Bill Text: IL SB0186 | 2009-2010 | 96th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Counties Code. With respect to a county having a population of 2,000,000 or more inhabitants, provides that the county board has the duty to provide for the regional superintendent of schools a suitable office with necessary furniture and office supplies. Denies home rule powers. Amends the State Mandates Act to require implementation without reimbursement. Effective immediately.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2009-08-15 - Pursuant to Senate Rule 3-9(b) / Referred to Assignments [SB0186 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2009-SB0186-Introduced.html

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96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2009 and 2010 SB0186 Introduced 2/3/2009, by Sen. Kimberly A. Lightford SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
55 ILCS 5/5-1106 from Ch. 34, par. 5-1106
30 ILCS 805/8.33 new
Amends the Counties Code. With respect to a county having a population of 2,000,000 or more inhabitants, provides that the county board has the duty to provide for the regional superintendent of schools a suitable office with necessary furniture and office supplies. Denies home rule powers. Amends the State Mandates Act to require implementation without reimbursement. Effective immediately.
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FISCAL NOTE ACT MAY APPLY HOME RULE NOTE ACT MAY APPLY STATE MANDATES ACT MAY REQUIRE REIMBURSEMENT
A BILL FOR
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AN ACT concerning education.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The Counties Code is amended by changing Section
5-1106 as follows:
(55 ILCS 5/5-1106) (from Ch. 34, par. 5-1106)
Sec. 5-1106. County offices, equipment and expenditures.
It shall be the duty of the county board of each county:
First--To erect or otherwise provide when necessary, and
the finances of the county will justify it, and keep in repair,
a suitable court house, jail and other necessary county
buildings, and to provide proper rooms and offices for the
accommodation of the county board, State's attorney, county
clerk, county treasurer, recorder and sheriff, and to provide
suitable furniture therefor. But in counties not under township
organization, no appropriations shall be made for the erection
of public buildings, without first submitting the proposition
to a vote of the people of the county, and the vote shall be
submitted in the same manner and under the same restrictions as
provided for in like cases in Section 5-2001; and the votes
therefor shall be "For taxation," specifying the object, and
those against shall be "Against taxation," specifying the
object.

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Second--To provide and keep in repair, when the finances of
the county permit, suitable fireproof safes or offices for the
county clerk, State's attorney, county treasurer, recorder and
sheriff.
Third--To provide reasonable and necessary expenses for
the use of the county board, county clerk, county treasurer,
recorder, sheriff, coroner, State's attorney, superintendent
of schools, judges and clerks of courts, and supervisor of
assessment.
Fourth--To cause to be published at the close of each
annual, regular or special meeting of the board, a brief
statement of the proceedings thereof in one or more newspapers
published in the county, in which shall be set forth the name
of every individual who shall have had any account audited and
allowed by the board and the amount of such claim as allowed,
and the amount claimed, and also their proceedings upon the
equalization of the assessment roll: Provided, that no
publication in a newspaper shall be required unless the same
can be done without unreasonable expense.
Fifth--To make out at its meeting in September, annually, a
full and accurate statement of the receipts and expenditures of
the preceding year, which statement shall contain a full and
correct description of each item, from whom and on what account
received, to whom paid, and on what account expended, together
with an accurate statement of the finances of the county at the
end of the fiscal year, including all debts and liabilities of

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every description, and the assets and other means to discharge
the same; and within 30 days thereafter to cause the same to be
posted up at the court house door, and at 2 other places in the
county, and published for one week in some newspaper therein,
if there is one, and the same can be done without unreasonable
expense.
Sixth--To provide proper rooms and offices, and for the
repair thereof, for the accommodation of the circuit court of
the county and for the clerks for such court, and to provide
suitable furnishings for such rooms and offices, and to furnish
fire proof safes, and the repair thereof, for the offices of
the clerks of the circuit court of the county. The court rooms
and furnishings thereof shall meet with reasonable minimum
standards prescribed by the Supreme Court of Illinois. Such
standards shall be substantially the same as those generally
accepted in court rooms as to general furnishings, arrangement
of bench, tables and chairs, cleanliness, convenience to
litigants, decorations, lighting and other such matters
relating to the physical appearance of the court room.
Seventh--With respect to a county having a population of
2,000,000 or more inhabitants only, to provide for the regional
superintendent of schools a suitable office with necessary
furniture and office supplies. This paragraph is a denial and
limitation of home rule powers and functions under subsection
(g) of Section 6 of Article VII of the Illinois Constitution.
(Source: P.A. 86-962.)

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Section 90. The State Mandates Act is amended by adding
Section 8.33 as follows:
(30 ILCS 805/8.33 new)
Sec. 8.33. Exempt mandate. Notwithstanding Sections 6 and 8
of this Act, no reimbursement by the State is required for the
implementation of any mandate created by this amendatory Act of
the 96th General Assembly.
Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
becoming law.