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| 1 | AN ACT concerning State government.
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| 2 | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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| 3 | represented in the General Assembly:
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| 4 | Section 1. Short title. This Act may be cited as the | ||||||
| 5 | Sunshine Commission Act.
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| 6 | Section 5. Commission; members; compensation; | ||||||
| 7 | organization.
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| 8 | (a) The Sunshine Commission is created. The Commission | ||||||
| 9 | shall consist of 4 members of the General Assembly and 4 public | ||||||
| 10 | members. The President and Minority Leader of the Senate and | ||||||
| 11 | the Speaker and Minority Leader of the House of Representatives | ||||||
| 12 | shall each appoint one of the legislative members and one of | ||||||
| 13 | the public members. | ||||||
| 14 | (b) Each public member shall have professional, private | ||||||
| 15 | sector experience in the field of banking, finance, or | ||||||
| 16 | accounting, with at least one public member experienced in each | ||||||
| 17 | of those fields. | ||||||
| 18 | A public member, and any of that member's immediate family, | ||||||
| 19 | may not have a direct financial relationship with the State, | ||||||
| 20 | including through current employment, a current elected or | ||||||
| 21 | appointed position, a current contract, or a contract awarded | ||||||
| 22 | during the 5 years before that member's appointment. A public | ||||||
| 23 | member may not have had any public employment or position, | ||||||
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| 1 | other than elected office, during the 2 years before that | ||||||
| 2 | member's appointment. | ||||||
| 3 | (c) Members shall receive no compensation for, and shall | ||||||
| 4 | not be reimbursed for their expenses incurred with respect to, | ||||||
| 5 | their membership on the Sunshine Commission. | ||||||
| 6 | (d) The Commission members shall elect 2 of their number to | ||||||
| 7 | serve as co-chairs. The appointing authorities of the co-chairs | ||||||
| 8 | may not be affiliated with the same political party. | ||||||
| 9 | The Commission shall meet at the call of the co-chairs and | ||||||
| 10 | as frequently as necessary to perform its function.
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| 11 | Section 10. Review of programs. The Commission shall | ||||||
| 12 | conduct a thorough review of each State executive branch | ||||||
| 13 | program with respect to its relevance, efficiency, and | ||||||
| 14 | effectiveness in obtaining the results required by, or | ||||||
| 15 | achieving the goals expressed in, the program's enacting | ||||||
| 16 | legislation. | ||||||
| 17 | The Auditor General and each State executive branch | ||||||
| 18 | official, agency, and department shall cooperate with and | ||||||
| 19 | provide information to the Commission in the Commission's | ||||||
| 20 | performance of the review. | ||||||
| 21 | Within 6 months after the effective date of this Act, the | ||||||
| 22 | Commission shall submit to the General Assembly a written, | ||||||
| 23 | comprehensive, and detailed report of the Commission's review, | ||||||
| 24 | including without limitation recommendations as to: | ||||||
| 25 | (1) Elimination of obsolete or ineffective programs. | ||||||
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| 1 | (2) Consolidation of duplicative programs. | ||||||
| 2 | (3) Steps to improve a program's efficiency or | ||||||
| 3 | effectiveness.
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| 4 | Section 15. Action upon report. Within 60 session days | ||||||
| 5 | after the Commission's report is filed with the General | ||||||
| 6 | Assembly, each house must vote upon the same joint resolution | ||||||
| 7 | to accept the Commission's report. If the resolution is adopted | ||||||
| 8 | by a record vote of a majority of the members elected in each | ||||||
| 9 | house, the recommendations contained in the Commission's | ||||||
| 10 | report are approved in whole; if the resolution is not so | ||||||
| 11 | adopted, the recommendations in the Commission's report are | ||||||
| 12 | rejected in whole.
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| 13 | Section 20. Repeal. This Act is repealed 2 years after its | ||||||
| 14 | effective date.
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| 15 | Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | ||||||
| 16 | becoming law.
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