Bill Text: IL HB5623 | 2023-2024 | 103rd General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Decennial Committees on Local Government Efficiency Act. Provides that a governmental unit may elect to form a decennial committee to study local efficiencies and report recommendations regarding efficiencies and increased accountability to the county board in which the governmental unit is located once every 10 years (rather than the governmental unit must form a decennial committee at least once every 10 years). Effective January 1, 2025.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-04-19 - Rule 19(a) / Re-referred to Rules Committee [HB5623 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2023-HB5623-Introduced.html

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103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2023 and 2024 HB5623 Introduced 2/9/2024, by Rep. Ann M. Williams SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
50 ILCS 70/10
Amends the Decennial Committees on Local Government Efficiency Act. Provides that a governmental unit may elect to form a decennial committee to study local efficiencies and report recommendations regarding efficiencies and increased accountability to the county board in which the governmental unit is located once every 10 years (rather than the governmental unit must form a decennial committee at least once every 10 years). Effective January 1, 2025.
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A BILL FOR
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AN ACT concerning local government.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The Decennial Committees on Local Government
Efficiency Act is amended by changing Section 10 as follows:
(50 ILCS 70/10)
Sec. 10. Formation of committee; members; vacancy;
administrative support.
(a) By June 10, 2023 (one year after the effective date of
this Act) and at least once every 10 years after June 10, 2023,
each governmental unit must form a committee to study local
efficiencies and report recommendations regarding efficiencies
and increased accountability to the county board in which the
governmental unit is located. A governmental unit may elect to
form a committee under this subsection once every 10 years
after June 10, 2023.
(b) Each committee's membership shall include the elected
or appointed members of the governing board of the
governmental unit; at least 2 residents within the territory
served by the governmental unit, who are appointed by the
chair of the governing board, with the advice and consent of
the governing board; and any chief executive officer or other
officer of the governmental unit. The committee shall be

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chaired by the president or chief elected or appointed
official of the governing board or his or her designee. The
chairperson may appoint additional members to the committee as
the chairperson deems appropriate.
Committee members shall serve without compensation but may
be reimbursed by the governmental unit for their expenses
incurred in performing their duties.
(b-5) In lieu of the committee described in subsection
(a), a highway commissioner of a township road district in a
county with a population under 400,000 and the township board
of the same township may form a joint committee for the
purposes described in subsection (a). That joint committee
shall include: the township trustees; the highway
commissioner; at least 2 residents of the territory served by
the governmental unit appointed by the township supervisor
with the advice and consent of the township board; at least one
resident of the governmental unit appointed by the highway
commissioner; and the township supervisor. The joint committee
shall be chaired by the township supervisor and shall issue a
joint report with 2 sections, one section for the township and
one section for the road district. Except with respect to its
composition and report, the joint committee shall otherwise
comply with subsection (b). References in this Act to a
"committee" shall also include a joint committee formed under
this subsection.
(c) A committee may employ or use the services of

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specialists in public administration and governmental
management and any other trained consultants, analysts,
investigators, and assistants it considers appropriate, and it
may seek assistance from community colleges and universities
as necessary to prepare the report required under Section 25.
(d) If a vacancy occurs in the committee membership, the
vacancy shall be filled in the same manner as the appointments
under subsection (b).
(e) Each governmental unit shall provide administrative
and other support to its committee.
(Source: P.A. 102-1088, eff. 6-10-22; 102-1136, eff. 2-10-23.)