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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,
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| 3 | represented in the General Assembly:
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| 4 | Section 5. The Counties Code is amended by adding Section | ||||||
| 5 | 4-11001.5 as follows: | ||||||
| 6 | (55 ILCS 5/4-11001.5 new) | ||||||
| 7 | Sec. 4-11001.5. Lake County Children's Advocacy Center | ||||||
| 8 | Pilot Program. | ||||||
| 9 | (a) The Lake County Children's Advocacy Center Pilot | ||||||
| 10 | Program is established. Under the Pilot Program, any grand | ||||||
| 11 | juror or petit juror in Lake County may elect to have his or | ||||||
| 12 | her juror fees earned under Section 4-11001 of this Code to be | ||||||
| 13 | donated to the Lake County Children's Advocacy Center, a | ||||||
| 14 | division of the Lake County State's Attorney's office. | ||||||
| 15 | (b) On or before January 1, 2017, the Lake County board | ||||||
| 16 | shall adopt, by ordinance or resolution, rules and policies | ||||||
| 17 | governing and effectuating the ability of jurors to donate | ||||||
| 18 | their juror fees to the Lake County Children's Advocacy Center | ||||||
| 19 | beginning January 1, 2017 and ending December 31, 2018. At a | ||||||
| 20 | minimum, the rules and policies must provide: | ||||||
| 21 | (1) for a form that a juror may fill out to elect to | ||||||
| 22 | donate their juror fees. The form must contain a statement, | ||||||
| 23 | in at least 14-point bold type, that donation of juror fees | ||||||
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| 1 | is optional; | ||||||
| 2 | (2) that all monies donated by jurors shall be | ||||||
| 3 | transferred by the county to the Lake County Children's | ||||||
| 4 | Advocacy Center at the same time a juror is paid under | ||||||
| 5 | Section 4-11001 of this Code who did not elect to donate | ||||||
| 6 | their juror fees; and | ||||||
| 7 | (3) that all juror fees donated under this Section | ||||||
| 8 | shall be used exclusively for the operation of Lake County | ||||||
| 9 | Children's Advocacy Center. | ||||||
| 10 | (c) The following information shall be reported to the | ||||||
| 11 | General Assembly and the Governor by the Lake County board | ||||||
| 12 | after each calendar year of the Pilot Program on or before | ||||||
| 13 | March 31, 2018 and March 31, 2019: | ||||||
| 14 | (1) the number of grand and petit jurors who earned | ||||||
| 15 | fees under Section 4-11001 of this Code during the previous | ||||||
| 16 | calendar year; | ||||||
| 17 | (2) the number of grand and petit jurors who donated | ||||||
| 18 | fees under this Section during the previous calendar year; | ||||||
| 19 | (3) the amount of donated fees under this Section | ||||||
| 20 | during the previous calendar year; | ||||||
| 21 | (4) how the monies donated in the previous calendar | ||||||
| 22 | year were used by the Lake County Children's Advocacy | ||||||
| 23 | Center; and | ||||||
| 24 | (5) how much cost there was incurred by Lake County and | ||||||
| 25 | the Lake County State's Attorney's office in the previous | ||||||
| 26 | calendar in implementing the Pilot Program. | ||||||
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| 1 | (d) This Section is repealed on December 31, 2019.
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| 2 | Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | ||||||
| 3 | becoming law.
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