2023 Illinois Compiled Statutes › Chapter 25 - LEGISLATURE › 25 ILCS 130/ - Legislative Commission Reorganization Act of 1984. › Article 4

(25 ILCS 130/Art. 4 heading)
ARTICLE 4.
(25 ILCS 130/4-1) (from Ch. 63, par. 1004-1)
Sec. 4-1. For purposes of the Successor Agency Act and Section 9b of the
State
Finance
Act, the Legislative Research Unit is the successor to the
Illinois Commission on
Intergovernmental Cooperation.
The Legislative Research Unit succeeds to and assumes all powers, duties,
rights, responsibilities, personnel, assets, liabilities, and indebtedness of
the Illinois Commission on Intergovernmental Cooperation.
Any reference in any law, rule, form, or other
document to the
Illinois Commission on
Intergovernmental Cooperation
is
deemed to be a reference to the Legislative Research Unit.
For purposes of the Successor Agency Act and Section 9b of the State Finance Act, on and after  the effective date of this amendatory Act of the 100th General Assembly, the Commission on Government Forecasting and Accountability is the successor to the Legislative Research Unit. The Commission on Government Forecasting and Accountability succeeds to and assumes all powers, duties, rights, responsibilities, personnel, assets, liabilities, and indebtedness of the Legislative Research Unit with respect to the provisions of this Article 4.
(Source: P.A. 100-1148, eff. 12-10-18.)
(25 ILCS 130/4-2) (from Ch. 63, par. 1004-2)
Sec. 4-2. Intergovernmental functions.  It shall be the function of the Commission on Government Forecasting and Accountability:
(1) To carry forward the participation of this State     as a member of the Council of State Governments.
(2) To encourage and assist the legislative,     executive, administrative and judicial officials and employees of this State to develop and maintain friendly contact by correspondence, by conference, and otherwise, with officials and employees of the other States, of the Federal Government, and of local units of government.
(3) To endeavor to advance cooperation between this     State and other units of government whenever it seems advisable to do so by formulating proposals for, and by facilitating:
(a) The adoption of compacts.
(b) The enactment of uniform or reciprocal         statutes.
(c) The adoption of uniform or reciprocal         administrative rules and regulations.
(d) The informal cooperation of governmental         offices with one another.
(e) The personal cooperation of governmental         officials and employees with one another individually.
(f) The interchange and clearance of research and         information.
(g) Any other suitable process, and
(h) To do all such acts as will enable this State         to do its part in forming a more perfect union among the various governments in the United States and in developing the Council of State Governments for that purpose.
(Source: P.A. 100-1148, eff. 12-10-18.)
(25 ILCS 130/4-2.1)
Sec. 4-2.1. Federal program functions. The Commission on Government Forecasting and Accountability is established as the information
center for the
General Assembly in the field of federal-state relations and as State
Central Information Reception Agency for the purpose of receiving
information from federal agencies under the United States Office
of Management and Budget circular A-98 and the United States Department
of the Treasury Circular TC-1082 or any successor circulars promulgated
under authority of the United States Inter-governmental Cooperation Act of
1968. Its powers and duties in this capacity include, but are not limited to:
(a) Compiling and maintaining current information on     available and pending federal aid programs for the use of the General Assembly and legislative agencies;
(b) Analyzing the relationship of federal aid     programs with state and locally financed programs, and assessing the impact of federal aid programs on the State generally;
(c) Reporting annually to the General Assembly on the     adequacy of programs financed by federal aid in the State, the types and nature of federal aid programs in which State agencies or local governments did not participate, and to make recommendations on such matters;
(d) Cooperating with the Governor's Office of     Management and Budget and with any State of Illinois offices located in Washington, D.C., in obtaining information concerning federal grant-in-aid legislation and proposals having an impact on the State of Illinois;
(e) Cooperating with the Governor's Office of     Management and Budget in developing forms and identifying number systems for the documentation of applications, awards, receipts and expenditures of federal funds by State agencies;
(f) Receiving from every State agency, other than     State colleges and universities, agencies of legislative and judicial branches of State government, and elected State executive officers not including the Governor, all applications for federal grants, contracts and agreements and notification of any awards of federal funds and any and all changes in the programs, in awards, in program duration, in schedule of fund receipts, and in estimated costs to the State of maintaining the program if and when federal assistance is terminated, or in direct and indirect costs, of any grant under which they are or expect to be receiving federal funds;
(g) Forwarding to the Governor's Office of Management     and Budget all documents received under paragraph (f) after assigning an appropriate, State application identifier number to all applications; and
(h) Reporting such information as is received under     subparagraph (f) to the President and Minority Leader of the Senate and the Speaker and Minority Leader of the House of Representatives and their respective appropriation staffs and to any member of the General Assembly on a monthly basis at the request of the member.
The State colleges and universities, the agencies of the legislative
and judicial branches of State government, and the elected State
executive officers, not including the Governor, shall submit to
the Commission on Government Forecasting and Accountability,  in a manner prescribed by
the Commission on Government Forecasting and Accountability, summaries
of applications for federal funds filed and grants of federal funds awarded.
(Source: P.A. 100-1148, eff. 12-10-18.)
(25 ILCS 130/4-3) (from Ch. 63, par. 1004-3)
Sec. 4-3. The Commission on Government Forecasting and Accountability 

shall
establish such committees as it deems
advisable, in order that they may confer and formulate proposals concerning
effective means to secure intergovernmental harmony, and may perform other
functions for the Commission in obedience to its decision. Subject
to the
approval of the Commission, the member or members of each such
committee
shall be appointed by the co-chairmen of the Commission. State
officials or
employees who are not members of the Commission may be appointed as members of any such committee, but private
citizens holding no governmental position in this State shall not be
eligible. The Commission may provide such other rules as it
considers
appropriate concerning the membership and the functioning of any such
committee. The Commission may provide for advisory boards for
itself and
for its various committees, and may authorize private citizens to serve on
such boards.
(Source: P.A. 100-1148, eff. 12-10-18.)
(25 ILCS 130/4-4)
Sec. 4-4. (Repealed).
(Source: P.A. 100-1148, eff. 12-10-18. Repealed by P.A. 103-229, eff. 6-30-23.)
(25 ILCS 130/4-5)
Sec. 4-5. (Repealed).
(Source: P.A. 83-1528. Repealed by P.A. 103-229, eff. 6-30-23.)
(25 ILCS 130/4-6)
Sec. 4-6. (Repealed).
(Source: P.A. 83-1257. Repealed by P.A. 103-229, eff. 6-30-23.)
(25 ILCS 130/4-7) (from Ch. 63, par. 1004-7)
Sec. 4-7. The Commission on Government Forecasting and Accountability 

shall
report to the Governor and to the Legislature
within 15 days after the convening of each General Assembly,
and at
such other time as it deems appropriate. The members of all
committees which it establishes shall serve without compensation for such
service, but they shall be paid their necessary expenses in carrying out
their obligations under this Act. The Commission may by
contributions to the
Council of State Governments, participate with other states in maintaining
the said Council's district and central secretariats, and its other
governmental services.
The requirement for reporting to the General Assembly shall be satisfied
by filing copies of the report with the Speaker, the Minority Leader and
the Clerk of the House of Representatives and the President, the
Minority
Leader and the Secretary of the Senate, and filing such additional copies
with the State Government Report Distribution Center for the General Assembly
as is required under paragraph (t) of Section 7 of the State Library Act.
(Source: P.A. 100-1148, eff. 12-10-18.)
(25 ILCS 130/4-8) (from Ch. 63, par. 1004-8)
Sec. 4-8. 
		
		The Council of State Governments is hereby declared to be a
joint governmental agency of this State and of the other states which
cooperate through it.
(Source: P.A. 83-1257.)
(25 ILCS 130/4-9)
Sec. 4-9. (Repealed).
(Source: P.A. 100-1148, eff. 12-10-18. Repealed by P.A. 101-275, eff. 8-9-19.)