Bill Text: IL HB5440 | 2013-2014 | 98th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Department of Central Management Services Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois. Requires the Illinois Transparency and Accountability Portal to provide direct access to a searchable database of all taxing bodies in the State, sorted separately by name, bonded indebtedness, and other debt. Effective immediately.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Failed) 2014-12-03 - Session Sine Die [HB5440 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2013-HB5440-Introduced.html

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98TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2013 and 2014 HB5440 Introduced , by Rep. John M. Cabello SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
20 ILCS 405/405-335
Amends the Department of Central Management Services Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois. Requires the Illinois Transparency and Accountability Portal to provide direct access to a searchable database of all taxing bodies in the State, sorted separately by name, bonded indebtedness, and other debt. Effective immediately.
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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 Department of Central Management Services
Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois is amended by
changing Section 405-335 as follows:
(20 ILCS 405/405-335)
Sec. 405-335. Illinois Transparency and Accountability
Portal (ITAP).
(a) The Department, within 12 months after the effective
date of this amendatory Act of the 96th General Assembly, shall
establish and maintain a website, known as the Illinois
Transparency and Accountability Portal (ITAP), with a
full-time webmaster tasked with compiling and updating the ITAP
database with information received from all State agencies as
defined in this Section. Subject to appropriation, the
full-time webmaster must also compile and update the ITAP
database with information received from all counties,
townships, library districts, and municipalities.
(b) For purposes of this Section:
"State agency" means the offices of the constitutional
officers identified in Article V of the Illinois Constitution,
executive agencies, and departments, boards, commissions, and

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Authorities under the Governor.
"Contracts" means payment obligations with vendors on file
with the Office of the Comptroller to purchase goods and
services exceeding $10,000 in value (or, in the case of
professional or artistic services, exceeding $5,000 in value).
"Appropriation" means line-item detail of spending
approved by the General Assembly and Governor, categorized by
object of expenditure.
"Individual consultants" means temporary workers eligible
to receive State benefits paid on a State payroll.
"Recipients" means State agencies receiving
appropriations.
(c) The ITAP shall provide direct access to each of the
following:
(1) A database of all current State employees and
individual consultants, except sworn law enforcement
officers, sorted separately by:
(i) Name.
(ii) Employing State agency.
(iii) Employing State division.
(iv) Employment position title.
(v) Current pay rate and year-to-date pay.
(2) A database of all current State expenditures,
sorted separately by agency, category, recipient, and
Representative District.
(3) A database of all development assistance

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reportable pursuant to the Corporate Accountability for
Tax Expenditures Act, sorted separately by tax credit
category, taxpayer, and Representative District.
(4) A database of all revocations and suspensions of
State occupation and use tax certificates of registration
and all revocations and suspensions of State professional
licenses, sorted separately by name, geographic location,
and certificate of registration number or license number,
as applicable. Professional license revocations and
suspensions shall be posted only if resulting from a
failure to pay taxes, license fees, or child support.
(5) A database of all current State contracts, sorted
separately by contractor name, awarding officer or agency,
contract value, and goods or services provided.
(6) A database of all employees hired after the
effective date of this amendatory Act of 2010, sorted
searchably by each of the following at the time of
employment:
(i) Name.
(ii) Employing State agency.
(iii) Employing State division.
(iv) Employment position title.
(v) Current pay rate and year-to-date pay.
(vi) County of employment location.
(vii) Rutan status.
(viii) Status of position as subject to collective

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bargaining, subject to merit compensation, or exempt
under Section 4d of the Personnel Code.
(ix) Employment status as probationary, trainee,
intern, certified, or exempt from certification.
(x) Status as a military veteran.
(7) A searchable database of all current county,
township, library district, and municipal employees sorted
separately by:
(i) Employing unit of local government.
(ii) Employment position title.
(iii) Current pay rate and year-to-date pay.
(8) A searchable database of all county, township, and
municipal employees hired on or after the effective date of
this amendatory Act of the 97th General Assembly, sorted
separately by each of the following at the time of
employment:
(i) Employing unit of local government.
(ii) Employment position title.
(iii) Current pay rate and year-to-date pay.
(9) A searchable database of all library district
employees hired on or after August 9, 2013 (the effective
date of Public Act 98-246) this amendatory Act of the 98th
General Assembly, sorted separately by each of the
following at the time of employment:
(i) Employing unit of local government.
(ii) Employment position title.

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(iii) Current pay rate and year-to-date pay.
(10) A searchable database of all taxing bodies in the
State, sorted separately by the following:
(i) Name.
(ii) Bonded indebtedness.
(iii) Other debt.
(d) The ITAP shall include all information required to be
published by subsection (c) of this Section that is available
to the Department in a format the Department can compile and
publish on the ITAP. The Department shall update the ITAP as
additional information becomes available in a format that can
be compiled and published on the ITAP by the Department.
(e) Each State agency, county, township, library district,
and municipality shall cooperate with the Department in
furnishing the information necessary for the implementation of
this Section within a timeframe specified by the Department.
(f) Each county, township, library district, or
municipality submitting information to be displayed on the
Illinois Transparency and Accountability Portal (ITAP) is
responsible for the accuracy of the information provided.
(g) The Department, within 6 months after January 1, 2014
(the effective date of Public Act 98-283) this amendatory Act
of the 98th General Assembly, shall distribute a spreadsheet or
otherwise make data entry available to each State agency to
facilitate the collection of data on the State's annual
workforce characteristics, workforce compensation, and

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employee mobility. The Department shall determine the data to
be collected by each State agency. Each State agency shall
cooperate with the Department in furnishing the data necessary
for the implementation of this subsection within the timeframe
specified by the Department. The Department shall publish the
data received from each State agency on the ITAP or another
open data site annually.
(Source: P.A. 97-744, eff. 1-1-13; 98-246, eff. 8-9-13; 98-283,
eff. 1-1-14; revised 9-4-13.)
Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
becoming law.