "affected legislative
3staff employees" means legislative staff employees paid out of
4lump-sum appropriations made to the General Assembly, an
5Officer of the General Assembly, or the Senate Operations
6Commission, but does not include district-office staff or
7employees of legislative support services agencies.
8(Source: P.A. 100-23, eff. 7-6-17; 100-587, eff. 6-4-18;
9101-10, eff. 6-5-19.)