Bill Text: IL HB5504 | 2009-2010 | 96th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the State Finance Act. Provides that no State funds may be expended for nonessential promotional purposes or advertising or for any other nonessential goods or services. Defines "nonessential" as not critical to the health, welfare, and safety of the citizens of Illinois. The prohibition applies to expenditures by State agencies and also to expenditures by State grant recipients from grant moneys. Provides for the Comptroller to enforce the prohibition, and allows the Comptroller to require State agencies and grant recipients to justify any expenditures that the Comptroller believes may be nonessential. Effective immediately.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-03-17 - Tabled By Sponsor Rep. Chapin Rose [HB5504 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2009-HB5504-Introduced.html

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96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2009 and 2010 HB5504 Introduced 2/5/2010, by Rep. Chapin Rose SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
30 ILCS 105/9.07 new
Amends the State Finance Act. Provides that no State funds may be expended for nonessential promotional purposes or advertising or for any other nonessential goods or services. Defines "nonessential" as not critical to the health, welfare, and safety of the citizens of Illinois. The prohibition applies to expenditures by State agencies and also to expenditures by State grant recipients from grant moneys. Provides for the Comptroller to enforce the prohibition, and allows the Comptroller to require State agencies and grant recipients to justify any expenditures that the Comptroller believes may be nonessential. Effective immediately.
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AN ACT concerning finance.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The State Finance Act is amended by adding
Section 9.07 as follows:
(30 ILCS 105/9.07 new)
Sec. 9.07. Freeze; nonessential expenditures. Beginning on
the effective date of this amendatory Act of the 96th General
Assembly, no State funds may be expended for nonessential
promotional purposes or advertising or for any other
nonessential goods or services. In this Section,
"nonessential" means not critical to the health, welfare, and
safety of the citizens of Illinois. This prohibition applies to
expenditures by State agencies and also to expenditures by
State grant recipients from grant moneys. The Comptroller shall
enforce the provisions of this Section and may require State
agencies and grant recipients to justify any expenditures that
the Comptroller believes may be nonessential.
Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
becoming law.