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Public Act 103-0109
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AN ACT concerning State government.
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Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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represented in the General Assembly:
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Section 5. The Right to Counsel in Immigration Proceedings |
Act is amended by changing Sections 1, 5, 10, 15, 20, and 99 as |
follows:
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(20 ILCS 4112/15) |
(Section scheduled to be repealed on July 1, 2024)
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Sec. 15. Task Force on Counsel in Immigration Proceedings. |
(a) The Task Force on Counsel in Immigration Proceedings |
is established. |
(b) The Task Force shall consist of the following 7 |
members: |
(1) the Governor, or his or her designee; |
(2) the President of the Senate, or his or her |
designee; |
(3) the Minority Leader of the Senate, or his or her |
designee; |
(4) the Speaker of the House of Representatives, or |
his or her designee; |
(5) the Minority Leader of the House of |
Representatives, or his or her designee; |
(6) the Attorney General, or his or her designee; and |
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(7) the Secretary of Human Services, or his or her |
designee. |
(c) Members of the Task Force shall serve without |
compensation. |
(d) The Department of Human Services shall provide |
administrative and other support to the Task Force. |
(e) The Task Force shall investigate the implementation of |
universal representation for covered individuals in |
immigration removal proceedings as described in subsection (f) |
of Section 5. The Task Force investigation shall include, but |
is not limited to, the following matters: |
(1) the estimated number of covered individuals facing |
a covered proceeding; |
(2) the current infrastructure for providing |
independent, competent, and zealous legal representation |
in a covered proceeding; |
(3) the additional resources, including salaries and |
benefits for attorneys and support staff, training, |
supervision, and material resources that would need to be |
added to the existing infrastructure described in |
paragraph (2) in order to provide independent, competent, |
and zealous legal representation for the number of covered |
individuals described in paragraph (1), including |
mechanisms for subcontracted relationships with |
independent experts and social service providers; |
(4) the estimated annual cost of the additional |
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resources described in paragraph (3);
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(5) funding sources, public and private, that are or |
would be available to pay for the additional resources |
described in paragraph (3); and |
(6) the estimated annual cost of bond payment support |
needed for covered individuals facing a covered |
proceeding, and the feasibility of a State-sponsored bond |
fund for those individuals. |
(f) In order for the Governor and General Assembly to |
evaluate different scopes of legal representation in |
immigration court proceedings, the Task Force investigation |
described in subsection (e) shall provide additional findings |
in the following categories: |
(1) State domiciliary versus non-State domiciliary |
covered individuals, and, among the State domiciliary |
covered individuals, the regions of residence within the |
State; |
(2) household income above and below 250% of the |
federal poverty line; |
(3) type of proceedings in which the covered |
individuals need legal representation; and |
(4) current percentages of covered individuals in |
covered proceedings with and without legal representation. |
(g) The Task Force shall submit a report of its findings in |
the investigation described in subsection (e) and its |
recommendations for how to fully provide legal representation |