Bill Text: IL HB4807 | 2011-2012 | 97th General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Amends the Illinois Administrative Procedure Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)

Status: (Failed) 2013-01-08 - Session Sine Die [HB4807 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2011-HB4807-Amended.html

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Rep. Dwight Kay

Filed: 3/22/2012

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AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 4807
AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 4807 by replacing
everything after the enacting clause with the following:
"Section 5. 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 and caucus and conference , committee chairmen and
committee minority spokesmen shall receive additional amounts
per year for their services as such officers and , 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

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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
in January, 1989, and through the second Tuesday in January,
2013, 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, and through the second Tuesday in January, 2013,
the chairman and minority spokesman of each standing and select
committee of the House of Representatives, $6,000 each.
Beginning on the second Wednesday in January, 2013, the
chairmen and minority spokesmen of standing committees in the
Senate and the House of Representatives shall not receive
additional compensation for service in that capacity. A member
who serves in more than one position as an officer, caucus

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committee chairman, or conference chairman 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
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

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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 and
for session days in fiscal year 2012 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

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Board, except that fiscal year 2012 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. 96-958, eff. 7-1-10; 97-71, eff. 6-30-11.)
Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
becoming law.".