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1 AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 5150
2 AMENDMENT NO. . Amend House Bill 5150 by replacing
3 everything after the enacting clause with the following:
4 "Section 5. The Illinois State Collection Act of 1986
5 is amended by changing Section 8 as follows:
6 (30 ILCS 210/8) (from Ch. 15, par. 158)
7 Sec. 8. Debt Collection Board. There is created a Debt
8 Collection Board consisting of the Director of Central
9 Management Services as chairman, the State Comptroller, and
10 the Attorney General, or their respective designees. The
11 Board shall establish a centralized collections service to
12 undertake further collection efforts on delinquent accounts
13 or claims of the State which have not been collected through
14 the reasonable efforts of the respective State agencies.
15 The Board shall promulgate rules and regulations pursuant to
16 the Illinois Administrative Procedure Act with regard to the
17 establishment of timetables and the assumption of
18 responsibility for agency accounts receivable that have not
19 been collected by the agency, are not subject to a current
20 repayment plan, or have not been certified as uncollectible
21 as of the date specified by the Board. The Board shall make
22 a final evaluation of those accounts and either (i) direct or
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1 conduct further collection activities when further collection
2 efforts are in the best economic interest of the State or
3 (ii) in accordance with Section 2 of the Uncollected State
4 Claims Act, certify the receivable as uncollectible or submit
5 the account to the Attorney General for that certification.
6 The Board is empowered to adopt rules and regulations
7 subject to the provisions of the Illinois Administrative
8 Procedure Act.
9 After an account has been certified by the Board or the
10 Attorney General as uncollectible under this Section, the
11 State Comptroller Board is empowered to enter into one or
12 more contracts with outside private vendors with demonstrated
13 capabilities in the area of account collection for the
14 collection of the delinquent accounts. The contracts shall be
15 let on the basis of competitive proposals secured from
16 responsible proposers. The State Comptroller Board may
17 require that vendors be prequalified. All contracts shall
18 provide for a contingent fee based on the age, nature, amount
19 and type of delinquent account. The State Comptroller Board
20 may adopt a reasonable classification schedule for the
21 various receivables. The contractor shall remit the amount
22 collected, net of the contingent fee, to the respective State
23 agency which shall deposit the net amount received into the
24 fund that would have received the receipt had it been
25 collected by the State agency. No portion of the collections
26 shall be deposited into an Accounts Receivable Fund
27 established under Section 6 of this Act. The Board shall
28 act only upon the unanimous vote of its members.
29 (Source: P.A. 89-511, eff. 1-1-97.)".