Rep. Barbara Flynn Currie

Filed: 5/5/2011

 

 


 

 


 
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AMENDMENT TO SENATE BILL 1746

2    AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend Senate Bill 1746 by replacing
3everything after the enacting clause with the following:
 
4    "Section 5. The State Finance Act is amended by adding
5Sections 5.786 and 6z-87 as follows:
 
6    (30 ILCS 105/5.786 new)
7    Sec. 5.786. Supreme Court E-Business Plan Fund.
 
8    (30 ILCS 105/6z-87 new)
9    Sec. 6z-87. Supreme Court E-Business Plan Fund.
10    (a) The Supreme Court E-Business Plan Fund is created in
11the State treasury as a special fund. All moneys collected and
12payable under Section 27.11 of the Clerks of Courts Act shall
13be deposited into the Fund.
14    (b) Moneys in the Fund shall be appropriated to the Supreme
15Court, and expenditures shall be used exclusively for the

 

 

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1purposes of providing for, establishing, maintaining, and
2supporting the Supreme Court E-Business Plan and shall not be
3appropriated, loaned, or in any manner transferred to the
4General Revenue Fund of the State of Illinois.
5    (c) Investment income that is attributable to the
6investment of moneys in the Supreme Court E-Business Plan Fund
7shall be retained in the Fund for the uses specified in this
8Section.
 
9    Section 10. The Clerks of Courts Act is amended by adding
10Section 27.11 as follows:
 
11    (705 ILCS 105/27.11 new)
12    Sec. 27.11. Supreme Court E-Business Plan fee.
13    (a) As used in this Section, "e-business" means the process
14of developing, enhancing, initiating, establishing, and
15maintaining a single point of access automated case and
16statistics management system, including applications for
17e-filing, e-guilty, e-signatures, and trial court and
18probation data exchanges.
19    (b) To defray the expense of establishing and maintaining
20the Supreme Court E-Business Plan, each circuit court clerk
21shall charge and collect a Supreme Court E-Business Plan fee of
22$10. This fee shall be paid (i) at the time of filing the first
23pleading, paper, or other appearance by each party in all civil
24cases and (ii) by the defendant in any felony, traffic,

 

 

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1misdemeanor, municipal ordinance, or conservation case upon a
2judgment of guilty or grant of supervision. This fee shall be
3collected in the manner in which all other fees or costs are
4collected, and the moneys shall be remitted by the circuit
5court clerk to the State Treasurer within one month after
6receipt for deposit into the Supreme Court E-Business Plan
7Fund.".