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94TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2005 and 2006 HB3614
Introduced 2/24/2005, by Rep. Brandon W. Phelps SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED: |
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730 ILCS 125/20 |
from Ch. 75, par. 120 |
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Amends the County Jail Act. Provides that, with respect to medical and other health care needs of prisoners, providers of goods and services shall be paid at the prevailing rate of reimbursement under the medical assistance program under the Illinois Public Aid Code.
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A BILL FOR
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HB3614 |
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LRB094 06852 AJO 36958 b |
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| AN ACT concerning local 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 County Jail Act is amended by changing |
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| Section 20 as follows:
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| (730 ILCS 125/20) (from Ch. 75, par. 120)
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| Sec. 20. Cost and expense; commissary fund.
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| (a) The cost and expense of keeping, maintaining and |
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| furnishing
the jail of each county, and of keeping and |
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| maintaining the prisoner thereof,
except as otherwise provided |
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| by law, shall be paid from the county treasury,
the account |
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| therefor being first settled and allowed by the county board. |
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| With respect to medical and other health care needs of |
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| prisoners, providers of goods and services shall be paid at the |
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| prevailing rate of reimbursement under the medical assistance |
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| program under Article V of the Illinois Public Aid Code.
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| The county board may require convicted persons confined in |
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| its jail to
reimburse the county for the expenses incurred by |
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| their incarceration to
the extent of their ability to pay for |
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| such expenses. The warden of the jail
shall establish by |
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| regulation criteria for a reasonable deduction from money
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| credited to any account of an inmate to defray the costs to the |
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| county for an
inmate's medical care. The State's Attorney
of |
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| the county in which such jail is located may, if requested by |
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| the County
Board, institute civil actions in the circuit court |
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| of the county in which
the jail is located to recover from such |
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| convicted confined persons the
expenses incurred by their |
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| confinement. The funds recovered shall
be paid
into the county |
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| treasury.
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| (b) When a prisoner is released from the county jail after |
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| the completion
of his or her sentence and has money credited to |
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| his or her account in the
commissary fund, the sheriff or a |