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| | 99TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2015 and 2016
SB2494 Introduced 2/9/2016, by Sen. Melinda Bush SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
| | 55 ILCS 5/3-4007 | from Ch. 34, par. 3-4007 |
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Amends the Counties Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning
the
compensation to be paid to the Public Defender.
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| | A BILL FOR |
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| | SB2494 | | LRB099 18867 AWJ 43252 b |
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| 1 | | AN ACT concerning local government.
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| 2 | | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, |
| 3 | | represented in the General Assembly:
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| 4 | | Section 5. The Counties Code is amended by changing Section |
| 5 | | 3-4007 as follows:
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| 6 | | (55 ILCS 5/3-4007) (from Ch. 34, par. 3-4007)
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| 7 | | Sec. 3-4007. Compensation.
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| 8 | | (a) The
The public defender
shall be paid out of the county |
| 9 | | treasury, and, subject to appropriation, shall be paid by the |
| 10 | | Department of Revenue out of the Personal Property Tax |
| 11 | | Replacement Fund or the General Revenue Fund as provided
in |
| 12 | | subsection (b), as the
sole compensation for his or her |
| 13 | | services a salary in an
amount
fixed by the County Board. When |
| 14 | | a Public Defender in a county of 30,000 or
more population
is |
| 15 | | receiving not less than 90% of the compensation of the State's |
| 16 | | Attorney
of such county, that Public Defender shall not engage |
| 17 | | in the private
practice of law. |
| 18 | | (b) The State must pay 66 2/3% of the public defender's |
| 19 | | annual
salary. If the public defender is employed full-time in |
| 20 | | that capacity, his or
her salary must be at least 90% of that |
| 21 | | county's State's attorney's annual
compensation. Subject to |
| 22 | | appropriation, these amounts furnished by the State shall be |
| 23 | | payable monthly
by
the Department of Revenue out of the |