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| 1 | AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 1993
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| 2 | AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 1993 by replacing | ||||||
| 3 | everything after the enacting clause with the following:
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| 4 | "Section 5. The Unified Code of Corrections is amended by | ||||||
| 5 | adding Section 5-8A-2.5 as follows: | ||||||
| 6 | (730 ILCS 5/5-8A-2.5 new)
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| 7 | Sec. 5-8A-2.5. Counties of more than 3,000,000 | ||||||
| 8 | inhabitants. | ||||||
| 9 | (a) In counties of more than 3,000,000 inhabitants, the | ||||||
| 10 | Chief Judge of the Circuit Court shall be responsible for | ||||||
| 11 | establishing procedures for the Circuit Court Judges under his | ||||||
| 12 | or her authority to order pretrial and sentenced inmates into | ||||||
| 13 | an electronic monitoring program run by the supervising county | ||||||
| 14 | authority. The judge currently presiding over the defendant's | ||||||
| 15 | case shall make determinations of eligibility for and order | ||||||
| 16 | transfer of inmates to such electronic monitoring program. The | ||||||
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| 1 | rules of eligibility and guidelines for determining | ||||||
| 2 | non-compliance, as well as penalties for non-compliance, shall | ||||||
| 3 | also be the responsibility of the Chief Judge of the Circuit | ||||||
| 4 | Court. | ||||||
| 5 | (b) The supervising county authority shall run the day to | ||||||
| 6 | day monitoring operations and inform the Circuit Court as to | ||||||
| 7 | the progress of detainees on the electronic monitoring program. | ||||||
| 8 | The Chief Judge shall be responsible for coordinating with the | ||||||
| 9 | county board, the supervising county authority, and any other | ||||||
| 10 | applicable authorities to ensure that the electronic | ||||||
| 11 | monitoring program is being utilized by the Circuit Court to | ||||||
| 12 | relieve overcrowding at the county jail. | ||||||
| 13 | (c) A person placed into an electronic monitoring program | ||||||
| 14 | under this Section shall pay the costs for his or her | ||||||
| 15 | monitoring, unless the court determines that the person is | ||||||
| 16 | indigent.
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| 17 | Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | ||||||
| 18 | becoming law.".
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