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.)