95TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2007 and 2008
SB0785

 

Introduced 2/8/2007, by Sen. Ira I. Silverstein - Emil Jones, Jr.

 

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

 

 

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1 State Finance Act), the amounts shall be paid under the
2 continuing appropriation for this purpose contained in the
3 State Pension Funds Continuing Appropriation Act.
4     (a-1) Beginning on the effective date of this amendatory
5 Act of the 93rd General Assembly through the payment of the
6 final payroll from fiscal year 2004 appropriations,
7 appropriations for State contributions to the State Employees'
8 Retirement System of Illinois shall be expended in the manner
9 provided in this subsection (a-1). At the time of each payment
10 of salary to an employee under the personal services line item
11 from a fund other than the General Revenue Fund, payment shall
12 be made for deposit into the General Revenue Fund from the
13 amount appropriated for State contributions to the State
14 Employees' Retirement System of an amount calculated at the
15 rate certified for fiscal year 2004 by the Board of Trustees of
16 the State Employees' Retirement System under Section 14-135.08
17 of the Illinois Pension Code. This payment shall be made to the
18 extent that a line item appropriation to an employer for this
19 purpose is available or unexhausted. No payment from
20 appropriations for State contributions shall be made in
21 conjunction with payment of salary to an employee under the
22 personal services line item from the General Revenue Fund.
23     (b) Except during the period beginning on the effective
24 date of this amendatory Act of the 93rd General Assembly and
25 ending at the time of the payment of the final payroll from
26 fiscal year 2004 appropriations, the State Comptroller shall

 

 

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1 not approve for payment any payroll voucher that (1) includes
2 payments of salary to eligible employees in the State
3 Employees' Retirement System of Illinois and (2) does not
4 include the corresponding payment of State contributions to
5 that retirement system at the full rate certified under Section
6 14-135.08 for that fiscal year for eligible employees, unless
7 the balance in the fund on which the payroll voucher is drawn
8 is insufficient to pay the total payroll voucher, or
9 unavailable due to any limitation on appropriations that may
10 apply, including, but not limited to, limitations on
11 appropriations from the Road Fund under Section 8.3 of the
12 State Finance Act. If the State Comptroller approves a payroll
13 voucher under this Section for which the fund balance is
14 insufficient to pay the full amount of the required State
15 contribution to the State Employees' Retirement System, the
16 Comptroller shall promptly so notify the Retirement System.
17 (Source: P.A. 93-665, eff. 3-5-04; 93-1067, eff. 1-15-05.)