August 16,
2005
To the
Honorable Members of the
Illinois Senate
94th
General Assembly
Pursuant to Article IV, Section 9(e) of the
Illinois Constitution of 1970, I herby return Senate Bill 1509, entitled “AN
ACT concerning criminal law”, with the following specific recommendations for
change:
On
page 1, line 18, after “jail”, by inserting “solely”; and
On
page 1, line 19, after “release”, by inserting “and is not
incarcerated in conjunction with new or pending criminal charges”; and
On page 1, line 20, after “shall”, by inserting “,
subject to the notice provision below and subject to appropriation for this
purpose,”; and
On page 1, by replacing line 22 with “calculated by the
Department”; and
One page 1, after line 26, by inserting the following:
“The Illinois Department
of Corrections shall be responsible for payment of one-half of the costs of
incarceration to the county in which the jail is located only if the Department
fails to retrieve the person within 72 hours of receiving notice by the county
that the person is being held. In the event the Department fails to retrieve
the person within 72 hours of receiving notice, the Department shall be
responsible for payment of one-half of the costs of incarceration from the time
the county originally began to hold the person.".
With these changes, Senate Bill 1509 will have
my approval. I respectfully request your concurrence.
Sincerely,
ROD R.
BLAGOJEVICH
Governor