Where a state representative rents a piece of property for exclusive official use as an office, that property is an authorized expenditure under section 4 of the General Assembly Compensation Act. Parties seeking compensation for expenditures or taxes on that property that would be paid from the representative’s allowance must seek resolution against the state in the court of claims as sovereign immunity bars the case from the jurisdiction of the circuit court.The 1st District Appellate Court reversed the decision of Cook …