94TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2005 and 2006
HB3273

 

Introduced 2/22/2005, by Rep. Tom Cross

 

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,
3 represented in the General Assembly:
 
4     Section 5. The State Finance Act is amended by changing
5 Section 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
8 the State Employees' Retirement System; payroll requirements.
9     (a) Appropriations for State contributions to the State
10 Employees' Retirement System of Illinois shall be expended in
11 the manner provided in this Section. Except as otherwise
12 provided in subsection (a-1), at the time of each payment of
13 salary to an employee under the personal services line item,
14 payment shall be made to the State Employees' Retirement
15 System, from the amount appropriated for State contributions to
16 the State Employees' Retirement System, of an amount calculated
17 at the rate certified for the applicable fiscal year by the
18 Board of Trustees of the State Employees' Retirement System
19 under Section 14-135.08 of the Illinois Pension Code. If a line
20 item appropriation to an employer for this purpose is exhausted
21 or is unavailable due to any limitation on appropriations that
22 may apply, (including, but not limited to, limitations on
23 appropriations from the Road Fund under Section 8.3 of the
24 State Finance Act), the amounts shall be paid under the
25 continuing appropriation for this purpose contained in the
26 State Pension Funds Continuing Appropriation Act.
27     (a-1) Beginning on the effective date of this amendatory
28 Act of the 93rd General Assembly through the payment of the
29 final payroll from fiscal year 2004 appropriations,
30 appropriations for State contributions to the State Employees'
31 Retirement System of Illinois shall be expended in the manner
32 provided in this subsection (a-1). At the time of each payment

 

 

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1 of salary to an employee under the personal services line item
2 from a fund other than the General Revenue Fund, payment shall
3 be made for deposit into the General Revenue Fund from the
4 amount appropriated for State contributions to the State
5 Employees' Retirement System of an amount calculated at the
6 rate certified for fiscal year 2004 by the Board of Trustees of
7 the State Employees' Retirement System under Section 14-135.08
8 of the Illinois Pension Code. This payment shall be made to the
9 extent that a line item appropriation to an employer for this
10 purpose is available or unexhausted. No payment from
11 appropriations for State contributions shall be made in
12 conjunction with payment of salary to an employee under the
13 personal services line item from the General Revenue Fund.
14     (b) Except during the period beginning on the effective
15 date of this amendatory Act of the 93rd General Assembly and
16 ending at the time of the payment of the final payroll from
17 fiscal year 2004 appropriations, the State Comptroller shall
18 not approve for payment any payroll voucher that (1) includes
19 payments of salary to eligible employees in the State
20 Employees' Retirement System of Illinois and (2) does not
21 include the corresponding payment of State contributions to
22 that retirement system at the full rate certified under Section
23 14-135.08 for that fiscal year for eligible employees, unless
24 the balance in the fund on which the payroll voucher is drawn
25 is insufficient to pay the total payroll voucher, or
26 unavailable due to any limitation on appropriations that may
27 apply, including, but not limited to, limitations on
28 appropriations from the Road Fund under Section 8.3 of the
29 State Finance Act. If the State Comptroller approves a payroll
30 voucher under this Section for which the fund balance is
31 insufficient to pay the full amount of the required State
32 contribution to the State Employees' Retirement System, the
33 Comptroller shall promptly so notify the Retirement System.
34 (Source: P.A. 93-665, eff. 3-5-04; 93-1067, eff. 1-15-05.)