SB2056 95TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

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95TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2007 and 2008
SB2056

Introduced 2/7/2008, by Sen. M. Maggie Crotty

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:

30 ILCS 105/5.708 new
30 ILCS 105/6z-70 new
30 ILCS 105/8h

Amends the State Finance Act. Creates the Human Services Indexed Cost-of-Doing-Business Fund. Provides for transfers to the fund from GRF. Provides that moneys in the Fund shall be used, subject to appropriation, to provide for all or part of an annual 3% cost of doing business adjustment for purchase of care contracts and grant agreements entered into between (i) the Department of Children and Family Services, the Department of Human Services, the Department of Public Health, the Department of Healthcare and Family Services, the Department on Aging, the Office of the Attorney General, the Department of Corrections, the Department of Juvenile Justice, or the Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity and (ii) a private community-based contractual provider or grantee. Provides that the Fund is not subject to sweeps, administrative charges, or charge-backs. Contains other provisions. Repeals the added provisions on January 1, 2013.

FISCAL NOTE ACT MAY APPLY

A BILL FOR

AN ACT concerning finance.

Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly:

Section 5. The State Finance Act is amended by changing Section 8h and by adding Sections 5.708 and 6z-70 as follows:

(30 ILCS 105/5.708 new)

Sec. 5.708. The Human Services Indexed Cost-Of-Doing-Business Fund.

(30 ILCS 105/6z-70 new)

Sec. 6z-70. The Human Services Indexed Cost-Of-Doing-Business Fund.

(a) The Human Services Indexed Cost-Of-Doing-Business Fund is created as a special fund in the State treasury. Moneys in the Fund may be used only for the purposes of an annual cost-of-doing-business adjustment, as set forth under subsection (c).

(b) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, and in addition to any other amounts appropriated, each State fiscal year, the State Treasurer shall transfer to the Fund, from the General Revenue Fund, the amount of $175,000,000, adjusted annually after the first full fiscal year for which the Fund is established based upon the Employment Cost Index. Moneys received for the purposes of this Section, including, without limitation, transfers, appropriations, and gifts, grants, and awards from any public or private entity must be deposited into the Fund. Any interest earnings that are attributable to moneys in the Fund must be deposited into the Fund.

(c) The moneys in the Fund shall be used, subject to appropriation, to provide for all or part of an annual 3% cost of doing business adjustment for purchase of care contracts and grant agreements entered into between (i) the Department of Children and Family Services, the Department of Human Services, the Department of Public Health, the Department of Healthcare and Family Services, the Department on Aging, the Office of the Attorney General, the Department of Corrections, the Department of Juvenile Justice, or the Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity and (ii) a private community-based contractual provider or grantee.

(d) In any State fiscal year in which the Employment Cost Index immediately preceding the year of the respective increase is 2% or less, no cost of doing business increase will be applied as set forth under subsection (c).

(e) The Fund is not subject to sweeps, administrative charges, or charge-backs, including but not limited to, those authorized under Section 8h of the State Finance Act or any other fiscal or budgetary maneuver that would in any way transfer any funds from the Fund into any other fund of the State.

(f) State agencies listed in subsection (c), for any State fiscal year in which a cost of doing business increase has been applied as set forth under subsection (c), shall report to the Governor and the General Assembly by September 1 of the following fiscal year on the total amount of a cost of doing business increase that was applied by each State agency to private community-based contractual providers or grantees. These reports shall include specific information on the types of private community-based contractual providers or grantees that received a cost of doing business increase and the total amount received. The reports shall be presented by the Director of each State agency listed in subsection (c) or his or her designee to the appropriate Appropriations Committee in the Illinois House of Representatives, as determined by the Speaker of the House, and in the Illinois Senate, as determined by the President of the Senate.

(g) As used in this Section:

"Employment Cost Index" has the meaning set forth in Section 4 of the General Assembly Compensation Act.

"Grant" has the meaning set forth in Section 1-15.42 of the Illinois Procurement Code.

"Purchase of care contract" means a contract between a State officer or agency and a private provider under which rates for services are set in accordance with a formula that takes personnel, supplies, and other allowable costs into account. The term "purchase of care contract" does not include any contract for a provider of medical services.

(h) This Section is repealed on January 1, 2013.

(30 ILCS 105/8h)

Sec. 8h. Transfers to General Revenue Fund.

(a) Except as otherwise provided in this Section and Section 8n of this Act, and notwithstanding any other State law to the contrary, the Governor may, through June 30, 2007, from time to time direct the State Treasurer and Comptroller to transfer a specified sum from any fund held by the State Treasurer to the General Revenue Fund in order to help defray the State's operating costs for the fiscal year. The total transfer under this Section from any fund in any fiscal year shall not exceed the lesser of (i) 8% of the revenues to be deposited into the fund during that fiscal year or (ii) an amount that leaves a remaining fund balance of 25% of the July 1 fund balance of that fiscal year. In fiscal year 2005 only, prior to calculating the July 1, 2004 final balances, the Governor may calculate and direct the State Treasurer with the Comptroller to transfer additional amounts determined by applying the formula authorized in Public Act 93-839 to the funds balances on July 1, 2003. No transfer may be made from a fund under this Section that would have the effect of reducing the available balance in the fund to an amount less than the amount remaining unexpended and unreserved from the total appropriation from that fund estimated to be expended for that fiscal year. This Section does not apply to any funds that are restricted by federal law to a specific use, to any funds in the Motor Fuel Tax Fund, the Intercity Passenger Rail Fund, the Hospital Provider Fund, the Medicaid Provider Relief Fund, the Teacher Health Insurance Security Fund, the Reviewing Court Alternative Dispute Resolution Fund, the Voters' Guide Fund, the Foreign Language Interpreter Fund, the Lawyers' Assistance Program Fund, the Supreme Court Federal Projects Fund, the Supreme Court Special State Projects Fund, the Supplemental Low-Income Energy Assistance Fund, the Good Samaritan Energy Trust Fund, the Low-Level Radioactive Waste Facility Development and Operation Fund, the Horse Racing Equity Trust Fund, the Metabolic Screening and Treatment Fund, or the Hospital Basic Services Preservation Fund, or to any funds to which Section 70-50 of the Nurse Practice Act applies. No transfers may be made under this Section from the Pet Population Control Fund. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Section, for fiscal year 2004, the total transfer under this Section from the Road Fund or the State Construction Account Fund shall not exceed the lesser of (i) 5% of the revenues to be deposited into the fund during that fiscal year or (ii) 25% of the beginning balance in the fund. For fiscal year 2005 through fiscal year 2007, no amounts may be transferred under this Section from the Road Fund, the State Construction Account Fund, the Criminal Justice Information Systems Trust Fund, the Wireless Service Emergency Fund, or the Mandatory Arbitration Fund.

In determining the available balance in a fund, the Governor may include receipts, transfers into the fund, and other resources anticipated to be available in the fund in that fiscal year.

The State Treasurer and Comptroller shall transfer the amounts designated under this Section as soon as may be practicable after receiving the direction to transfer from the Governor.

(a-5) Transfers directed to be made under this Section on or before February 28, 2006 that are still pending on May 19, 2006 (the effective date of Public Act 94-774) shall be redirected as provided in Section 8n of this Act.

(b) This Section does not apply to: (i) the Ticket For The Cure Fund; (ii) any fund established under the Community Senior Services and Resources Act; or (iii) on or after January 1, 2006 (the effective date of Public Act 94-511), the Child Labor and Day and Temporary Labor Enforcement Fund.

(c) This Section does not apply to the Demutualization Trust Fund established under the Uniform Disposition of Unclaimed Property Act.

(d) This Section does not apply to moneys set aside in the Illinois State Podiatric Disciplinary Fund for podiatric scholarships and residency programs under the Podiatric Scholarship and Residency Act.

(e) Subsection (a) does not apply to, and no transfer may be made under this Section from, the Pension Stabilization Fund.

(f) Subsection (a) does not apply to, and no transfer may be made under this Section from, the Illinois Power Agency Operations Fund, the Illinois Power Agency Facilities Fund, the Illinois Power Agency Debt Service Fund, and the Illinois Power Agency Trust Fund.

(g) (f) This Section does not apply to the Veterans Service Organization Reimbursement Fund.

(h) (f) This Section does not apply to the Supreme Court Historic Preservation Fund.

(i) This Section does not apply to the Human Services Indexed Cost-of-Doing-Business Fund.

(Source: P.A. 94-91, eff. 7-1-05; 94-120, eff. 7-6-05; 94-511, eff. 1-1-06; 94-535, eff. 8-10-05; 94-639, eff. 8-22-05; 94-645, eff. 8-22-05; 94-648, eff. 1-1-06; 94-686, eff. 11-2-05; 94-691, eff. 11-2-05; 94-726, eff. 1-20-06; 94-773, eff. 5-18-06; 94-774, eff. 5-19-06; 94-804, eff. 5-26-06; 94-839, eff. 6-6-06; 95-331, eff. 8-21-07; 95-410, eff. 8-24-07; 95-481, eff. 8-28-07; 95-629, eff. 9-25-07; 95-639, eff. 10-5-07; 95-695, eff. 11-5-07; revised 11-2-07.)