Bill Text: IL HB1031 | 2013-2014 | 98th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Department of Central Management Services Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois. Provides that ITAP shall include a database of pension contributions made on behalf of members of the General Assembly Retirement System and the State Employees' Retirement System of Illinois and annuity payments for annuitants under those retirement systems. Provides that information on the ITAP database shall be downloadable in Excel or Comma Separated Value format. Provides that the website shall accommodate online comments and questions from the public concerning State expenditures. Provides that the website must contain contact information listing individuals and officials who are able to answer questions about information on the website. Effective immediately.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Failed) 2014-12-03 - Session Sine Die [HB1031 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2013-HB1031-Introduced.html

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98TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2013 and 2014 HB1031 Introduced , by Rep. Michael W. Tryon SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
20 ILCS 405/405-335
Amends the Department of Central Management Services Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois. Provides that ITAP shall include a database of pension contributions made on behalf of members of the General Assembly Retirement System and the State Employees' Retirement System of Illinois and annuity payments for annuitants under those retirement systems. Provides that information on the ITAP database shall be downloadable in Excel or Comma Separated Value format. Provides that the website shall accommodate online comments and questions from the public concerning State expenditures. Provides that the website must contain contact information listing individuals and officials who are able to answer questions about information on the website. Effective immediately.
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AN ACT concerning revenue.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. 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. Subject to appropriation, the
full-time webmaster must also compile and update the ITAP
database with information received from all counties,
townships, and municipalities.
(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

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Authorities under the Governor.
"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, except sworn law enforcement
officers, sorted separately by:
(i) Name.
(ii) Employing State agency.
(iii) Employing State division.
(iv) Employment position title.
(v) Current pay rate and year-to-date pay.
(2) A database of all current State expenditures,
sorted separately by agency, category, recipient, and
Representative District.
(3) A database of all development assistance

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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 all employees hired after the
effective date of this amendatory Act of 2010, sorted
searchably by each of the following at the time of
employment:
(i) Name.
(ii) Employing State agency.
(iii) Employing State division.
(iv) Employment position title.
(v) Current pay rate and year-to-date pay.
(vi) County of employment location.
(vii) Rutan status.
(viii) Status of position as subject to collective

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bargaining, subject to merit compensation, or exempt
under Section 4d of the Personnel Code.
(ix) Employment status as probationary, trainee,
intern, certified, or exempt from certification.
(x) Status as a military veteran.
(7) A searchable database of all current county,
township, and municipal employees sorted separately by:
(i) Employing unit of local government.
(ii) Employment position title.
(iii) Current pay rate and year-to-date pay.
(8) A searchable database of all county, township, and
municipal employees hired on or after the effective date of
this amendatory Act of the 97th General Assembly, sorted
separately by each of the following at the time of
employment:
(i) Employing unit of local government.
(ii) Employment position title.
(iii) Current pay rate and year-to-date pay.
(9) A database listing the following information for
each current participant of the General Assembly
Retirement System, each current member of the State
Employees' Retirement System, and each annuitant under
either of those systems:
(i) in the case of members and participants, the
total amount of employer contributions made to the
General Assembly Retirement System or the State

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Employees' Retirement System on behalf of that member
or participant during the current State fiscal year,
including employee contributions that are picked up by
the employer;
(ii) in the case of members and participants, the
total amount of employer contributions made to the
General Assembly Retirement System or the State
Employees' Retirement System on behalf of that member
or participant during all State fiscal years,
including employee contributions that are picked up by
the employer; and
(iii) in the case of annuitants, the total amount
paid to the annuitant as an annuity under the General
Assembly Retirement System or the State Employees'
Retirement System during the current State fiscal
year.
(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.
(d-5) Information on the ITAP database shall be
downloadable in Excel or Comma Separated Value (CSV) format.
(d-10) The website shall accommodate online comments and
questions from the public concerning State expenditures. The

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website must contain contact information listing individuals
and officials who are able to answer questions about
information on the website.
(e) Each State agency, county, township, and municipality
shall cooperate with the Department in furnishing the
information necessary for the implementation of this Section
within a timeframe specified by the Department.
(f) Each county, township, or municipality submitting
information to be displayed on the Illinois Transparency and
Accountability Portal (ITAP) is responsible for the accuracy of
the information provided.
(Source: P.A. 96-225, eff. 1-1-10; 96-1387, eff. 1-1-11;
97-744, eff. 1-1-13.)
Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
becoming law.