98TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2013 and 2014
HB4590

 

Introduced , by Rep. Chad Hays

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
15 ILCS 405/26 new
5 ILCS 365/4  from Ch. 127, par. 354

    Amends the State Comptroller Act. Creates the Illinois Gives Initiative, whereby an employee or annuitant may authorize the withholding of a portion of his or her salary, wages, or annuity for payment to Illinois chapters of the American Red Cross whose territories include areas affected by a declaration of disaster. Authorizes the State Comptroller to develop an electronic mechanism whereby an employee or annuitant may register with the Office of the Comptroller for the withholding to be deducted from the next available scheduled pay period, develop policies and procedures necessary for the efficient transmission of the notification of the withholding under this Section to the employee's Payroll Officer or the annuitant's Retirement Agency, and develop policies and procedures necessary for the efficient distribution of the withholdings under this Section to designated Illinois chapters of the American Red Cross. Makes corresponding changes in the State Salary and Annuity Withholding Act. Effective immediately.


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A BILL FOR

 

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1    AN ACT concerning State government.
 
2    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3represented in the General Assembly:
 
4    Section 5. The State Comptroller Act is amended by adding
5Section 26 as follows:
 
6    (15 ILCS 405/26 new)
7    Sec. 26. Illinois Gives Initiative.
8    (a) The Illinois Gives Initiative is hereby created to
9provide a mechanism whereby an employee or annuitant may
10authorize the withholding of a portion of his or her salary,
11wages, or annuity for payment to Illinois chapters of the
12American Red Cross whose territories include areas affected by
13a declaration of disaster issued in accordance with Section 7
14of the Emergency Management Act.
15    (b) The initiative shall be administered by the State
16Comptroller, who is authorized to:
17        (1) develop an electronic mechanism whereby an
18    employee or annuitant may register with the Office of the
19    Comptroller for the withholding to be deducted from the
20    next available scheduled pay period;
21        (2) develop policies and procedures necessary for the
22    efficient transmission of the notification of the
23    withholding under this Section to the employee's Payroll

 

 

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1    Officer or the annuitant's Retirement Agency; and
2        (3) develop policies and procedures necessary for the
3    efficient distribution of the withholdings under this
4    Section to designated Illinois chapters of the American Red
5    Cross.
 
6    Section 10. The State Salary and Annuity Withholding Act is
7amended by changing Section 4 as follows:
 
8    (5 ILCS 365/4)  (from Ch. 127, par. 354)
9    Sec. 4. Authorization of withholding. An employee or
10annuitant may authorize the withholding of a portion of his
11salary, wages, or annuity for any one or more of the following
12purposes:
13        (1) for purchase of United States Savings Bonds;
14        (2) for payment of premiums on life or accident and
15    health insurance as defined in Section 4 of the "Illinois
16    Insurance Code", approved June 29, 1937, as amended, and
17    for payment of premiums on policies of automobile insurance
18    as defined in Section 143.13 of the "Illinois Insurance
19    Code", as amended, and the personal multiperil coverages
20    commonly known as homeowner's insurance. However, no
21    portion of salaries, wages or annuities may be withheld to
22    pay premiums on automobile, homeowner's, life or accident
23    and health insurance policies issued by any one insurance
24    company or insurance service company unless a minimum of

 

 

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1    100 employees or annuitants insured by that company
2    authorize the withholding by an Office within 6 months
3    after such withholding begins. If such minimum is not
4    satisfied the Office may discontinue withholding for such
5    company. For any insurance company or insurance service
6    company which has not previously had withholding, the
7    Office may allow withholding for premiums, where less than
8    100 policies have been written, to cover a probationary
9    period. An insurance company which has discontinued
10    withholding may reinstate it upon presentation of facts
11    indicating new management or re-organization satisfactory
12    to the Office;
13        (3) for payment to any labor organization designated by
14    the employee;
15        (4) for payment of dues to any association the
16    membership of which consists of State employees and former
17    State employees;
18        (5) for deposit in any credit union, in which State
19    employees are within the field of membership as a result of
20    their employment;
21        (6) for payment to or for the benefit of an institution
22    of higher education by an employee of that institution;
23        (7) for payment of parking fees at the underground
24    facility located south of the William G. Stratton State
25    Office Building in Springfield, the parking ramp located at
26    401 South College Street, west of the William G. Stratton

 

 

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1    State Office Building in Springfield, or at the parking
2    facilities located on the Urbana-Champaign campus of the
3    University of Illinois;
4        (8) for voluntary payment to the State of Illinois of
5    amounts then due and payable to the State;
6        (9) for investment purchases made as a participant in
7    College Savings Programs established pursuant to Section
8    30-15.8a of the School Code;
9        (10) for voluntary payment to the Illinois Department
10    of Revenue of amounts due or to become due under the
11    Illinois Income Tax Act;
12        (11) for payment of optional contributions to a
13    retirement system subject to the provisions of the Illinois
14    Pension Code;
15        (12) for contributions to organizations found
16    qualified by the State Comptroller under the requirements
17    set forth in the Voluntary Payroll Deductions Act of 1983;
18        (13) for payment of fringe benefit contributions to
19    employee benefit trust funds (whether such employee
20    benefit trust funds are governed by the Employee Retirement
21    Income Security Act of 1974, as amended, 29 U.S.C. §1001 et
22    seq. or not) for State contractual employees hired through
23    labor organizations and working pursuant to a signed
24    agreement between a labor organization and a State agency,
25    whether subject to the Illinois Prevailing Wage Act or not;
26    this item (13) is not intended to limit employee benefit

 

 

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1    trust funds and the contributions to be made thereto to be
2    limited to those which are encompassed for purposes of
3    computing the prevailing wage in any particular locale, but
4    rather such employee benefit trusts are intended to include
5    contributions to be made to such funds that are intended to
6    assist in training, building and maintenance, industry
7    advancement, and the like, including but not limited to
8    those benefit trust funds such as pension and welfare that
9    are normally computed in the prevailing wage rates and
10    which otherwise would be subject to contribution
11    obligations by private employers that are signatory to
12    agreements with labor organizations; .
13        (14) for voluntary payment as part of the Illinois
14    Gives Initiative under Section 26 of the State Comptroller
15    Act.
16(Source: P.A. 94-541, eff. 1-1-06.)
 
17    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
18becoming law.