Rep. Gary Hannig

Filed: 11/20/2008

 

 


 

 


 
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AMENDMENT TO SENATE BILL 2083

2     AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend Senate Bill 2083, AS AMENDED,
3 by replacing everything after the enacting clause with the
4 following:
 
5     "Section 1. Short title. This Act may be cited as the
6 Emergency Budget Act of Fiscal Year 2009.
 
7     Section 5. Contingency reserves.
8     (a) Notwithstanding any law to the contrary, including the
9 grant of continuing appropriation authority, the Governor may
10 designate the following as contingency reserves:
11         (1) For each executive State agency that is directly
12     responsible to the Governor, an amount no greater than 8%
13     of the total appropriations made from the General Funds to
14     that executive State agency that is directly responsible to
15     the Governor.
16         (2) An amount no greater than 8% of the total

 

 

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1     appropriations of State funds to the State Board of
2     Education. In order to implement the 8% contingency reserve
3     on total appropriations under this subsection (a)(2), the
4     State Board of Education shall designate the specific
5     appropriation lines to be impacted by the contingency
6     reserves and the amount of State funds to hold under each
7     designated appropriation line.
8         (3) An amount no greater than 8% of the total
9     appropriations of State funds for higher education
10     purposes to each agency, board, commission, or university
11     receiving funding for higher education purposes. In order
12     to implement the 8% contingency reserve on total
13     appropriations under this subsection (a)(3), the Board of
14     Higher Education shall designate the specific
15     appropriation lines to be impacted by the contingency
16     reserves and the amount of the State funds to hold under
17     each designated appropriation line.
18         (4) An amount no greater than 8% of the total
19     appropriations of State funds for contributions to the
20     State pension funds established under Articles 2, 14, 15,
21     16, and 18 of the Illinois Pension Code.
22         (5) An amount no greater than 8% of the total transfers
23     otherwise required to be made to the Local Government
24     Distributive Fund under Section 901(b) of the Illinois
25     Income Tax Act.
26     This subsection (a) does not apply to the General

 

 

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1 Obligation Bond Retirement and Interest Fund or to the Build
2 Illinois Bond Retirement and Interest Fund.
3     (b) Amounts designated as a contingency reserve may not be
4 obligated, encumbered, or expended.
5     (c) Any periodic transfers or expenditures must be reduced
6 to accommodate a contingency reserve. Any necessary proration
7 of periodic payments shall be distributed equally among the
8 remaining payments for the fiscal year.
9     (d) In this Section, "executive State agency that is
10 directly responsible to the Governor" means any office,
11 officer, division, or part thereof, and other office,
12 nonelective officer, department, division, bureau, board, or
13 commission in the executive branch of State government, except
14 that it does not apply to any agency whose primary function is
15 service to the General Assembly or the judicial branch of State
16 government, or to any agency administered by the Attorney
17 General, Secretary of State, State Comptroller, or State
18 Treasurer.
19     (e) The Lieutenant Governor, the Attorney General, the
20 Secretary of State, the State Comptroller, and the State
21 Treasurer have the same rights and powers granted the Governor
22 under subsection (a) with respect to those appropriations in
23 each of their respective budgets.
 
24     Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
25 becoming law.".