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1 | AN ACT concerning sexually violent persons.
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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 Sexually Violent Persons Commitment Act is | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
5 | amended by changing Section 30 as follows: | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
6 | (725 ILCS 207/30)
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7 | Sec. 30. Detention; probable cause hearing; transfer for
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8 | examination.
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9 | (a) Upon the filing of a petition under Section 15 of this | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
10 | Act,
the court shall review the petition to determine whether | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
11 | to issue
an order for detention of the person who is the | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
12 | subject of the
petition. The person shall be detained only if | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
13 | there is cause to
believe that the person is eligible for | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
14 | commitment under subsection (f) of
Section
35 of this Act. If | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
15 | the probable cause determination is made, the court shall | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
16 | direct that the person be transferred to the county jail for an | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
17 | evaluation as to whether the person is a sexually violent | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
18 | person, unless the person is serving a sentence of imprisonment | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
19 | in a Department of Corrections correctional facility or | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
20 | juvenile correctional facility or is committed to | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
21 | institutional care.
A person detained under this Section shall | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
22 | be
held in a facility approved by the Department. If the person | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
23 | is
serving a sentence of imprisonment, is in a Department of
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24 | Corrections correctional facility or juvenile correctional
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25 | facility or is committed to institutional care, and the court
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26 | orders detention under this Section, the court may
shall order | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
27 | that
the person be transferred to the county jail
a detention | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
28 | facility approved by the
Department . A detention order under | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
29 | this Section remains in
effect until the person is discharged | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
30 | after a trial under Section
35 of this Act or until the | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
31 | effective date of a commitment order
under Section 40 of this | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
32 | Act, whichever is applicable.
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1 | (b) Whenever a petition is filed under Section 15 of this | ||||||
2 | Act,
the court shall hold a hearing to determine whether there | ||||||
3 | is
probable cause to believe that the person named in the | ||||||
4 | petition is
a sexually violent person. If the person named in | ||||||
5 | the petition is
in custody, the court shall hold the probable | ||||||
6 | cause hearing within
72 hours after the petition is filed, | ||||||
7 | excluding Saturdays, Sundays
and legal holidays. The court may | ||||||
8 | grant a continuance of the probable cause
hearing for no more | ||||||
9 | than 7 additional days upon the motion of the respondent,
for | ||||||
10 | good cause. If the person named in the petition has been | ||||||
11 | released, is
on parole, is on mandatory supervised release, or | ||||||
12 | otherwise is not in
custody, the court shall hold the probable | ||||||
13 | cause hearing within a
reasonable time after the filing of the | ||||||
14 | petition.
At the probable cause hearing, the court shall admit | ||||||
15 | and consider all
relevant hearsay evidence.
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16 | (c) If the court determines after a hearing that there is
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17 | probable cause to believe that the person named in the petition | ||||||
18 | is
a sexually violent person, the court shall order that the | ||||||
19 | person
be taken into custody if he or she is not in custody and | ||||||
20 | shall
order the person to be transferred within a reasonable | ||||||
21 | time to an
appropriate facility for an evaluation as to whether | ||||||
22 | the person is
a sexually violent person.
If the person who is | ||||||
23 | named in the petition refuses to speak to, communicate
with, or | ||||||
24 | otherwise fails to cooperate with the examining evaluator from | ||||||
25 | the
Department of Human Services or the Department of | ||||||
26 | Corrections, that person may
only introduce evidence and | ||||||
27 | testimony from any expert or professional person
who is | ||||||
28 | retained or court-appointed to conduct an examination of the | ||||||
29 | person
that results from a review of the records and may not | ||||||
30 | introduce evidence
resulting from an examination of the person.
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31 | Any evaluation conducted under this Section shall be by an | ||||||
32 | evaluator
approved by the Sex Offender Management Board and | ||||||
33 | conducted in conformance with
the standards developed under the | ||||||
34 | Sex Offender Management Board Act.
Notwithstanding the | ||||||
35 | provisions of Section 10 of
the
Mental Health and Developmental | ||||||
36 | Disabilities Confidentiality Act, all
evaluations conducted |
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1 | pursuant to this Act and all Illinois Department of
Corrections | ||||||
2 | treatment records shall be admissible at all proceedings held
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3 | pursuant to this Act, including the probable cause hearing and | ||||||
4 | the trial.
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5 | If the court determines that probable
cause does not exist | ||||||
6 | to believe that the person is a sexually
violent person, the | ||||||
7 | court shall dismiss the petition.
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8 | (d) The Department shall promulgate rules that provide the
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9 | qualifications for persons conducting evaluations under | ||||||
10 | subsection
(c) of this Section.
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11 | (e) If the person named in the petition claims or appears | ||||||
12 | to be
indigent, the court shall, prior to the probable cause | ||||||
13 | hearing
under subsection (b) of this Section, appoint
counsel.
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14 | (Source: P.A. 92-415, eff. 8-17-01; 93-616, eff. 1-1-04.)
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15 | Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | ||||||
16 | becoming law.
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