104TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2025 and 2026 HB1104 Introduced , by Rep. Patrick Sheehan SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED: 50 ILCS 70/10 Amends the Decennial Committees on Local Government Efficiency Act. Provides that a governmental unit may form a committee (rather than must form a committee) to study local efficiencies and report recommendations regarding efficiencies and increased accountability to the county board in which the governmental unit is located. LRB104 04939 RTM 14966 b A BILL FOR 104TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2025 and 2026 HB1104 Introduced , by Rep. Patrick Sheehan 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 form a committee (rather than must form a committee) to study local efficiencies and report recommendations regarding efficiencies and increased accountability to the county board in which the governmental unit is located. LRB104 04939 RTM 14966 b LRB104 04939 RTM 14966 b A BILL FOR
104TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2025 and 2026 HB1104 Introduced , by Rep. Patrick Sheehan 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 form a committee (rather than must form a committee) to study local efficiencies and report recommendations regarding efficiencies and increased accountability to the county board in which the governmental unit is located.
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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 may must form a committee to study
12 local efficiencies and report recommendations regarding
13 efficiencies and increased accountability to the county board
14 in which the governmental unit is located.
15 (b) Each committee's membership shall include the elected
16 or appointed members of the governing board of the
17 governmental unit; at least 2 residents within the territory
18 served by the governmental unit, who are appointed by the
19 chair of the governing board, with the advice and consent of
20 the governing board; and any chief executive officer or other
21 officer of the governmental unit. The committee shall be
22 chaired by the president or chief elected or appointed
23 official of the governing board or his or her designee. The
104TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2025 and 2026 HB1104 Introduced , by Rep. Patrick Sheehan 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 form a committee (rather than must form a committee) to study local efficiencies and report recommendations regarding efficiencies and increased accountability to the county board in which the governmental unit is located.
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1 chairperson may appoint additional members to the committee as
2 the chairperson deems appropriate.
3 Committee members shall serve without compensation but may
4 be reimbursed by the governmental unit for their expenses
5 incurred in performing their duties.
6 (b-5) In lieu of the committee described in subsection
7 (a), a highway commissioner of a township road district in a
8 county with a population under 400,000 and the township board
9 of the same township may form a joint committee for the
10 purposes described in subsection (a). That joint committee
11 shall include: the township trustees; the highway
12 commissioner; at least 2 residents of the territory served by
13 the governmental unit appointed by the township supervisor
14 with the advice and consent of the township board; at least one
15 resident of the governmental unit appointed by the highway
16 commissioner; and the township supervisor. The joint committee
17 shall be chaired by the township supervisor and shall issue a
18 joint report with 2 sections, one section for the township and
19 one section for the road district. Except with respect to its
20 composition and report, the joint committee shall otherwise
21 comply with subsection (b). References in this Act to a
22 "committee" shall also include a joint committee formed under
23 this subsection.
24 (c) A committee may employ or use the services of
25 specialists in public administration and governmental
26 management and any other trained consultants, analysts,
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