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| 1 | | AN ACT concerning State government.
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| 2 | | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, |
| 3 | | represented in the General Assembly:
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| 4 | | Section 1. Short title. This Act may be cited as the Racial |
| 5 | | and Ethnic Impact Research Task Force Act.
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| 6 | | Section 5. Purpose. The purpose of this Act is to determine |
| 7 | | a practical method for the standardized collection and analysis |
| 8 | | of data on the racial and ethnic identity of arrestees by State |
| 9 | | and local law enforcement agencies. The method shall be usable |
| 10 | | not only for the collection and analysis of data on the racial |
| 11 | | and ethnic identity of arrestees under current law, but also in |
| 12 | | predicting the likely racial and ethnic identity of arrestees |
| 13 | | under proposed changes to the Criminal Code of 1961, the Code |
| 14 | | of Criminal Procedure of 1963, and the Unified Code of |
| 15 | | Corrections.
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| 16 | | Section 10. Racial and Ethnic Impact Research Task Force. |
| 17 | | There is created the Racial and Ethnic Impact Research Task |
| 18 | | Force, composed of the following members: |
| 19 | | (1) Two members of the Senate appointed by the Senate
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| 20 | | President, one of whom the President shall designate to
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| 21 | | serve as co-chair, and 2 members of the Senate appointed
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| 22 | | the Minority Leader of the Senate. |
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| 1 | | (2) Two members of the House of Representatives
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| 2 | | appointed by the Speaker of the House of Representatives,
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| 3 | | one of whom the Speaker shall designate to serve as
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| 4 | | co-chair, and 2 members of the House of Representatives
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| 5 | | appointed by the Minority Leader of the House of
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| 6 | | Representatives. |
| 7 | | (3) The following persons or their designees: |
| 8 | | (A) the Attorney General, |
| 9 | | (B) the Chief Judge of the Circuit Court of Cook
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| 10 | | County, |
| 11 | | (C) the Director of State Police, |
| 12 | | (D) the Superintendent of the Chicago Police
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| 13 | | Department, |
| 14 | | (E) the Sheriff of Cook County, |
| 15 | | (F) the State Appellate Defender, |
| 16 | | (G) the Cook County Public Defender, |
| 17 | | (H) the Director of the Office of the State's
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| 18 | | Attorneys Appellate Prosecutor, |
| 19 | | (I) the Cook County State's Attorney, |
| 20 | | (J) the Executive Director of the Illinois |
| 21 | | Criminal
Justice Information Authority, |
| 22 | | (K) the Director of Corrections, |
| 23 | | (L) the Director of Juvenile Justice, and |
| 24 | | (M) the Executive Director of the Illinois
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| 25 | | African-American Family Commission. |
| 26 | | (4) The co-chairs may name up to 8 persons,
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| 1 | | representing minority communities within Illinois, groups
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| 2 | | involved in the improvement of the administration of
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| 3 | | justice, behavioral health, criminal justice, law
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| 4 | | enforcement, and the rehabilitation of former inmates,
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| 5 | | community groups, and other interested parties.
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| 6 | | Section 15. Compensation; support. The members of the Task |
| 7 | | Force shall serve without compensation, but may be reimbursed |
| 8 | | for reasonable expenses incurred as a result of their duties as |
| 9 | | members of the Task Force from funds appropriated by the |
| 10 | | General Assembly for that purpose. The Center for Excellence in |
| 11 | | Criminal Justice at the Great Lakes Addiction Technology |
| 12 | | Transfer Center at Jane Addams College of Social Work at the |
| 13 | | University of Illinois at Chicago shall provide staff and |
| 14 | | administrative support services to the Task Force.
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| 15 | | Section 20. Meetings; report. The Task Force shall hold |
| 16 | | one or more public hearings, at which public testimony shall be |
| 17 | | heard. The Task Force shall report its findings and |
| 18 | | recommendations to the General Assembly on or before July 1, |
| 19 | | 2012. The recommendations shall include, but are not limited |
| 20 | | to: |
| 21 | | (1) identifying a practical method for the |
| 22 | | standardized collection and analysis of data on the racial |
| 23 | | and ethnic identity of arrestees by State and local law |
| 24 | | enforcement agencies; and |
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| 1 | | (2) providing proposed legislation, drafted with the |
| 2 | | assistance of the Legislative Reference Bureau, and using |
| 3 | | the identified practical method for the standardized |
| 4 | | collection and analysis of data on the racial and ethnic |
| 5 | | identity of arrestees by State and local law enforcement |
| 6 | | agencies, to create a Racial and Ethnic Impact Statement |
| 7 | | providing an analysis of the likely racial and ethnic |
| 8 | | identity of arrestees under proposed changes to the |
| 9 | | Criminal Code of 1961, the Code of Criminal Procedure of |
| 10 | | 1963, and the Unified Code of Corrections.
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| 11 | | Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon |
| 12 | | becoming law.
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