Bill Text: IL SB1469 | 2015-2016 | 99th General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Amends the Counties Code. Provides that the county board or board of county commissioners shall hold a public hearing regarding the county's annual budget after making the budget available for public inspection and at least 7 days prior to the board's final action on the budget. Effective immediately.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 2)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-03-27 - Rule 3-9(a) / Re-referred to Assignments [SB1469 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2015-SB1469-Introduced.html
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| 1 | AN ACT concerning local government.
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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 Counties Code is amended by changing Section | |||||||||||||||||||
| 5 | 6-1001 as follows:
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| 6 | (55 ILCS 5/6-1001) (from Ch. 34, par. 6-1001)
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| 7 | Sec. 6-1001. Annual budget. In all counties not required by | |||||||||||||||||||
| 8 | law
to pass an annual appropriation bill within the first | |||||||||||||||||||
| 9 | quarter of the fiscal
year, the county board or board of county | |||||||||||||||||||
| 10 | commissioners, as the case may
be, shall adopt each year an | |||||||||||||||||||
| 11 | annual budget under the terms of this Division
for the | |||||||||||||||||||
| 12 | succeeding fiscal year. Such budget shall be prepared by some
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| 13 | person or persons designated by the county board and such | |||||||||||||||||||
| 14 | budget shall be
made conveniently available to public | |||||||||||||||||||
| 15 | inspection for at least fifteen days
prior to final action | |||||||||||||||||||
| 16 | thereon. After being made available for public inspection and | |||||||||||||||||||
| 17 | at least 7 days prior to the final action, the county board or | |||||||||||||||||||
| 18 | county board of commissioners shall hold a public hearing | |||||||||||||||||||
| 19 | regarding the budget. The vote on such budget shall be taken by
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| 20 | ayes and nays and entered on the record of the meeting. The | |||||||||||||||||||
| 21 | annual budget
adopted under this Act shall cover such a fiscal | |||||||||||||||||||
| 22 | period of one year to be
determined by the county board of each | |||||||||||||||||||
| 23 | county except as hereinafter
provided and all appropriations | |||||||||||||||||||
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| 1 | made therein shall terminate with the close
of said fiscal | ||||||
| 2 | period except as hereinafter provided, provided, however,
that | ||||||
| 3 | any remaining balances shall be available until 30 days after | ||||||
| 4 | the
close of the fiscal year in counties with a population of | ||||||
| 5 | less
than
100,000, and until 90 days after the close of the | ||||||
| 6 | fiscal year in
counties
with a population of more than 100,000 | ||||||
| 7 | but less than 3,000,000 inhabitants,
only for the authorization | ||||||
| 8 | of the payment of
obligations incurred prior to the close of | ||||||
| 9 | said fiscal period. Any county
which determines to change its | ||||||
| 10 | fiscal year may adopt a budget to cover such
period greater or | ||||||
| 11 | less than a year as may be necessary to effect such
change and | ||||||
| 12 | appropriations made therein shall terminate with the close
of | ||||||
| 13 | such period.
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| 14 | (Source: P.A. 90-777, eff. 1-1-99.)
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| 15 | Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | ||||||
| 16 | becoming law.
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