Illinois 2025-2026 Regular Session

Illinois Senate Bill SB2151 Compare Versions

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1	1	104TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2025 and 2026 SB2151 Introduced 2/7/2025, by Sen. Cristina Castro SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED: 55 ILCS 5/5-1022 Amends the Counties Code. Provides that the State's Attorney in each county shall be exempt from letting contracts by competitive bid for services related to both criminal and civil litigation. Makes other changes. LRB104 10834 RTM 20915 b A BILL FOR 104TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2025 and 2026 SB2151 Introduced 2/7/2025, by Sen. Cristina Castro SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED: 55 ILCS 5/5-1022 55 ILCS 5/5-1022 Amends the Counties Code. Provides that the State's Attorney in each county shall be exempt from letting contracts by competitive bid for services related to both criminal and civil litigation. Makes other changes. LRB104 10834 RTM 20915 b LRB104 10834 RTM 20915 b A BILL FOR
2	2	104TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2025 and 2026 SB2151 Introduced 2/7/2025, by Sen. Cristina Castro SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
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5	5	Amends the Counties Code. Provides that the State's Attorney in each county shall be exempt from letting contracts by competitive bid for services related to both criminal and civil litigation. Makes other changes.
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11	11	1 AN ACT concerning local government.
12	12	2 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
13	13	3 represented in the General Assembly:
14	14	4 Section 5. The Counties Code is amended by changing
15	15	5 Section 5-1022 as follows:
16	16	6 (55 ILCS 5/5-1022)
17	17	7 Sec. 5-1022. Competitive bids.
18	18	8 (a) Any purchase by a county with fewer than 2,000,000
19	19	9 inhabitants, or an elected official in a county with fewer
20	20	10 than 2,000,000 inhabitants, including an elected official with
21	21	11 control of the internal operations of the office, of services,
22	22	12 materials, equipment, or supplies in excess of $30,000, other
23	23	13 than professional services, shall be contracted for in one of
24	24	14 the following ways:
25	25	15 (1) by a contract let to the lowest responsible bidder
26	26	16 after advertising for bids in a newspaper published within
27	27	17 the county or, if no newspaper is published within the
28	28	18 county, then a newspaper having general circulation within
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30	30	20 (2) by a contract let without advertising for bids in
31	31	21 the case of an emergency if authorized by the county
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33	33	23 (3) by a contract let without advertising for bids in
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37	37	104TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2025 and 2026 SB2151 Introduced 2/7/2025, by Sen. Cristina Castro SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
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40	40	Amends the Counties Code. Provides that the State's Attorney in each county shall be exempt from letting contracts by competitive bid for services related to both criminal and civil litigation. Makes other changes.
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68	68	1 the case of the expedited replacement of a disabled,
69	69	2 inoperable, or damaged patrol vehicle of the sheriff's
70	70	3 department if authorized by the county board.
71	71	4 (b) In determining the lowest responsible bidder, the
72	72	5 county board or elected official shall take into consideration
73	73	6 the qualities of the articles supplied; their conformity with
74	74	7 the specifications; their suitability to the requirements of
75	75	8 the county; the availability of support services; the
76	76	9 uniqueness of the service, materials, equipment, or supplies
77	77	10 as it applies to networked, integrated computer systems; the
78	78	11 compatibility to existing equipment; and the delivery terms.
79	79	12 In addition, the county board or elected official may take
80	80	13 into consideration the bidder's active participation in an
81	81	14 applicable apprenticeship program registered with the United
82	82	15 States Department of Labor. The county board also may take
83	83	16 into consideration whether a bidder is a private enterprise or
84	84	17 a State-controlled enterprise and, notwithstanding any other
85	85	18 provision of this Section or a lower bid by a State-controlled
86	86	19 enterprise, may let a contract to the lowest responsible
87	87	20 bidder that is a private enterprise.
88	88	21 (c) This Section does not apply to contracts by a county or
89	89	22 elected official with the federal government or to purchases
90	90	23 of used equipment, purchases at auction or similar
91	91	24 transactions which by their very nature are not suitable to
92	92	25 competitive bids, pursuant to an ordinance adopted by the
93	93	26 county board.
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104	104	1 (c-5) This Section does not apply to contracts by an
105	105	2 elected official with the federal government or to purchases
106	106	3 of used equipment, purchases at auction or similar
107	107	4 transactions which by their very nature are not suitable to
108	108	5 competitive bids.
109	109	6 (d) Notwithstanding the provisions of this Section, a
110	110	7 county or elected official may let without advertising for
111	111	8 bids in the case of purchases and contracts, when individual
112	112	9 orders do not exceed $35,000, for the use, purchase, delivery,
113	113	10 movement, or installation of data processing equipment,
114	114	11 software, or services and telecommunications and inter-connect
115	115	12 equipment, software, and services.
116	116	13 (e) A county or elected official may require, as a
117	117	14 condition of any contract for goods and services, that persons
118	118	15 awarded a contract with the county or elected official and all
119	119	16 affiliates of the person collect and remit Illinois Use Tax on
120	120	17 all sales of tangible personal property into the State of
121	121	18 Illinois in accordance with the provisions of the Illinois Use
122	122	19 Tax Act regardless of whether the person or affiliate is a
123	123	20 "retailer maintaining a place of business within this State"
124	124	21 as defined in Section 2 of the Use Tax Act. For purposes of
125	125	22 this subsection (e), the term "affiliate" means any entity
126	126	23 that (1) directly, indirectly, or constructively controls
127	127	24 another entity, (2) is directly, indirectly, or constructively
128	128	25 controlled by another entity, or (3) is subject to the control
129	129	26 of a common entity. For purposes of this subsection (e), an
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