Bill Text: IL HB4590 | 2013-2014 | 98th General Assembly | Chaptered

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Bill Title: Amends the State Comptroller Act. Creates the Illinois Gives Initiative, whereby an employee or annuitant may authorize the withholding of a portion of his or her salary, wages, or annuity for payment to Illinois chapters of the American Red Cross whose territories include areas affected by a declaration of disaster. Authorizes the State Comptroller to develop an electronic mechanism whereby an employee or annuitant may register with the Office of the Comptroller for the withholding to be deducted from the next available scheduled pay period, develop policies and procedures necessary for the efficient transmission of the notification of the withholding to the employee's Payroll Officer or the annuitant's Retirement Agency, and develop policies and procedures necessary for the efficient distribution of the withholdings to designated Illinois chapters of the American Red Cross. Makes corresponding changes in the State Salary and Annuity Withholding Act. Effective immediately.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 4-2)

Status: (Passed) 2014-07-07 - Public Act . . . . . . . . . 98-0700 [HB4590 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2013-HB4590-Chaptered.html

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Public Act 098-0700
HB4590 Enrolled LRB098 17439 OMW 52540 b
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 Comptroller Act is amended by adding
Section 26 as follows:
(15 ILCS 405/26 new)
Sec. 26. Illinois Gives Initiative.
(a) The Illinois Gives Initiative is hereby created to
provide a mechanism whereby an employee or annuitant may
authorize the withholding of a portion of his or her salary,
wages, or annuity for payment to Illinois chapters of the
American Red Cross whose territories include areas affected by
a declaration of disaster issued in accordance with Section 7
of the Emergency Management Act.
(b) The initiative shall be administered by the State
Comptroller, who is authorized to:
(1) develop an electronic mechanism whereby an
employee or annuitant may register with the Office of the
Comptroller for the withholding to be deducted from the
next available scheduled pay period;
(2) develop policies and procedures necessary for the
efficient transmission of the notification of the
withholding under this Section to the employee's Payroll

Officer or the annuitant's Retirement Agency; and
(3) develop policies and procedures necessary for the
efficient distribution of the withholdings under this
Section to designated Illinois chapters of the American Red
Cross.
Section 10. The State Salary and Annuity Withholding Act is
amended by changing Section 4 as follows:
(5 ILCS 365/4) (from Ch. 127, par. 354)
Sec. 4. Authorization of withholding. An employee or
annuitant may authorize the withholding of a portion of his
salary, wages, or annuity for any one or more of the following
purposes:
(1) for purchase of United States Savings Bonds;
(2) for payment of premiums on life or accident and
health insurance as defined in Section 4 of the "Illinois
Insurance Code", approved June 29, 1937, as amended, and
for payment of premiums on policies of automobile insurance
as defined in Section 143.13 of the "Illinois Insurance
Code", as amended, and the personal multiperil coverages
commonly known as homeowner's insurance. However, no
portion of salaries, wages or annuities may be withheld to
pay premiums on automobile, homeowner's, life or accident
and health insurance policies issued by any one insurance
company or insurance service company unless a minimum of

100 employees or annuitants insured by that company
authorize the withholding by an Office within 6 months
after such withholding begins. If such minimum is not
satisfied the Office may discontinue withholding for such
company. For any insurance company or insurance service
company which has not previously had withholding, the
Office may allow withholding for premiums, where less than
100 policies have been written, to cover a probationary
period. An insurance company which has discontinued
withholding may reinstate it upon presentation of facts
indicating new management or re-organization satisfactory
to the Office;
(3) for payment to any labor organization designated by
the employee;
(4) for payment of dues to any association the
membership of which consists of State employees and former
State employees;
(5) for deposit in any credit union, in which State
employees are within the field of membership as a result of
their employment;
(6) for payment to or for the benefit of an institution
of higher education by an employee of that institution;
(7) for payment of parking fees at the underground
facility located south of the William G. Stratton State
Office Building in Springfield, the parking ramp located at
401 South College Street, west of the William G. Stratton

State Office Building in Springfield, or at the parking
facilities located on the Urbana-Champaign campus of the
University of Illinois;
(8) for voluntary payment to the State of Illinois of
amounts then due and payable to the State;
(9) for investment purchases made as a participant in
College Savings Programs established pursuant to Section
30-15.8a of the School Code;
(10) for voluntary payment to the Illinois Department
of Revenue of amounts due or to become due under the
Illinois Income Tax Act;
(11) for payment of optional contributions to a
retirement system subject to the provisions of the Illinois
Pension Code;
(12) for contributions to organizations found
qualified by the State Comptroller under the requirements
set forth in the Voluntary Payroll Deductions Act of 1983;
(13) for payment of fringe benefit contributions to
employee benefit trust funds (whether such employee
benefit trust funds are governed by the Employee Retirement
Income Security Act of 1974, as amended, 29 U.S.C. §1001 et
seq. or not) for State contractual employees hired through
labor organizations and working pursuant to a signed
agreement between a labor organization and a State agency,
whether subject to the Illinois Prevailing Wage Act or not;
this item (13) is not intended to limit employee benefit

trust funds and the contributions to be made thereto to be
limited to those which are encompassed for purposes of
computing the prevailing wage in any particular locale, but
rather such employee benefit trusts are intended to include
contributions to be made to such funds that are intended to
assist in training, building and maintenance, industry
advancement, and the like, including but not limited to
those benefit trust funds such as pension and welfare that
are normally computed in the prevailing wage rates and
which otherwise would be subject to contribution
obligations by private employers that are signatory to
agreements with labor organizations; .
(14) for voluntary payment as part of the Illinois
Gives Initiative under Section 26 of the State Comptroller
Act.
(Source: P.A. 94-541, eff. 1-1-06.)