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| | 103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2023 and 2024
SB2175 Introduced 2/10/2023, by Sen. Mike Simmons SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
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Amends the Code of Criminal Procedure of 1963. Provides that during the first 180 days following a person's release from a penal institution, a court shall not order the person to pay any outstanding fines, taxes, or costs arising from a criminal proceeding involving the person.
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| | SB2175 | | LRB103 29288 RLC 55675 b |
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| 1 | | AN ACT concerning criminal law.
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| 2 | | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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| 3 | | represented in the General Assembly:
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| 4 | | Section 5. The Code of Criminal Procedure of 1963 is |
| 5 | | amended by changing Section 124A-5 as follows:
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| 6 | | (725 ILCS 5/124A-5)
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| 7 | | Sec. 124A-5. Judgment for costs of prosecution. |
| 8 | | (a)Except as otherwise provided in subsection (b), when |
| 9 | | When a person is convicted
of an offense under a statute,
or at |
| 10 | | common law, the court shall enter judgment that the offender |
| 11 | | pay the
costs of the prosecution. The costs shall include |
| 12 | | reasonable costs
incurred by the Sheriff for serving arrest |
| 13 | | warrants, for picking up the
offender from a county other than |
| 14 | | the one in which he or she was convicted,
and for picking up |
| 15 | | the offender from a location outside the State
of Illinois |
| 16 | | pursuant either to his or her extradition or to his or her
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| 17 | | waiver of extradition.
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| 18 | | (b) During the first 180 days following a person's release |
| 19 | | from a penal institution, a court shall not order the person to |
| 20 | | pay any outstanding fines, taxes, or costs arising from a |
| 21 | | criminal proceeding involving the person. |
| 22 | | (Source: P.A. 89-234, eff. 1-1-96.)
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