Sen. Mattie Hunter
Filed: 5/14/2009
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1 | AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 3795
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2 | AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 3795 on page 1, by | ||||||
3 | replacing line 7 with the following: | ||||||
4 | "Sec. 15. Authorization. | ||||||
5 | (a) The Chief Judge of each judicial"; and
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6 | on page 1, by inserting immediately below line 9 the following: | ||||||
7 | " (b) Whenever the county boards of 2 or more counties | ||||||
8 | within the same judicial circuit shall determine that a single | ||||||
9 | drug court program would best serve those counties, the county | ||||||
10 | board of each such county shall adopt a resolution to the | ||||||
11 | effect that there shall be a single drug court program serving | ||||||
12 | those counties, and shall provide a copy of the resolution to | ||||||
13 | the Chief Judge of the judicial circuit. Upon receipt of those | ||||||
14 | resolutions, the Chief Judge shall establish or, in the case of | ||||||
15 | an existing drug court program, re-organize a single drug court | ||||||
16 | program to serve those counties. | ||||||
17 | (c) Upon petition of the county board by the State's |
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1 | Attorney, the court may, for good cause shown of financial | ||||||
2 | hardship or lack of necessary resources, enter an order | ||||||
3 | delaying the implementation of the requirements of subsection | ||||||
4 | (a) of this Section for an individual county, for a period not | ||||||
5 | to exceed 2 years. ".
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