Though they didn’t put a plan on the books on how to spend taxpayers’ money in the current fiscal year, Illinois lawmakers did introduce thousands of bills and passed scores of measures onto the governor’s desk. However the current Republican governor used his veto pen more than the previous chief executive on bills passed by majority Democrats in the General Assembly.

More than 200 measures passed by each chamber of the General Assembly were signed by Governor Bruce Rauner in 2015, which is about level with previous years under Democrat Pat Quinn, but the number of Rauner vetoes are sharply higher from the year before under Quinn, partly because of budget bills Rauner vetoed saying they were not balanced.

In a compliance audit of the Senate, Auditor General William Holland says 33 bills were vetoed, or amenditorially vetoed, in 2015. That’s more than three times the number of bills former Democrat Governor Pat Quinn vetoed in 2014 and 2013 combined. The House had a similar record -- 32 bills were vetoed by Rauner in 2015, nearly triple the total in both 2014 and 2013 under Quinn.

All together, members of the House introduced 4,322 bills last year, which was almost double that of 2014 but only 600 more than the year before.

The Senate introduced nearly 2,200 bills last year, more than double the year before but less than in 2013.

Lawmakers are back in full session January 13th.