Bill Text: IL HB4809 | 2011-2012 | 97th General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Amends the State Finance Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 2-1)

Status: (Failed) 2013-01-08 - Session Sine Die [HB4809 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2011-HB4809-Amended.html

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Rep. Jim Watson

Filed: 3/27/2012

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AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 4809
AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 4809 by replacing
everything after the enacting clause with the following:
"Section 5. The State Facilities Closure Act is amended by
changing Section 5-10 as follows:
(30 ILCS 608/5-10)
Sec. 5-10. Facility closure process.
(a) Before a State facility may be closed, the State
executive branch officer with jurisdiction over the facility
shall file notice of the proposed closure with the Commission.
The notice must be filed within 2 days after the first public
announcement of any planned or proposed closure. Within 10 days
after it receives notice of the proposed closure, the
Commission, in its discretion, may require the State executive
branch officer with jurisdiction over the facility to file a
recommendation for the closure of the facility with the

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Commission. In the case of a proposed closure of: (i) a prison,
youth center, work camp, or work release center operated by the
Department of Corrections; (ii) a school, mental health center,
or center for the developmentally disabled operated by the
Department of Human Services; or (iii) a residential facility
operated by the Department of Veterans' Affairs, the Commission
must require the executive branch officers to file a
recommendation for closure. The recommendation must be filed
within 30 days after the Commission delivers the request for
recommendation to the State executive branch officer. The
recommendation must include, but is not limited to, the
following:
(1) the location and identity of the State facility
proposed to be closed;
(2) the number of employees for which the State
facility is the primary stationary work location and the
effect of the closure of the facility on those employees;
(3) the location or locations to which the functions
and employees of the State facility would be moved;
(4) the availability and condition of land and
facilities at both the existing location and any potential
locations;
(5) the ability to accommodate the functions and
employees at the existing and at any potential locations;
(6) the cost of operations of the State facility and at
any potential locations and any other related budgetary

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impacts;
(7) the economic impact on existing communities in the
vicinity of the State facility and any potential facility;
(8) the ability of the existing and any potential
community's infrastructure to support the functions and
employees;
(9) the impact on State services delivered at the
existing location, in direct relation to the State services
expected to be delivered at any potential locations; and
(10) the environmental impact, including the impact of
costs related to potential environmental restoration,
waste management, and environmental compliance activities.
(b) If a recommendation is required by the Commission, a
30-day public comment period must follow the filing of the
recommendation. The Commission, in its discretion, may conduct
one or more public hearings on the recommendation. In the case
of a proposed closure of: (i) a prison, youth center, work
camp, or work release center operated by the Department of
Corrections; (ii) a school, mental health center, or center for
the developmentally disabled operated by the Department of
Human Services; or (iii) a residential facility operated by the
Department of Veterans' Affairs, the Commission must conduct
one or more public hearings on the recommendation. Public
hearings conducted by the Commission shall be conducted no
later than 35 days after the filing of the recommendation. At
least one of the public hearings on the recommendation shall be

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held at a convenient location within 25 miles of the facility
for which closure is recommended. The Commission shall provide
reasonable notice of the comment period and of any public
hearings to the public and to units of local government and
school districts that are located within 25 miles of the
facility.
(c) Within 50 days after the State executive branch officer
files the required recommendation, the Commission shall issue
an advisory opinion on that recommendation. The Commission
shall file the advisory opinion with the appropriate State
executive branch officer, the Governor, the General Assembly,
and the Index Department of the Office of the Secretary of
State and shall make copies of the advisory opinion available
to the public upon request.
(c-5) Within 20 days after the next regularly scheduled
session day after receipt of the advisory opinion filed by the
Commission, the General Assembly shall vote by joint resolution
to uphold or overturn the opinion. Failure to vote by joint
resolution to uphold or overturn the advisory opinion filed by
the Commission within 20 days after the next regularly
scheduled session day after receipt of the opinion shall
constitute final action taken by the General Assembly on the
advisory opinion.
(d) No action may be taken to implement the recommendation
for closure of a State facility until the General Assembly has
taken final action on the advisory opinion filed by the

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Commission by adopting a joint resolution under subsection
(c-5) affirming or denying the recommendation for closure 50
days after the filing of any required recommendation.
(e) The requirements of this Section do not apply if all of
the functions and employees of a State facility are relocated
to another State facility that is within 10 miles of the closed
facility.
(Source: P.A. 93-839, eff. 7-30-04; 94-688, eff. 1-1-06.)".