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HB4428 - 104th General Assembly
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| 1 | AN ACT concerning courts. | ||||||
| 2 | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, | ||||||
| 3 | represented in the General Assembly: | ||||||
| 4 | Section 5. The Pretrial Services Act is amended by | ||||||
| 5 | changing Section 25 and adding Section 25.1 as follows: | ||||||
| 6 | (725 ILCS 185/25) (from Ch. 38, par. 325) | ||||||
| 7 | Sec. 25. (a) The pretrial services agency shall provide | ||||||
| 8 | written notification to supervised persons of court appearance | ||||||
| 9 | obligations, and may require supervised persons to | ||||||
| 10 | periodically report their periodic reporting by letter, | ||||||
| 11 | telephone, or in person personal appearance to verify such | ||||||
| 12 | compliance with court-ordered pretrial release conditions. The | ||||||
| 13 | pretrial services agency must provide written notification of | ||||||
| 14 | court appearance obligations to all persons under pretrial | ||||||
| 15 | services supervision or charged with a felony offense as | ||||||
| 16 | follows: . | ||||||
| 17 | (1) The pretrial services agency must provide at least | ||||||
| 18 | 2 text notices to the defendant before each court | ||||||
| 19 | appearance with one notice the day before the required | ||||||
| 20 | court appearance. | ||||||
| 21 | (2) The pretrial services agency must maintain a copy | ||||||
| 22 | of the content of the message and a delivery receipt as | ||||||
| 23 | part of its records. | ||||||
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| 1 | (b) This Section does not apply if a pretrial services | ||||||
| 2 | agency does not have the information needed from a defendant | ||||||
| 3 | to send a text message notification to the defendant. The | ||||||
| 4 | pretrial services agency must take all reasonable actions to | ||||||
| 5 | get the information to send a text notification and to | ||||||
| 6 | coordinate with law enforcement and the courts in that effort. | ||||||
| 7 | (Source: P.A. 104-2, eff. 6-16-25.) | ||||||
| 8 | (725 ILCS 185/25.1 new) | ||||||
| 9 | Sec. 25.1. Feasibility study of text reminders. In | ||||||
| 10 | coordination with circuit clerks, the Office of Statewide | ||||||
| 11 | Pretrial Services must conduct a study of the feasibility of | ||||||
| 12 | sending automated text message reminders of court appearance | ||||||
| 13 | obligations to all persons charged with a criminal offense. | ||||||
| 14 | The Office of Statewide Pretrial Services must provide an | ||||||
| 15 | update on the feasibility study required by this Section no | ||||||
| 16 | later than December 31, 2026. | ||||||