Bill Text: IL HB5535 | 2025-2026 | 104th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Illinois Drainage Code. Provides that each commissioner of a drainage district shall receive for the commissioner's services either (i) a sum not to exceed $30 per day for each day the commissioner is actually engaged in the business of the commissioner's office or (ii) a fixed monthly payment in an amount that is set by the county board and that does not exceed $30 multiplied by the number of business days in the applicable month (rather than a sum not to exceed $30 per day for each day the commissioner is actually engaged in the business of the commissioner's office).

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2026-04-17 - Rule 19(a) / Re-referred to Rules Committee [HB5535 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2025-HB5535-Introduced.html

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104TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2025 and 2026HB5535 Introduced , by Rep. Amy Elik SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
70 ILCS 605/4-13 from Ch. 42, par. 4-13
Amends the Illinois Drainage Code. Provides that each commissioner of a drainage district shall receive for the commissioner's services either (i) a sum not to exceed $30 per day for each day the commissioner is actually engaged in the business of the commissioner's office or (ii) a fixed monthly payment in an amount that is set by the county board and that does not exceed $30 multiplied by the number of business days in the applicable month (rather than a sum not to exceed $30 per day for each day the commissioner is actually engaged in the business of the commissioner's office).
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A BILL FOR
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AN ACT concerning local government.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The Illinois Drainage Code is amended by
changing Section 4-13 as follows:
(70 ILCS 605/4-13) (from Ch. 42, par. 4-13)
Sec. 4-13. Pay of commissioners.
(a) Each commissioner shall receive for the commissioner's
his services either (i) a sum not to exceed $30 per day for
each day the commissioner he is actually engaged in the
business of the commissioner's his office or (ii) a fixed
monthly payment in an amount that is set by the county board
and that does not exceed $30 multiplied by the number of
business days in the applicable month. In addition, the
commissioner , and he shall be reimbursed for the
commissioner's his necessary traveling and other expenses
incurred in the performance of the commissioner's his duties.
Each commissioner shall present to the court an itemized
account, under oath, of his claim for services and expenses,
which shall be audited by the court and certified by it to the
treasurer of the district for payment.
(b) The changes this amendatory Act of the 104th General
Assembly makes to the compensation of commissioners only apply

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to commissioners that begin their terms after the effective
date this amendatory Act of the 104th General Assembly.
(Source: P.A. 86-1266.)