Bill Text: IL SB2006 | 2009-2010 | 96th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the State Finance Act concerning fiscal year limitations on spending. With respect to the authority that certain agencies now have to make payments from current appropriations for certain medical services provided in a previous fiscal year, terminates that authority on June 30, 2012.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2009-04-03 - Rule 3-9(a) / Re-referred to Assignments [SB2006 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2009-SB2006-Introduced.html

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96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2009 and 2010 SB2006 Introduced 2/20/2009, by Sen. Carole Pankau SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
30 ILCS 105/25 from Ch. 127, par. 161
Amends the State Finance Act concerning fiscal year limitations on spending. With respect to the authority that certain agencies now have to make payments from current appropriations for certain medical services provided in a previous fiscal year, terminates that authority on June 30, 2012.
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FISCAL NOTE ACT MAY APPLY
A BILL FOR
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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 changing
Section 25 as follows:
(30 ILCS 105/25) (from Ch. 127, par. 161)
Sec. 25. Fiscal year limitations.
(a) All appropriations shall be available for expenditure
for the fiscal year or for a lesser period if the Act making
that appropriation so specifies. A deficiency or emergency
appropriation shall be available for expenditure only through
June 30 of the year when the Act making that appropriation is
enacted unless that Act otherwise provides.
(b) Outstanding liabilities as of June 30, payable from
appropriations which have otherwise expired, may be paid out of
the expiring appropriations during the 2-month period ending at
the close of business on August 31. Any service involving
professional or artistic skills or any personal services by an
employee whose compensation is subject to income tax
withholding must be performed as of June 30 of the fiscal year
in order to be considered an "outstanding liability as of June
30" that is thereby eligible for payment out of the expiring
appropriation.

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However, payment of tuition reimbursement claims under
Section 14-7.03 or 18-3 of the School Code may be made by the
State Board of Education from its appropriations for those
respective purposes for any fiscal year, even though the claims
reimbursed by the payment may be claims attributable to a prior
fiscal year, and payments may be made at the direction of the
State Superintendent of Education from the fund from which the
appropriation is made without regard to any fiscal year
limitations.
Through June 30, 2012, medical Medical payments may be made
by the Department of Veterans' Affairs from its appropriations
for those purposes for any fiscal year, without regard to the
fact that the medical services being compensated for by such
payment may have been rendered in a prior fiscal year.
Through June 30, 2012, medical Medical payments may be made
by the Department of Healthcare and Family Services and medical
payments and child care payments may be made by the Department
of Human Services (as successor to the Department of Public
Aid) from appropriations for those purposes for any fiscal
year, without regard to the fact that the medical or child care
services being compensated for by such payment may have been
rendered in a prior fiscal year; through June 30, 2012, and
payments may be made at the direction of the Department of
Central Management Services from the Health Insurance Reserve
Fund and the Local Government Health Insurance Reserve Fund
without regard to any fiscal year limitations.

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Through June 30, 2012, medical Medical payments may be made
by the Department of Human Services from its appropriations
relating to substance abuse treatment services for any fiscal
year, without regard to the fact that the medical services
being compensated for by such payment may have been rendered in
a prior fiscal year, provided the payments are made on a
fee-for-service basis consistent with requirements established
for Medicaid reimbursement by the Department of Healthcare and
Family Services.
Additionally, payments may be made by the Department of
Human Services from its appropriations, or any other State
agency from its appropriations with the approval of the
Department of Human Services, from the Immigration Reform and
Control Fund for purposes authorized pursuant to the
Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986, without regard to
any fiscal year limitations.
Further, with respect to costs incurred in fiscal years
2002 and 2003 only, payments may be made by the State Treasurer
from its appropriations from the Capital Litigation Trust Fund
without regard to any fiscal year limitations.
Lease payments may be made by the Department of Central
Management Services under the sale and leaseback provisions of
Section 7.4 of the State Property Control Act with respect to
the James R. Thompson Center and the Elgin Mental Health Center
and surrounding land from appropriations for that purpose
without regard to any fiscal year limitations.

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Lease payments may be made under the sale and leaseback
provisions of Section 7.5 of the State Property Control Act
with respect to the Illinois State Toll Highway Authority
headquarters building and surrounding land without regard to
any fiscal year limitations.
(c) Further, through June 30, 2012, payments may be made by
the Department of Public Health and the Department of Human
Services (acting as successor to the Department of Public
Health under the Department of Human Services Act) from their
respective appropriations for grants for medical care to or on
behalf of persons suffering from chronic renal disease, persons
suffering from hemophilia, rape victims, and premature and
high-mortality risk infants and their mothers and for grants
for supplemental food supplies provided under the United States
Department of Agriculture Women, Infants and Children
Nutrition Program, for any fiscal year without regard to the
fact that the services being compensated for by such payment
may have been rendered in a prior fiscal year.
(d) The Department of Public Health and the Department of
Human Services (acting as successor to the Department of Public
Health under the Department of Human Services Act) shall each
annually submit to the State Comptroller, Senate President,
Senate Minority Leader, Speaker of the House, House Minority
Leader, and the respective Chairmen and Minority Spokesmen of
the Appropriations Committees of the Senate and the House, on
or before December 31, a report of fiscal year funds used to

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pay for services provided in any prior fiscal year. This report
shall document by program or service category those
expenditures from the most recently completed fiscal year used
to pay for services provided in prior fiscal years.
(e) The Department of Healthcare and Family Services, the
Department of Human Services (acting as successor to the
Department of Public Aid), and the Department of Human Services
making fee-for-service payments relating to substance abuse
treatment services provided during a previous fiscal year shall
each annually submit to the State Comptroller, Senate
President, Senate Minority Leader, Speaker of the House, House
Minority Leader, the respective Chairmen and Minority
Spokesmen of the Appropriations Committees of the Senate and
the House, on or before November 30, a report that shall
document by program or service category those expenditures from
the most recently completed fiscal year used to pay for (i)
services provided in prior fiscal years and (ii) services for
which claims were received in prior fiscal years.
(f) The Department of Human Services (as successor to the
Department of Public Aid) shall annually submit to the State
Comptroller, Senate President, Senate Minority Leader, Speaker
of the House, House Minority Leader, and the respective
Chairmen and Minority Spokesmen of the Appropriations
Committees of the Senate and the House, on or before December
31, a report of fiscal year funds used to pay for services
(other than medical care) provided in any prior fiscal year.

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This report shall document by program or service category those
expenditures from the most recently completed fiscal year used
to pay for services provided in prior fiscal years.
(g) In addition, each annual report required to be
submitted by the Department of Healthcare and Family Services
under subsection (e) shall include the following information
with respect to the State's Medicaid program:
(1) Explanations of the exact causes of the variance
between the previous year's estimated and actual
liabilities.
(2) Factors affecting the Department of Healthcare and
Family Services' liabilities, including but not limited to
numbers of aid recipients, levels of medical service
utilization by aid recipients, and inflation in the cost of
medical services.
(3) The results of the Department's efforts to combat
fraud and abuse.
(h) As provided in Section 4 of the General Assembly
Compensation Act, any utility bill for service provided to a
General Assembly member's district office for a period
including portions of 2 consecutive fiscal years may be paid
from funds appropriated for such expenditure in either fiscal
year.
(i) An agency which administers a fund classified by the
Comptroller as an internal service fund may issue rules for:
(1) billing user agencies in advance for payments or

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authorized inter-fund transfers based on estimated charges
for goods or services;
(2) issuing credits, refunding through inter-fund
transfers, or reducing future inter-fund transfers during
the subsequent fiscal year for all user agency payments or
authorized inter-fund transfers received during the prior
fiscal year which were in excess of the final amounts owed
by the user agency for that period; and
(3) issuing catch-up billings to user agencies during
the subsequent fiscal year for amounts remaining due when
payments or authorized inter-fund transfers received from
the user agency during the prior fiscal year were less than
the total amount owed for that period.
User agencies are authorized to reimburse internal service
funds for catch-up billings by vouchers drawn against their
respective appropriations for the fiscal year in which the
catch-up billing was issued or by increasing an authorized
inter-fund transfer during the current fiscal year. For the
purposes of this Act, "inter-fund transfers" means transfers
without the use of the voucher-warrant process, as authorized
by Section 9.01 of the State Comptroller Act.
(Source: P.A. 95-331, eff. 8-21-07.)