Public Act 100-0025
 
HB0643 EnrolledLRB100 08175 RJF 18270 b


  
    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;
6 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 
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.  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.
    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 
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, and 2017, and 2018 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, 
and 2017, and 2018 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. 98-30, eff. 6-24-13; 98-682, eff. 6-30-14; 
99-355, eff. 8-13-15; 99-523, eff. 6-30-16.)
 
    Section 10. The Compensation Review Act is amended  by 
adding Section 6.5 as follows:
 
    (25 ILCS 120/6.5 new)
    Sec. 6.5. FY18 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 
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, 2017.
 
 
    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon 
becoming law.