(20 ILCS 405/405-20) (was 20 ILCS 405/35.7)
Sec. 405-20. Fiscal policy information to Governor; statistical research planning.
(a) The Department shall be responsible for providing the Governor with timely, comprehensive, and meaningful information pertinent to the formulation and execution of fiscal policy. In performing this responsibility the Department shall have the power and duty to do the following:
(1) Control the procurement, retention, installation,
maintenance, and operation, as specified by the Director, of electronic data processing equipment used by State agencies in such a manner as to achieve maximum economy and provide adequate assistance in the development of information suitable for management analysis.
(2) Establish principles and standards of statistical
reporting by State agencies and priorities for completion of research by those agencies in accordance with the requirements for management analysis as specified by the Director.
(3) Establish, through the Director, charges for
statistical services requested by State agencies and rendered by the Department. The Department is likewise empowered through the Director to establish prices or charges for all statistical reports purchased by agencies and individuals not connected with State government.
(4) Instruct all State agencies as the Director may
require to report regularly to the Department, in the manner the Director may prescribe, their usage of electronic information devices, the cost incurred, the information produced, and the procedures followed in obtaining the information. All State agencies shall request of the Director any statistical services requiring the use of electronic devices and shall conform to the priorities assigned by the Director in using those electronic devices.
(5) Examine the accounts and statistical data of any
organization, body, or agency receiving appropriations from the General Assembly.
(6) Install and operate a modern information system
utilizing equipment adequate to satisfy the requirements for analysis and review as specified by the Director. Expenditures for statistical services rendered shall be reimbursed by the recipients. The reimbursement shall be determined by the Director as amounts sufficient to reimburse the Statistical Services Revolving Fund for expenditures incurred in rendering the services.
(b) In addition to the other powers and duties listed in this Section, the Department shall analyze the present and future aims, needs, and requirements of statistical research and planning in order to provide for the formulation of overall policy relative to the use of electronic data processing equipment by the State of Illinois. In making this analysis, the Department under the Director shall formulate a master plan for statistical research, utilizing electronic equipment most advantageously, and advising whether electronic data processing equipment should be leased or purchased by the State. The Department under the Director shall prepare and submit interim reports of meaningful developments and proposals for legislation to the Governor on or before January 30 each year. The Department under the Director shall engage in a continuing analysis and evaluation of the master plan so developed, and it shall be the responsibility of the Department to recommend from time to time any needed amendments and modifications of any master plan enacted by the General Assembly.
(c) For the purposes of this Section, Section 405-245, and paragraph (4) of Section 405-10 only, "State agencies" means all departments, boards, commissions, and agencies of the State of Illinois subject to the Governor.
(Source: P.A. 94-91, eff. 7-1-05.)
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