Bill Text: IL HB4261 | 2017-2018 | 100th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the State Budget Law. Provides that for the fiscal years ending June 30, 2019, June 30, 2020, and June 30, 2021, no State funded agency, board, commission, department, university, or other entity organized within State government shall expend any funds on specified nonessential items and travel. Defines "nonessential items" and "nonessential travel". Effective immediately.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Failed) 2019-01-08 - Session Sine Die [HB4261 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2017-HB4261-Introduced.html

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100TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2017 and 2018 HB4261 Introduced , by Rep. Brad Halbrook SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
15 ILCS 20/50-45 new
Amends the State Budget Law. Provides that for the fiscal years ending June 30, 2019, June 30, 2020, and June 30, 2021, no State funded agency, board, commission, department, university, or other entity organized within State government shall expend any funds on specified nonessential items and travel. Defines "nonessential items" and "nonessential travel". Effective immediately.
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FISCAL NOTE ACT MAY APPLY
A BILL FOR
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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 adding Section 50-45 as follows:
(15 ILCS 20/50-45 new)
Sec. 50-45. Nonessential items and travel.
(a) For the fiscal years ending June 30, 2019, June 30,
2020, and June 30, 2021, no State funded agency, board,
commission, department, university, or other entity organized
within State government shall expend any funds on nonessential
items to be provided to persons or legal entities. For the
purposes of this subsection (a), "nonessential items" include,
but are not limited to, items of tangible personal property for
purposes of promoting or advertising the name of the State
government entity or its programs, missions, duties, or
functions, such as magnets, buttons, bumper stickers, ribbons,
awards, prizes, trophies, stationary, writing implements,
legal pad holders, book bags, or other similar items.
(b) For the fiscal years ending June 30, 2019, June 30,
2020, and June 30, 2021, no State funded agency, board,
commission, department, university, or other entity organized
within State government shall expend any funds on nonessential

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travel. For the purposes of this subsection (b), "nonessential
travel" means travel for any member of the governing body or
employee of a State funded agency, board, commission,
department, university, or other State entity to attend
seminars, conferences, or other similar events, whether
conducted in this State or another state.
Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
becoming law.