Bill
HB 2668
Prohibits chamber rules from blocking requested legislative notes (fiscal, judicial, debt, etc.) ensuring notes must be prepared when asked.
Status summary
- Bill title in packet: NOTE ACTS — NOTE REQUIRED. Introduced in the Illinois General Assembly (House) on February 6, 2025 by Rep. David Friess. Effective date provision: upon becoming law.
- Document supplied also includes an unrelated Arizona bill (Arizona HB 2668) on overtime compensation for law‑enforcement/probation employees. This summary focuses on the “Note Acts” measure (Illinois HB2668), which is consistent with the bill title and the bulk of the text provided.
Purpose
- To ensure that when any member of either legislative chamber requests a statutorily authorized “note” (fiscal note, judicial note, debt‑impact note, correctional budget/impact note, home‑rule note, balanced budget note, housing affordability impact note, or racial impact note), chamber rules cannot be used to declare that request “inapplicable” and thereby prevent preparation of the note.
Key provisions
- Amends multiple Illinois statutes governing legislative notes to add an explicit prohibition on chamber rules that would authorize or require a note request to be deemed inapplicable. Affected Acts and sections:
- Fiscal Note Act (25 ILCS 50/3)
- Judicial Note Act (25 ILCS 60/3)
- State Debt Impact Note Act (25 ILCS 65/7)
- Correctional Budget and Impact Note Act (25 ILCS 70/4)
- Home Rule Note Act (25 ILCS 75/15)
- Adds new sections to:
- Balanced Budget Note Act (25 ILCS 80/22 new)
- Housing Affordability Impact Note Act (25 ILCS 82/33 new)
- Racial Impact Note Act (25 ILCS 83/110‑23 new)
- Retains existing procedural language in several statutes that allows a sponsor who believes a note is unnecessary to have the question resolved by majority vote of those present and voting in the sponsor’s chamber.
- Where applicable, preserves existing provisions that require the note to be prepared once requested (e.g., commission or agency responsibilities to prepare the determined note).
Who would be affected
- Members of the Illinois House and Senate: any member could request preparation of the listed notes and such requests cannot be nullified by chamber procedural rules.
- Legislative staff and note‑preparing entities/analytical bodies (for example, the Commission on Government Forecasting and Accountability and other agencies charged with producing notes): may see more mandatory requests to prepare notes.
- Bill sponsors: retain the ability to contest whether a note is required, but a sponsor’s view cannot be converted into a blanket rule that bars note requests.
- Executive branch agencies and other state entities that supply information for notes: may receive additional requests for data and analysis.
Procedural and timeline aspects
- Text indicates immediate effect upon becoming law.
- No dollar amounts or appropriations are included; the bill changes process and procedural constraints rather than creating direct spending items.
- Legislative history in the document is limited; sponsors and introduction dates are included (introduced 2/6/2025 by Rep. David Friess).
Potential impacts and considerations
- Transparency and oversight: likely to increase legislative access to formal analyses (fiscal, judicial, debt, correctional, home rule, balanced budget, housing affordability, and racial impact) before votes.
- Administrative workload: agencies and commissions that prepare notes may face increased demand; this can lengthen preparation timelines or require additional staff/time, producing indirect costs not quantified in the bill text.
- Political/strategic effect: reduces use of chamber rules as gatekeeping tools to prevent analyses from being prepared; sponsors still may seek a majority vote to avoid a note in specific instances.
Note on the document
- The packet includes a separate Arizona bill (also numbered HB2668) concerning overtime compensation for law enforcement and probation employees (amends Ariz. Rev. Stat. §23‑392). That is a distinct measure unrelated to the Illinois “Note Acts” amendments summarized above.
Compiled from official sources — confirm details with the bill’s official record.
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