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 1                    AMENDMENT TO SENATE BILL 108

 2        AMENDMENT NO.     .  Amend Senate Bill 108,  AS  AMENDED,
 3    as follows:
 4    by  replacing  everything  after the enacting clause with the
 5    following:

 6        "Section 5.  The Unified Code of Corrections  is  amended
 7    by  changing  Section  3-3-2.1  and adding Section 3-3-2.2 as
 8    follows:

 9        (730 ILCS 5/3-3-2.1) (from Ch. 38, par. 1003-3-2.1)
10        Sec. 3-3-2.1.  Prisoner Review Board - Release Date.  (a)
11    Except as provided in subsection  (b),  the  Prisoner  Review
12    Board shall, no later than 7 days following a prisoner's next
13    parole  hearing  after  the effective date of this Amendatory
14    Act of 1977, provide each prisoner sentenced under the law in
15    effect prior to the effective date of this amendatory Act  of
16    1977, with a fixed release date.
17        (b)  No  release date under this Section shall be set for
18    any person sentenced to an indeterminate sentence  under  the
19    law  in effect prior to the effective date of this amendatory
20    Act of 1977 in which the minimum term of such sentence is  20
21    years or more.
22        (c)  The Prisoner Review Board shall notify each eligible
 
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 1    offender  of  his or her release date in a form substantially
 2    as follows:
 3                                                   Date of Notice
 4    "To (Name of offender):
 5        Under a recent change in the law you  are  provided  with
 6    this choice:
 7        (1)  You  may  remain  under  your  present indeterminate
 8    sentence and continue to be eligible for parole; or  (2)  you
 9    may  waive  your  right to parole and accept the release date
10    which has been set for you.  From this release date  will  be
11    deducted any good conduct credit you may earn.
12        If  you accept the release date established by the Board,
13    you will no longer be eligible for parole.
14        Your release date from prison has been set for:  (release
15    date)     , subject to a term of mandatory supervised release
16    as provided by law.
17        If you accumulate the  maximum  amount  of  good  conduct
18    credit  as  allowed  by  law  recently  enacted,  you  can be
19    released on: , subject to  a  term  of  mandatory  supervised
20    release as provided by law.
21        Should  you  choose  not to accept the release date, your
22    next parole hearing will be:                     .
23        The Board has based its  determination  of  your  release
24    date on the following:
25        (1)  The  material  that  normally  would  be examined in
26    connection  with  your  parole  hearing,  as  set  forth   in
27    paragraph  (d)  of  Section  3-3-4  of  the  Unified  Code of
28    Corrections:
29        (2)  the intent of the court in imposing sentence on you;
30        (3)  the  present  schedule  of  sentences  for   similar
31    offenses  provided by Sections 5-8-1 and 5-8-2 of the Unified
32    Code of Corrections, as amended;
33        (4)  the factors in mitigation and  aggravation  provided
34    by  Sections  5-5-3.1  and  5-5-3.2  of  the  Unified Code of
 
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 1    Corrections, as amended;
 2        (5)  The  rate  of  accumulating  good  conduct   credits
 3    provided by Section 3-6-3 of the Unified Code of Corrections,
 4    as amended;
 5        (6)  your behavior since commitment.
 6        You now have 60 days in which to decide whether to remain
 7    under your indeterminate sentence and continue to be eligible
 8    for  parole  or  waive  your  right  to parole and accept the
 9    release date established for you by the  Board.   If  you  do
10    nothing  within  60  days,  you  will remain under the parole
11    system.
12        If you accept the release date, you may  accumulate  good
13    conduct  credit  at  the  maximum rate provided under the law
14    recently enacted.
15        If you feel that the release date set for you  is  unfair
16    or  is  not  based  on  complete  information  required to be
17    considered by the Board,  you  may  request  that  the  Board
18    reconsider  the  date.   In  your  request you must set forth
19    specific reasons why you feel the  Board's  release  date  is
20    unfair  and  you  may  submit relevant material in support of
21    your request.
22        The Department of Corrections is obligated to assist  you
23    in that effort, if you ask it to do so.
24        The  Board  will notify you within 60 days whether or not
25    it will reconsider its decision.  The Board's  decision  with
26    respect  to  reconsidering  your  release  date  is final and
27    cannot be appealed to any court.
28        If the Board decides not to reconsider your case you will
29    have 60 days in which to decide whether to accept the release
30    date and waive your right to parole or to continue under  the
31    parole  system.   If  you do nothing within 60 days after you
32    receive notification of the Board's decision you will  remain
33    under the parole system.
34        If  the  Board  decides  to  reconsider its decision with
 
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 1    respect to your release date, the Board will schedule a  date
 2    for reconsideration as soon as practicable, but no later than
 3    60  days from the date it receives your request, and give you
 4    at least 30 days notice.  You  may  submit  material  to  the
 5    Board  which you believe will be helpful in deciding a proper
 6    date for your release.   The  Department  of  Corrections  is
 7    obligated  to  assist you in that effort, if you ask it to do
 8    so.
 9        Neither you nor your lawyer has the right to  be  present
10    on  the  date  of  reconsideration,  nor  the  right  to call
11    witnesses.   However, the Board may ask you or your lawyer to
12    appear or may ask to hear witnesses. The Board will base  its
13    determination  on  the same data on which it made its earlier
14    determination,  plus  any  new  information  which   may   be
15    available to it.
16        When the Board has made its decision you will be informed
17    of  the release date.  In no event will it be longer than the
18    release date originally determined.  From this date  you  may
19    continue  to  accumulate  good conduct credits at the maximum
20    rate.  You will not be able to appeal the Board's decision to
21    a court.
22        Following the  Board's  reconsideration  and  upon  being
23    notified  of your release date you will have 60 days in which
24    to decide whether to accept the release date and  waive  your
25    right  to  parole or to continue under the parole system.  If
26    you do nothing within  60  days  after  notification  of  the
27    Board's decision you will remain under the parole system."
28        (d)  The  Board shall provide each eligible offender with
29    a form substantially as follows:
30        "I (name of offender) am  fully  aware  of  my  right  to
31    choose  between  parole eligibility and a fixed release date.
32    I know that if I accept the release date established, I  will
33    give  up my right to seek parole.  I have read and understood
34    the Prisoner Review Board's letter, and I know how and  under
 
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 1    what circumstances the Board has set my release date.  I know
 2    that  I  will  be  released on that date and will be released
 3    earlier if I accumulate good conduct credit.  I know that the
 4    date set by the Board is final, and can't be  appealed  to  a
 5    court.
 6        Fully  aware  of  all  the  implications, I expressly and
 7    knowingly waive my  right  to  seek  parole  and  accept  the
 8    release date as established by the Prisoner Review Board."
 9        (e)  The  Board  shall  use the following information and
10    standards in establishing a release date  for  each  eligible
11    offender who requests that a date be set:
12        (1)  Such  information as would be considered in a parole
13    hearing under Section 3-3-4 of this Code;
14        (2)  The intent of the court in imposing  the  offender's
15    sentence;
16        (3)  The  present  schedule for similar offenses provided
17    by Sections 5-8-1 and 5-8-2 of this Code;
18        (4)  Factors in aggravation and mitigation of sentence as
19    provided in Sections 5-5-3.1 and 5-5-3.2 of this Code;
20        (5)  The  rate  of  accumulating  good  conduct   credits
21    provided by Section 3-6-3 of this Code;
22        (6)  The  offender's  behavior  since  commitment  to the
23    Department.
24        (f)  After the release date is  set  by  the  Board,  the
25    offender  can  accumulate  good conduct credits in accordance
26    with Section 3-6-3 of this Code.
27        (g)  The release date established by the Board shall  not
28    be sooner than the earliest date that the offender would have
29    been  eligible  for release under the sentence imposed on him
30    by the court, less time credit  previously  earned  for  good
31    behavior, nor shall it be later than the latest date at which
32    the  offender would have been eligible for release under such
33    sentence,  less  time  credit  previously  earned  for   good
34    behavior.
 
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 1        (h) (1)  Except  as  provided  in  subsection  (b),  each
 2    prisoner  appearing  at his next parole hearing subsequent to
 3    the effective date of the amendatory Act of  1977,  shall  be
 4    notified  within 7 days of the hearing that he will either be
 5    released on parole or that a release date has been set by the
 6    Board.   The  notice  and  waiver  form   provided   for   in
 7    subsections  (c)  and  (d)  shall  be  presented  to eligible
 8    prisoners  no  later  than  7  days  following  their  parole
 9    hearing.   A written statement of the basis for the  decision
10    with  regard  to  the release date set shall be given to such
11    prisoners no later than 14 days following the parole hearing.
12        (2)  Each prisoner upon notification of his release  date
13    shall  have  60  days  to  choose whether to remain under the
14    parole system or to accept the release  date  established  by
15    the  Board.   No  release  date shall be effective unless the
16    prisoner waives his right to parole in writing.  If no choice
17    is made by such prisoner within 60 days from the date of  his
18    notification  of  a  release date, such prisoner shall remain
19    under the parole system.
20        (3)  Within the 60 day period as  provided  in  paragraph
21    (2) of this subsection, a prisoner may request that the Board
22    reconsider  its  decision  with  regard  to  such  prisoner's
23    release  date.   No  later  than 60 days following receipt of
24    such request for reconsideration, the Board shall notify  the
25    prisoner  as  to  whether  or  not  it  will  reconsider such
26    prisoner's release date.  No court shall have jurisdiction to
27    review the Board's decision. No prisoner shall be entitled to
28    more than one request  for  reconsideration  of  his  release
29    date.
30        (A)  If  the  Board decides not to reconsider the release
31    date, the prisoner shall have 60 days to  choose  whether  to
32    remain  under the parole system or to accept the release date
33    established by the Board.  No release date shall be effective
34    unless the prisoner waives his right to  parole  in  writing.
 
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 1    If no choice is made by such prisoner within 60 days from the
 2    date  of the notification by the Board refusing to reconsider
 3    his release date, such prisoner shall remain under the parole
 4    system.
 5        (B)  If the Board decides to reconsider its decision with
 6    respect to such release date, the Board shall schedule a date
 7    for reconsideration as soon as practicable, but no later than
 8    60 days from the date of the  prisoner's  request,  and  give
 9    such  prisoner  at  least  30  days notice. Such prisoner may
10    submit any relevant material to the Board which would aid  in
11    ascertaining  a  proper  release  date.   The  Department  of
12    Corrections shall assist any such prisoner if asked to do so.
13        Neither  the  prisoner nor his lawyer has the right to be
14    present on the date of reconsideration, nor the right to call
15    witnesses.  However, the Board may ask such prisoner  or  his
16    or  her  lawyer  to appear or may ask to hear witnesses.  The
17    Board shall base its determination on the  factors  specified
18    in  subsection  (e),  plus  any  new information which may be
19    available to it.
20        (C)  When the Board has made its decision,  the  prisoner
21    shall  be  informed  of  the  release date as provided for in
22    subsection  (c)  no  later  than   7   days   following   the
23    reconsideration.   In  no  event  shall  such release date be
24    longer than the  release  date  originally  determined.   The
25    decision   of  the  Board  is  final.  No  court  shall  have
26    jurisdiction to review the Board's decision.
27        Following   the   Board's   reconsideration    and    its
28    notification to the prisoner of his or her release date, such
29    prisoner  shall  have 60 days from the date of such notice in
30    which to decide whether to accept the release date and  waive
31    his  or  her  right to parole or to continue under the parole
32    system.  If such prisoner does nothing within 60  days  after
33    notification  of the Board's decision, he or she shall remain
34    under the parole system.
 
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 1        (i)  This Section does not apply to a person who  chooses
 2    a fixed sentence under Section 3-3-2.2.
 3    (Source: P.A. 80-1387.)

 4        (730 ILCS 5/3-3-2.2 new)
 5        Sec.  3-3-2.2.   Prisoner  Review Board - fixed sentence.
 6    (a) Except as provided in subsection (b), the Prisoner Review
 7    Board shall, no later than 7 days following a prisoner's next
 8    parole hearing after the effective date  of  this  amendatory
 9    Act  of  the  93rd  General  Assembly,  provide each prisoner
10    sentenced under the law in effect prior to February 1,  1978,
11    with a fixed sentence.
12        (b)  A  fixed  sentence  shall  be  set  for  any  person
13    sentenced  to  an  indeterminate  sentence  under  any law in
14    effect prior to February 1, 1978.
15        (c)  The Prisoner Review Board shall notify each eligible
16    offender of his or her fixed sentence in a form substantially
17    as follows:
18                                                   Date of Notice
19    "To (Name of offender):
20        Under a recent change in the law you  are  provided  with
21    this choice:
22        (1)  You  may  remain  under  your  present indeterminate
23    sentence and continue to be eligible for parole; or  (2)  you
24    may  waive your right to parole and accept the fixed sentence
25    which has been set for you.  From this_fixed sentence will be
26    deducted any good conduct credit you may earn.
27        If you accept  the  fixed  sentence  established  by  the
28    Board, you will no longer be eligible for parole.
29        Your  fixed  sentence  from  prison  has  been  set  for:
30    (release date)    , subject to a term of mandatory supervised
31    release as provided by law.
32        If  you  accumulate  the  maximum  amount of good conduct
33    credit as  allowed  by  law  recently  enacted,  you  can  be
 
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 1    released   on:  .......,  subject  to  a  term  of  mandatory
 2    supervised release as provided by law.
 3        Should you choose not to accept the fixed sentence,  your
 4    next parole hearing will be:......................
 5        The  Board  has  based  its  determination  of your fixed
 6    sentence on the following:
 7        (1)  The material that  normally  would  be  examined  in
 8    connection   with  your  parole  hearing,  as  set  forth  in
 9    paragraph (d)  of  Section  3-3-4  of  the  Unified  Code  of
10    Corrections;
11        (2)  the intent of the court in imposing sentence on you;
12        (3)  the   present  schedule  of  sentences  for  similar
13    offenses provided by Sections 5-8-1 and 5-8-2 of the  Unified
14    Code of Corrections;
15        (4)  the  factors  in mitigation and aggravation provided
16    by Sections 5-5-3.1  and  5-5-3.2  of  the  Unified  Code  of
17    Corrections;
18        (5)  The   rate  of  accumulating  good  conduct  credits
19    provided by Section 3-6-3 of the Unified Code of  Corrections
20    as amended;
21        (6)  your behavior since commitment.
22        You now have 60 days in which to decide whether to remain
23    under your indeterminate sentence and continue to be eligible
24    for parole or waive your right to parole and accept the fixed
25    sentence established for you by the Board.  If you do nothing
26    within 60 days, you will remain under the parole system.
27        If you accept the fixed sentence, you may accumulate good
28    conduct  credit  at  the  maximum rate provided under the law
29    recently enacted.
30        If you feel that the fixed sentence set for you is unfair
31    or is not  based  on  complete  information  required  to  be
32    considered  by  the  Board,  you  may  request that the Board
33    reconsider the sentence.  In your request you must set  forth
34    specific  reasons  why you feel the Board's fixed sentence is
 
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 1    unfair and you may submit relevant  material  in  support  of
 2    your request.
 3        The  Department of Corrections is obligated to assist you
 4    in that effort, if you ask it to do so.
 5        The Board will notify you within 60 days whether  or  not
 6    it  will  reconsider its decision.  The Board's decision with
 7    respect to reconsidering your fixed  sentence  is  final  and
 8    cannot be appealed to any court.
 9        If the Board decides not to reconsider your case you will
10    have  60  days in which to decide whether to accept the fixed
11    sentence and waive your right to parole or to continue  under
12    the  parole  system.   If you do nothing within 60 days after
13    you receive notification of the  Board's  decision  you  will
14    remain under the parole system.
15        If  the  Board  decides  to  reconsider its decision with
16    respect to your fixed sentence, the  Board  will  schedule  a
17    date for reconsideration as soon as practicable, but no later
18    than 60 days from the date it receives your request, and give
19    you  at least 30 days notice.  You may submit material to the
20    Board which you believe will be helpful in deciding a  proper
21    fixed  sentence.   The Department of Corrections is obligated
22    to assist you in that effort, if you ask it to do so.
23        Neither you nor your lawyer has the right to  be  present
24    on  the  date  of  reconsideration,  nor  the  right  to call
25    witnesses.   However, the Board may ask you or your lawyer to
26    appear or may ask to hear witnesses. The Board will base  its
27    determination  on  the same data on which it made its earlier
28    determination,  plus  any  new  information  which   may   be
29    available to it.
30        When the Board has made its decision you will be informed
31    of  the  fixed  sentence.  In no event will it be longer than
32    the fixed sentence originally determined.  From this date you
33    may continue  to  accumulate  good  conduct  credits  at  the
34    maximum  rate.   You  will  not be able to appeal the Board's
 
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 1    decision to a court.
 2        Following the  Board's  reconsideration  and  upon  being
 3    notified  of  your  fixed  sentence  you will have 60 days in
 4    which to decide whether to  accept  the  fixed  sentence  and
 5    waive  your  right  to parole or to continue under the parole
 6    system.  If you do nothing within 60 days after  notification
 7    of  the  Board's  decision  you  will remain under the parole
 8    system."
 9        (d)  The Board shall provide each eligible offender  with
10    a form substantially as follows:
11        "I  (name  of  offender)  am  fully  aware of my right to
12    choose between parole eligibility and a  fixed  sentence.   I
13    know  that if I accept the fixed sentence established, I will
14    give up my right to seek parole.  I have read and  understood
15    the  Prisoner Review Board's letter, and I know how and under
16    what circumstances the Board has set my  fixed  sentence.   I
17    know  that  I  will  be  released  on  that  date and will be
18    released earlier if I accumulate good conduct credit.  I know
19    that the date set  by  the  Board  is  final,  and  can't  be
20    appealed to a court.
21        Fully  aware  of  all  the  implications, I expressly and
22    knowingly waive my right to seek parole and accept the  fixed
23    date as established by the Prisoner Review Board."
24        (e)  The   cases   of   all   persons   sentenced  to  an
25    indeterminate sentence under  any  law  in  effect  prior  to
26    February  1,  1978  shall be returned to the circuit court in
27    which they were sentenced for the purpose of imposing a fixed
28    sentence which shall be the equivalent of the sentence  which
29    would be imposed for the same crime under Public Act 80-1099.
30    In   making  this  determination,  the  circuit  court  shall
31    consider the following factors:
32             (1)  The presumptive sentence shall  be  the  median
33        sentence in the range of sentences established by the law
34        in   effect   on  the  date  Public  Act  80-1099  became
 
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 1        effective;
 2             (2)  The presumptive sentence may be  reduced  based
 3        upon  any  of  the mitigating factors provided for by the
 4        law in effect on  the  date  Public  Act  80-1099  became
 5        effective; and
 6             (3)  The  presumptive  sentence may be increased, up
 7        to the maximum sentence  established  for  the  crime  by
 8        Public  Act  80-1099,  based  upon any of the aggravating
 9        factors provided for by the law in  effect  on  the  date
10        Public Act 80-1099 became effective which are established
11        in  the  record  in  accordance with currently applicable
12        principles of due process.
13        (f)  After the fixed sentence is set by  the  Board,  the
14    offender  will  continue  to  accumulate good conduct credits
15    under the formula or formulae heretofore applicable.
16        (g) (1)  The clerks  of  the  respective  circuit  courts
17    shall  notify  each  prisoner  of  his  or her fixed sentence
18    within one year of the effective date of this amendatory  Act
19    of the 93rd General Assembly.
20        (2)  Each  prisoner upon notification of his or her fixed
21    sentence shall have 60 days to choose whether to remain under
22    the parole system or to accept the fixed sentence established
23    by the circuit court.  No fixed sentence shall  be  effective
24    unless  the  prisoner  waives his right to parole in writing.
25    If no choice is made by such prisoner within 60 days from the
26    date of his or her notification of  a  fixed  sentence,  such
27    prisoner shall remain under the parole system.
28        (3)  Within  the  60  day period as provided in paragraph
29    (2) of this subsection,  a  prisoner  may  request  that  the
30    circuit  court  reconsider  its  decision with regard to such
31    prisoner's fixed sentence.  No later than 60  days  following
32    receipt  of  such  request  for  reconsideration, the circuit
33    court shall notify the prisoner as to whether or not it  will
34    reconsider  such  prisoner's  fixed sentence.  No other court
 
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 1    shall  have  jurisdiction  to  review  the  circuit   court's
 2    decision.  No  prisoner  shall  be  entitled to more than one
 3    request for reconsideration of his or her fixed sentence.
 4        (A)  If the circuit court decides not to  reconsider  the
 5    fixed  sentence,  the  prisoner  shall have 60 days to choose
 6    whether to remain under the parole system or  to  accept  the
 7    fixed  sentence  established  by the circuit court.  No fixed
 8    sentence shall be effective unless the prisoner waives his or
 9    her right to parole in writing.  If no choice is made by such
10    prisoner within 60 days from the date of the notification  by
11    the  circuit  court  refusing  to reconsider his or her fixed
12    sentence, such prisoner shall remain under the parole system.
13        (B)  If the  circuit  court  decides  to  reconsider  its
14    decision  with  respect  to  such fixed sentence, the circuit
15    court shall schedule a date for reconsideration  as  soon  as
16    practicable,  but  no later than 60 days from the date of the
17    prisoner's request, and give such prisoner at least  30  days
18    notice. Such prisoner may submit any relevant material to the
19    circuit  court which would aid in ascertaining a proper fixed
20    sentence.  The Department of  Corrections  shall  assist  any
21    such prisoner if asked to do so.
22        Neither  the prisoner nor his or her lawyer has the right
23    to be present on the date of reconsideration, nor  the  right
24    to  call  witnesses.  However, the circuit court may ask such
25    prisoner or his or her lawyer to appear or may  ask  to  hear
26    witnesses.  The circuit court shall base its determination on
27    the  factors  specified  in  subsection  (e),  plus  any  new
28    information which may be available to it.
29        (C)  When  the  circuit  court has made its decision, the
30    prisoner shall be informed of the fixed sentence as  provided
31    for  in  subsection  (c)  no  later than 7 days following the
32    reconsideration.  In no event  shall  such  release  date  be
33    longer  than  the  fixed sentence originally determined.  The
34    decision of the circuit court is final. No other court  shall
 
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 1    have jurisdiction to review the circuit court's decision.
 2        Following  the  circuit  court's  reconsideration and its
 3    notification to the prisoner of his or  her  fixed  sentence,
 4    such prisoner shall have 60 days from the date of such notice
 5    in  which  to decide whether to accept the fixed sentence and
 6    waive his or her right to parole or  to  continue  under  the
 7    parole  system.  If such prisoner does nothing within 60 days
 8    after notification of the circuit court's decision, he or she
 9    shall remain under the parole system.".