Bill Text: IL HB5777 | 2019-2020 | 101st General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the General Assembly Compensation Act. Establishes the fiscal year 2021 mileage reimbursement rate and allowance for lodging and meals. Amends the Compensation Review Act. Reverses the increase in compensation for members of the General Assembly to the level of compensation received by members for fiscal year 2019. Prohibits cost-of-living adjustments for or during the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2020 for State government legislative and executive elected officers and appointees in positions for which the Compensation Review Board previously recommended or determined compensation. Effective immediately.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 44-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-05-22 - Added Co-Sponsor Rep. David McSweeney [HB5777 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2019-HB5777-Introduced.html

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101ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2019 and 2020 HB5777 Introduced , by Rep. Charles Meier SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
25 ILCS 115/1 from Ch. 63, par. 14
25 ILCS 120/6.7 new
25 ILCS 120/6.8 new
Amends the General Assembly Compensation Act. Establishes the fiscal year 2021 mileage reimbursement rate and allowance for lodging and meals. Amends the Compensation Review Act. Reverses the increase in compensation for members of the General Assembly to the level of compensation received by members for fiscal year 2019. Prohibits cost-of-living adjustments for or during the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2020 for State government legislative and executive elected officers and appointees in positions for which the Compensation Review Board previously recommended or determined compensation. Effective immediately.
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AN ACT concerning State government.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The General Assembly Compensation Act is amended
by changing Section 1 as follows:
(25 ILCS 115/1) (from Ch. 63, par. 14)
Sec. 1. Each member of the General Assembly shall receive
an annual salary of $28,000 or as set by the Compensation
Review Board, whichever is greater. The following named
officers, committee chairmen and committee minority spokesmen
shall receive additional amounts per year for their services as
such officers, committee chairmen and committee minority
spokesmen respectively, as set by the Compensation Review Board
or, as follows, whichever is greater: Beginning the second
Wednesday in January 1989, the Speaker and the minority leader
of the House of Representatives and the President and the
minority leader of the Senate, $16,000 each; the majority
leader in the House of Representatives $13,500; 5 assistant
majority leaders and 5 assistant minority leaders in the
Senate, $12,000 each; 6 assistant majority leaders and 6
assistant minority leaders in the House of Representatives,
$10,500 each; 2 Deputy Majority leaders in the House of
Representatives $11,500 each; and 2 Deputy Minority leaders in

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the House of Representatives, $11,500 each; the majority caucus
chairman and minority caucus chairman in the Senate, $12,000
each; and beginning the second Wednesday in January, 1989, the
majority conference chairman and the minority conference
chairman in the House of Representatives, $10,500 each;
beginning the second Wednesday in January, 1989, the chairman
and minority spokesman of each standing committee of the
Senate, except the Rules Committee, the Committee on
Committees, and the Committee on Assignment of Bills, $6,000
each; and beginning the second Wednesday in January, 1989, the
chairman and minority spokesman of each standing and select
committee of the House of Representatives, $6,000 each; and
beginning fiscal year 2020, the majority leader in the Senate,
an amount equal to the majority leader in the House. A member
who serves in more than one position as an officer, committee
chairman, or committee minority spokesman shall receive only
one additional amount based on the position paying the highest
additional amount. The compensation provided for in this
Section to be paid per year to members of the General Assembly,
including the additional sums payable per year to officers of
the General Assembly shall be paid in 12 equal monthly
installments. The first such installment is payable on January
31, 1977. All subsequent equal monthly installments are payable
on the last working day of the month. A member who has held
office any part of a month is entitled to compensation for an
entire month.

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Mileage shall be paid at the rate of 20 cents per mile
before January 9, 1985, and at the mileage allowance rate in
effect under regulations promulgated pursuant to 5 U.S.C.
5707(b)(2) beginning January 9, 1985, for the number of actual
highway miles necessarily and conveniently traveled by the most
feasible route to be present upon convening of the sessions of
the General Assembly by such member in each and every trip
during each session in going to and returning from the seat of
government, to be computed by the Comptroller. A member
traveling by public transportation for such purposes, however,
shall be paid his actual cost of that transportation instead of
on the mileage rate if his cost of public transportation
exceeds the amount to which he would be entitled on a mileage
basis. No member may be paid, whether on a mileage basis or for
actual costs of public transportation, for more than one such
trip for each week the General Assembly is actually in session.
Each member shall also receive an allowance of $36 per day for
lodging and meals while in attendance at sessions of the
General Assembly before January 9, 1985; beginning January 9,
1985, such food and lodging allowance shall be equal to the
amount per day permitted to be deducted for such expenses under
the Internal Revenue Code; however, beginning May 31, 1995, no
allowance for food and lodging while in attendance at sessions
is authorized for periods of time after the last day in May of
each calendar year, except (i) if the General Assembly is
convened in special session by either the Governor or the

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presiding officers of both houses, as provided by subsection
(b) of Section 5 of Article IV of the Illinois Constitution or
(ii) if the General Assembly is convened to consider bills
vetoed, item vetoed, reduced, or returned with specific
recommendations for change by the Governor as provided in
Section 9 of Article IV of the Illinois Constitution. For
fiscal year 2011 and for session days in fiscal years 2012,
2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, and 2019, and 2021 only (i)
the allowance for lodging and meals is $111 per day and (ii)
mileage for automobile travel shall be reimbursed at a rate of
$0.39 per mile.
Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary,
beginning in fiscal year 2012, travel reimbursement for General
Assembly members on non-session days shall be calculated using
the guidelines set forth by the Legislative Travel Control
Board, except that fiscal year 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016,
2017, 2018, and 2019, and 2021 mileage reimbursement is set at
a rate of $0.39 per mile.
If a member dies having received only a portion of the
amount payable as compensation, the unpaid balance shall be
paid to the surviving spouse of such member, or, if there be
none, to the estate of such member.
(Source: P.A. 100-25, eff. 7-26-17; 100-587, eff. 6-4-18;
101-10, eff. 6-5-19; revised 7-17-19.)
Section 10. The Compensation Review Act is amended by

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adding Sections 6.7 and 6.8 as follows:
(25 ILCS 120/6.7 new)
Sec. 6.7. General Assembly FY20 COLA. Notwithstanding any
former or current provision of this Act, any other law, any
report of the Compensation Review Board, or any resolution of
the General Assembly to the contrary, any increase in
compensation received by members of the General Assembly for or
during the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2019 based on a cost
of living adjustment, as authorized by Senate Joint Resolution
192 of the 86th General Assembly, shall revert to the level of
compensation received by members of the General Assembly for
fiscal year 2019. The requirements of this Section shall apply
to General Assembly member terms commencing on or after July 1,
2020, unless otherwise approved by law.
(25 ILCS 120/6.8 new)
Sec. 6.8. FY21 COLAs prohibited. Notwithstanding any
former or current provision of this Act, any other law, any
report of the Compensation Review Board, or any resolution of
the General Assembly to the contrary, members of the General
Assembly, State's attorneys, other than the county supplement,
elected executive branch constitutional officers of State
government, and persons in certain appointed offices of State
government, including the membership of State departments,
agencies, boards, and commissions, whose annual compensation

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previously was recommended or determined by the Compensation
Review Board, are prohibited from receiving and shall not
receive any increase in compensation that would otherwise apply
based on a cost of living adjustment, as authorized by Senate
Joint Resolution 192 of the 86th General Assembly, for or
during the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2020.
Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
becoming law.