SB0189 102ND GENERAL ASSEMBLY

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102ND GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2021 and 2022
SB0189

Introduced 2/9/2021, by Sen. Suzy Glowiak Hilton

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:

30 ILCS 500/25-55
30 ILCS 500/55-20

Amends the Illinois Procurement Code. Strikes a provision requiring the Department of Central Management Services to report to the General Assembly on specified annual reports produced by each State agency. Provides that each State agency that purchases food through a contract procured in accordance with the Code shall adopt a policy that permits the donation of leftover food purchased with State funds. Effective immediately.

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 Illinois Procurement Code is amended by changing Sections 25-55 and 55-20 as follows:

(30 ILCS 500/25-55)

Sec. 25-55. Annual reports. Every printed annual report produced by a State agency shall bear a statement indicating whether it was printed by the State of Illinois or by contract and indicating the printing cost per copy and the number of copies printed. The Department of Central Management Services shall prepare and submit to the General Assembly on the fourth Wednesday of January in each year a report setting forth with respect to each State agency for the calendar year immediately preceding the calendar year in which the report is filed the total quantity of annual reports printed, the total cost, and the cost per copy and the cost per page of the annual report of the State agency printed during the calendar year covered by the report.

(Source: P.A. 90-572, eff. date - See Sec. 99-5.)

(30 ILCS 500/55-20)

Sec. 55-20. Contracts for food donation; food donation policy.

(a) After the effective date of this amendatory Act of the 99th General Assembly, a public entity shall not enter into a contract to purchase food with a bidder or offeror if the bidder's or offeror's contract terms prohibit the public entity from donating food to food banks, including, but not limited to, homeless shelters, food pantries, and soup kitchens.

(b) Each State agency that purchases food through a contract procured in accordance with entering into or maintaining a contract for the purchase of food under this Code shall adopt a policy that permits the donation of leftover food purchased with procured by State funds. The policy shall address any daily food operations run by the agency, including one-time events, and shall contain a list of nearby soup kitchens, food pantries, and other non-profit organizations where leftover food can be donated. Each State agency shall circulate its policy to all agency employees, and submit its food donation policy to the Department of Central Management Services on an annual basis beginning December 31, 2018.

(Source: P.A. 99-552, eff. 7-15-16; 100-709, eff. 8-3-18.)

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