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2025 Regular Session Introduced by Larry Kump and 1 co-sponsor

Requires every state agency budget to include line-item costs and past/current-year expenditures for services to undocumented immigrants and asylum seekers, starting FY 2026.

To House Judiciary

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Purpose

HB 3227 amends the State Budget Law to require explicit, recurring budget reporting and line‑item appropriation requests that identify the costs to State agencies of services provided to undocumented immigrants and asylum seekers. The intent is to increase transparency about the State’s fiscal exposure and actual spending for these populations.

Key provisions

Amends Section 50‑10 (formerly 15 ILCS 20/38.1) of the Civil Administrative Code (State Budget Law).

For the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2026, and for each fiscal year thereafter, the Governor’s budget must include, for each State agency:

A separate line‑item request appropriating moneys for estimated costs of services provided to undocumented immigrants and asylum seekers through State grants, entitlements, or other programmatic services; and
Reported expenditures for the previous fiscal year and estimated expenditures for the current fiscal year for those same services.

The requirement is added alongside existing budget content rules (e.g., historical performance data, capital development section, previous line‑item additions).

Who is affected

All State agencies required to submit budget line items under the State Budget Law. Each agency must identify and estimate costs attributable to services for undocumented immigrants and asylum seekers.

The Governor’s Office of Management and Budget (GOMB) will likely oversee collection and presentation of the required estimates in the statewide budget.

Indirectly affects program administrators, auditors, and legislators who use budget documents for appropriation and oversight.

Potential impacts and considerations

Transparency: Produces line‑of‑sight data on state spending related to undocumented immigrants and asylum seekers, intended to inform legislative and public discussion.

Administrative burden: Agencies must develop methods to attribute portions of grants, entitlements, or program costs to these populations; implementation may require new tracking, data collection, or allocation methodologies.

Fiscal effect: The bill does not itself appropriate new funds or change eligibility — it requires reporting and appropriation line items for estimated costs (which could influence future appropriations).

Implementation details: The bill does not define precise methodology or terms (e.g., how services are attributed), leaving operational standards to agencies/GOMB and potential future guidance or rulemaking.

Timeline & procedural status

First effective fiscal year requirement: FY starting July 1, 2026.

Legislative actions (selection): Filed Feb 6, 2025; first reading Feb 18, 2025; referred to Rules Committee; committee hearings and substitute considered in May 2025; committee report sent to Calendars (May 12, 2025).

Effective date clause: Act takes effect upon becoming law.

This summary focuses on the bill’s structural change to budget reporting and does not assert policy positions or project exact dollar impacts, which would depend on agency estimates prepared under the new requirement.

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