Bill Text: IL HB3341 | 2023-2024 | 103rd General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Fiscal Control and Internal Auditing Act. Provides that, if the office of chief internal auditor is vacant, the chief executive officer of the designated State agency may, with the prior approval of the Governor, enter into an agreement with the Department of Central Management Services to use professional auditing services to comply with the Act. Provides that the agreement terminates upon the appointment of a chief internal auditor.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2023-03-10 - Rule 19(a) / Re-referred to Rules Committee [HB3341 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2023-HB3341-Introduced.html

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103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2023 and 2024 HB3341 Introduced , by Rep. Kelly M. Burke SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
30 ILCS 10/2002 from Ch. 15, par. 2002
Amends the Fiscal Control and Internal Auditing Act. Provides that, if the office of chief internal auditor is vacant, the chief executive officer of the designated State agency may, with the prior approval of the Governor, enter into an agreement with the Department of Central Management Services to use professional auditing services to comply with the Act. Provides that the agreement terminates upon the appointment of a chief internal auditor.
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A BILL FOR
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AN ACT concerning finance.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The Fiscal Control and Internal Auditing Act is
amended by changing Section 2002 as follows:
(30 ILCS 10/2002) (from Ch. 15, par. 2002)
Sec. 2002. Qualifications of chief internal auditor.
(a) The chief executive officer of each designated State
agency shall appoint a chief internal auditor with a
bachelor's degree, who is either:
(1) a certified internal auditor by examination or a
certified public accountant and who has at least 4 years
of progressively responsible professional auditing
experience; or
(2) an auditor with at least 5 years of progressively
responsible professional auditing experience.
(b) The chief internal auditor shall report directly to
the chief executive officer and shall have direct
communications with the chief executive officer and the
governing board, if applicable, in the exercise of auditing
activities. All chief internal auditors and all full-time
members of an internal audit staff shall be free of all
operational duties.

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(c) The chief internal auditor shall serve a 5-year term
beginning on the date of the appointment. A chief internal
auditor may be removed only for cause after a hearing before
the Executive Ethics Commission concerning the removal. Any
chief internal auditor who is appointed to replace a removed
chief internal auditor may serve only until the expiration of
the term of the removed chief internal auditor. The annual
salary of a chief internal auditor cannot be diminished during
the term of the chief internal auditor.
(d) If the office of chief internal auditor is vacant, the
chief executive officer of the designated State agency may,
with the prior approval of the Governor, enter into an
agreement with the Department of Central Management Services
to use professional auditing services to comply with this Act.
An agreement entered into under this subsection terminates
upon the appointment of a chief internal auditor under this
Section.
(Source: P.A. 96-795, eff. 7-1-10 (see Section 5 of P.A.
96-793 for the effective date of changes made by P.A.
96-795).)