HB0792 95TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

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95TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2007 and 2008
HB0792

Introduced 2/7/2007, by Rep. Bob Biggins

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:

70 ILCS 2605/5.13

from Ch. 42, par. 324w

Amends the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District Act. Provides that the annual financial report for the District shall contain financial information required by generally accepted accounting principles for governments (instead of other specified information). Effective immediately.

A BILL FOR

AN ACT concerning special districts.

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

Section 5. The Metropolitan Water Reclamation District Act is amended by changing Section 5.13 as follows:

(70 ILCS 2605/5.13) (from Ch. 42, par. 324w)

Sec. 5.13. The clerk shall prepare on or before the first (1st) day of July of each year after the year 1943, an annual financial report which shall contain financial information required by generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) for governments. at least the following information:

(1) A separate balance sheet for each fund of the district showing the assets and liabilities in sufficient detail to indicate the true financial condition of each of the several funds.

(2) A combined balance sheet indicating the true financial condition of the district as a whole.

(3) Statements of income and expense for each fund of the district; such statement shall indicate income by sources, and expenses by functions (activities), organization units and objects.

(4) For each fund of the district a statement of cash receipts by sources compared with the estimated receipts for the year under review and a condensed statement of cash disbursements.

(5) An analysis of surplus statement for each fund of the district, such statement shall show the amount of the surplus at the beginning of the year, the changes during the year in sufficient detail to indicate the specific composition thereof, and the amount of the surplus at the end of the year.

(6) For each fund a statement for the budget year of expenditures and encumbrances by organization units, objects and functions (activities), showing the amounts appropriated, the amounts transferred during that year, adjusted appropriations, the amounts disbursed, the balance not disbursed, the amounts encumbered, the total disbursed and encumbered and the unencumbered balance in each item of appropriation in the budget for that year.

(7) An analysis of net taxes receivable by tax years for each of the tax levies for five years next preceding the budget year.

(8) Such additional tables, charts, graphs, or other statistical material as may be deemed desirable by the clerk.

Provided, however, that the statements to be prepared for 1943 and prior years, where the accounts have not been kept on the basis herein prescribed, shall be compiled on the presently used basis of accounting and compiled as nearly as practicable as herein prescribed.

Copies of the annual financial report shall be made conveniently available in the office of the Sanitary District to the public and shall be issued to any person upon payment of a reasonable amount therefor. Nothing in this section shall be construed to mean that the annual financial report may not be combined with the annual audit report and the two published simultaneously as one report.

(Source: Laws 1943, vol. 1, p. 599.)

Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon becoming law.