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State of Illinois
2015 and 2016
HB2436 Introduced , by Rep. Dwight Kay SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
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Amends the General Assembly Compensation Act. Provides that, beginning on the second Wednesday in January, 2017, the chairmen and minority spokesmen of standing committees in the Senate and the House of Representatives shall not receive compensation for service in that capacity. Effective immediately.
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| 1 | | AN ACT concerning State 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 General Assembly Compensation Act is amended |
| 5 | | by changing Section 1 as follows:
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| 6 | | (25 ILCS 115/1) (from Ch. 63, par. 14) |
| 7 | | Sec. 1. Salary; stipends; travel, food, and lodging |
| 8 | | reimbursement. |
| 9 | | (a) Each member of the General Assembly shall receive an |
| 10 | | annual salary
of $28,000 or as set by the Compensation Review |
| 11 | | Board, whichever is
greater. |
| 12 | | (b) The
following named officers and conference and caucus , |
| 13 | | committee chairmen and committee minority spokesmen
shall |
| 14 | | receive additional amounts per year for
their services as such |
| 15 | | officers and , committee chairmen and committee
minority |
| 16 | | spokesmen respectively, as set by the Compensation
Review Board |
| 17 | | or, as follows, whichever is greater: |
| 18 | | (1) during terms of office beginning on or after |
| 19 | | Beginning the second
Wednesday in January 1989, |
| 20 | | (A) the Speaker and the minority leader of the
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| 21 | | House of Representatives and the
President and the |
| 22 | | minority leader of the Senate, $16,000 each; |
| 23 | | (B) the
majority leader in the House of |
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| 1 | | Representatives $13,500; |
| 2 | | (C)
6 assistant
majority leaders and 5 assistant |
| 3 | | minority leaders in the Senate,
$12,000
each; |
| 4 | | (D) 6 assistant majority leaders and 6 assistant |
| 5 | | minority leaders in
the House of Representatives, |
| 6 | | $10,500 each; |
| 7 | | (E) 2 Deputy
Majority leaders in the House of |
| 8 | | Representatives $11,500 each; and |
| 9 | | (F) 2 Deputy
Minority leaders in the House of |
| 10 | | Representatives, $11,500 each; |
| 11 | | (G) the majority
caucus chairman and minority |
| 12 | | caucus chairman in the Senate, $12,000 each;
and |
| 13 | | (2) during terms of office beginning on or after the |
| 14 | | second Wednesday in January, 1989, the majority
conference |
| 15 | | chairman and the minority conference chairman
in the House |
| 16 | | of Representatives, $10,500 each; and |
| 17 | | (3) during terms of office beginning on or after
the |
| 18 | | second Wednesday in January, 1989, and before the second |
| 19 | | Wednesday in January, 2017, the chairman and minority |
| 20 | | spokesman
of each standing committee of the Senate, except |
| 21 | | the Rules Committee, the
Committee on Committees, and the |
| 22 | | Committee on Assignment of Bills, $6,000
each; and |
| 23 | | (4) during terms of office beginning on or after the |
| 24 | | second Wednesday in January, 1989, and before the second |
| 25 | | Wednesday in January, 2017, the chairman and
minority |
| 26 | | spokesman of each standing and select committee of the |
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| 1 | | House of
Representatives, $6,000 each. |
| 2 | | During terms of office beginning on or after the second |
| 3 | | Wednesday in January, 2017, the chairmen and minority spokesmen |
| 4 | | of standing committees in the Senate and House of |
| 5 | | Representatives shall not receive additional compensation for |
| 6 | | service in that capacity. |
| 7 | | A member who serves in more than one
position as an |
| 8 | | officer, caucus committee chairman, or conference chairman |
| 9 | | committee minority spokesman
shall receive only one additional |
| 10 | | amount based on the position paying the
highest additional |
| 11 | | amount. The
compensation provided for in this Section to be |
| 12 | | paid per year to members
of the General Assembly, including the |
| 13 | | additional sums payable per year
to officers of the General |
| 14 | | Assembly shall be paid in 12 equal monthly
installments. The |
| 15 | | first such installment is payable on January 31,
1977. All |
| 16 | | subsequent equal monthly installments are payable on the last
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| 17 | | working day of the month. A member who has held office any part |
| 18 | | of a
month is entitled to compensation for an entire month. |
| 19 | | (c) Mileage shall be paid at the rate of 20 cents per mile |
| 20 | | before January
9, 1985, and at the mileage allowance rate in |
| 21 | | effect under regulations
promulgated pursuant to 5 U.S.C. |
| 22 | | 5707(b)(2) beginning January 9, 1985, for the number
of actual |
| 23 | | highway miles necessarily and conveniently traveled by the
most |
| 24 | | feasible route to be present upon convening of the sessions of |
| 25 | | the
General Assembly by such member in each and every trip |
| 26 | | during each
session in going to and returning from the seat of |
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| 1 | | government, to be
computed by the Comptroller. A member |
| 2 | | traveling by public
transportation for such purposes, however, |
| 3 | | shall be paid his actual cost
of that transportation instead of |
| 4 | | on the mileage rate if his cost of
public transportation |
| 5 | | exceeds the amount to which he would be entitled
on a mileage |
| 6 | | basis. No member may be paid, whether on a mileage basis
or for |
| 7 | | actual costs of public transportation, for more than one such
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| 8 | | trip for each week the General Assembly is actually in session. |
| 9 | | Each
member shall also receive an allowance of $36 per day for |
| 10 | | lodging and
meals while in attendance at sessions
of the |
| 11 | | General Assembly before January 9, 1985; beginning January 9,
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| 12 | | 1985, such food and lodging allowance shall be equal to the |
| 13 | | amount per day
permitted to be deducted for such expenses under |
| 14 | | the Internal Revenue Code;
however, beginning May 31, 1995, no |
| 15 | | allowance for food and lodging while in
attendance at sessions |
| 16 | | is authorized for periods of time after the last day in
May of |
| 17 | | each calendar year, except (i) if the General Assembly is |
| 18 | | convened in
special session by either the Governor or the |
| 19 | | presiding officers of both
houses, as provided by subsection |
| 20 | | (b) of Section 5 of Article IV of the
Illinois Constitution or |
| 21 | | (ii) if the
General Assembly is convened to consider bills |
| 22 | | vetoed, item vetoed, reduced, or
returned with specific |
| 23 | | recommendations for change by the Governor as provided
in |
| 24 | | Section 9 of Article IV of the Illinois Constitution. For |
| 25 | | fiscal year 2011 and for session days in fiscal years 2012, |
| 26 | | 2013, 2014, and 2015 only (i) the allowance for lodging and |
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| 1 | | meals is $111 per day and (ii) mileage for automobile travel |
| 2 | | shall be reimbursed at a rate of $0.39 per mile. |
| 3 | | Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, |
| 4 | | beginning in fiscal year 2012, travel reimbursement for
General |
| 5 | | Assembly members on non-session days shall be
calculated using |
| 6 | | the guidelines set forth by the Legislative
Travel Control |
| 7 | | Board, except that fiscal year 2012, 2013, 2014, and 2015 |
| 8 | | mileage reimbursement is set at a rate of $0.39 per mile. |
| 9 | | (d) If a member dies having received only a portion of the |
| 10 | | amount payable
as compensation, the unpaid balance shall be |
| 11 | | paid to the surviving
spouse of such member, or, if there be |
| 12 | | none, to the estate of such member. |
| 13 | | (Source: P.A. 97-71, eff. 6-30-11; 97-718, eff. 6-29-12; 98-30, |
| 14 | | eff. 6-24-13; 98-682, eff. 6-30-14.)
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| 15 | | Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon |
| 16 | | becoming law.
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