Bill Text: IL HB3857 | 2023-2024 | 103rd General Assembly | Engrossed

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Bill Title: Amends the Use Tax Act, the Service Use Tax Act, the Service Occupation Tax Act, and the Retailers' Occupation Tax Act. Provides that, beginning on January 1, 2024, in addition to the 6.25% general rate, a tax of 3% is imposed on the selling price of ground based sparklers. Provides that each month the Department of Revenue shall pay into the Fireman's Annuity and Benefit Fund and the Firefighters' Pension Investment Fund, cumulatively, 50% of the net revenue realized for the preceding month from the 3% tax from sales of ground-based sparklers. Provides that the remaining 50% of the proceeds from that tax shall be deposited into the General Revenue Fund. Amends the Fireworks Regulation Act of Illinois and the Pyrotechnic Use Act. Provides that "fireworks" and "consumer fireworks" do not include handheld or ground-based sparklers that are nonexplosive and nonaerial, sometimes producing a crackling or whistling effect, and containing 75 grams or less of pyrotechnic composition per tube or a total of 500 grams or less for multiple tubes (rather than only sparklers) or wood stick or wire sparklers containing not more than 100 grams of pyrotechnic mixture per item. Effective January 1, 2024.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Engrossed) 2023-06-26 - Rule 19(a) / Re-referred to Rules Committee [HB3857 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2023-HB3857-Engrossed.html

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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 State Budget Law of the Civil
Administrative Code of Illinois is amended by changing Section
50-25 as follows:
(15 ILCS 20/50-25)
Sec. 50-25. Statewide prioritized goals.
(a) Definitions. As used in this Section:
"Commission" means the Budgeting for Results Commission
established by this Section.
"Result area" means major organizational categories of
State government as defined by the Governor.
"Outcome area" means subcategories of result areas that
further define, and facilitate the measurement of the result
area, as established by the Governor.
(b) Statewide prioritized goals. For fiscal year 2025 2012
and each fiscal year thereafter, prior to the submission of
the State budget, the Governor, in consultation with the
Commission appropriation committees of the General Assembly
and, beginning with budgets prepared for fiscal year 2013, the
commission established under this Section, shall: (i) identify
statewide result areas prioritize outcomes that are most

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important for each State agency of the executive branch under
the jurisdiction of the Governor to achieve for the next
fiscal year and (ii) identify outcome areas, which further
define the statewide result areas, into which State programs
and associated spending can be categorized set goals to
accomplish those outcomes according to the priority of the
outcome. There must be a reasonable number of annually defined
statewide result and outcome areas goals defining State
priorities for the budget. Each result and outcome goal shall
be further defined to facilitate success in achieving that
result or outcome goal.
(c) Budgeting for Results Commission. On or after July 31,
2024 No later than July 31 of each fiscal year beginning in
fiscal year 2012, the Governor shall establish a commission
for the purpose of advising the Governor in the implementation
of performance-based budgeting in Illinois State government,
setting statewide result and outcome areas, and providing
oversight and guidance for comprehensive program assessments
and benefit-cost analysis of State agency programs those
outcomes and goals, including the timeline for achieving those
outcomes and goals.
(1) Membership. The commission shall be composed of
voting and non-voting members appointed by the Governor.
The commission shall be a well-balanced group and shall be
not more than 15 and not less than 8 members. Members
appointed by the Governor shall serve a three-year term,

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beginning and ending on July 1 of each year. Vacancies in
Commission membership shall be filled in the same manner
as initial appointments. Appointments to fill vacancies
occurring before the expiration of a term shall be for the
remainder of the term. Members shall serve until their
successors are appointed. a manageable size.
(2) Bylaws. The commission may adopt bylaws for the
regulation of its affairs and the conduct of its business.
(3) Quorum. Total membership of the Commission
consists of the number of voting members serving on the
Commission, not including any vacant positions. A quorum
consists of a simple majority of total voting membership
and shall be sufficient to conduct the business of the
commission, unless stipulated otherwise in the bylaws of
the commission. A member may submit a proxy in writing to
the Commission Co-Chairs or the Commission Staff Director
no later than 24 hours before a scheduled meeting, and
that proxy shall count toward the quorum for that meeting
only.
(4) Chairpersons. Two Co-Chairs of the commission
shall be appointed by the Governor. The Co-Chairs shall be
one member of the General Assembly and one person who is
not a member of the General Assembly.
(5) Meetings. The commission shall hold at least 2
in-person public meetings during each fiscal year. One
meeting shall be held in the City of Chicago and one

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meeting shall be held in the City of Springfield. The
commission may choose by a majority vote of its members to
hold one virtual meeting, which is open to the public and
over the Internet, in lieu of the 2 in-person public
meetings required under this Section.
(6) Compensation. Members shall not receive
compensation for their services.
(7) Annual report. By November 1 of each year, the
commission shall submit a report to the Governor and the
General Assembly setting forth recommendations with
respect to the Governor's implementation of
performance-based budgeting in Illinois State government
proposed outcomes and goals. The report shall be published
on the Governor's Office of Management and Budget's
website. In its report, the commission shall report on the
status of comprehensive program assessments and benefit
cost analysis of state agency programs conducted during
the prior year propose a percentage of the total budget to
be assigned to each proposed outcome and goal.
The commission shall also review existing statutory
mandates mandated expenditures and include in its report
recommendations for the repeal or modification of statutory
mandates and funds or the State treasury which are out-of-date
or unduly burdensome to the operations of State government
termination of mandated expenditures.
The General Assembly may object to the commission's report

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by passing a joint resolution detailing the General Assembly's
objections.
(d) In addition, each other constitutional officer of the
executive branch, in consultation with the appropriation
committees of the General Assembly, shall: (i) prioritize
outcomes that are most important for his or her office to
achieve for the next fiscal year and (ii) set goals to
accomplish those outcomes according to the priority of the
outcome. The Governor and each constitutional officer shall
separately conduct performance analyses to determine which
programs, strategies, and activities will best achieve those
desired outcomes. The Governor shall recommend that
appropriations be made to State agencies and officers for the
next fiscal year based on the agreed upon result and outcome
areas goals and priorities. Each agency and officer may
develop its own strategies for meeting those goals and shall
review and analyze those strategies on a regular basis. The
Governor shall also implement procedures to measure annual
progress toward the State's statewide results and outcomes
highest priority outcomes and shall develop a statewide
reporting system that collects performance data from all
programs under the authority of the Governor compares the
actual results with budgeted results. Those performance
measures and results shall be posted on the Governor's Office
of Management and Budget website State Comptroller's website,
and compiled for distribution in the Comptroller's Public

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Accountability Report, as is currently the practice on the
effective date of this amendatory Act of the 96th General
Assembly.
(Source: P.A. 102-801, eff. 5-13-22.)