State of Illinois
92nd General Assembly
Legislation

   [ Search ]   [ PDF text ]   [ Legislation ]   
[ Home ]   [ Back ]   [ Bottom ]


[ Introduced ][ Enrolled ][ Senate Amendment 001 ]


92_SB2195eng

 
SB2195 Engrossed                               LRB9213480RCcd

 1        AN ACT in relation to criminal law.

 2        Be it enacted by the People of  the  State  of  Illinois,
 3    represented in the General Assembly:

 4        Section   5.   The Unified Code of Corrections is amended
 5    by changing Section 3-7-6 as follows:

 6        (730 ILCS 5/3-7-6) (from Ch. 38, par. 1003-7-6)
 7        Sec. 3-7-6.  Reimbursement for expenses.
 8        (a)  Responsibility  of  committed   persons.   For   the
 9    purposes  of  this  Section,  "committed  persons" mean those
10    persons who through judicial determination have  been  placed
11    in the custody of the Department on the basis of a conviction
12    as  an  adult.   Committed Convicted persons committed to the
13    Department correctional institutions or facilities  shall  be
14    responsible  to  reimburse  the  Department  for the expenses
15    incurred by their incarceration at a rate to be determined by
16    the Department in accordance with this Section.
17             (1)  Committed persons shall  fully  cooperate  with
18        the    Department   by   providing   complete   financial
19        information for the purposes under this Section.
20             (2)  The failure of  a  committed  person  to  fully
21        cooperate  as  provided  for  in  clauses  (3) and (4) of
22        subsection (a-5) shall be considered for  purposes  of  a
23        parole  determination. Any committed person who willfully
24        refuses to cooperate with the obligations  set  forth  in
25        this  Section  may be subject to the loss of good conduct
26        credit towards his or her sentence of up to 180 days.
27        (a-5)  Assets information form.
28             (1)  The Department  shall  develop  a  form,  which
29        shall  be  used  by  the Department to obtain information
30        from  all  committed  persons  regarding  assets  of  the
31        persons.
 
SB2195 Engrossed            -2-                LRB9213480RCcd
 1             (2)  In order to enable the Department to  determine
 2        the  financial  status  of the committed person, the form
 3        shall provide for obtaining the age and marital status of
 4        a committed person, the number and ages  of  children  of
 5        the  person, the number and ages of other dependents, the
 6        type and value of real estate,  the  type  and  value  of
 7        personal  property,  cash and bank accounts, the location
 8        of any lock boxes, the type  and  value  of  investments,
 9        pensions  and  annuities  and  any  other  personalty  of
10        significant  cash  value,  including  but  not limited to
11        jewelry, art work and collectables, and  all  medical  or
12        dental  insurance policies covering the committed person.
13        The form may also provide for  other  information  deemed
14        pertinent  by  the  Department  in the investigation of a
15        committed person's assets.
16             (3)  Upon  being  developed,  the  form   shall   be
17        submitted  to  each  committed  person as of the date the
18        form is developed  and  to  every  committed  person  who
19        thereafter   is   sentenced  to  imprisonment  under  the
20        jurisdiction  of  the  Department.  The   form   may   be
21        resubmitted  to  a committed person by the Department for
22        purpose of obtaining current  information  regarding  the
23        assets of the person.
24             (4)  Every  committed person shall complete the form
25        or provide for completion of the form and  the  committed
26        person  shall swear under oath or affirm that to the best
27        of his or  her  knowledge  the  information  provided  is
28        complete and accurate.
29        (b)  Expenses.   The rate at which sums to be charged for
30    the  expenses  incurred  by  a  committed  convicted   person
31    committed   to   Department   correctional   institutions  or
32    facilities for his or her confinement incarceration shall  be
33    computed by the Department as the average per capita cost per
34    day  for all inmates of that institution or facility for that
 
SB2195 Engrossed            -3-                LRB9213480RCcd
 1    fiscal year.  The average per capita cost per  day  shall  be
 2    computed  by  the  Department based on the average per capita
 3    cost per  day  for  the  operation  of  that  institution  or
 4    facility for the fiscal year immediately preceding the period
 5    of incarceration for which the rate is being calculated.  The
 6    Department  shall  establish  rules and regulations providing
 7    for the computation of the above costs, and  shall  determine
 8    the  average  per  capita  cost  per  day  for  each  of  its
 9    institutions  or  facilities  for  each  fiscal  year.    The
10    Department  shall  have  the  power  to  modify its rules and
11    regulations, so as to provide for the most accurate and  most
12    current  average  per capita cost per day computation.  Where
13    the committed  convicted  person  is  placed  in  a  facility
14    outside  the  Department,  the  Department may pay the actual
15    cost  of  services  in  that  facility,   and   may   collect
16    reimbursement  for  the entire amount paid from the committed
17    convicted person receiving those services.
18        (c)  Records.  The records of the Department,  including,
19    but not limited to, those relating to: the average per capita
20    cost  per  day for a particular institution or facility for a
21    particular year, and  the  calculation  of  the  average  per
22    capita  cost  per  day;  the  average  daily  population of a
23    particular Department correctional  institution  or  facility
24    for a particular year; the specific placement of a particular
25    committed convicted person in various Department correctional
26    institutions  or  facilities for various periods of time; and
27    the  record  of  transactions  of  a   particular   committed
28    convicted  person's trust account under Section 3-4-3 of this
29    Act; may be proved in any legal proceeding, by  a  reproduced
30    copy thereof or by a computer printout of Department records,
31    under  the certificate of the Director.  If reproduced copies
32    are used, the Director must certify that those are  true  and
33    exact  copies of the records on file with the Department.  If
34    computer printouts of records of the Department  are  offered
 
SB2195 Engrossed            -4-                LRB9213480RCcd
 1    as  proof,  the  Director  must  certify  that those computer
 2    printouts are  true  and  exact  representations  of  records
 3    properly   entered   into   standard   electronic   computing
 4    equipment,   in   the  regular  course  of  the  Department's
 5    business, at or reasonably near the time of the occurrence of
 6    the   facts   recorded,   from   trustworthy   and   reliable
 7    information.  The reproduced copy or computer printout shall,
 8    without further proof, be admitted into evidence in any legal
 9    proceeding, and shall be prima facie correct and prima  facie
10    evidence   of  the  accuracy  of  the  information  contained
11    therein.
12        (d)  Authority.   The   Director,   or   the   Director's
13    designee,  may,  when  he or she knows or reasonably believes
14    that a committed convicted person committed to the Department
15    correctional institutions or facilities,  or  the  estate  of
16    that  person,  has assets which may be used to satisfy all or
17    part of a judgment rendered under this Act, or when he or she
18    knows or  reasonably  believes  that  a  committed  convicted
19    person  committed to the Department correctional institutions
20    or facilities is engaged in gang-related activity and  has  a
21    substantial  sum  of  money  or other assets, provide for the
22    forwarding to  the  Attorney  General  of  a  report  on  the
23    committed  person  and  that report shall contain a completed
24    form  under  subsection  (a-5)  together   with   all   other
25    information  available concerning the assets of the committed
26    person and  an  estimate  of  the  total  expenses  for  that
27    committed  person,  and  authorize  the  Attorney  General to
28    institute proceedings to require the persons, or the  estates
29    of  the persons, to reimburse the Department for the expenses
30    incurred by their incarceration.  The Attorney General,  upon
31    authorization  of  the  Director, or the Director's designee,
32    shall institute actions  on  behalf  of  the  Department  and
33    pursue  claims  on  the  Department's  behalf  in probate and
34    bankruptcy proceedings, to recover from  committed  convicted
 
SB2195 Engrossed            -5-                LRB9213480RCcd
 1    persons  committed  to Department correctional facilities the
 2    expenses incurred by their confinement. For purposes of  this
 3    subsection  (d),  "gang-related"  activity  has  the  meaning
 4    ascribed  to  it  in  Section  10  of the Illinois Streetgang
 5    Terrorism Omnibus Prevention Act.
 6        (e)  Scope and limitations.
 7             (1)  No action under this Section shall be initiated
 8        more than 2 years after  the  release  or  death  of  the
 9        committed convicted person in question.
10             (2)  The  death  of a convicted person, by execution
11        or   otherwise,   while   committed   to   a   Department
12        correctional institution or facility shall not act  as  a
13        bar to any action or proceeding under this Section.
14             (3)  The assets of a committed convicted person, for
15        the purposes of this Section, shall include any property,
16        tangible or intangible, real or personal, belonging to or
17        due to a committed or formerly committed person including
18        income  or  payments  to the person from social security,
19        worker's compensation,  veteran's  compensation,  pension
20        benefits, or from any other source whatsoever and any and
21        all assets and property of whatever character held in the
22        name  of  the person, held for the benefit of the person,
23        or payable or otherwise deliverable to the  person.   Any
24        trust, or portion of a trust, of which a convicted person
25        is  a  beneficiary, shall be construed as an asset of the
26        person,  to  the  extent  that  benefits  thereunder  are
27        required to be paid to the person, or shall  in  fact  be
28        paid  to the person. At the time of a legal proceeding by
29        the Attorney General under this Section,  if  it  appears
30        that  the  committed person has any assets which ought to
31        be subjected to the claim of the  Department  under  this
32        Section,  the  court  may  issue  an  order requiring any
33        person, corporation, or other legal entity  possessed  or
34        having  custody of those assets to appropriate any of the
 
SB2195 Engrossed            -6-                LRB9213480RCcd
 1        assets  or  a  portion  thereof  toward  reimbursing  the
 2        Department as  provided  for  under  this  Section.    No
 3        provision of this Section shall be construed in violation
 4        of  any  State or federal limitation on the collection of
 5        money judgments.
 6             (4)  Nothing in  this  Section  shall  preclude  the
 7        Department   from  applying  federal  benefits  that  are
 8        specifically provided for the care  and  treatment  of  a
 9        committed  convicted  person  toward  the  cost  of  care
10        provided by a State facility or private agency.
11    (Source:  P.A.  89-428,  eff.  12-13-95; 89-688, eff. 6-1-97;
12    90-85, eff. 7-10-97.)

[ Top ]