Bill Text: IL SB1568 | 2011-2012 | 97th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Salaries Act. Provides that, for terms commencing on or after January 10, 2011, the salary of each constitutional officer shall be no more than 90% of the amount last set by the Compensation Review Board. Amends the General Assembly Compensation Act. Provides that, for terms commencing on or after January 12, 2011, each member of the General Assembly shall receive compensation that is no more than 90% of the amount last set by the Compensation Review Board. Amends the Compensation Review Act. For fiscal year 2012 and each fiscal year thereafter, prohibits a cost of living adjustment for General Assembly members and elected executive branch constitutional officers. Effective immediately.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)

Status: (Failed) 2013-01-08 - Session Sine Die [SB1568 Detail]

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97TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2011 and 2012 SB1568 Introduced 2/9/2011, by Sen. Wm. Sam McCann SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
5 ILCS 290/1 from Ch. 53, par. 1
25 ILCS 115/1 from Ch. 63, par. 14
25 ILCS 120/5.7
25 ILCS 120/5.8 new
Amends the Salaries Act. Provides that, for terms commencing on or after January 10, 2011, the salary of each constitutional officer shall be no more than 90% of the amount last set by the Compensation Review Board. Amends the General Assembly Compensation Act. Provides that, for terms commencing on or after January 12, 2011, each member of the General Assembly shall receive compensation that is no more than 90% of the amount last set by the Compensation Review Board. Amends the Compensation Review Act. For fiscal year 2012 and each fiscal year thereafter, prohibits a cost of living adjustment for General Assembly members and elected executive branch constitutional officers. Effective immediately.
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AN ACT concerning government.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The Salaries Act is amended by changing Section
1 as follows:
(5 ILCS 290/1) (from Ch. 53, par. 1)
Sec. 1. There shall be allowed and paid an annual salary
in lieu of all other salaries, fees, perquisites, benefit of
compensation in any form whatsoever, to each of the officers
herein named, the following respectively.
(1) For terms commencing before January 10, 2011:
To the Governor, a salary set by the Compensation
Review Board, together with the use and occupancy of
the executive mansion.
To the Lieutenant Governor, a salary set by the
Compensation Review Board.
To the Secretary of State, a salary set by the
Compensation Review Board.
To the Comptroller, a salary set by the
Compensation Review Board.
To the Treasurer, a salary set by the Compensation
Review Board.
To the Attorney General, a salary set by the

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Compensation Review Board.
(2) For terms commencing on or after January 10, 2011:
To the Governor, a salary that is no more than 90%
of the amount last set by the Compensation Review Board
for that office, together with the use and occupancy of
the executive mansion.
To the Lieutenant Governor, a salary that is no
more than 90% of the amount last set by the
Compensation Review Board for that office.
To the Secretary of State, a salary that is no more
than to 90% of the amount last set by the Compensation
Review Board for that office.
To the Comptroller, a salary that is no more than
90% of the amount last set by the Compensation Review
Board for that office.
To the Attorney General, a salary that is no more
than 90% of the amount last set by the Compensation
Review Board for that office.
(Source: P.A. 89-657, eff. 8-14-96.)
Section 10. The General Assembly Compensation Act is
amended by changing Section 1 as follows:
(25 ILCS 115/1) (from Ch. 63, par. 14)
Sec. 1. Annual salary; mileage. For terms commencing before
January 12, 2011, each Each member of the General Assembly

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shall receive an annual salary of $28,000 or as set by the
Compensation Review Board, whichever is greater. For terms
commencing on or after January 12, 2011, each member of the
General Assembly shall receive an annual salary that is no more
than 90% of the amount last set by the Compensation Review
Board.
The following named officers, committee chairmen and
committee minority spokesmen shall receive additional amounts
per year for their services as such officers, committee
chairmen and committee minority spokesmen respectively, as set
by the Compensation Review Board or, as follows, whichever is
greater: Beginning the second Wednesday in January 1989, the
Speaker and the minority leader of the House of Representatives
and the President and the minority leader of the Senate,
$16,000 each; the majority leader in the House of
Representatives $13,500; 6 assistant majority leaders and 5
assistant minority leaders in the Senate, $12,000 each; 6
assistant majority leaders and 6 assistant minority leaders in
the House of Representatives, $10,500 each; 2 Deputy Majority
leaders in the House of Representatives $11,500 each; and 2
Deputy Minority leaders in the House of Representatives,
$11,500 each; the majority caucus chairman and minority caucus
chairman in the Senate, $12,000 each; and beginning the second
Wednesday in January, 1989, the majority conference chairman
and the minority conference chairman in the House of
Representatives, $10,500 each; beginning the second Wednesday

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in January, 1989, the chairman and minority spokesman of each
standing committee of the Senate, except the Rules Committee,
the Committee on Committees, and the Committee on Assignment of
Bills, $6,000 each; and beginning the second Wednesday in
January, 1989, the chairman and minority spokesman of each
standing and select committee of the House of Representatives,
$6,000 each. A member who serves in more than one position as
an officer, committee chairman, or committee minority
spokesman shall receive only one additional amount based on the
position paying the highest additional amount.
The compensation provided for in this Section to be paid
per year to members of the General Assembly, including the
additional sums payable per year to officers of the General
Assembly shall be paid in 12 equal monthly installments. The
first such installment is payable on January 31, 1977. All
subsequent equal monthly installments are payable on the last
working day of the month. A member who has held office any part
of a month is entitled to compensation for an entire month.
Mileage shall be paid at the rate of 20 cents per mile
before January 9, 1985, and at the mileage allowance rate in
effect under regulations promulgated pursuant to 5 U.S.C.
5707(b)(2) beginning January 9, 1985, for the number of actual
highway miles necessarily and conveniently traveled by the most
feasible route to be present upon convening of the sessions of
the General Assembly by such member in each and every trip
during each session in going to and returning from the seat of

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government, to be computed by the Comptroller. A member
traveling by public transportation for such purposes, however,
shall be paid his or her actual cost of that transportation
instead of on the mileage rate if his or her cost of public
transportation exceeds the amount to which he or she would be
entitled on a mileage basis. No member may be paid, whether on
a mileage basis or for actual costs of public transportation,
for more than one such trip for each week the General Assembly
is actually in session. Each member shall also receive an
allowance of $36 per day for lodging and meals while in
attendance at sessions of the General Assembly before January
9, 1985; beginning January 9, 1985, such food and lodging
allowance shall be equal to the amount per day permitted to be
deducted for such expenses under the Internal Revenue Code;
however, beginning May 31, 1995, no allowance for food and
lodging while in attendance at sessions is authorized for
periods of time after the last day in May of each calendar
year, except (i) if the General Assembly is convened in special
session by either the Governor or the presiding officers of
both houses, as provided by subsection (b) of Section 5 of
Article IV of the Illinois Constitution or (ii) if the General
Assembly is convened to consider bills vetoed, item vetoed,
reduced, or returned with specific recommendations for change
by the Governor as provided in Section 9 of Article IV of the
Illinois Constitution. Notwithstanding any other provision,
for fiscal year 2011 only (i) the allowance for lodging and

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meals is $111 per day and (ii) mileage for automobile travel
shall be reimbursed at a rate of $0.39 per mile.
If a member dies having received only a portion of the
amount payable as compensation, the unpaid balance shall be
paid to the surviving spouse of such member, or, if there be
none, to the estate of such member.
(Source: P.A. 96-958, eff. 7-1-10.)
Section 15. The Compensation Review Act is amended by
changing Section 5.7 and by adding Section 5.8 as follows:
(25 ILCS 120/5.7)
Sec. 5.7. FY11 COLA's prohibited. Notwithstanding any
former or current provision of this Act, any other law, any
report of the Compensation Review Board, or any resolution of
the General Assembly to the contrary, members of the General
Assembly, State's attorneys, other than the county supplement,
elected executive branch constitutional officers of State
government, and persons in certain appointed offices of State
government, including the membership of State departments,
agencies, boards, and commissions, whose annual compensation
previously was recommended or determined by the Compensation
Review Board, are prohibited from receiving and shall not
receive any increase in compensation that would otherwise apply
based on a cost of living adjustment, as authorized by Senate
Joint Resolution 192 of the 86th General Assembly, for or

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during the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2010. That cost of
living adjustment shall apply again in the fiscal year
beginning July 1, 2011 and thereafter, except as provided in
Section 5.8.
(Source: P.A. 96-958, eff. 7-1-10.)
(25 ILCS 120/5.8 new)
Sec. 5.8. COLA's prohibited for General Assembly members
and elected executive branch constitutional officers.
Notwithstanding any former or current provision of this Act,
any other law, any report of the Compensation Review Board, or
any resolution of the General Assembly to the contrary, members
of the General Assembly and elected executive branch
constitutional officers of State government are prohibited
from receiving and shall not receive any increase in
compensation that would otherwise apply based on a cost of
living adjustment, as authorized by Senate Joint Resolution 192
of the 86th General Assembly, for or during the fiscal year
beginning July 1, 2011 and each fiscal year thereafter.
Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
becoming law.