103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2023 and 2024 HB5623 Introduced 2/9/2024, by Rep. Ann M. Williams SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED: 50 ILCS 70/10 Amends the Decennial Committees on Local Government Efficiency Act. Provides that a governmental unit may elect to form a decennial committee to study local efficiencies and report recommendations regarding efficiencies and increased accountability to the county board in which the governmental unit is located once every 10 years (rather than the governmental unit must form a decennial committee at least once every 10 years). Effective January 1, 2025. LRB103 38691 AWJ 68828 b A BILL FOR 103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2023 and 2024 HB5623 Introduced 2/9/2024, by Rep. Ann M. Williams SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED: 50 ILCS 70/10 50 ILCS 70/10 Amends the Decennial Committees on Local Government Efficiency Act. Provides that a governmental unit may elect to form a decennial committee to study local efficiencies and report recommendations regarding efficiencies and increased accountability to the county board in which the governmental unit is located once every 10 years (rather than the governmental unit must form a decennial committee at least once every 10 years). Effective January 1, 2025. LRB103 38691 AWJ 68828 b LRB103 38691 AWJ 68828 b A BILL FOR
103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2023 and 2024 HB5623 Introduced 2/9/2024, by Rep. Ann M. Williams SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
50 ILCS 70/10 50 ILCS 70/10
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Amends the Decennial Committees on Local Government Efficiency Act. Provides that a governmental unit may elect to form a decennial committee to study local efficiencies and report recommendations regarding efficiencies and increased accountability to the county board in which the governmental unit is located once every 10 years (rather than the governmental unit must form a decennial committee at least once every 10 years). Effective January 1, 2025.
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1 AN ACT concerning local government.
2 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3 represented in the General Assembly:
4 Section 5. The Decennial Committees on Local Government
5 Efficiency Act is amended by changing Section 10 as follows:
6 (50 ILCS 70/10)
7 Sec. 10. Formation of committee; members; vacancy;
8 administrative support.
9 (a) By June 10, 2023 (one year after the effective date of
10 this Act) and at least once every 10 years after June 10, 2023,
11 each governmental unit must form a committee to study local
12 efficiencies and report recommendations regarding efficiencies
13 and increased accountability to the county board in which the
14 governmental unit is located. A governmental unit may elect to
15 form a committee under this subsection once every 10 years
16 after June 10, 2023.
17 (b) Each committee's membership shall include the elected
18 or appointed members of the governing board of the
19 governmental unit; at least 2 residents within the territory
20 served by the governmental unit, who are appointed by the
21 chair of the governing board, with the advice and consent of
22 the governing board; and any chief executive officer or other
23 officer of the governmental unit. The committee shall be
103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2023 and 2024 HB5623 Introduced 2/9/2024, by Rep. Ann M. Williams SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
50 ILCS 70/10 50 ILCS 70/10
50 ILCS 70/10
Amends the Decennial Committees on Local Government Efficiency Act. Provides that a governmental unit may elect to form a decennial committee to study local efficiencies and report recommendations regarding efficiencies and increased accountability to the county board in which the governmental unit is located once every 10 years (rather than the governmental unit must form a decennial committee at least once every 10 years). Effective January 1, 2025.
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1 chaired by the president or chief elected or appointed
2 official of the governing board or his or her designee. The
3 chairperson may appoint additional members to the committee as
4 the chairperson deems appropriate.
5 Committee members shall serve without compensation but may
6 be reimbursed by the governmental unit for their expenses
7 incurred in performing their duties.
8 (b-5) In lieu of the committee described in subsection
9 (a), a highway commissioner of a township road district in a
10 county with a population under 400,000 and the township board
11 of the same township may form a joint committee for the
12 purposes described in subsection (a). That joint committee
13 shall include: the township trustees; the highway
14 commissioner; at least 2 residents of the territory served by
15 the governmental unit appointed by the township supervisor
16 with the advice and consent of the township board; at least one
17 resident of the governmental unit appointed by the highway
18 commissioner; and the township supervisor. The joint committee
19 shall be chaired by the township supervisor and shall issue a
20 joint report with 2 sections, one section for the township and
21 one section for the road district. Except with respect to its
22 composition and report, the joint committee shall otherwise
23 comply with subsection (b). References in this Act to a
24 "committee" shall also include a joint committee formed under
25 this subsection.
26 (c) A committee may employ or use the services of
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1 specialists in public administration and governmental
2 management and any other trained consultants, analysts,
3 investigators, and assistants it considers appropriate, and it
4 may seek assistance from community colleges and universities
5 as necessary to prepare the report required under Section 25.
6 (d) If a vacancy occurs in the committee membership, the
7 vacancy shall be filled in the same manner as the appointments
8 under subsection (b).
9 (e) Each governmental unit shall provide administrative
10 and other support to its committee.
11 (Source: P.A. 102-1088, eff. 6-10-22; 102-1136, eff. 2-10-23.)
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