Bill Text: IL HR0796 | 2015-2016 | 99th General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Urges the General Assembly to work towards a biennial budget.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 6-2)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-02-01 - Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Sara Wojcicki Jimenez [HR0796 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2015-HR0796-Introduced.html
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1 | HOUSE RESOLUTION
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2 | WHEREAS, The people of Illinois - who pay for a General | ||||||
3 | Assembly to plan for the long-term
affairs of the State - | ||||||
4 | deserve to have a budget planning document in place that | ||||||
5 | considers medium-term
and long-term spending pressures in the | ||||||
6 | setting of State spending priorities; and
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7 | WHEREAS, No budget has been enacted for fiscal year 2016, | ||||||
8 | the fiscal year that began on July 1,
2015; as a result, soon | ||||||
9 | the State of Illinois will have operated under 4 different | ||||||
10 | budgets in the span
of 2 years - the fiscal 2015 budget signed | ||||||
11 | by former Governor Quinn, the revised fiscal year 2015
budget | ||||||
12 | containing necessary "fixes" to the original, flawed FY15 | ||||||
13 | budget, the fiscal year 2016 non-budgeted
State spending cycle | ||||||
14 | being carried out right now under a series of State and federal | ||||||
15 | court
orders, and an enacted budget that will cover the | ||||||
16 | remainder of FY16; and
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17 | WHEREAS, Under the fiscal year 2016 non-budgeted State | ||||||
18 | spending cycle, State spending is
continuing without | ||||||
19 | legislative participation, putting Illinois on the financial | ||||||
20 | brink and setting our
State on a path to utter financial ruin | ||||||
21 | and economic devastation for our taxpayers; and
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22 | WHEREAS, Political pressures associated with the 2016 |
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1 | election cycle will only increase with time,
further tainting | ||||||
2 | the budget process with politics and raising the possibility | ||||||
3 | that, in the absence of
corrective action, a repetition of this | ||||||
4 | dismal pattern will occur as the spring 2016 deadline nears to
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5 | craft and enact a budget for fiscal year 2017; and
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6 | WHEREAS, The General Assembly needs to re-establish a | ||||||
7 | budget cycle and re-establish the
credibility it needs in order | ||||||
8 | to shift its attention to pension reform, property tax relief, | ||||||
9 | crime and violence, the jobs climate, the outmigration from | ||||||
10 | Illinois of younger and highly-educated workers
and | ||||||
11 | professionals, and other urgent issues; and
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12 | WHEREAS, Many states such as Nebraska, Ohio, and Texas, and | ||||||
13 | including the neighboring state of
Indiana, practice 2-year | ||||||
14 | spending plans or full-scale biennial budgeting; and
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15 | WHEREAS, The Constitution of Illinois directs the Governor | ||||||
16 | of Illinois to present an annual budget
proposal to the General | ||||||
17 | Assembly, but, as we have come to know all too well, nothing
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18 | constrains the General Assembly's actual responses to these | ||||||
19 | proposals, and nothing prevents the
General Assembly from | ||||||
20 | adopting a planning process that faces the fact that we, as a | ||||||
21 | State, are on the
financial brink, and responds to it in a | ||||||
22 | professional manner and in keeping with our identity as
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23 | legislators and our oaths of office; and
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1 | WHEREAS, In these times, moving toward a long-term budget | ||||||
2 | planning cycle will enable State
agencies performing essential | ||||||
3 | services, third-party service providers whose services are no | ||||||
4 | less
essential, and institutions and entities of higher | ||||||
5 | education to obtain the information that their leaders
have | ||||||
6 | testified is essential to carrying out their duties; therefore, | ||||||
7 | be it
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8 | RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE | ||||||
9 | NINETY-NINTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we | ||||||
10 | declare that it is expedient for the General
Assembly to adopt | ||||||
11 | a 2-year budget planning document to cover revenues in all of | ||||||
12 | fiscal years 2016
and 2017, take account of moneys already | ||||||
13 | spent, and control spending in the remainder of fiscal year
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14 | 2016 and all of fiscal year 2017; and be it further
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15 | RESOLVED, That this planning document should rely upon an | ||||||
16 | honest estimate, without false
promises or shoddy planning, of | ||||||
17 | the actual financial income (especially general funds income) | ||||||
18 | that
the State will take in during fiscal years 2016 and 2017; | ||||||
19 | and be it further
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20 | RESOLVED, That we urge the Commission on Government | ||||||
21 | Forecasting and Accountability and the
Governor's Office of | ||||||
22 | Management and Budget to work together to develop an |
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1 | extraordinary
consolidated revenue estimate for fiscal years | ||||||
2 | 2016 and 2017, this estimate to be presented to both
chambers | ||||||
3 | of the General Assembly no later than 30 days after the | ||||||
4 | adoption of this resolution; and be it further
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5 | RESOLVED, That we, the sponsors of this resolution, pledge | ||||||
6 | to use this consolidated 2-year
revenue estimate to work with | ||||||
7 | our colleagues to develop a 2-year State budget and financial
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8 | planning document; and be it further
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9 | RESOLVED, That our goal, as we develop this budget planning | ||||||
10 | document, will be to end the current
political cycle of | ||||||
11 | reactive emergency measures and budget court orders; and be it | ||||||
12 | further
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13 | RESOLVED, That suitable copies of this resolution be | ||||||
14 | presented to Michael J. Madigan, Speaker of
the House of | ||||||
15 | Representatives, John Cullerton, President of the Senate, and | ||||||
16 | Bruce Rauner, Governor.
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