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Public Act 096-1550


 

Public Act 1550 96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY



 


 
Public Act 096-1550
 
SB0389 EnrolledLRB096 06420 RCE 16504 b

    AN ACT concerning State government.
 
    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
 
    Section 5. The Department of Human Services (Mental Health
and Developmental Disabilities) Law of the Civil
Administrative Code of Illinois is amended by adding Section
1710-125 as follows:
 
    (20 ILCS 1710/1710-125 new)
    Sec. 1710-125. Re-entry services program. The Department
of Human Services shall establish a re-entry services program
to assist persons wrongfully imprisoned, as defined in Section
3-1-2 of the Unified Code of Corrections, in obtaining mental
health services, including services for post-traumatic stress,
at an agreed-upon mental health facility at no charge. The
Department of Human Services shall promulgate rules, no later
than July 1, 2011, establishing the eligibility of wrongfully
imprisoned persons for the Department's re-entry services
program.
 
    Section 10. The Unified Code of Corrections is amended by
changing Sections 3-1-2 and 3-14-1 as follows:
 
    (730 ILCS 5/3-1-2)  (from Ch. 38, par. 1003-1-2)
    Sec. 3-1-2. Definitions.
    (a) "Chief Administrative Officer" means the person
designated by the Director to exercise the powers and duties of
the Department of Corrections in regard to committed persons
within a correctional institution or facility, and includes the
superintendent of any juvenile institution or facility.
    (a-5) "Sex offense" for the purposes of paragraph (16) of
subsection (a) of Section 3-3-7, paragraph (10) of subsection
(a) of Section 5-6-3, and paragraph (18) of subsection (c) of
Section 5-6-3.1 only means:
        (i) A violation of any of the following Sections of the
    Criminal Code of 1961: 10-7 (aiding or abetting child
    abduction under Section 10-5(b)(10)), 10-5(b)(10) (child
    luring), 11-6 (indecent solicitation of a child), 11-6.5
    (indecent solicitation of an adult), 11-15.1 (soliciting
    for a juvenile prostitute), 11-17.1 (keeping a place of
    juvenile prostitution), 11-18.1 (patronizing a juvenile
    prostitute), 11-19.1 (juvenile pimping), 11-19.2
    (exploitation of a child), 11-20.1 (child pornography),
    12-14.1 (predatory criminal sexual assault of a child), or
    12-33 (ritualized abuse of a child). An attempt to commit
    any of these offenses.
        (ii) A violation of any of the following Sections of
    the Criminal Code of 1961: 12-13 (criminal sexual assault),
    12-14 (aggravated criminal sexual assault), 12-16
    (aggravated criminal sexual abuse), and subsection (a) of
    Section 12-15 (criminal sexual abuse). An attempt to commit
    any of these offenses.
        (iii) A violation of any of the following Sections of
    the Criminal Code of 1961 when the defendant is not a
    parent of the victim:
            10-1 (kidnapping),
            10-2 (aggravated kidnapping),
            10-3 (unlawful restraint),
            10-3.1 (aggravated unlawful restraint).
            An attempt to commit any of these offenses.
        (iv) A violation of any former law of this State
    substantially equivalent to any offense listed in this
    subsection (a-5).
    An offense violating federal law or the law of another
state that is substantially equivalent to any offense listed in
this subsection (a-5) shall constitute a sex offense for the
purpose of this subsection (a-5). A finding or adjudication as
a sexually dangerous person under any federal law or law of
another state that is substantially equivalent to the Sexually
Dangerous Persons Act shall constitute an adjudication for a
sex offense for the purposes of this subsection (a-5).
    (b) "Commitment" means a judicially determined placement
in the custody of the Department of Corrections on the basis of
delinquency or conviction.
    (c) "Committed Person" is a person committed to the
Department, however a committed person shall not be considered
to be an employee of the Department of Corrections for any
purpose, including eligibility for a pension, benefits, or any
other compensation or rights or privileges which may be
provided to employees of the Department.
    (c-5) "Computer scrub software" means any third-party
added software, designed to delete information from the
computer unit, the hard drive, or other software, which would
eliminate and prevent discovery of browser activity, including
but not limited to Internet history, address bar or bars, cache
or caches, and/or cookies, and which would over-write files in
a way so as to make previous computer activity, including but
not limited to website access, more difficult to discover.
    (d) "Correctional Institution or Facility" means any
building or part of a building where committed persons are kept
in a secured manner.
    (e) In the case of functions performed before the effective
date of this amendatory Act of the 94th General Assembly,
"Department" means the Department of Corrections of this State.
In the case of functions performed on or after the effective
date of this amendatory Act of the 94th General Assembly,
"Department" has the meaning ascribed to it in subsection
(f-5).
    (f) In the case of functions performed before the effective
date of this amendatory Act of the 94th General Assembly,
"Director" means the Director of the Department of Corrections.
In the case of functions performed on or after the effective
date of this amendatory Act of the 94th General Assembly,
"Director" has the meaning ascribed to it in subsection (f-5).
    (f-5) In the case of functions performed on or after the
effective date of this amendatory Act of the 94th General
Assembly, references to "Department" or "Director" refer to
either the Department of Corrections or the Director of
Corrections or to the Department of Juvenile Justice or the
Director of Juvenile Justice unless the context is specific to
the Department of Juvenile Justice or the Director of Juvenile
Justice.
    (g) "Discharge" means the final termination of a commitment
to the Department of Corrections.
    (h) "Discipline" means the rules and regulations for the
maintenance of order and the protection of persons and property
within the institutions and facilities of the Department and
their enforcement.
    (i) "Escape" means the intentional and unauthorized
absence of a committed person from the custody of the
Department.
    (j) "Furlough" means an authorized leave of absence from
the Department of Corrections for a designated purpose and
period of time.
    (k) "Parole" means the conditional and revocable release of
a committed person under the supervision of a parole officer.
    (l) "Prisoner Review Board" means the Board established in
Section 3-3-1(a), independent of the Department, to review
rules and regulations with respect to good time credits, to
hear charges brought by the Department against certain
prisoners alleged to have violated Department rules with
respect to good time credits, to set release dates for certain
prisoners sentenced under the law in effect prior to the
effective date of this Amendatory Act of 1977, to hear requests
and make recommendations to the Governor with respect to
pardon, reprieve or commutation, to set conditions for parole
and mandatory supervised release and determine whether
violations of those conditions justify revocation of parole or
release, and to assume all other functions previously exercised
by the Illinois Parole and Pardon Board.
    (m) Whenever medical treatment, service, counseling, or
care is referred to in this Unified Code of Corrections, such
term may be construed by the Department or Court, within its
discretion, to include treatment, service or counseling by a
Christian Science practitioner or nursing care appropriate
therewith whenever request therefor is made by a person subject
to the provisions of this Act.
    (n) "Victim" shall have the meaning ascribed to it in
subsection (a) of Section 3 of the Bill of Rights for Victims
and Witnesses of Violent Crime Act.
    (o) "Wrongfully imprisoned person" means a person who has
been discharged from a prison of this State and has received:
        (1) a pardon from the Governor stating that such pardon
    is issued on the ground of innocence of the crime for which
    he or she was imprisoned; or
        (2) a certificate of innocence from the Circuit Court
    as provided in Section 2-702 of the Code of Civil
    Procedure.
(Source: P.A. 96-362, eff. 1-1-10; 96-710, eff. 1-1-10;
96-1000, eff. 7-2-10.)
 
    (730 ILCS 5/3-14-1)  (from Ch. 38, par. 1003-14-1)
    Sec. 3-14-1. Release from the Institution.
    (a) Upon release of a person on parole, mandatory release,
final discharge or pardon the Department shall return all
property held for him, provide him with suitable clothing and
procure necessary transportation for him to his designated
place of residence and employment. It may provide such person
with a grant of money for travel and expenses which may be paid
in installments. The amount of the money grant shall be
determined by the Department.
    (a-1) The Department shall, before a wrongfully imprisoned
person, as defined in Section 3-1-2 of this Code, is discharged
from the Department, provide him or her with any documents
necessary after discharge, including an identification card
under subsection (e) of this Section.
    (a-2) The Department of Corrections may establish and
maintain, in any institution it administers, revolving funds to
be known as "Travel and Allowances Revolving Funds". These
revolving funds shall be used for advancing travel and expense
allowances to committed, paroled, and discharged prisoners.
The moneys paid into such revolving funds shall be from
appropriations to the Department for Committed, Paroled, and
Discharged Prisoners.
    (b) (Blank).
    (c) Except as otherwise provided in this Code, the
Department shall establish procedures to provide written
notification of any release of any person who has been
convicted of a felony to the State's Attorney and sheriff of
the county from which the offender was committed, and the
State's Attorney and sheriff of the county into which the
offender is to be paroled or released. Except as otherwise
provided in this Code, the Department shall establish
procedures to provide written notification to the proper law
enforcement agency for any municipality of any release of any
person who has been convicted of a felony if the arrest of the
offender or the commission of the offense took place in the
municipality, if the offender is to be paroled or released into
the municipality, or if the offender resided in the
municipality at the time of the commission of the offense. If a
person convicted of a felony who is in the custody of the
Department of Corrections or on parole or mandatory supervised
release informs the Department that he or she has resided,
resides, or will reside at an address that is a housing
facility owned, managed, operated, or leased by a public
housing agency, the Department must send written notification
of that information to the public housing agency that owns,
manages, operates, or leases the housing facility. The written
notification shall, when possible, be given at least 14 days
before release of the person from custody, or as soon
thereafter as possible.
    (c-1) (Blank).
    (c-5) If a person on parole or mandatory supervised release
becomes a resident of a facility licensed or regulated by the
Department of Public Health, the Illinois Department of Public
Aid, or the Illinois Department of Human Services, the
Department of Corrections shall provide copies of the following
information to the appropriate licensing or regulating
Department and the licensed or regulated facility where the
person becomes a resident:
        (1) The mittimus and any pre-sentence investigation
    reports.
        (2) The social evaluation prepared pursuant to Section
    3-8-2.
        (3) Any pre-release evaluation conducted pursuant to
    subsection (j) of Section 3-6-2.
        (4) Reports of disciplinary infractions and
    dispositions.
        (5) Any parole plan, including orders issued by the
    Prisoner Review Board, and any violation reports and
    dispositions.
        (6) The name and contact information for the assigned
    parole agent and parole supervisor.
    This information shall be provided within 3 days of the
person becoming a resident of the facility.
    (c-10) If a person on parole or mandatory supervised
release becomes a resident of a facility licensed or regulated
by the Department of Public Health, the Illinois Department of
Public Aid, or the Illinois Department of Human Services, the
Department of Corrections shall provide written notification
of such residence to the following:
        (1) The Prisoner Review Board.
        (2) The chief of police and sheriff in the municipality
    and county in which the licensed facility is located.
    The notification shall be provided within 3 days of the
person becoming a resident of the facility.
    (d) Upon the release of a committed person on parole,
mandatory supervised release, final discharge or pardon, the
Department shall provide such person with information
concerning programs and services of the Illinois Department of
Public Health to ascertain whether such person has been exposed
to the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) or any identified
causative agent of Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS).
    (e) Upon the release of a committed person on parole,
mandatory supervised release, final discharge, or pardon, or
who has been wrongfully imprisoned, the Department shall
provide the person who has met the criteria established by the
Department with an identification card identifying the person
as being on parole, mandatory supervised release, final
discharge, or pardon, or wrongfully imprisoned, as the case may
be. The Department, in consultation with the Office of the
Secretary of State, shall prescribe the form of the
identification card, which may be similar to the form of the
standard Illinois Identification Card. The Department shall
inform the committed person that he or she may present the
identification card to the Office of the Secretary of State
upon application for a standard Illinois Identification Card in
accordance with the Illinois Identification Card Act. The
Department shall require the committed person to pay a $1 fee
for the identification card.
    For purposes of a committed person receiving an
identification card issued by the Department under this
subsection, the Department shall establish criteria that the
committed person must meet before the card is issued. It is the
sole responsibility of the committed person requesting the
identification card issued by the Department to meet the
established criteria. The person's failure to meet the criteria
is sufficient reason to deny the committed person the
identification card. An identification card issued by the
Department under this subsection shall be valid for a period of
time not to exceed 30 calendar days from the date the card is
issued. The Department shall not be held civilly or criminally
liable to anyone because of any act of any person utilizing a
card issued by the Department under this subsection.
    The Department shall adopt rules governing the issuance of
identification cards to committed persons being released on
parole, mandatory supervised release, final discharge, or
pardon.
(Source: P.A. 94-163, eff. 7-11-05.)
 
    Section 15. The Code of Civil Procedure is amended by
changing Section 2-702 as follows:
 
    (735 ILCS 5/2-702)
    Sec. 2-702. Petition for a certificate of innocence that
the petitioner was innocent of all offenses for which he or she
was incarcerated.
    (a) The General Assembly finds and declares that innocent
persons who have been wrongly convicted of crimes in Illinois
and subsequently imprisoned have been frustrated in seeking
legal redress due to a variety of substantive and technical
obstacles in the law and that such persons should have an
available avenue to obtain a finding of innocence so that they
may obtain relief through a petition in the Court of Claims.
The General Assembly further finds misleading the current legal
nomenclature which compels an innocent person to seek a pardon
for being wrongfully incarcerated. It is the intent of the
General Assembly that the court, in exercising its discretion
as permitted by law regarding the weight and admissibility of
evidence submitted pursuant to this Section, shall, in the
interest of justice, give due consideration to difficulties of
proof caused by the passage of time, the death or
unavailability of witnesses, the destruction of evidence or
other factors not caused by such persons or those acting on
their behalf.
    (b) Any person convicted and subsequently imprisoned for
one or more felonies by the State of Illinois which he or she
did not commit may, under the conditions hereinafter provided,
file a petition for certificate of innocence in the circuit
court of the county in which the person was convicted. The
petition shall request a certificate of innocence finding that
the petitioner was innocent of all offenses for which he or she
was incarcerated.
    (c) In order to present the claim for certificate of
innocence of an unjust conviction and imprisonment, the
petitioner must attach to his or her petition documentation
demonstrating that:
        (1) he or she has been convicted of one or more
    felonies by the State of Illinois and subsequently
    sentenced to a term of imprisonment, and has served all or
    any part of the sentence; and
        (2) his or her judgment of conviction was reversed or
    vacated, and the indictment or information dismissed or, if
    a new trial was ordered, either he or she was found not
    guilty at the new trial or he or she was not retried and
    the indictment or information dismissed; or the statute, or
    application thereof, on which the indictment or
    information was based violated the Constitution of the
    United States or the State of Illinois; and
        (3) his or her claim is not time barred by the
    provisions of subsection (i) of this Section.
    (d) The petition shall state facts in sufficient detail to
permit the court to find that the petitioner is likely to
succeed at trial in proving that the petitioner is innocent of
the offenses charged in the indictment or information or his or
her acts or omissions charged in the indictment or information
did not constitute a felony or misdemeanor against the State of
Illinois, and the petitioner did not by his or her own conduct
voluntarily cause or bring about his or her conviction. The
petition shall be verified by the petitioner.
    (e) A copy of the petition shall be served on the Attorney
General and the State's Attorney of the county where the
conviction was had. The Attorney General and the State's
Attorney of the county where the conviction was had shall have
the right to intervene as parties.
    (f) In any hearing seeking a certificate of innocence, the
court may take judicial notice of prior sworn testimony or
evidence admitted in the criminal proceedings related to the
convictions which resulted in the alleged wrongful
incarceration, if the petitioner was either represented by
counsel at such prior proceedings or the right to counsel was
knowingly waived.
    (g) In order to obtain a certificate of innocence the
petitioner must prove by a preponderance of evidence that:
        (1) the petitioner was convicted of one or more
    felonies by the State of Illinois and subsequently
    sentenced to a term of imprisonment, and has served all or
    any part of the sentence;
        (2)(A) the judgment of conviction was reversed or
    vacated, and the indictment or information dismissed or, if
    a new trial was ordered, either the petitioner was found
    not guilty at the new trial or the petitioner was not
    retried and the indictment or information dismissed; or (B)
    the statute, or application thereof, on which the
    indictment or information was based violated the
    Constitution of the United States or the State of Illinois;
        (3) the petitioner is innocent of the offenses charged
    in the indictment or information or his or her acts or
    omissions charged in the indictment or information did not
    constitute a felony or misdemeanor against the State; and
        (4) the petitioner did not by his or her own conduct
    voluntarily cause or bring about his or her conviction.
    (h) If the court finds that the petitioner is entitled to a
judgment, it shall enter a certificate of innocence finding
that the petitioner was innocent of all offenses for which he
or she was incarcerated. Upon entry of the certificate of
innocence or pardon from the Governor stating that such pardon
was issued on the ground of innocence of the crime for which he
or she was imprisoned, (1) the clerk of the court shall
transmit a copy of the certificate of innocence to the clerk of
the Court of Claims, together with the claimant's current
address; and (2) the court shall enter an order expunging or
sealing the record of arrest from the official records of the
arresting authority and order that the records of the clerk of
the circuit court and Department of State Police be sealed
until further order of the court upon good cause shown or as
otherwise provided herein, and the name of the defendant
obliterated from the official index requested to be kept by the
circuit court clerk under Section 16 of the Clerks of Courts
Act in connection with the arrest and conviction for the
offense but the order shall not affect any index issued by the
circuit court clerk before the entry of the order.
    (i) Any person seeking a certificate of innocence under
this Section based on the dismissal of an indictment or
information or acquittal that occurred before the effective
date of this amendatory Act of the 95th General Assembly shall
file his or her petition within 2 years after the effective
date of this amendatory Act of the 95th General Assembly. Any
person seeking a certificate of innocence under this Section
based on the dismissal of an indictment or information or
acquittal that occurred on or after the effective date of this
amendatory Act of the 95th General Assembly shall file his or
her petition within 2 years after the dismissal.
    (j) The decision to grant or deny a certificate of
innocence shall be binding only with respect to claims filed in
the Court of Claims and shall not have a res judicata effect on
any other proceedings.
(Source: P.A. 95-970, eff. 9-22-08.)
 
    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect July 1,
2011.

Effective Date: 7/1/2011