Bill Text: IL HB2437 | 2015-2016 | 99th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the General Assembly Compensation Act. Provides that, for terms commencing on or after January 11, 2017, each member of the General Assembly shall receive compensation that is no more than 90% of the amount last set by the Compensation Review Board. Amends the Compensation Review Act. For fiscal year 2016 and each fiscal year thereafter, prohibits a cost of living adjustment for General Assembly members. Effective immediately.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-03-24 - Tabled [HB2437 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2015-HB2437-Introduced.html

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99TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2015 and 2016 HB2437 Introduced , by Rep. Dwight Kay SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
25 ILCS 115/1 from Ch. 63, par. 14
25 ILCS 120/6.3 new
Amends the General Assembly Compensation Act. Provides that, for terms commencing on or after January 11, 2017, each member of the General Assembly shall receive compensation that is no more than 90% of the amount last set by the Compensation Review Board. Amends the Compensation Review Act. For fiscal year 2016 and each fiscal year thereafter, prohibits a cost of living adjustment for General Assembly members. Effective immediately.
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AN ACT concerning State government.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The General Assembly Compensation Act is amended
by changing Section 1 as follows:
(25 ILCS 115/1) (from Ch. 63, par. 14)
Sec. 1. Annual salary; stipends; travel reimbursement. For
terms commencing before January 11, 2017, each Each member of
the General Assembly shall receive an annual salary of $28,000
or as set by the Compensation Review Board, whichever is
greater. For terms commencing on or after January 11, 2017,
each member of the General Assembly shall receive an annual
salary that is no more than 90% of the amount last set by the
Compensation Review Board. The following named officers,
committee chairmen and committee minority spokesmen shall
receive additional amounts per year for their services as such
officers, committee chairmen and committee minority spokesmen
respectively, as set by the Compensation Review Board or, as
follows, whichever is greater: Beginning the second Wednesday
in January 1989, the Speaker and the minority leader of the
House of Representatives and the President and the minority
leader of the Senate, $16,000 each; the majority leader in the
House of Representatives $13,500; 6 assistant majority leaders

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and 5 assistant minority leaders in the Senate, $12,000 each; 6
assistant majority leaders and 6 assistant minority leaders in
the House of Representatives, $10,500 each; 2 Deputy Majority
leaders in the House of Representatives $11,500 each; and 2
Deputy Minority leaders in the House of Representatives,
$11,500 each; the majority caucus chairman and minority caucus
chairman in the Senate, $12,000 each; and beginning the second
Wednesday in January, 1989, the majority conference chairman
and the minority conference chairman in the House of
Representatives, $10,500 each; beginning the second Wednesday
in January, 1989, the chairman and minority spokesman of each
standing committee of the Senate, except the Rules Committee,
the Committee on Committees, and the Committee on Assignment of
Bills, $6,000 each; and beginning the second Wednesday in
January, 1989, the chairman and minority spokesman of each
standing and select committee of the House of Representatives,
$6,000 each. A member who serves in more than one position as
an officer, committee chairman, or committee minority
spokesman shall receive only one additional amount based on the
position paying the highest additional amount. The
compensation provided for in this Section to be paid per year
to members of the General Assembly, including the additional
sums payable per year to officers of the General Assembly shall
be paid in 12 equal monthly installments. The first such
installment is payable on January 31, 1977. All subsequent
equal monthly installments are payable on the last working day

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of the month. A member who has held office any part of a month
is entitled to compensation for an entire month.
Mileage shall be paid at the rate of 20 cents per mile
before January 9, 1985, and at the mileage allowance rate in
effect under regulations promulgated pursuant to 5 U.S.C.
5707(b)(2) beginning January 9, 1985, for the number of actual
highway miles necessarily and conveniently traveled by the most
feasible route to be present upon convening of the sessions of
the General Assembly by such member in each and every trip
during each session in going to and returning from the seat of
government, to be computed by the Comptroller. A member
traveling by public transportation for such purposes, however,
shall be paid his or her actual cost of that transportation
instead of on the mileage rate if his or her cost of public
transportation exceeds the amount to which he would be entitled
on a mileage basis. No member may be paid, whether on a mileage
basis or for actual costs of public transportation, for more
than one such trip for each week the General Assembly is
actually in session. Each member shall also receive an
allowance of $36 per day for lodging and meals while in
attendance at sessions of the General Assembly before January
9, 1985; beginning January 9, 1985, such food and lodging
allowance shall be equal to the amount per day permitted to be
deducted for such expenses under the Internal Revenue Code;
however, beginning May 31, 1995, no allowance for food and
lodging while in attendance at sessions is authorized for

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periods of time after the last day in May of each calendar
year, except (i) if the General Assembly is convened in special
session by either the Governor or the presiding officers of
both houses, as provided by subsection (b) of Section 5 of
Article IV of the Illinois Constitution or (ii) if the General
Assembly is convened to consider bills vetoed, item vetoed,
reduced, or returned with specific recommendations for change
by the Governor as provided in Section 9 of Article IV of the
Illinois Constitution. For fiscal year 2011 and for session
days in fiscal years 2012, 2013, 2014, and 2015 only (i) the
allowance for lodging and meals is $111 per day and (ii)
mileage for automobile travel shall be reimbursed at a rate of
$0.39 per mile.
Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary,
beginning in fiscal year 2012, travel reimbursement for General
Assembly members on non-session days shall be calculated using
the guidelines set forth by the Legislative Travel Control
Board, except that fiscal year 2012, 2013, 2014, and 2015
mileage reimbursement is set at a rate of $0.39 per mile.
If a member dies having received only a portion of the
amount payable as compensation, the unpaid balance shall be
paid to the surviving spouse of such member, or, if there be
none, to the estate of such member.
(Source: P.A. 97-71, eff. 6-30-11; 97-718, eff. 6-29-12; 98-30,
eff. 6-24-13; 98-682, eff. 6-30-14.)

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Section 10. The Compensation Review Act is amended by
adding Section 6.3 as follows:
(25 ILCS 120/6.3 new)
Sec. 6.3. COLA's prohibited for General Assembly members.
Notwithstanding any former or current provision of this Act,
any other law, any report of the Compensation Review Board, or
any resolution of the General Assembly to the contrary, members
of the General Assembly are prohibited from receiving and shall
not receive any increase in compensation that would otherwise
apply based on a cost of living adjustment, as authorized by
Senate Joint Resolution 192 of the 86th General Assembly, for
or during the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2015 and each
fiscal year thereafter.
Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
becoming law.