Public Act 098-0161
 
SB1854 EnrolledLRB098 08601 RLC 38719 b

    AN ACT concerning criminal law.
 
    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
 
    Section 5. The Unified Code of Corrections is amended by
changing Section 5-1-10 and adding Section 5-8A-8 as follows:
 
    (730 ILCS 5/5-1-10)  (from Ch. 38, par. 1005-1-10)
    Sec. 5-1-10. Imprisonment.
    "Imprisonment" means incarceration in a correctional
institution under a sentence of imprisonment and does not
include "periodic imprisonment" under Article 7.
"Imprisonment" also includes electronic home detention served
by an offender after (i) the offender has been committed to the
custody of the sheriff to serve the sentence and (ii) the
sheriff has placed the offender in an electronic home detention
program in accordance with Article 8A of Chapter V of this
Code.
(Source: P.A. 77-2097.)
 
    (730 ILCS 5/5-8A-8 new)
    Sec. 5-8A-8. Service of a minimum term of imprisonment.
When an offender is sentenced under a provision of law that
requires the sentence to include a minimum term of imprisonment
and the offender is committed to the custody of the sheriff to
serve the sentence, the sheriff may place the offender in an
electronic home detention program for service of that minimum
term of imprisonment unless (i) the offender was convicted of
an excluded offense or (ii) the court's sentencing order
specifies that the minimum term of imprisonment shall be served
in a county correctional facility.

Effective Date: 1/1/2014