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Sen. Donne E. Trotter
Filed: 3/10/2005
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| AMENDMENT TO SENATE BILL 1509
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| AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend Senate Bill 1509 by replacing |
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| everything after the enacting clause with the following:
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| "Section 5. The County Jail Act is amended by changing |
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| Section 5 as follows:
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| (730 ILCS 125/5) (from Ch. 75, par. 105)
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| Sec. 5. Costs of maintaining prisoners.
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| (a) Except as provided in subsection (b), all costs of |
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| maintaining persons
committed for violations of Illinois law, |
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| shall be the responsibility of the
county. Except as provided |
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| in subsection (b), all costs of maintaining
persons committed |
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| under any ordinance or resolution of a unit of local
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| government, including medical costs, is the responsibility of |
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| the unit of local
government enacting the ordinance or |
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| resolution, and arresting the person.
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| (b) If a person who has been convicted of a felony and has |
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| violated
mandatory supervised release for that felony is |
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| incarcerated in a county jail
pending the resolution of the |
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| violation of mandatory supervised release, the
Illinois |
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| Department of Corrections shall pay the county in which that |
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| jail is
located one-half of the cost of incarceration, as |
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| calculated by the Governor's Office of Management and Budget |
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| and the county's chief financial officer, for each day
that the |
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| person remains in the county jail. Calculation of the per diem |