Bill Text: IL HB2034 | 2019-2020 | 101st General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the General Assembly Compensation Act. Provides that beginning in 2019, and for each year thereafter, if the General Assembly fails to pass a balanced budget by June 30 of each year, the compensation to be paid to members of the General Assembly, including the additional sums payable to officers of the General Assembly, shall be withheld until a balanced budget is passed. Amends the State Budget Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois. Removes the salary of members of the General Assembly from continuing appropriations provisions. Effective immediately.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-03-29 - Rule 19(a) / Re-referred to Rules Committee [HB2034 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2019-HB2034-Introduced.html

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101ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2019 and 2020 HB2034 Introduced , by Rep. John M. Cabello SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
15 ILCS 20/50-22
25 ILCS 115/1 from Ch. 63, par. 14
Amends the General Assembly Compensation Act. Provides that beginning in 2019, and for each year thereafter, if the General Assembly fails to pass a balanced budget by June 30 of each year, the compensation to be paid to members of the General Assembly, including the additional sums payable to officers of the General Assembly, shall be withheld until a balanced budget is passed. Amends the State Budget Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois. Removes the salary of members of the General Assembly from continuing appropriations provisions. 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 State Budget Law of the Civil Administrative
Code of Illinois is amended by changing Section 50-22 as
follows:
(15 ILCS 20/50-22)
Sec. 50-22. Funding for salaries of General Assembly
members and judges; legislative operations.
(a) Beginning July 1, 2014, the aggregate appropriations
available for salaries for members of the General Assembly and
judges from all State funds for each State fiscal year shall be
no less than the total aggregate appropriations made available
for salaries for members of the General Assembly and judges for
the immediately preceding fiscal year.
(b) Beginning July 1, 2014, the aggregate appropriations
available for legislative operations from all State funds for
each State fiscal year shall be no less than the total
aggregate appropriations made available for legislative
operations for the immediately preceding fiscal year. For
purposes of this subsection (b), "legislative operations"
means any expenditure for the operation of the Office of the
Auditor General, the House of Representatives, the Senate, the

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Legislative Ethics Commission, the Office of the Legislative
Inspector General, the Joint Committee on Legislative Support
Services, and the legislative support services agencies.
(c) If for any reason the aggregate appropriations made
available are insufficient to meet the levels required by
subsections (a) and (b) of this Section, this Section shall
constitute a continuing appropriation of all amounts necessary
for these purposes. The General Assembly may appropriate lesser
amounts by law.
(Source: P.A. 98-682, eff. 6-30-14.)
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. Each member of the General Assembly shall receive
an annual salary of $28,000 or as set by the Compensation
Review Board, whichever is greater. 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

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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 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

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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. Beginning in 2019, and for each year
thereafter, if the General Assembly fails to pass a balanced
budget by June 30 of each year, the compensation provided in
this Section to be paid to members of the General Assembly,
including the additional sums payable to officers of the
General Assembly, shall be withheld until a balanced budget is
passed.
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
government, to be computed by the Comptroller. A member
traveling by public transportation for such purposes, however,
shall be paid his actual cost of that transportation instead of
on the mileage rate if his cost of public transportation
exceeds the amount to which he 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.

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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. For
fiscal year 2011 and for session days in fiscal years 2012,
2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, and 2019 only (i) the
allowance for lodging and meals is $111 per day and (ii)
mileage for automobile travel shall be reimbursed at a rate of
$0.39 per mile.
Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary,
beginning in fiscal year 2012, travel reimbursement for General
Assembly members on non-session days shall be calculated using
the guidelines set forth by the Legislative Travel Control
Board, except that fiscal year 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016,

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2017, 2018, and 2019 mileage reimbursement is set 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. 99-355, eff. 8-13-15; 99-523, eff. 6-30-16;
100-25, eff. 7-26-17; 100-587, eff. 6-4-18.)
Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
becoming law.