Senate Sponsors: DUDYCZ-BERMAN. House Sponsors: DURKIN-MCAULIFFE-CAPPARELLI-LOPEZ-ACEVEDO Short description: CRIM CD-PUBLIC CONTRACTS Synopsis of Bill as introduced: Amends the Criminal Code of 1961 to make a technical change to a legislative finding provision concerning interference with public contracting. SENATE AMENDMENT NO. 2. Deletes reference to: 720 ILCS 5/33E-1 Adds reference to: 720 ILCS 5/33E-2 from Ch. 38, par. 33E-2 720 ILCS 5/33E-14 new 720 ILCS 5/33E-15 new 720 ILCS 5/33E-16 new 720 ILCS 5/33E-17 new 720 ILCS 5/33E-18 new 730 ILCS 5/5-9-1.3 from Ch. 38, par. 1005-9-1.3 Deletes everything. Amends the Criminal Code of 1961. Makes various changes in the Public Contracts Article of the Criminal Code of 1961. Provides that a "unit of State or local government" includes a "school district". Creates various offenses concerning school districts relating to making false statements on a vendor application, false entries, unlawful participation, and unlawful stringing of bids. Provides that violations are Class 3 felonies, except that bid stringing is a Class 4 felony. Amends the Unified Code of Corrections. Provides that when a person has been convicted of a felony and the theft was committed upon a school district, or the person was convicted of various offenses of deception relating to certification of disadvantaged business enterprises, or the new offenses created by this amendatory Act, a fine may be levied by the court in an amount that is the greater of $10,000 or triple the value of the property that is the subject of the offense. Provides a distribution scheme of fines levied against a person convicted of felony theft against a school district. Provides that these fines levied are judgment liens in favor of the school district, State's Attorney of the county where the violation occurred, and the county clerk. HOUSE AMENDMENT NO. 1. Provides that criminal violations apply to units of local government as well as school districts. Provides that the fines for various violations shall be distributed to these units or school districts. Also provides that the circuit clerk shall receive 10% of these fines rather than the county clerk. CORRECTIONAL NOTE, H-AM 1 Corrections population and fiscal impacts are minimal. STATE MANDATES ACT FISCAL NOTE, H-AM 1 Fails to create a State mandate. HOME RULE NOTE, H-AM 1 Fails to preempt home rule authority. FISCAL NOTE, H-AM 1 (Admin. Office of Ill. Courts) No fiscal impact on the Judicial branch. FISCAL NOTE, H-AM 1 (Dpt. Corrections) No change from correctional note. JUDICIAL NOTE, H-AM 1 There may be a minimal increase in judicial workloads; no increase in need for the number of judges. GOVERNOR'S AMENDATORY VETO MESSAGE Recommends changing the definition of "stringing" to include job orders as well as contracts. In the offense of misapplication of funds, deletes references to "embezzles, abstracts, purloins". Increases the minimum fine for violations of the Public Contracts Article of the Criminal Code of 1961 from $10,000 to $25,000. Also increases the minimum fine for felony theft and deceptive practices violations from $10,000 to $25,000. Adds a January 1, 1999 effective date. Last action on Bill: PUBLIC ACT.............................. 90-0800 Last action date: 98-12-15 Location: Senate Amendments to Bill: AMENDMENTS ADOPTED: HOUSE - 1 SENATE - 1 END OF INQUIRY Full Text Bill Status