Bill Text: IL HB5079 | 2011-2012 | 97th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the State Budget Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois. With respect to fiscal year appropriations, requires the General Assembly to take into account (i) whether the previous fiscal year's revenues were sufficient to pay for all obligations incurred during that fiscal year or whether those obligations were shifted to future years and (ii) whether revenues for the budgeted fiscal year can be reasonably projected to meet appropriations for the budgeted fiscal year. For each budgeted fiscal year, requires the General Assembly, by the same joint resolution adopted by record vote, to declare that the budget is balanced. Makes revisory changes.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Failed) 2013-01-08 - Session Sine Die [HB5079 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2011-HB5079-Introduced.html

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97TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2011 and 2012 HB5079 Introduced 2/7/2012, by Rep. Sidney H. Mathias SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
15 ILCS 20/50-5
Amends the State Budget Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois. With respect to fiscal year appropriations, requires the General Assembly to take into account (i) whether the previous fiscal year's revenues were sufficient to pay for all obligations incurred during that fiscal year or whether those obligations were shifted to future years and (ii) whether revenues for the budgeted fiscal year can be reasonably projected to meet appropriations for the budgeted fiscal year. For each budgeted fiscal year, requires the General Assembly, by the same joint resolution adopted by record vote, to declare that the budget is balanced. Makes revisory changes.
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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 changing Section 50-5 as
follows:
(15 ILCS 20/50-5)
Sec. 50-5. Governor to submit State budget.
(a) The Governor shall, as soon as possible and not later
than the second Wednesday in March in 2010 (March 10, 2010),
the third Wednesday in February in 2011, the fourth Wednesday
in February in 2012 (February 22, 2012), and the third
Wednesday in February of each year thereafter, except as
otherwise provided in this Section, submit a State budget,
embracing therein the amounts recommended by the Governor to be
appropriated to the respective departments, offices, and
institutions, and for all other public purposes, the estimated
revenues from taxation, and the estimated revenues from sources
other than taxation. Except with respect to the capital
development provisions of the State budget, beginning with the
revenue estimates prepared for fiscal year 2012, revenue
estimates shall be based solely on: (i) revenue sources
(including non-income resources), rates, and levels that exist

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as of the date of the submission of the State budget for the
fiscal year and (ii) revenue sources (including non-income
resources), rates, and levels that have been passed by the
General Assembly as of the date of the submission of the State
budget for the fiscal year and that are authorized to take
effect in that fiscal year. Except with respect to the capital
development provisions of the State budget, the Governor shall
determine available revenue, deduct the cost of essential
government services, including, but not limited to, pension
payments and debt service, and assign a percentage of the
remaining revenue to each statewide prioritized goal, as
established in Section 50-25 of this Law, taking into
consideration the proposed goals set forth in the report of the
Commission established under that Section. The Governor shall
also demonstrate how spending priorities for the fiscal year
fulfill those statewide goals. The amounts recommended by the
Governor for appropriation to the respective departments,
offices and institutions shall be formulated according to each
department's, office's, and institution's ability to
effectively deliver services that meet the established
statewide goals. The amounts relating to particular functions
and activities shall be further formulated in accordance with
the object classification specified in Section 13 of the State
Finance Act. In addition, the amounts recommended by the
Governor for appropriation shall take into account each State
agency's effectiveness in achieving its prioritized goals for

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the previous fiscal year, as set forth in Section 50-25 of this
Law, giving priority to agencies and programs that have
demonstrated a focus on the prevention of waste and the maximum
yield from resources.
Beginning in fiscal year 2011, the Governor shall
distribute written quarterly financial reports on operating
funds, which may include general, State, or federal funds and
may include funds related to agencies that have significant
impacts on State operations, and budget statements on all
appropriated funds to the General Assembly and the State
Comptroller. The reports shall be submitted no later than 45
days after the last day of each quarter of the fiscal year and
shall be posted on the Governor's Office of Management and
Budget's website on the same day. The reports shall be prepared
and presented for each State agency and on a statewide level in
an executive summary format that may include, for the fiscal
year to date, individual itemizations for each significant
revenue type as well as itemizations of expenditures and
obligations, by agency, with an appropriate level of detail.
The reports shall include a calculation of the actual total
budget surplus or deficit for the fiscal year to date. The
Governor shall also present periodic budget addresses
throughout the fiscal year at the invitation of the General
Assembly.
The Governor shall not propose expenditures and the General
Assembly shall not enact appropriations that exceed the

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resources estimated to be available, as provided in this
Section. Appropriations may be adjusted during the fiscal year
by means of one or more supplemental appropriation bills if any
State agency either fails to meet or exceeds the goals set
forth in Section 50-25 of this Law.
For the purposes of Article VIII, Section 2 of the 1970
Illinois Constitution, the State budget for the following funds
shall be prepared on the basis of revenue and expenditure
measurement concepts that are in concert with generally
accepted accounting principles for governments:
(1) General Revenue Fund.
(2) Common School Fund.
(3) Educational Assistance Fund.
(4) Road Fund.
(5) Motor Fuel Tax Fund.
(6) Agricultural Premium Fund.
These funds shall be known as the "budgeted funds". The
revenue estimates used in the State budget for the budgeted
funds shall include the estimated beginning fund balance, plus
revenues estimated to be received during the budgeted year,
plus the estimated receipts due the State as of June 30 of the
budgeted year that are expected to be collected during the
lapse period following the budgeted year, minus the receipts
collected during the first 2 months of the budgeted year that
became due to the State in the year before the budgeted year.
Revenues shall also include estimated federal reimbursements

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associated with the recognition of Section 25 of the State
Finance Act liabilities. For any budgeted fund for which
current year revenues are anticipated to exceed expenditures,
the surplus shall be considered to be a resource available for
expenditure in the budgeted fiscal year.
Expenditure estimates for the budgeted funds included in
the State budget shall include the costs to be incurred by the
State for the budgeted year, to be paid in the next fiscal
year, excluding costs paid in the budgeted year which were
carried over from the prior year, where the payment is
authorized by Section 25 of the State Finance Act. For any
budgeted fund for which expenditures are expected to exceed
revenues in the current fiscal year, the deficit shall be
considered as a use of funds in the budgeted fiscal year.
Revenues and expenditures shall also include transfers
between funds that are based on revenues received or costs
incurred during the budget year.
Appropriations for expenditures shall also include all
anticipated statutory continuing appropriation obligations
that are expected to be incurred during the budgeted fiscal
year.
By March 15 of each year, the Commission on Government
Forecasting and Accountability shall prepare revenue and fund
transfer estimates in accordance with the requirements of this
Section and report those estimates to the General Assembly and
the Governor.

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For all funds other than the budgeted funds, the proposed
expenditures shall not exceed funds estimated to be available
for the fiscal year as shown in the budget. Appropriation for a
fiscal year shall not exceed funds estimated by the General
Assembly to be available during that year. The General Assembly
shall take into account (i) whether the previous fiscal year's
revenues were sufficient to pay for all obligations incurred
during that fiscal year or whether those obligations were
shifted to future years and (ii) whether revenues for the
budgeted fiscal year can be reasonably projected to meet
appropriations for the budgeted fiscal year. For each budgeted
fiscal year, the General Assembly, by the same joint resolution
adopted by record vote, shall declare that the budget is
balanced.
(b) By February 24, 2010, the Governor must file a written
report with the Secretary of the Senate and the Clerk of the
House of Representatives containing the following:
(1) for fiscal year 2010, the revenues for all budgeted
funds, both actual to date and estimated for the full
fiscal year;
(2) for fiscal year 2010, the expenditures for all
budgeted funds, both actual to date and estimated for the
full fiscal year;
(3) for fiscal year 2011, the estimated revenues for
all budgeted funds, including without limitation the
affordable General Revenue Fund appropriations, for the

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full fiscal year; and
(4) for fiscal year 2011, an estimate of the
anticipated liabilities for all budgeted funds, including
without limitation the affordable General Revenue Fund
appropriations, debt service on bonds issued, and the
State's contributions to the pension systems, for the full
fiscal year.
Between July 1 and August 31 of each fiscal year, the
members of the General Assembly and members of the public may
make written budget recommendations to the Governor.
Beginning with budgets prepared for fiscal year 2013, the
budgets submitted by the Governor and appropriations made by
the General Assembly for all executive branch State agencies
must adhere to a method of budgeting where each priority must
be justified each year according to merit rather than according
to the amount appropriated for the preceding year.
(Source: P.A. 96-1, eff. 2-17-09; 96-320, eff. 1-1-10; 96-881,
eff. 2-11-10; 96-958, eff. 7-1-10; 96-1000, eff. 7-2-10;
96-1529, eff. 2-16-11; 96-1531, eff. 2-16-11; 97-669, eff.
1-13-12.)