- veto: returning it to original house with his objects

- "amendatory veto: returning it with recommendations for change, which the legislature may choose to pass

- appropriation bill vetoes: may reduce or line-item veto (non-vetoed sections become law)

Note: If gov does not sign or veto in 60 days it becomes law!

(Article IV, Section 9)

Article IV, Section 9

- bill confined to one subject, except appropriations

- read by title on 3 different days in each house, minimum time to pass a bill is 5 days

- final passage must be by a RECORD vote (not voice)

- third reading passes by 60 votes in House, 30 in Senate (simple/constitutional majority)

- bill+amendments must be printed and placed on each member's desk befor final passage

- Sen. Pres. +Speaker sign each bill that passes, then Gov

Pat Quinn, D-Chicago

appointed to fill Blagojevich's seat, then elected

Article IV and V

- chief executive of state and all Executive administrative areas

- executes laws

- appoints department directors/administrators, subject to senate approval

- annually presents proposed state budget

- reports on condition of state

- pardons/reprieves

- can call special legislative sessions

- approves or vetoes legislation

- approves state construction contracts

- state commander-in-chief of military forces

GA sessions and committee meetings must be open to public

UNLESS two-thirds of members vote to determine the public interest requires it to be closed. Joint commissions/meetings need two-thirds of each house. 

Article IV, Section 5c

Requires a party seeking to compel a reporter (eg courts cases) to divluge confidential sources to prove to the courts that:

- "all other available sources of info. have been exhausted," reporters are last resort

- "disclosure of the information is essential to the protection of the public interest involved," private interests don't count

written v. spoken

They basically mean the same thing legally. Most cases are civil offenses for monetary damages.

1. Truth (plaintiff has burden of proof that it is false)

2. Privilege (accurate reporting from government meetings/records. Even if they are wrong, you are safe.)

3. Fair comment (OPINIONS about a public person are ok. Name-calling is fine, but the facts you may support it with are the part you could be sued over.)

Appropriation

"Proposed expenditured shall not exceed funds estimated to be available for the fiscal year as shown int he budget." 

But not "required"

Article VIII, Section 2

Collection of state treasury accounts (general revenue, Common school fund, general revenue/Common School special account and Education Assistance Funds) used to pay costs of most day-to-day operations of state gov and large grant programs like education and welfare.

Major general fund sources: income tax, sales tax, fed aid which is mostly reimbursments for welfare and socail service spenindg. Condition of funds commonly used as barometer of the state's fiscal health.

- income tax

- sales tax

- Fed aid

- A drop in corp. profit from 15% to 10% is NOT a 5 percent change. It it a 5 percentage point change.

- The percent of change between the two is 33.3% (10% is two-thirds of 15%, so 5% is a one-third drop)

Jesse White, D-Chicago

elected in 1998, before then 16 years in GA, CPS teacher played for minor league Cubs, has a tumbling squad

Number of members in the Senate?

Dems?

GOP?

Total - 59

Dems - 35

GOP - 24

Members in the House?

Dems?

GOP?

Total - 118

Dems - 64

GOP - 54

Dick Durbin, D-Springfield

Majority Whip; Took mentor Paul Simon's seat

Mark Kirk, R-Highland Park

Completed Roland Burris' term

Chief Justice Thomas Kilbride

Charles Freeman

Anne M. Burke

Mary Jane Theis

Robert Thomas

Rita Garman

Lloyd Karmeier

Mike Madigan, D-Chicago

He's been a member of the House since 1971 and Speaker since 1983 (with the exception of 2 years).

- Debt service

- Pensions

The sum of the tax rates for all the tax districts in which a parcel lies.

The aggregate tax rate multiplied by a parcel's EAV minus the exemptions results in the tax bill. So basically, what's my total property tax bill?

How the Auditor General gets office

and term length

Appointed by three-fifths vote of each house

and 10 year term length

Article VIII, Section 3

A system of assessment with different types of property assessed at different percentages of fair market value for tax purposes. 

Cook County is the only one that uses it. Property levels are divided in 14 categories, with levels ranging from 10 percent to 25 percent for commercial and industrial property.

Application of tax rates for all of the tax districts in which a parcel lies against that parcel's EAV less exemptions to determine the tax bill for that parcel. (What you pay in property taxes basically.)

In its plural form, equivalent to total property tax billings for one or more local gov. or school districts. 

A numerical factor applied to a group of properties to raise or lower the assessment level or each parcel in order to bring several different groups of assessment. The process is called "equalization." 

Thus "equalized" assessed value.

Maximum rates set by law for the various purposes for which local gov. and school districts may levy property taxes. In some cases, a higher rate for a local taxing body may be authorized by a local referendum.

Home rule units are not subject to tax rate limitations.

aka PTELL. The common name for the Property Tax Extension Limitation Law, which in general restricts the annual increase in property tax extension by a taxing body for most purposes to 5% or the rate of inflation (whichever is less), unless voters approve a higher amount.

Caps are mandated in collars/Cook. Downstate counties may impose caps by referendum, 33 of the 96 have. The law exempts home rule units and provides certain exemptions. 

- Sales tax (13.5%)

- Income tax (19.4%)

- Fed Aid (34%)

- Healthcare (32.3%)

- Human Services (23.1%)

- Education (33.7%)

1. identification (name or description)

2. publication (email, radio, online, print, etc.)

3. defamation (falsehood that causes injury to a person's reputation)

4. fault (actual malice, reckless disregard for the truth, but may be neligence for private citizens)

5. Falsehood (proved by plaintiff) Book includes this one, BUT Charlie did not when he quizzed us previously

19

11 Republican, 8 Democrats

Judy Baar Topinka (NOTE two "aa"s in name)

R-Riverside

was state treasurer before 1995-2007

Percent resulting from dividing a tax levy by the total EAV in a tax district.

Usually expressed in dollars and cents per $100 of EAV.

Equalized assessed value: the estimate of a property's value for tax purposes after tha multiplier has been applied.

Used to reference total value of all residential, commercial, and industrial property within tax district, EAV is equivalent to that district's tax base.

A loss for one side is a gain for the other.

If Republicans hold an 8 seat advantage in legislature, Dems don't need 9 seat to gain control. They need 5 seats.

Margins influence each number. If a candidate is 5 points ahead, and the margin of error is 3 then they are tied statistically. The number for the leading candidate could be overstated by 3 points, and the number for the trailing candidate understated by 3 points. Thus, the "behind" candidate could actually be ahead.

Use it in all poll stories.

- to close meetings/sessions to the public

- to expell a member of the chamber

- for the Senate to convict in an impeachment trial of executive or judicial officer

Article IV, Section 5,6,14

Quinn vetoed/reduced:

- funding for regional superintentents, $11M line item veto

- reduction veto for school transportation

- reduction for hospitals

Look these up for more info.

Quinn vetoed:

- gaming bill still in limbo

- ComEd's smart grid

- Tried to use amedatory veto to end GA scholarship program

- elemetary (374)

- high school (100)

- unit (387)

dual districts = elementary and high school

"value of," an ad valorem tax

Like a property tax is taxing the value of the owner's property.

The mininum amount of money acceptable to provide education for each student.

Compare to "equity."

Describes the fairness of the school funding system, in which an equitable system would spread the funding equally among the students.

IL is not very equitable, as it is based on property taxes that vary greatly from district to disctict. Compared to "adequacy."

- Local (from property taxes, largest portion of funding)

- State (like General State Aid)

- Feds (for programs like Title 1)

American Recovery and Reinvestment Act

commonly referred to as the Stimulus or The Recovery Act, an economic stimulus package enacted by Congress in February 2009 and signed into law on by Obama.

1. intrusion (on someone's physical/emotional solitude)

2. public disclosure of a private act (publication of information people would find offensive, like rape victims' names)

3. false light (publicity that distorts their personality/reputation so they would be embarrassed)

4. Missappropriation (the unauthorized use of someone's name to benefit someone else)

On the record

Off the record

Not for attribution

Article IV, Section 6

Every ten years after the census, the party in power redraws the district maps to reflect the population shifts.

Parties do their best to make sure the nw map favors them, and the Dems new map is in court now after being challenged by Repubs for being unfair to Hispanic groups.

Education Funding Advisory Board

Makes recomendations about the foundation level for school funding. Says level should be $8,350, but it is at $6,119

Speaker of the House Mike Madigan, D-Chicago

Senate President John Cullerton, D-Chicago

Senate Minority Leader Christine Radogno, R-Lemont

House Minority Leader Tom Cross, R-Oswego

Gov. Pat Quinn, D-Chicago

Lt. Gov Sheila Simon, D-Carbondale

Attoney Gen. Lisa Madigan, D-Chicago

Treasurer Dan Rutherford, R-Pontiac

Comptroller Judy Baar Topinka, R-Riverside

Secretary of State Jesse White, D-Chicago