Illinois General Assembly - Bill Status for HB 3665

Amends the Unified Code of Corrections. Provides that the Prisoner Review Board may grant a person committed to the Department of Corrections early release for medical incapacity or terminal illness. Establishes the procedures for applying for that release and the considerations the Prisoner Review Board must make in determining whether to grant the release. Provides that a committed person granted medical release shall be released on mandatory supervised release for a period of 5 years subject to the Code provisions concerning mandatory supervised release, which shall operate to discharge any remaining term of years imposed upon him or her; however, the person shall not serve a period of mandatory supervised release greater than the aggregate of the discharged underlying sentence and the mandatory supervised release period. Provides that a grant of medical release shall be an act of executive and legislative grace and shall be at the sole discretion of the Prisoner Review Board.

Provides that this Act may be referred to as The Joe Coleman Medical Release Act. Replaces everything after the enacting clause. Reinserts the provisions of the bill as introduced, with the following changes: Amends the Rights of Crime Victims and Witnesses Act. Provides that the crime victim has the right to submit a victim statement to the Prisoner Review Board for consideration at a medical release hearing as provided in a Section of the Unified Code of Corrections. Amends the Unified Code of Corrections. In the definition of "medically incapacitated", provides that to qualify the inmate shall have a medical condition preventing the inmate from completing more than one activities of daily living, rather than one or more activities. In the definition of "terminal illness", provides that a condition may qualify if it is likely to cause death in 18 months, rather than 12 months. Provides that within 90 days of the receipt of the initial application, the Prisoner Review Board shall conduct a hearing if a hearing is requested and render a decision granting or denying the petitioner's request for release. Provides that the Department of Corrections and the Prisoner Review Board shall release a report annually published on their websites that reports certain information about the Medical Release Program, such as the number of applications for medical release received by the Board in the preceding year, the number of people released on the medical release program, and the number of institutional hearings on medical release applications conducted by the Board. Provides that all the information provided in this report shall be provided in aggregate, and nothing shall be construed to require the public dissemination of any personal medical information. Provides that this Act applies retroactively, and shall be applicable to all currently incarcerated people in Illinois. Provides that the crime victim has the right to submit a victim statement to the Prisoner Review Board for consideration at a medical release hearing as provided in the Unified Code of Corrections. Amends the Open Parole Hearings Act. Provides that the definition of "parole hearing" includes a medical release hearing. Makes other changes.

Date	Chamber	Action
8/20/2021	House	Public Act . . . . . . . . . 102-0494

Date	Chamber	Action
2/19/2021	House	Filed with the Clerk by Rep. Will Guzzardi
2/22/2021	House	First Reading
2/22/2021	House	Referred to Rules Committee
3/16/2021	House	Assigned to Judiciary - Criminal Committee
3/23/2021	House	Do Pass / Short Debate Judiciary - Criminal Committee; 012-007-000
3/23/2021	House	Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Delia C. Ramirez
3/23/2021	House	Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Maurice A. West, II
3/23/2021	House	Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Kelly M. Cassidy
4/8/2021	House	Placed on Calendar 2nd Reading - Short Debate
4/15/2021	House	House Floor Amendment No. 1 Filed with Clerk by Rep. Will Guzzardi
4/15/2021	House	House Floor Amendment No. 1 Referred to Rules Committee
4/16/2021	House	Second Reading - Short Debate
4/16/2021	House	Placed on Calendar Order of 3rd Reading - Short Debate
4/20/2021	House	House Floor Amendment No. 1 Rules Refers to Judiciary - Criminal Committee
4/20/2021	House	House Floor Amendment No. 1 Recommends Be Adopted Judiciary - Criminal Committee; 015-002-000
4/21/2021	House	Recalled to Second Reading - Short Debate
4/21/2021	House	House Floor Amendment No. 1 Adopted
4/21/2021	House	Placed on Calendar Order of 3rd Reading - Short Debate
4/21/2021	House	Removed from Short Debate Status
4/21/2021	House	Placed on Calendar Order of 3rd Reading - Standard Debate
4/21/2021	House	Third Reading - Standard Debate - Passed 075-038-003
4/21/2021	House	Added Chief Co-Sponsor Rep. Elizabeth Hernandez
4/21/2021	Senate	Arrive in Senate
4/21/2021	Senate	Placed on Calendar Order of First Reading April 22, 2021
4/23/2021	Senate	Chief Senate Sponsor Sen. John Connor
4/23/2021	Senate	First Reading
4/23/2021	Senate	Referred to Assignments
5/10/2021	Senate	Assigned to Criminal Law
5/18/2021	Senate	Added as Alternate Chief Co-Sponsor Sen. Jacqueline Y. Collins
5/19/2021	Senate	Do Pass Criminal Law; 007-003-000
5/19/2021	Senate	Placed on Calendar Order of 2nd Reading May 20, 2021
5/20/2021	Senate	Second Reading
5/20/2021	Senate	Placed on Calendar Order of 3rd Reading May 21, 2021
5/26/2021	Senate	Third Reading - Passed; 034-017-001
5/26/2021	House	Passed Both Houses
5/26/2021	Senate	Added as Alternate Chief Co-Sponsor Sen. Patricia Van Pelt
6/23/2021	House	Sent to the Governor
8/20/2021	House	Governor Approved
8/20/2021	House	Effective Date January 1, 2022
8/20/2021	House	Public Act . . . . . . . . . 102-0494

	Adds reference to:
	725 ILCS 120/5	from Ch. 38, par. 1405