Bill Text: IL SB0150 | 2019-2020 | 101st General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Creates the Public University Administrative Cost Decrease Act. Provides that all public universities shall annually submit a cost certification that certifies the level of spending dedicated to administrative costs for the current academic year. Provides that beginning with the 2020-2021 academic year, a Board of Trustees of a public university may not enact a budget that contains tuition or fee increases above that of the tuition and fees set in the 2017-2018 academic year until the Auditor General has verified that the cost certification submitted by the public university and due in the same calendar year of the proposed tuition or fees increase has shown a decrease of administrative costs by 25%. Amends the Illinois State Auditing Act. Makes related changes. Effective immediately.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Failed) 2021-01-13 - Session Sine Die [SB0150 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2019-SB0150-Introduced.html

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101ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2019 and 2020 SB0150 Introduced 1/29/2019, by Sen. Thomas Cullerton SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
New Act
30 ILCS 5/3-1 from Ch. 15, par. 303-1
Creates the Public University Administrative Cost Decrease Act. Provides that all public universities shall annually submit a cost certification that certifies the level of spending dedicated to administrative costs for the current academic year. Provides that beginning with the 2020-2021 academic year, a Board of Trustees of a public university may not enact a budget that contains tuition or fee increases above that of the tuition and fees set in the 2017-2018 academic year until the Auditor General has verified that the cost certification submitted by the public university and due in the same calendar year of the proposed tuition or fees increase has shown a decrease of administrative costs by 25%. Amends the Illinois State Auditing Act. Makes related changes. Effective immediately.
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AN ACT concerning education.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 1. Short title. This Act may be cited as the Public
University Administrative Cost Decrease Act.
Section 5. Definitions. In this Act:
"Administrator" means employees with executive,
administrative, and managerial assignments within the
university that involve planning, organizing, managing, and
directing the university and its subunits. If 50% or more of an
employee's time is spent teaching, then the employee shall not
be considered an administrator for the purposes of this Act.
"Board" means the Board of Higher Education.
"Public university" means Chicago State University,
Eastern Illinois University, Governors State University,
Illinois State University, Northeastern Illinois University,
Northern Illinois University, Southern Illinois University,
Western Illinois University, the University of Illinois, and
any other public university established or authorized by the
General Assembly.
Section 10. Administrative cost certification. All public
universities shall annually submit a cost certification to the

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General Assembly, the Governor, the Auditor General, and the
Board that certifies the level of spending dedicated to
administrative costs for the current academic year. The
certification shall be due on January 31, 2020 and every
January 31 thereafter.
Section 15. Limitation on tuition or fee increases.
Beginning with the 2020-2021 academic year, a Board of Trustees
of a public university may not enact a budget that contains
tuition or fee increases above that of the tuition and fees set
in the 2017-2018 academic year until the Auditor General has
verified that the cost certification submitted by the public
university and due in the same calendar year of the proposed
tuition or fees increase has shown a decrease of administrative
costs by 25%.
Section 20. The Illinois State Auditing Act is amended by
changing Section 3-1 as follows:
(30 ILCS 5/3-1) (from Ch. 15, par. 303-1)
Sec. 3-1. Jurisdiction of Auditor General. The Auditor
General has jurisdiction over all State agencies to make post
audits and investigations authorized by or under this Act or
the Constitution.
The Auditor General has jurisdiction over local government
agencies and private agencies only:

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(a) to make such post audits authorized by or under
this Act as are necessary and incidental to a post audit of
a State agency or of a program administered by a State
agency involving public funds of the State, but this
jurisdiction does not include any authority to review local
governmental agencies in the obligation, receipt,
expenditure or use of public funds of the State that are
granted without limitation or condition imposed by law,
other than the general limitation that such funds be used
for public purposes;
(b) to make investigations authorized by or under this
Act or the Constitution; and
(c) to make audits of the records of local government
agencies to verify actual costs of state-mandated programs
when directed to do so by the Legislative Audit Commission
at the request of the State Board of Appeals under the
State Mandates Act.
In addition to the foregoing, the Auditor General may
conduct an audit of the Metropolitan Pier and Exposition
Authority, the Regional Transportation Authority, the Suburban
Bus Division, the Commuter Rail Division and the Chicago
Transit Authority and any other subsidized carrier when
authorized by the Legislative Audit Commission. Such audit may
be a financial, management or program audit, or any combination
thereof.
The audit shall determine whether they are operating in

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accordance with all applicable laws and regulations. Subject to
the limitations of this Act, the Legislative Audit Commission
may by resolution specify additional determinations to be
included in the scope of the audit.
In addition to the foregoing, the Auditor General must also
conduct a financial audit of the Illinois Sports Facilities
Authority's expenditures of public funds in connection with the
reconstruction, renovation, remodeling, extension, or
improvement of all or substantially all of any existing
"facility", as that term is defined in the Illinois Sports
Facilities Authority Act.
The Auditor General may also conduct an audit, when
authorized by the Legislative Audit Commission, of any hospital
which receives 10% or more of its gross revenues from payments
from the State of Illinois, Department of Healthcare and Family
Services (formerly Department of Public Aid), Medical
Assistance Program.
The Auditor General is authorized to conduct financial and
compliance audits of the Illinois Distance Learning Foundation
and the Illinois Conservation Foundation.
As soon as practical after the effective date of this
amendatory Act of 1995, the Auditor General shall conduct a
compliance and management audit of the City of Chicago and any
other entity with regard to the operation of Chicago O'Hare
International Airport, Chicago Midway Airport and Merrill C.
Meigs Field. The audit shall include, but not be limited to, an

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examination of revenues, expenses, and transfers of funds;
purchasing and contracting policies and practices; staffing
levels; and hiring practices and procedures. When completed,
the audit required by this paragraph shall be distributed in
accordance with Section 3-14.
The Auditor General shall conduct a financial and
compliance and program audit of distributions from the
Municipal Economic Development Fund during the immediately
preceding calendar year pursuant to Section 8-403.1 of the
Public Utilities Act at no cost to the city, village, or
incorporated town that received the distributions.
The Auditor General must conduct an audit of the Health
Facilities and Services Review Board pursuant to Section 19.5
of the Illinois Health Facilities Planning Act.
The Auditor General of the State of Illinois shall annually
conduct or cause to be conducted a financial and compliance
audit of the books and records of any county water commission
organized pursuant to the Water Commission Act of 1985 and
shall file a copy of the report of that audit with the Governor
and the Legislative Audit Commission. The filed audit shall be
open to the public for inspection. The cost of the audit shall
be charged to the county water commission in accordance with
Section 6z-27 of the State Finance Act. The county water
commission shall make available to the Auditor General its
books and records and any other documentation, whether in the
possession of its trustees or other parties, necessary to

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conduct the audit required. These audit requirements apply only
through July 1, 2007.
The Auditor General must conduct audits of the Rend Lake
Conservancy District as provided in Section 25.5 of the River
Conservancy Districts Act.
The Auditor General must conduct financial audits of the
Southeastern Illinois Economic Development Authority as
provided in Section 70 of the Southeastern Illinois Economic
Development Authority Act.
The Auditor General shall conduct a compliance audit in
accordance with subsections (d) and (f) of Section 30 of the
Innovation Development and Economy Act.
The Auditor General shall verify the cost certification
submitted by all public universities under the Public
University Administrative Cost Decrease Act. The verification
shall be submitted to the General Assembly, the Governor, and
the Board of Higher Education.
(Source: P.A. 95-331, eff. 8-21-07; 96-31, eff. 6-30-09;
96-939, eff. 6-24-10.)
Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
becoming law.