(a) The Comptroller shall maintain complete, accurate and current financial records relating to State funds and to other public funds and assets available to, encumbered or expended by each State agency, including trust funds or other moneys not subject to appropriation, setting out all revenues, charges against all funds, fund and appropriation balances, interfund transfers, warrants outstanding and assets and encumbrances, in a manner consistent with the uniform State accounting system prescribed by the Comptroller. Such records shall be public records open to public inspection.
     (b) The Governor, Treasurer, Director of the Governor’s Office of Management and Budget, Director of Central Management Services, Auditor General, Speaker and Minority Leader of the House of Representatives, and President and Minority Leader of the Senate shall have access to all records and reports received by the Comptroller from State agencies and to all data and accounts maintained by the Comptroller except as otherwise specifically provided by law. All other State executive officers and heads of State agencies shall have access to reports and accounts relating to their agency or office.

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Terms Used In Illinois Compiled Statutes 15 ILCS 405/19

  • Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
  • Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
  • Minority leader: See Floor Leaders
  • Month: means a calendar month, and the word "year" a calendar year unless otherwise expressed; and the word "year" alone, is equivalent to the expression "year of our Lord. See Illinois Compiled Statutes 5 ILCS 70/1.10
  • State: when applied to different parts of the United States, may be construed to include the District of Columbia and the several territories, and the words "United States" may be construed to include the said district and territories. See Illinois Compiled Statutes 5 ILCS 70/1.14

     (c) The Comptroller shall make a report giving notice within 10 days of the establishment of each fund or account consisting of funds not subject to appropriation by the General Assembly.
     Each month the Comptroller shall prepare a report summarizing by State agency and appropriation the above information in such form as will most clearly and accurately set out the current fiscal condition of the State.
     In addition, each month the Comptroller shall prepare a report by detail object account in such form as will most clearly present the status of such accounts.
     (d) The Comptroller shall prescribe forms for the periodic reporting of financial accounts, transactions and other matters by State agencies, compatible with the reports required of the Comptroller under this Section.
     (e) The reports required of the Comptroller under subsection (c) of this Section shall be posted on the website of the Office of the Comptroller.