Sen. Christine Radogno
Filed: 5/13/2008
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1 | AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 1235
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2 | AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 1235 by replacing | ||||||
3 | everything after the enacting clause with the following:
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4 | "Section 5. The State Facilities Closure Act is amended by | ||||||
5 | changing Section 5-5 and by adding Sections 5-12 and 5-15 as | ||||||
6 | follows: | ||||||
7 | (30 ILCS 608/5-5)
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8 | Sec. 5-5. Definitions. In this Act: | ||||||
9 | "Commission" means the
Commission on Government | ||||||
10 | Forecasting and Accountability. | ||||||
11 | "State facility" means any facility (i) that is owned and | ||||||
12 | operated by the State or leased and operated by the State and | ||||||
13 | (ii) that is the primary stationary work location for 25 or | ||||||
14 | more State employees. "State facility" does not include any | ||||||
15 | facility under the jurisdiction of the legislative branch, | ||||||
16 | including the Auditor General, or the judicial branch.
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1 | "Correctional Facilities Panel" means the study panel | ||||||
2 | created and authorized in Section 5-15 of this Act. | ||||||
3 | (Source: P.A. 93-839, eff. 7-30-04; 93-1067, eff. 1-15-05.) | ||||||
4 | (30 ILCS 608/5-12 new) | ||||||
5 | Sec. 5-12. Correctional facilities closure moratorium. | ||||||
6 | Beginning on the effective date of this amendatory Act of the | ||||||
7 | 95th General Assembly, no correctional facility managed or | ||||||
8 | operated by the Illinois Department of Corrections may be | ||||||
9 | closed, eliminated, or otherwise required to reduce its 2007 | ||||||
10 | average daily population or average daily workforce by more | ||||||
11 | than 20% prior to the completion of the required review by the | ||||||
12 | Correctional Facilities Panel and submission of the panel's | ||||||
13 | final report as required in Section 5-15 of this Act. | ||||||
14 | (30 ILCS 608/5-15 new) | ||||||
15 | Sec. 5-15. Correctional Facilities Panel. | ||||||
16 | (a) The Correctional Facilities Panel is hereby created and | ||||||
17 | shall be comprised of the Director of the Department of | ||||||
18 | Corrections, or his or her designee; 4 members of the General | ||||||
19 | Assembly: one appointed by the President of the Senate, one | ||||||
20 | appointed by the Minority Leader of the Senate, one appointed | ||||||
21 | by the Speaker of the House of Representatives, and one | ||||||
22 | appointed by the Minority Leader of the House of | ||||||
23 | Representatives; 2 representatives of the employees who work | ||||||
24 | within the State's prisons, to be appointed by the Commission |
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1 | on Government Forecasting and Accountability; and 2 persons or | ||||||
2 | representatives of organizations with expertise in prisons, | ||||||
3 | correctional facilities, or prison populations, to be | ||||||
4 | appointed by the Commission on Government Forecasting and | ||||||
5 | Accountability. | ||||||
6 | All members of the Panel are to be appointed within 90 days | ||||||
7 | after the effective date of this amendatory Act of the 95th | ||||||
8 | General Assembly. | ||||||
9 | (b) The Correctional Facilities Panel shall review the | ||||||
10 | physical condition, the size and composition of the inmate | ||||||
11 | population, and any specific and immediate needs of each | ||||||
12 | correctional facility managed or operated by the State. | ||||||
13 | (c) The Panel is authorized to hold public hearings, take | ||||||
14 | testimony, and request detailed and specific information | ||||||
15 | relating to the inmate population, staff, or both of any | ||||||
16 | individual correctional facility managed or operated by the | ||||||
17 | State, as well as the State's prison system at large. | ||||||
18 | Any data or information requested from any agency of the | ||||||
19 | State, including but not limited to the Department of | ||||||
20 | Corrections, is to be provided within 30 days of any written | ||||||
21 | request for information being submitted by the Panel. If the | ||||||
22 | requested information or data is not available within 30 days, | ||||||
23 | the head of the agency to which the request was originally | ||||||
24 | submitted shall provide the Panel, in writing, a detailed | ||||||
25 | explanation as to why the data or information requested cannot | ||||||
26 | be timely provided, whether the information exists, and when it |
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1 | can be expected to be received by the Panel. | ||||||
2 | (d) The review conducted by the Panel must include, but not | ||||||
3 | be limited to, a detailed composition of (i) current prison | ||||||
4 | populations and their respective requirements for effective | ||||||
5 | reform, (ii) the geographical location of inmate families and | ||||||
6 | their respective needs, (iii) employee locations, staffing | ||||||
7 | levels, and the demands being placed on prison staffs within | ||||||
8 | the State, (iv) the physical condition of each of the State's | ||||||
9 | correctional facilities and their respective needs, (v) the | ||||||
10 | potential necessity for a geriatric correctional facility in | ||||||
11 | Illinois, (vi) the sentencing guidelines utilized in Illinois, | ||||||
12 | and (vii) the economic impacts created, at both the State and | ||||||
13 | local levels, by each of the State's correctional facilities, | ||||||
14 | with special attention given to any correctional facility | ||||||
15 | recommended to be immediately or abruptly decommissioned and | ||||||
16 | their respective populations moved throughout the remainder of | ||||||
17 | the State's prison system. | ||||||
18 | (e) The Commission on Government Forecasting and | ||||||
19 | Accountability shall provide staff and administrative | ||||||
20 | assistance to the Correctional Facilities Panel. All agencies | ||||||
21 | of the State must cooperate to the fullest extent possible to | ||||||
22 | assist the Correctional Facilities Panel in the completion of | ||||||
23 | its work. | ||||||
24 | (f) The Panel shall perform a detailed examination of the | ||||||
25 | State's correctional facilities and the respective populations | ||||||
26 | and workforces of the facilities, including information |
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1 | concerning the families of the inmates and staff of the | ||||||
2 | facility. The Panel shall issue its findings and | ||||||
3 | recommendations in a final report to the General Assembly | ||||||
4 | outlining a long-term objective plan for the State's | ||||||
5 | correctional facilities, the populations they hold, and the | ||||||
6 | workforce needed to best protect the citizens of Illinois. The | ||||||
7 | final report must be submitted to the General Assembly no later | ||||||
8 | than September 1, 2009. | ||||||
9 | (g) Sixty days after submission of its final report to the | ||||||
10 | General Assembly, the Correctional Facilities Panel shall be | ||||||
11 | dissolved.
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12 | Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | ||||||
13 | becoming law.".
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