103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2023 and 2024
SB0115
 
Introduced 1/24/2023, by Sen. Doris Turner
 
SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 

 
  
55 ILCS 5/3-4007  from Ch. 34, par. 3-4007

     Amends the Counties Code. Provides that a county's full-time public defender must be paid an annual salary that is at least 100% (rather than 90%) of the county State's attorney's annual compensation. Requires the State to pay 100% (rather than 66 2/3%) of  the public defender's annual salary. Prohibits  a public defender for  a county of 30,000 or more inhabitants from engaging in the private practice of law if the public defender is receiving not less than 100% (rather than 90%) of the compensation of the State's attorney of that county.  Effective July 1, 2023.
  


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A BILL FOR
 

  
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1    AN ACT concerning local government.
  
 
2    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
 
3represented in the General Assembly:
  
 
 
4    Section 5. The Counties Code is amended  by changing 
5Section 3-4007 as follows:
 



6    (55 ILCS 5/3-4007)  (from Ch. 34, par. 3-4007)



7    Sec. 3-4007. Compensation. 

8    (a) The public defender
shall be paid out of the county 
9treasury, and, subject to appropriation, shall be paid by the 
10Department of Revenue out of the Personal Property Tax 
11Replacement Fund or the General Revenue Fund as provided
in 
12subsection (b), as the
sole compensation for his or her 
13services a salary in an
amount
fixed by the County Board.  When 
14a Public Defender in a county of 30,000 or
more population
is 
15receiving not less than 100% 90% of the compensation of the 
16State's Attorney
of such county, that Public Defender shall 
17not engage in the private
practice of law.

18    (b) The State must pay 100% 66 2/3% of the public 
19defender's annual
salary.  If the public defender is employed 
20full-time in that capacity, his or
her salary must be at least 
21100% 90% of that county's State's attorney's annual

22compensation.  Subject to appropriation, these amounts 
23furnished by the State shall be payable monthly
by
the 
 
 
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1Department of Revenue out of the Personal Property Tax 
2Replacement Fund or the General Revenue Fund to the county in 
3which each Public Defender is employed.

4    (c) In cases where 2 or more adjoining counties have 
5joined
to form a common office of Public Defender, the salary 
6of the Public
Defender shall be set and paid as provided by a 
7joint resolution of the
various county boards involved.

8(Source: P.A. 97-72, eff. 7-1-11.)

 
 
9    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect July 1, 
102023.