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      (15 ILCS 20/Art. 50 heading)
ARTICLE 50. STATE BUDGET

    (15 ILCS 20/50‑1)
    Sec. 50‑1. Article short title. This Article 50 of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois may be cited as the State Budget Law.
(Source: P.A. 91‑239, eff. 1‑1‑00.)

    (15 ILCS 20/50‑5)
    Sec. 50‑5. Governor to submit State budget.
    (a) The Governor shall, as soon as possible and not later than the second Wednesday in March in 2010 (March 10, 2010) and the third Wednesday in February of each year beginning in 2011, except as otherwise provided in this Section, submit a State budget, embracing therein the amounts recommended by the Governor to be appropriated to the respective departments, offices, and institutions, and for all other public purposes, the estimated revenues from taxation, the estimated revenues from sources other than taxation, and an estimate of the amount required to be raised by taxation. The amounts recommended by the Governor for appropriation to the respective departments, offices and institutions shall be formulated according to the various functions and activities for which the respective department, office or institution of the State government (including the elective officers in the executive department and including the University of Illinois and the judicial department) is responsible. The amounts relating to particular functions and activities shall be further formulated in accordance with the object classification specified in Section 13 of the State Finance Act. In addition, the amounts recommended by the Governor for appropriation shall take into account each State agency's effectiveness in achieving its prioritized goals for the previous fiscal year, as set forth in Section 50‑25 of this Law, giving priority to agencies and programs that have demonstrated a focus on the prevention of waste and the maximum yield from resources.
    Beginning in fiscal year 2011, the Governor shall distribute written quarterly budget statements to the General Assembly and the State Comptroller. The statements shall be submitted on Wednesday of the last week of the last month of each quarter of the fiscal year and, as is currently the practice on the effective date of this amendatory Act of the 96th General Assembly, shall be posted on the Comptroller's website on the same day. The statements shall be prepared and presented in an executive summary format that includes, for the fiscal year to date, individual itemizations for each revenue source as well as individual itemizations of expenditures and obligations, by the classified line items set forth in Section 13 of the State Finance Act and for other purposes, with an appropriate level of detail. The statement shall include a calculation of the actual total budget surplus or deficit. The Governor shall also present periodic budget addresses throughout the fiscal year at the invitation of the General Assembly.
    The Governor shall not propose expenditures and the General Assembly shall not enact appropriations that exceed the resources estimated to be available, as provided in this Section. Appropriations may be adjusted during the fiscal year by means of one or more supplemental appropriation bills if any State agency either fails to meet or exceeds the goals set forth in Section 50‑25 of this Law.
    For the purposes of Article VIII, Section 2 of the 1970 Illinois Constitution, the State budget for the following funds shall be prepared on the basis of revenue and expenditure measurement concepts that are in concert with generally accepted accounting principles for governments:
        (1) General Revenue Fund.
        (2) Common School Fund.
        (3) Educational Assistance Fund.
        (4) Road Fund.
        (5) Motor Fuel Tax Fund.
        (6) Agricultural Premium Fund.
    These funds shall be known as the "budgeted funds". The revenue estimates used in the State budget for the budgeted funds shall include the estimated beginning fund balance, plus revenues estimated to be received during the budgeted year, plus the estimated receipts due the State as of June 30 of the budgeted year that are expected to be collected during the lapse period following the budgeted year, minus the receipts collected during the first 2 months of the budgeted year that became due to the State in the year before the budgeted year. Revenues shall also include estimated federal reimbursements associated with the recognition of Section 25 of the State Finance Act liabilities. For any budgeted fund for which current year revenues are anticipated to exceed expenditures, the surplus shall be considered to be a resource available for expenditure in the budgeted fiscal year.
    Expenditure estimates for the budgeted funds included in the State budget shall include the costs to be incurred by the State for the budgeted year, to be paid in the next fiscal year, excluding costs paid in the budgeted year which were carried over from the prior year, where the payment is authorized by Section 25 of the State Finance Act. For any budgeted fund for which expenditures are expected to exceed revenues in the current fiscal year, the deficit shall be considered as a use of funds in the budgeted fiscal year.
    Revenues and expenditures shall also include transfers between funds that are based on revenues received or costs incurred during the budget year.
    Appropriations for expenditures shall also include all anticipated statutory continuing appropriation obligations that are expected to be incurred during the budgeted fiscal year.
    By March 15 of each year, the Commission on Government Forecasting and Accountability shall prepare revenue and fund transfer estimates in accordance with the requirements of this Section and report those estimates to the General Assembly and the Governor.
    For all funds other than the budgeted funds, the proposed expenditures shall not exceed funds estimated to be available for the fiscal year as shown in the budget. Appropriation for a fiscal year shall not exceed funds estimated by the General Assembly to be available during that year.
    (b) This subsection applies only to the process for the proposed fiscal year 2011 budget.
    By February 24, 2010, the Governor must file a written report with the Secretary of the Senate and the Clerk of the House of Representatives containing the following:
        (1) for fiscal year 2010, the revenues for all
    budgeted funds, both actual to date and estimated for the full fiscal year;
        (2) for fiscal year 2010, the expenditures for all
    budgeted funds, both actual to date and estimated for the full fiscal year;
        (3) for fiscal year 2011, the estimated revenues
    for all budgeted funds, including without limitation the affordable General Revenue Fund appropriations, for the full fiscal year; and
        (4) for fiscal year 2011, an estimate of the
    anticipated liabilities for all budgeted funds, including without limitation the affordable General Revenue Fund appropriations, debt service on bonds issued, and the State's contributions to the pension systems, for the full fiscal year.
    Between February 24, 2010 and March 10, 2010, the members of the General Assembly and members of the public may make written budget recommendations to the Governor, and the Governor shall promptly make those recommendations available to the public through the Governor's Internet website.
(Source: P.A. 96‑1, eff. 2‑17‑09; 96‑320, eff. 1‑1‑10; 96‑881, eff. 2‑11‑10; 96‑958, eff. 7‑1‑10; 96‑1000, eff. 7‑2‑10.)

    (15 ILCS 20/50‑7)
    Sec. 50‑7. Online budget survey. Beginning in February of 2011, and during February of each year thereafter, the Governor's Office of Management and Budget shall post on its website a survey that will allow residents of the State to prioritize proposed spending measures for the next fiscal year. The Office shall post the results of each survey on its website.
(Source: P.A. 96‑958, eff. 7‑1‑10.)

    (15 ILCS 20/50‑10)(was 15 ILCS 20/38.1)
    Sec. 50‑10. Budget contents. The budget shall be submitted by the Governor with line item and program data. The budget shall also contain performance data presenting an estimate for the current fiscal year, projections for the budget year, and information for the 3 prior fiscal years comparing department objectives with actual accomplishments, formulated according to the various functions and activities, and, wherever the nature of the work admits, according to the work units, for which the respective departments, offices, and institutions of the State government (including the elective officers in the executive department and including the University of Illinois and the judicial department) are responsible.
    For the fiscal year beginning July 1, 1992 and for each fiscal year thereafter, the budget shall include the performance measures of each department's accountability report.
    For the fiscal year beginning July 1, 1997 and for each fiscal year thereafter, the budget shall include one or more line items appropriating moneys to the Department of Human Services to fund participation in the Home‑Based Support Services Program for Mentally Disabled Adults under the Developmental Disability and Mental Disability Services Act by persons described in Section 2‑17 of that Act.
    The budget shall contain a capital development section in which the Governor will present (1) information on the capital projects and capital programs for which appropriations are requested, (2) the capital spending plans, which shall document the first and subsequent years cash requirements by fund for the proposed bonded program, and (3) a statement that shall identify by year the principal and interest costs until retirement of the State's general obligation debt. In addition, the principal and interest costs of the budget year program shall be presented separately, to indicate the marginal cost of principal and interest payments necessary to retire the additional bonds needed to finance the budget year's capital program. In 2004 only, the capital development section of the State budget shall be submitted by the Governor not later than the fourth Tuesday of March (March 23, 2004).
    For the budget year, the current year, and 3 prior fiscal years, the Governor shall also include in the budget estimates of or actual values for the assets and liabilities for General Assembly Retirement System, State Employees' Retirement System of Illinois, State Universities Retirement System, Teachers' Retirement System of the State of Illinois, and Judges Retirement System of Illinois.
    The budget submitted by the Governor shall contain, in addition, in a separate book, a tabulation of all position and employment titles in each such department, office, and institution, the number of each, and the salaries for each, formulated according to divisions, bureaus, sections, offices, departments, boards, and similar subdivisions, which shall correspond as nearly as practicable to the functions and activities for which the department, office, or institution is responsible.
    Together with the budget, the Governor shall transmit the estimates of receipts and expenditures, as received by the Director of the Governor's Office of Management and Budget, of the elective officers in the executive and judicial departments and of the University of Illinois.
    An applicable appropriations committee of each chamber of the General Assembly, for fiscal year 2012 and thereafter, must review individual line item appropriations and the total budget for each State agency, as defined in the Illinois State Auditing Act.
(Source: P.A. 96‑958, eff. 7‑1‑10.)

    (15 ILCS 20/50‑15)(was 15 ILCS 20/38.2)
    Sec. 50‑15. Department accountability reports.
    (a) Beginning in the fiscal year which begins July 1, 1992, each department of State government as listed in Section 5‑15 of the Departments of State Government Law (20 ILCS 5/5‑15) shall submit an annual accountability report to the Bureau of the Budget (now Governor's Office of Management and Budget) at times designated by the Director of the Bureau of the Budget now Governor's Office of Management and Budget). Each accountability report shall be designed to assist the Bureau (now Office) in its duties under Sections 2.2 and 2.3 of the Governor's Office of Management and Budget Act and shall measure the department's performance based on criteria, goals, and objectives established by the department with the oversight and assistance of the Bureau (now Office). Each department shall also submit interim progress reports at times designated by the Director of the Bureau (now Office).
    (b) (Blank).
    (c) The Director of the Bureau (now Office) shall select not more than 3 departments for a pilot program implementing the procedures of subsection (a) for budget requests for the fiscal years beginning July 1, 1990 and July 1, 1991, and each of the departments elected shall submit accountability reports for those fiscal years.
    By April 1, 1991, the Bureau (now Office) shall recommend in writing to the Governor any changes in the budget review process established pursuant to this Section suggested by its evaluation of the pilot program. The Governor shall submit changes to the budget review process that the Governor plans to adopt, based on the report, to the President and Minority Leader of the Senate and the Speaker and Minority Leader of the House of Representatives.
(Source: P.A. 94‑793, eff. 5‑19‑06.)

    (15 ILCS 20/50‑20) (was 15 ILCS 20/38.3)
    Sec. 50‑20. Responsible Education Funding Law.
    (a) The Governor shall submit to the General Assembly a proposed budget for elementary and secondary education in which total General Revenue Fund appropriations are no less than the total General Revenue Fund appropriations of the previous fiscal year. In addition, the Governor shall specify the total amount of funds to be transferred from the General Revenue Fund to the Common School Fund during the budget year, which shall be no less than the total amount transferred during the previous fiscal year. The Governor may submit a proposed budget in which the total appropriated and transferred amounts are less than the previous fiscal year if the Governor declares in writing to the General Assembly the reason for the lesser amounts.
    (b) The General Assembly shall appropriate amounts for elementary and secondary education from the General Revenue Fund for each fiscal year so that the total General Revenue Fund appropriation is no less than the total General Revenue Fund appropriation for elementary and secondary education for the previous fiscal year. In addition, the General Assembly shall legislatively transfer from the General Revenue Fund to the Common School Fund for the fiscal year a total amount that is no less than the total amount transferred for the previous fiscal year. The General Assembly may appropriate or transfer lesser amounts if it declares by Joint Resolution the reason for the lesser amounts.
    (c) This Section may be cited as the Responsible Education Funding Law.
(Source: P.A. 91‑239, eff. 1‑1‑00.)

    (15 ILCS 20/50‑25)
    Sec. 50‑25. Statewide prioritized goals. For fiscal year 2012 and each fiscal year thereafter, prior to the submission of the State budget, the Governor, in consultation with the appropriation committees of the General Assembly, shall: (i) prioritize outcomes that are most important for each State agency of the executive branch under the jurisdiction of the Governor to achieve for the next fiscal year and (ii) set goals to accomplish those outcomes according to the priority of the outcome. In addition, each other constitutional officer of the executive branch, in consultation with the appropriation committees of the General Assembly, shall: (i) prioritize outcomes that are most important for his or her office to achieve for the next fiscal year and (ii) set goals to accomplish those outcomes according to the priority of the outcome. The Governor and each constitutional officer shall separately conduct performance analyses to determine which programs, strategies, and activities will best achieve those desired outcomes. The Governor shall recommend that appropriations be made to State agencies and officers for the next fiscal year based on the agreed upon goals and priorities. Each agency and officer may develop its own strategies for meeting those goals and shall review and analyze those strategies on a regular basis. The Governor shall also implement procedures to measure annual progress toward the State's highest priority outcomes and shall develop a statewide reporting system that compares the actual results with budgeted results. Those performance measures and results shall be posted on the State Comptroller's website, and compiled for distribution in the Comptroller's Public Accountability Report, as is currently the practice on the effective date of this amendatory Act of the 96th General Assembly.
(Source: P.A. 96‑958, eff. 7‑1‑10.)

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      (15 ILCS 20/Art. 50 heading)
ARTICLE 50. STATE BUDGET

    (15 ILCS 20/50‑1)
    Sec. 50‑1. Article short title. This Article 50 of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois may be cited as the State Budget Law.
(Source: P.A. 91‑239, eff. 1‑1‑00.)

    (15 ILCS 20/50‑5)
    Sec. 50‑5. Governor to submit State budget.
    (a) The Governor shall, as soon as possible and not later than the second Wednesday in March in 2010 (March 10, 2010) and the third Wednesday in February of each year beginning in 2011, except as otherwise provided in this Section, submit a State budget, embracing therein the amounts recommended by the Governor to be appropriated to the respective departments, offices, and institutions, and for all other public purposes, the estimated revenues from taxation, the estimated revenues from sources other than taxation, and an estimate of the amount required to be raised by taxation. The amounts recommended by the Governor for appropriation to the respective departments, offices and institutions shall be formulated according to the various functions and activities for which the respective department, office or institution of the State government (including the elective officers in the executive department and including the University of Illinois and the judicial department) is responsible. The amounts relating to particular functions and activities shall be further formulated in accordance with the object classification specified in Section 13 of the State Finance Act. In addition, the amounts recommended by the Governor for appropriation shall take into account each State agency's effectiveness in achieving its prioritized goals for the previous fiscal year, as set forth in Section 50‑25 of this Law, giving priority to agencies and programs that have demonstrated a focus on the prevention of waste and the maximum yield from resources.
    Beginning in fiscal year 2011, the Governor shall distribute written quarterly budget statements to the General Assembly and the State Comptroller. The statements shall be submitted on Wednesday of the last week of the last month of each quarter of the fiscal year and, as is currently the practice on the effective date of this amendatory Act of the 96th General Assembly, shall be posted on the Comptroller's website on the same day. The statements shall be prepared and presented in an executive summary format that includes, for the fiscal year to date, individual itemizations for each revenue source as well as individual itemizations of expenditures and obligations, by the classified line items set forth in Section 13 of the State Finance Act and for other purposes, with an appropriate level of detail. The statement shall include a calculation of the actual total budget surplus or deficit. The Governor shall also present periodic budget addresses throughout the fiscal year at the invitation of the General Assembly.
    The Governor shall not propose expenditures and the General Assembly shall not enact appropriations that exceed the resources estimated to be available, as provided in this Section. Appropriations may be adjusted during the fiscal year by means of one or more supplemental appropriation bills if any State agency either fails to meet or exceeds the goals set forth in Section 50‑25 of this Law.
    For the purposes of Article VIII, Section 2 of the 1970 Illinois Constitution, the State budget for the following funds shall be prepared on the basis of revenue and expenditure measurement concepts that are in concert with generally accepted accounting principles for governments:
        (1) General Revenue Fund.
        (2) Common School Fund.
        (3) Educational Assistance Fund.
        (4) Road Fund.
        (5) Motor Fuel Tax Fund.
        (6) Agricultural Premium Fund.
    These funds shall be known as the "budgeted funds". The revenue estimates used in the State budget for the budgeted funds shall include the estimated beginning fund balance, plus revenues estimated to be received during the budgeted year, plus the estimated receipts due the State as of June 30 of the budgeted year that are expected to be collected during the lapse period following the budgeted year, minus the receipts collected during the first 2 months of the budgeted year that became due to the State in the year before the budgeted year. Revenues shall also include estimated federal reimbursements associated with the recognition of Section 25 of the State Finance Act liabilities. For any budgeted fund for which current year revenues are anticipated to exceed expenditures, the surplus shall be considered to be a resource available for expenditure in the budgeted fiscal year.
    Expenditure estimates for the budgeted funds included in the State budget shall include the costs to be incurred by the State for the budgeted year, to be paid in the next fiscal year, excluding costs paid in the budgeted year which were carried over from the prior year, where the payment is authorized by Section 25 of the State Finance Act. For any budgeted fund for which expenditures are expected to exceed revenues in the current fiscal year, the deficit shall be considered as a use of funds in the budgeted fiscal year.
    Revenues and expenditures shall also include transfers between funds that are based on revenues received or costs incurred during the budget year.
    Appropriations for expenditures shall also include all anticipated statutory continuing appropriation obligations that are expected to be incurred during the budgeted fiscal year.
    By March 15 of each year, the Commission on Government Forecasting and Accountability shall prepare revenue and fund transfer estimates in accordance with the requirements of this Section and report those estimates to the General Assembly and the Governor.
    For all funds other than the budgeted funds, the proposed expenditures shall not exceed funds estimated to be available for the fiscal year as shown in the budget. Appropriation for a fiscal year shall not exceed funds estimated by the General Assembly to be available during that year.
    (b) This subsection applies only to the process for the proposed fiscal year 2011 budget.
    By February 24, 2010, the Governor must file a written report with the Secretary of the Senate and the Clerk of the House of Representatives containing the following:
        (1) for fiscal year 2010, the revenues for all
    budgeted funds, both actual to date and estimated for the full fiscal year;
        (2) for fiscal year 2010, the expenditures for all
    budgeted funds, both actual to date and estimated for the full fiscal year;
        (3) for fiscal year 2011, the estimated revenues
    for all budgeted funds, including without limitation the affordable General Revenue Fund appropriations, for the full fiscal year; and
        (4) for fiscal year 2011, an estimate of the
    anticipated liabilities for all budgeted funds, including without limitation the affordable General Revenue Fund appropriations, debt service on bonds issued, and the State's contributions to the pension systems, for the full fiscal year.
    Between February 24, 2010 and March 10, 2010, the members of the General Assembly and members of the public may make written budget recommendations to the Governor, and the Governor shall promptly make those recommendations available to the public through the Governor's Internet website.
(Source: P.A. 96‑1, eff. 2‑17‑09; 96‑320, eff. 1‑1‑10; 96‑881, eff. 2‑11‑10; 96‑958, eff. 7‑1‑10; 96‑1000, eff. 7‑2‑10.)

    (15 ILCS 20/50‑7)
    Sec. 50‑7. Online budget survey. Beginning in February of 2011, and during February of each year thereafter, the Governor's Office of Management and Budget shall post on its website a survey that will allow residents of the State to prioritize proposed spending measures for the next fiscal year. The Office shall post the results of each survey on its website.
(Source: P.A. 96‑958, eff. 7‑1‑10.)

    (15 ILCS 20/50‑10)(was 15 ILCS 20/38.1)
    Sec. 50‑10. Budget contents. The budget shall be submitted by the Governor with line item and program data. The budget shall also contain performance data presenting an estimate for the current fiscal year, projections for the budget year, and information for the 3 prior fiscal years comparing department objectives with actual accomplishments, formulated according to the various functions and activities, and, wherever the nature of the work admits, according to the work units, for which the respective departments, offices, and institutions of the State government (including the elective officers in the executive department and including the University of Illinois and the judicial department) are responsible.
    For the fiscal year beginning July 1, 1992 and for each fiscal year thereafter, the budget shall include the performance measures of each department's accountability report.
    For the fiscal year beginning July 1, 1997 and for each fiscal year thereafter, the budget shall include one or more line items appropriating moneys to the Department of Human Services to fund participation in the Home‑Based Support Services Program for Mentally Disabled Adults under the Developmental Disability and Mental Disability Services Act by persons described in Section 2‑17 of that Act.
    The budget shall contain a capital development section in which the Governor will present (1) information on the capital projects and capital programs for which appropriations are requested, (2) the capital spending plans, which shall document the first and subsequent years cash requirements by fund for the proposed bonded program, and (3) a statement that shall identify by year the principal and interest costs until retirement of the State's general obligation debt. In addition, the principal and interest costs of the budget year program shall be presented separately, to indicate the marginal cost of principal and interest payments necessary to retire the additional bonds needed to finance the budget year's capital program. In 2004 only, the capital development section of the State budget shall be submitted by the Governor not later than the fourth Tuesday of March (March 23, 2004).
    For the budget year, the current year, and 3 prior fiscal years, the Governor shall also include in the budget estimates of or actual values for the assets and liabilities for General Assembly Retirement System, State Employees' Retirement System of Illinois, State Universities Retirement System, Teachers' Retirement System of the State of Illinois, and Judges Retirement System of Illinois.
    The budget submitted by the Governor shall contain, in addition, in a separate book, a tabulation of all position and employment titles in each such department, office, and institution, the number of each, and the salaries for each, formulated according to divisions, bureaus, sections, offices, departments, boards, and similar subdivisions, which shall correspond as nearly as practicable to the functions and activities for which the department, office, or institution is responsible.
    Together with the budget, the Governor shall transmit the estimates of receipts and expenditures, as received by the Director of the Governor's Office of Management and Budget, of the elective officers in the executive and judicial departments and of the University of Illinois.
    An applicable appropriations committee of each chamber of the General Assembly, for fiscal year 2012 and thereafter, must review individual line item appropriations and the total budget for each State agency, as defined in the Illinois State Auditing Act.
(Source: P.A. 96‑958, eff. 7‑1‑10.)

    (15 ILCS 20/50‑15)(was 15 ILCS 20/38.2)
    Sec. 50‑15. Department accountability reports.
    (a) Beginning in the fiscal year which begins July 1, 1992, each department of State government as listed in Section 5‑15 of the Departments of State Government Law (20 ILCS 5/5‑15) shall submit an annual accountability report to the Bureau of the Budget (now Governor's Office of Management and Budget) at times designated by the Director of the Bureau of the Budget now Governor's Office of Management and Budget). Each accountability report shall be designed to assist the Bureau (now Office) in its duties under Sections 2.2 and 2.3 of the Governor's Office of Management and Budget Act and shall measure the department's performance based on criteria, goals, and objectives established by the department with the oversight and assistance of the Bureau (now Office). Each department shall also submit interim progress reports at times designated by the Director of the Bureau (now Office).
    (b) (Blank).
    (c) The Director of the Bureau (now Office) shall select not more than 3 departments for a pilot program implementing the procedures of subsection (a) for budget requests for the fiscal years beginning July 1, 1990 and July 1, 1991, and each of the departments elected shall submit accountability reports for those fiscal years.
    By April 1, 1991, the Bureau (now Office) shall recommend in writing to the Governor any changes in the budget review process established pursuant to this Section suggested by its evaluation of the pilot program. The Governor shall submit changes to the budget review process that the Governor plans to adopt, based on the report, to the President and Minority Leader of the Senate and the Speaker and Minority Leader of the House of Representatives.
(Source: P.A. 94‑793, eff. 5‑19‑06.)

    (15 ILCS 20/50‑20) (was 15 ILCS 20/38.3)
    Sec. 50‑20. Responsible Education Funding Law.
    (a) The Governor shall submit to the General Assembly a proposed budget for elementary and secondary education in which total General Revenue Fund appropriations are no less than the total General Revenue Fund appropriations of the previous fiscal year. In addition, the Governor shall specify the total amount of funds to be transferred from the General Revenue Fund to the Common School Fund during the budget year, which shall be no less than the total amount transferred during the previous fiscal year. The Governor may submit a proposed budget in which the total appropriated and transferred amounts are less than the previous fiscal year if the Governor declares in writing to the General Assembly the reason for the lesser amounts.
    (b) The General Assembly shall appropriate amounts for elementary and secondary education from the General Revenue Fund for each fiscal year so that the total General Revenue Fund appropriation is no less than the total General Revenue Fund appropriation for elementary and secondary education for the previous fiscal year. In addition, the General Assembly shall legislatively transfer from the General Revenue Fund to the Common School Fund for the fiscal year a total amount that is no less than the total amount transferred for the previous fiscal year. The General Assembly may appropriate or transfer lesser amounts if it declares by Joint Resolution the reason for the lesser amounts.
    (c) This Section may be cited as the Responsible Education Funding Law.
(Source: P.A. 91‑239, eff. 1‑1‑00.)

    (15 ILCS 20/50‑25)
    Sec. 50‑25. Statewide prioritized goals. For fiscal year 2012 and each fiscal year thereafter, prior to the submission of the State budget, the Governor, in consultation with the appropriation committees of the General Assembly, shall: (i) prioritize outcomes that are most important for each State agency of the executive branch under the jurisdiction of the Governor to achieve for the next fiscal year and (ii) set goals to accomplish those outcomes according to the priority of the outcome. In addition, each other constitutional officer of the executive branch, in consultation with the appropriation committees of the General Assembly, shall: (i) prioritize outcomes that are most important for his or her office to achieve for the next fiscal year and (ii) set goals to accomplish those outcomes according to the priority of the outcome. The Governor and each constitutional officer shall separately conduct performance analyses to determine which programs, strategies, and activities will best achieve those desired outcomes. The Governor shall recommend that appropriations be made to State agencies and officers for the next fiscal year based on the agreed upon goals and priorities. Each agency and officer may develop its own strategies for meeting those goals and shall review and analyze those strategies on a regular basis. The Governor shall also implement procedures to measure annual progress toward the State's highest priority outcomes and shall develop a statewide reporting system that compares the actual results with budgeted results. Those performance measures and results shall be posted on the State Comptroller's website, and compiled for distribution in the Comptroller's Public Accountability Report, as is currently the practice on the effective date of this amendatory Act of the 96th General Assembly.
(Source: P.A. 96‑958, eff. 7‑1‑10.)

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      (15 ILCS 20/Art. 50 heading)
ARTICLE 50. STATE BUDGET

    (15 ILCS 20/50‑1)
    Sec. 50‑1. Article short title. This Article 50 of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois may be cited as the State Budget Law.
(Source: P.A. 91‑239, eff. 1‑1‑00.)

    (15 ILCS 20/50‑5)
    Sec. 50‑5. Governor to submit State budget.
    (a) The Governor shall, as soon as possible and not later than the second Wednesday in March in 2010 (March 10, 2010) and the third Wednesday in February of each year beginning in 2011, except as otherwise provided in this Section, submit a State budget, embracing therein the amounts recommended by the Governor to be appropriated to the respective departments, offices, and institutions, and for all other public purposes, the estimated revenues from taxation, the estimated revenues from sources other than taxation, and an estimate of the amount required to be raised by taxation. The amounts recommended by the Governor for appropriation to the respective departments, offices and institutions shall be formulated according to the various functions and activities for which the respective department, office or institution of the State government (including the elective officers in the executive department and including the University of Illinois and the judicial department) is responsible. The amounts relating to particular functions and activities shall be further formulated in accordance with the object classification specified in Section 13 of the State Finance Act. In addition, the amounts recommended by the Governor for appropriation shall take into account each State agency's effectiveness in achieving its prioritized goals for the previous fiscal year, as set forth in Section 50‑25 of this Law, giving priority to agencies and programs that have demonstrated a focus on the prevention of waste and the maximum yield from resources.
    Beginning in fiscal year 2011, the Governor shall distribute written quarterly budget statements to the General Assembly and the State Comptroller. The statements shall be submitted on Wednesday of the last week of the last month of each quarter of the fiscal year and, as is currently the practice on the effective date of this amendatory Act of the 96th General Assembly, shall be posted on the Comptroller's website on the same day. The statements shall be prepared and presented in an executive summary format that includes, for the fiscal year to date, individual itemizations for each revenue source as well as individual itemizations of expenditures and obligations, by the classified line items set forth in Section 13 of the State Finance Act and for other purposes, with an appropriate level of detail. The statement shall include a calculation of the actual total budget surplus or deficit. The Governor shall also present periodic budget addresses throughout the fiscal year at the invitation of the General Assembly.
    The Governor shall not propose expenditures and the General Assembly shall not enact appropriations that exceed the resources estimated to be available, as provided in this Section. Appropriations may be adjusted during the fiscal year by means of one or more supplemental appropriation bills if any State agency either fails to meet or exceeds the goals set forth in Section 50‑25 of this Law.
    For the purposes of Article VIII, Section 2 of the 1970 Illinois Constitution, the State budget for the following funds shall be prepared on the basis of revenue and expenditure measurement concepts that are in concert with generally accepted accounting principles for governments:
        (1) General Revenue Fund.
        (2) Common School Fund.
        (3) Educational Assistance Fund.
        (4) Road Fund.
        (5) Motor Fuel Tax Fund.
        (6) Agricultural Premium Fund.
    These funds shall be known as the "budgeted funds". The revenue estimates used in the State budget for the budgeted funds shall include the estimated beginning fund balance, plus revenues estimated to be received during the budgeted year, plus the estimated receipts due the State as of June 30 of the budgeted year that are expected to be collected during the lapse period following the budgeted year, minus the receipts collected during the first 2 months of the budgeted year that became due to the State in the year before the budgeted year. Revenues shall also include estimated federal reimbursements associated with the recognition of Section 25 of the State Finance Act liabilities. For any budgeted fund for which current year revenues are anticipated to exceed expenditures, the surplus shall be considered to be a resource available for expenditure in the budgeted fiscal year.
    Expenditure estimates for the budgeted funds included in the State budget shall include the costs to be incurred by the State for the budgeted year, to be paid in the next fiscal year, excluding costs paid in the budgeted year which were carried over from the prior year, where the payment is authorized by Section 25 of the State Finance Act. For any budgeted fund for which expenditures are expected to exceed revenues in the current fiscal year, the deficit shall be considered as a use of funds in the budgeted fiscal year.
    Revenues and expenditures shall also include transfers between funds that are based on revenues received or costs incurred during the budget year.
    Appropriations for expenditures shall also include all anticipated statutory continuing appropriation obligations that are expected to be incurred during the budgeted fiscal year.
    By March 15 of each year, the Commission on Government Forecasting and Accountability shall prepare revenue and fund transfer estimates in accordance with the requirements of this Section and report those estimates to the General Assembly and the Governor.
    For all funds other than the budgeted funds, the proposed expenditures shall not exceed funds estimated to be available for the fiscal year as shown in the budget. Appropriation for a fiscal year shall not exceed funds estimated by the General Assembly to be available during that year.
    (b) This subsection applies only to the process for the proposed fiscal year 2011 budget.
    By February 24, 2010, the Governor must file a written report with the Secretary of the Senate and the Clerk of the House of Representatives containing the following:
        (1) for fiscal year 2010, the revenues for all
    budgeted funds, both actual to date and estimated for the full fiscal year;
        (2) for fiscal year 2010, the expenditures for all
    budgeted funds, both actual to date and estimated for the full fiscal year;
        (3) for fiscal year 2011, the estimated revenues
    for all budgeted funds, including without limitation the affordable General Revenue Fund appropriations, for the full fiscal year; and
        (4) for fiscal year 2011, an estimate of the
    anticipated liabilities for all budgeted funds, including without limitation the affordable General Revenue Fund appropriations, debt service on bonds issued, and the State's contributions to the pension systems, for the full fiscal year.
    Between February 24, 2010 and March 10, 2010, the members of the General Assembly and members of the public may make written budget recommendations to the Governor, and the Governor shall promptly make those recommendations available to the public through the Governor's Internet website.
(Source: P.A. 96‑1, eff. 2‑17‑09; 96‑320, eff. 1‑1‑10; 96‑881, eff. 2‑11‑10; 96‑958, eff. 7‑1‑10; 96‑1000, eff. 7‑2‑10.)

    (15 ILCS 20/50‑7)
    Sec. 50‑7. Online budget survey. Beginning in February of 2011, and during February of each year thereafter, the Governor's Office of Management and Budget shall post on its website a survey that will allow residents of the State to prioritize proposed spending measures for the next fiscal year. The Office shall post the results of each survey on its website.
(Source: P.A. 96‑958, eff. 7‑1‑10.)

    (15 ILCS 20/50‑10)(was 15 ILCS 20/38.1)
    Sec. 50‑10. Budget contents. The budget shall be submitted by the Governor with line item and program data. The budget shall also contain performance data presenting an estimate for the current fiscal year, projections for the budget year, and information for the 3 prior fiscal years comparing department objectives with actual accomplishments, formulated according to the various functions and activities, and, wherever the nature of the work admits, according to the work units, for which the respective departments, offices, and institutions of the State government (including the elective officers in the executive department and including the University of Illinois and the judicial department) are responsible.
    For the fiscal year beginning July 1, 1992 and for each fiscal year thereafter, the budget shall include the performance measures of each department's accountability report.
    For the fiscal year beginning July 1, 1997 and for each fiscal year thereafter, the budget shall include one or more line items appropriating moneys to the Department of Human Services to fund participation in the Home‑Based Support Services Program for Mentally Disabled Adults under the Developmental Disability and Mental Disability Services Act by persons described in Section 2‑17 of that Act.
    The budget shall contain a capital development section in which the Governor will present (1) information on the capital projects and capital programs for which appropriations are requested, (2) the capital spending plans, which shall document the first and subsequent years cash requirements by fund for the proposed bonded program, and (3) a statement that shall identify by year the principal and interest costs until retirement of the State's general obligation debt. In addition, the principal and interest costs of the budget year program shall be presented separately, to indicate the marginal cost of principal and interest payments necessary to retire the additional bonds needed to finance the budget year's capital program. In 2004 only, the capital development section of the State budget shall be submitted by the Governor not later than the fourth Tuesday of March (March 23, 2004).
    For the budget year, the current year, and 3 prior fiscal years, the Governor shall also include in the budget estimates of or actual values for the assets and liabilities for General Assembly Retirement System, State Employees' Retirement System of Illinois, State Universities Retirement System, Teachers' Retirement System of the State of Illinois, and Judges Retirement System of Illinois.
    The budget submitted by the Governor shall contain, in addition, in a separate book, a tabulation of all position and employment titles in each such department, office, and institution, the number of each, and the salaries for each, formulated according to divisions, bureaus, sections, offices, departments, boards, and similar subdivisions, which shall correspond as nearly as practicable to the functions and activities for which the department, office, or institution is responsible.
    Together with the budget, the Governor shall transmit the estimates of receipts and expenditures, as received by the Director of the Governor's Office of Management and Budget, of the elective officers in the executive and judicial departments and of the University of Illinois.
    An applicable appropriations committee of each chamber of the General Assembly, for fiscal year 2012 and thereafter, must review individual line item appropriations and the total budget for each State agency, as defined in the Illinois State Auditing Act.
(Source: P.A. 96‑958, eff. 7‑1‑10.)

    (15 ILCS 20/50‑15)(was 15 ILCS 20/38.2)
    Sec. 50‑15. Department accountability reports.
    (a) Beginning in the fiscal year which begins July 1, 1992, each department of State government as listed in Section 5‑15 of the Departments of State Government Law (20 ILCS 5/5‑15) shall submit an annual accountability report to the Bureau of the Budget (now Governor's Office of Management and Budget) at times designated by the Director of the Bureau of the Budget now Governor's Office of Management and Budget). Each accountability report shall be designed to assist the Bureau (now Office) in its duties under Sections 2.2 and 2.3 of the Governor's Office of Management and Budget Act and shall measure the department's performance based on criteria, goals, and objectives established by the department with the oversight and assistance of the Bureau (now Office). Each department shall also submit interim progress reports at times designated by the Director of the Bureau (now Office).
    (b) (Blank).
    (c) The Director of the Bureau (now Office) shall select not more than 3 departments for a pilot program implementing the procedures of subsection (a) for budget requests for the fiscal years beginning July 1, 1990 and July 1, 1991, and each of the departments elected shall submit accountability reports for those fiscal years.
    By April 1, 1991, the Bureau (now Office) shall recommend in writing to the Governor any changes in the budget review process established pursuant to this Section suggested by its evaluation of the pilot program. The Governor shall submit changes to the budget review process that the Governor plans to adopt, based on the report, to the President and Minority Leader of the Senate and the Speaker and Minority Leader of the House of Representatives.
(Source: P.A. 94‑793, eff. 5‑19‑06.)

    (15 ILCS 20/50‑20) (was 15 ILCS 20/38.3)
    Sec. 50‑20. Responsible Education Funding Law.
    (a) The Governor shall submit to the General Assembly a proposed budget for elementary and secondary education in which total General Revenue Fund appropriations are no less than the total General Revenue Fund appropriations of the previous fiscal year. In addition, the Governor shall specify the total amount of funds to be transferred from the General Revenue Fund to the Common School Fund during the budget year, which shall be no less than the total amount transferred during the previous fiscal year. The Governor may submit a proposed budget in which the total appropriated and transferred amounts are less than the previous fiscal year if the Governor declares in writing to the General Assembly the reason for the lesser amounts.
    (b) The General Assembly shall appropriate amounts for elementary and secondary education from the General Revenue Fund for each fiscal year so that the total General Revenue Fund appropriation is no less than the total General Revenue Fund appropriation for elementary and secondary education for the previous fiscal year. In addition, the General Assembly shall legislatively transfer from the General Revenue Fund to the Common School Fund for the fiscal year a total amount that is no less than the total amount transferred for the previous fiscal year. The General Assembly may appropriate or transfer lesser amounts if it declares by Joint Resolution the reason for the lesser amounts.
    (c) This Section may be cited as the Responsible Education Funding Law.
(Source: P.A. 91‑239, eff. 1‑1‑00.)

    (15 ILCS 20/50‑25)
    Sec. 50‑25. Statewide prioritized goals. For fiscal year 2012 and each fiscal year thereafter, prior to the submission of the State budget, the Governor, in consultation with the appropriation committees of the General Assembly, shall: (i) prioritize outcomes that are most important for each State agency of the executive branch under the jurisdiction of the Governor to achieve for the next fiscal year and (ii) set goals to accomplish those outcomes according to the priority of the outcome. In addition, each other constitutional officer of the executive branch, in consultation with the appropriation committees of the General Assembly, shall: (i) prioritize outcomes that are most important for his or her office to achieve for the next fiscal year and (ii) set goals to accomplish those outcomes according to the priority of the outcome. The Governor and each constitutional officer shall separately conduct performance analyses to determine which programs, strategies, and activities will best achieve those desired outcomes. The Governor shall recommend that appropriations be made to State agencies and officers for the next fiscal year based on the agreed upon goals and priorities. Each agency and officer may develop its own strategies for meeting those goals and shall review and analyze those strategies on a regular basis. The Governor shall also implement procedures to measure annual progress toward the State's highest priority outcomes and shall develop a statewide reporting system that compares the actual results with budgeted results. Those performance measures and results shall be posted on the State Comptroller's website, and compiled for distribution in the Comptroller's Public Accountability Report, as is currently the practice on the effective date of this amendatory Act of the 96th General Assembly.
(Source: P.A. 96‑958, eff. 7‑1‑10.)

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