Public Act 097-0433
 
SB2271 EnrolledLRB097 10349 RLJ 50562 b



    AN ACT concerning State government.

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



 
    Section 1. Short title. This Act may be cited as the Racial 
and Ethnic Impact Research Task Force Act.
 
    Section 5. Purpose.  The purpose of this Act is to determine 
a practical method for the standardized collection and analysis 
of data on the racial and ethnic identity of arrestees by State 
and local law enforcement agencies.  The method shall be usable 
not only for the collection and analysis of data on the racial 
and ethnic identity of arrestees under current law, but also in 
predicting the likely racial and ethnic identity of arrestees 
under proposed changes to the Criminal Code of 1961, the Code 
of Criminal Procedure of 1963, and the Unified Code of 
Corrections.
 
    Section 10. Racial and Ethnic Impact Research Task Force.   
There is created the Racial and Ethnic Impact Research Task 
Force, composed of the following members:
        (1) Two members of the Senate appointed by the Senate
    
    President, one of whom the President shall designate to
    
    serve as co-chair, and 2 members of the Senate appointed
    by 
    the Minority Leader of the Senate.
        (2) Two members of the House of Representatives
    
    appointed by the Speaker of the House of Representatives,
    
    one of whom the Speaker shall designate to serve as
    
    co-chair, and 2 members of the House of Representatives
    
    appointed by the Minority Leader of the House of
    
    Representatives.
        (3) The following persons or their designees:
            (A) the Attorney General,
            (B) the Chief Judge of the Circuit Court of Cook
        
        County,
            (C) the Director of State Police,
            (D) the Superintendent of the Chicago Police
        
        Department,
            (E) the Sheriff of Cook County,
            (F) the State Appellate Defender,
            (G) the Cook County Public Defender,
            (H) the Director of the Office of the State's
        
        Attorneys Appellate Prosecutor,
            (I) the Cook County State's Attorney,
            (J) the Executive Director of the Illinois 
        Criminal
        Justice Information Authority,
            (K) the Director of Corrections,
            (L) the Director of Juvenile Justice, and
            (M) the Executive Director of the Illinois
        
        African-American Family Commission.
        (4) The co-chairs may name up to 8 persons,
    
    representing minority communities within Illinois, groups
    
    involved in the improvement of the administration of
    
    justice, behavioral health, criminal justice, law
    
    enforcement, and the rehabilitation of former inmates,
    
    community groups, and other interested parties.

 
    Section 15. Compensation; support.  The members of the Task 
Force shall serve without compensation, but may be reimbursed 
for reasonable expenses incurred as a result of their duties as 
members of the Task Force from funds appropriated by the 
General Assembly for that purpose.  The Center for Excellence in 
Criminal Justice at the Great Lakes Addiction Technology 
Transfer Center at Jane Addams College of Social Work at the 
University of Illinois at Chicago shall provide staff and 
administrative support services to the Task Force. 
 
    Section 20. Meetings; report.  The Task Force shall hold 
one or more public hearings, at which public testimony shall be 
heard. The Task Force shall report its findings and 
recommendations to the General Assembly on or before July 1, 
2012.  The recommendations shall include, but are not limited 
to:
        (1) identifying a practical method for the 
    standardized collection and analysis of data on the racial 
    and ethnic identity of arrestees by State and local law 
    enforcement agencies; and
        (2) providing proposed legislation, drafted with the 
    assistance of the Legislative Reference Bureau, and using 
    the identified practical method for the standardized 
    collection and analysis of data on the racial and ethnic 
    identity of arrestees by State and local law enforcement 
    agencies, to create a Racial and Ethnic Impact Statement 
    providing an analysis of the likely racial and ethnic 
    identity of arrestees under proposed changes to the 
    Criminal Code of 1961, the Code of Criminal Procedure of 
    1963, and the Unified Code of Corrections.


 

    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon 
becoming law.