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Treasurer, Comptroller Remain Separate for Now
(IRN)-The effort to combine the offices of treasurer and comptroller has stalled.

The proposed constitutional amendment passed the Senate during the spring session, but never made it out of the House Rules Committee.

State Comptroller Judy Baar Topinka hopes the speaker releases it from committee. She says she’s still trying to pass the amendment. "We're doing our job. We've already gotten in through one chamber. We have not let the issue rest. It's not going to go away, and I think we need to take it to its course, and I'm gonna do what I can to move it," she said.

Topinka and the state treasurer, Dan Rutherford, both support the amendment. If the measure passes, the question would be on the ballot next year, and if voters approve, the combined office, to be called comptroller of the treasury, would be up for election in 2014.

The measure could be considered at any special session later this year, the fall Veto Session, or, most likely, in next year's spring session, and if it passes, still make it on the ballot in 2012.

Topinka and Rutherford say the two offices of comptroller and treasurer are no longer needed, since the position of auditor general has now been created. They estimate cost savings from combining the offices of $12 million a year.

(Source: Illinois Radio Network)
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