Bill Text: IL HB5492 | 2013-2014 | 98th General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Amends the Illinois Procurement Code. Provides that, upon request, the Director or Secretary of any State agency shall appear before the Procurement Policy board at a regularly scheduled meeting of the board to address any questions or concerns of the board. Effective immediately.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)
Status: (Failed) 2014-12-03 - Session Sine Die [HB5492 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2013-HB5492-Introduced.html
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| 1 | AN ACT concerning finance.
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| 2 | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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| 3 | represented in the General Assembly:
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| 4 | Section 5. The Illinois Procurement Code is amended by | |||||||||||||||||||
| 5 | changing Section 5-25 as follows:
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| 6 | (30 ILCS 500/5-25)
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| 7 | Sec. 5-25. Rulemaking authority; agency policy; agency | |||||||||||||||||||
| 8 | response. | |||||||||||||||||||
| 9 | (a) Rulemaking. A chief procurement officer
authorized to | |||||||||||||||||||
| 10 | make
procurements under this Code shall have the authority to
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| 11 | promulgate rules to carry out that
authority.
That rulemaking | |||||||||||||||||||
| 12 | on specific procurement
topics is mentioned in specific | |||||||||||||||||||
| 13 | Sections of this Code shall not be construed as
prohibiting or | |||||||||||||||||||
| 14 | limiting rulemaking on other procurement topics.
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| 15 | All rules
shall be promulgated in accordance with the | |||||||||||||||||||
| 16 | Illinois Administrative Procedure
Act. Contractual provisions, | |||||||||||||||||||
| 17 | specifications, and procurement descriptions are
not rules and | |||||||||||||||||||
| 18 | are not subject to the Illinois Administrative Procedure Act.
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| 19 | All rules other than those promulgated by the Board
shall be | |||||||||||||||||||
| 20 | presented in writing to the Board and the Executive Procurement | |||||||||||||||||||
| 21 | Officer for review and
comment. The Board and the Executive | |||||||||||||||||||
| 22 | Procurement Officer shall express their opinions and | |||||||||||||||||||
| 23 | recommendations in writing. The
proposed rules and | |||||||||||||||||||
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| 1 | recommendations shall be made available for
public review. The | ||||||
| 2 | rules shall also be approved by the Joint Committee on | ||||||
| 3 | Administrative Rules.
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| 4 | (b) Policy. Each chief procurement officer shall promptly | ||||||
| 5 | notify the Procurement Policy Board in writing of any proposed | ||||||
| 6 | new procurement rule or policy or any proposed change in an | ||||||
| 7 | existing procurement rule or policy.
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| 8 | (c) Response. Each State agency must respond promptly in | ||||||
| 9 | writing to all inquiries and comments of the Procurement Policy | ||||||
| 10 | Board or Executive Procurement Officer and, upon request, the | ||||||
| 11 | Director or Secretary of the State agency shall appear before | ||||||
| 12 | the Board at a regularly scheduled meeting of the Board to | ||||||
| 13 | address any questions or concerns of the Board.
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| 14 | (Source: P.A. 96-795, eff. 7-1-10 (see Section 5 of P.A. 96-793 | ||||||
| 15 | for the effective date of changes made by P.A. 96-795).)
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| 16 | Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | ||||||
| 17 | becoming law.
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