HB4568 96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

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96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2009 and 2010
HB4568

Introduced 5/21/2009, by Rep. Michael W. Tryon

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:

20 ILCS 405/405-335

If House Bill 35 of the 96th General Assembly becomes law, amends the Department of Central Management Services Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois. Requires that the Illinois Transparency and Accountability Portal include databases of specified information concerning (i) State funds, (ii) members of State executive branch boards, commissions, councils, and committees, and (iii) the budgets of those executive branch entities.

FISCAL NOTE ACT MAY APPLY

A BILL FOR

AN ACT concerning State government.

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

Section 5. If House Bill 35 of the 96th General Assembly becomes law, the Department of Central Management Services Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois is amended by changing Section 405-335 as follows:

(20 ILCS 405/405-335)

Sec. 405-335. Illinois Transparency and Accountability Portal (ITAP).

(a) The Department, within 12 months after the effective date of this amendatory Act of the 96th General Assembly, shall establish and maintain a website, known as the Illinois Transparency and Accountability Portal (ITAP), with a full-time webmaster tasked with compiling and updating the ITAP database with information received from all State agencies as defined in this Section.

(b) For purposes of this Section:

"State agency" means the offices of the constitutional officers identified in Article V of the Illinois Constitution, executive agencies, and departments, boards, commissions, and Authorities under the Governor, and boards, commissions, councils, and committees of the executive branch of State government.

"Contracts" means payment obligations with vendors on file with the Office of the Comptroller to purchase goods and services exceeding $10,000 in value (or, in the case of professional or artistic services, exceeding $5,000 in value).

"Appropriation" means line-item detail of spending approved by the General Assembly and Governor, categorized by object of expenditure.

"Individual consultants" means temporary workers eligible to receive State benefits paid on a State payroll.

"Recipients" means State agencies receiving appropriations.

(c) The ITAP shall provide direct access to each of the following:

(1) A database of all current State employees, and individual consultants, and members of State executive branch boards, commissions, councils, and committees, except sworn law enforcement officers, sorted separately, as applicable, by:

(i) Name.

(ii) Employing State agency that employs the person or of which the person is a member.

(iii) Employing State division.

(iv) Employment position title.

(v) Current pay rate and year-to-date pay, including per diem, stipend, and expense reimbursement or allowance.

(2) A database of all current State expenditures, sorted separately by agency, category, recipient, and Representative District.

(3) A database of all development assistance reportable pursuant to the Corporate Accountability for Tax Expenditures Act, sorted separately by tax credit category, taxpayer, and Representative District.

(4) A database of all revocations and suspensions of State occupation and use tax certificates of registration and all revocations and suspensions of State professional licenses, sorted separately by name, geographic location, and certificate of registration number or license number, as applicable. Professional license revocations and suspensions shall be posted only if resulting from a failure to pay taxes, license fees, or child support.

(5) A database of all current State contracts, sorted separately by contractor name, awarding officer or agency, contract value, and goods or services provided.

(6) A database of the separately enumerated budget, for the current fiscal year, of each independent or quasi-independent board, commission, council, or committee of the executive branch of State government, whether or not under the jurisdiction or control of an executive branch constitutional officer, including (i) an enumeration of all moneys expended on behalf of the board, commission, council, or committee by any State agency or department that has been instructed to provide staff support to that board, commission, council, or committee and (ii) an enumeration, by member name, of the pay, if any, and the expenses, including any per diem, stipend, and expense reimbursement or allowance paid to or on behalf of each member of the board, commission, council, or committee.

(7) A database of separate enumerations for each special fund within the State treasury, including for each fund (i) double-entry information, including transfers into and transfers from the fund, (ii) transfers from the fund for purposes other than the fund's enumerated purpose, such as fund sweeps, which must be flagged, and (iii) if the fund is invested in an interest-bearing account or otherwise invested, a description of the way the fund is invested and the performance of the investment on a year-to-year basis.

(d) The ITAP shall include all information required to be published by subsection (c) of this Section that is available to the Department in a format the Department can compile and publish on the ITAP. The Department shall update the ITAP as additional information becomes available in a format that can be compiled and published on the ITAP by the Department.

(e) Each State agency shall cooperate with the Department in furnishing the information necessary for the implementation of this Section within a timeframe specified by the Department.

(Source: 96HB35eng.)

Section 95. No acceleration or delay. Where this Act makes changes in a statute that is represented in this Act by text that is not yet or no longer in effect (for example, a Section represented by multiple versions), the use of that text does not accelerate or delay the taking effect of (i) the changes made by this Act or (ii) provisions derived from any other Public Act.