Bill Text: IL HB4363 | 2013-2014 | 98th General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Amends the State Finance Act. Provides that the reimbursement rate for lodging in Illinois (now, Cook County, Illinois) and the District of Columbia shall be reimbursed at the maximum lodging rate in effect under applicable federal regulations, unless an individual travel control board sets a more restrictive rate.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Failed) 2014-12-03 - Session Sine Die [HB4363 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2013-HB4363-Introduced.html


98TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2013 and 2014
HB4363

Introduced , by Rep. Frank J. Mautino

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
30 ILCS 105/12-2 from Ch. 127, par. 148-2

Amends the State Finance Act. Provides that the reimbursement rate for lodging in Illinois (now, Cook County, Illinois) and the District of Columbia shall be reimbursed at the maximum lodging rate in effect under applicable federal regulations, unless an individual travel control board sets a more restrictive rate.
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A BILL FOR

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1 AN ACT concerning finance.
2 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3represented in the General Assembly:
4 Section 5. The State Finance Act is amended by changing
5Section 12-2 as follows:
6 (30 ILCS 105/12-2) (from Ch. 127, par. 148-2)
7 Sec. 12-2. (a) The chairmen of the travel control boards
8established by Section 12-1, or their designees, shall together
9comprise the Travel Regulation Council. The Travel Regulation
10Council shall be chaired by the Director of Central Management
11Services, who shall be a nonvoting member of the Council,
12unless he is otherwise qualified to vote by virtue of being the
13designee of a voting member. No later than March 1, 1986, and
14at least biennially thereafter, the Council shall adopt State
15Travel Regulations and Reimbursement Rates which shall be
16applicable to all personnel subject to the jurisdiction of the
17travel control boards established by Section 12-1. An
18affirmative vote of a majority of the members of the Council
19shall be required to adopt regulations and reimbursement rates.
20If the Council fails to adopt regulations by March 1 of any
21odd-numbered year, the Director of Central Management Services
22shall adopt emergency regulations and reimbursement rates
23pursuant to the Illinois Administrative Procedure Act.

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1 (b) Mileage for automobile travel shall be reimbursed at
2the allowance rate in effect under regulations promulgated
3pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 5707(b)(2). In the event the rate set
4under federal regulations increases or decreases during the
5course of the State's fiscal year, the effective date of the
6new rate shall be the effective date of the change in the
7federal rate.
8 (c) Rates for reimbursement of expenses other than mileage
9shall not exceed the actual cost of travel as determined by the
10United States Internal Revenue Service.
11 (d) Reimbursements to travelers shall be made pursuant to
12the rates and regulations applicable to the respective State
13agency as of the effective date of this amendatory Act, until
14the State Travel Regulations and Reimbursement Rates
15established by this Section are adopted and effective.
16 (e) Lodging in Cook County, Illinois and the District of
17Columbia shall be reimbursed at the maximum lodging rate in
18effect under regulations promulgated pursuant to 5 U.S.C.
195701-5709. For purposes of this subsection (e), the District of
20Columbia shall include the cities and counties included in the
21per diem locality of the District of Columbia, as defined by
22the regulations in effect promulgated pursuant to 5 U.S.C.
235701-5709. Individual travel control boards may set a lodging
24reimbursement rate more restrictive than the rate set forth in
25the federal regulations.
26(Source: P.A. 96-240, eff. 1-1-10.)
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