HB3095 99TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

LRB099 09936 RLC 30154 b

99TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2015 and 2016
HB3095

Introduced , by Rep. Monique D. Davis

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:

730 ILCS 5/3-4-1

from Ch. 38, par. 1003-4-1

Amends the Unified Code of Corrections. Provides that the State shall forgo any commissions or revenues for the provision of pay telephones in institutions and facilities of the Department of Corrections and the Department of Juvenile Justice for use by inmates. Provides that the Department of Central Management Services shall ensure that the telephone rates charged by vendors for the use of those telephones must be reduced to reflect this forgone State revenue.

FISCAL NOTE ACT MAY APPLY

A BILL FOR

AN ACT concerning criminal law.

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

Section 5. The Unified Code of Corrections is amended by changing Section 3-4-1 as follows:

(730 ILCS 5/3-4-1) (from Ch. 38, par. 1003-4-1)

Sec. 3-4-1. Gifts and Grants; Special Trusts Funds; Department of Corrections Reimbursement and Education Fund.

(a) The Department may accept, receive and use, for and in behalf of the State, any moneys, goods or services given for general purposes of this Code by the federal government or from any other source, public or private, including collections from inmates, and reimbursement of payments under the Workers' Compensation Act, and commissions from inmate collect call telephone systems under an agreement with the Department of Central Management Services. For these purposes the Department may comply with such conditions and enter into such agreements upon such covenants, terms, and conditions as the Department may deem necessary or desirable, if the agreement is not in conflict with State law.

(a-5) The State shall forgo any commissions or revenues for the provision of pay telephones in institutions and facilities of the Department of Corrections and the Department of Juvenile Justice for use by inmates. The Department of Central Management Services shall ensure that the telephone rates charged by vendors for the use of those telephones must be reduced to reflect this forgone State revenue.

(b) On July 1, 1998, the Department of Corrections Reimbursement Fund and the Department of Corrections Education Fund shall be combined into a single fund to be known as the Department of Corrections Reimbursement and Education Fund, which is hereby created as a special fund in the State Treasury. The moneys deposited into the Department of Corrections Reimbursement and Education Fund shall be appropriated to the Department of Corrections for the expenses of the Department.

The following shall be deposited into the Department of Corrections Reimbursement and Education Fund:

(i) Moneys received or recovered by the Department of Corrections as reimbursement for expenses incurred for the incarceration of committed persons.

(ii) Moneys received or recovered by the Department as reimbursement of payments made under the Workers' Compensation Act.

(iii) Moneys received by the Department as commissions from inmate collect call telephone systems.

(iv) Moneys received or recovered by the Department as reimbursement for expenses incurred by the employment of persons referred to the Department as participants in the federal Job Training Partnership Act programs.

(v) Federal moneys, including reimbursement and advances for services rendered or to be rendered and moneys for other than educational purposes, under grant or contract.

(vi) Moneys identified for deposit into the Fund under Section 13-44.4 of the School Code.

(vii) Moneys in the Department of Corrections Reimbursement Fund and the Department of Corrections Education Fund at the close of business on June 30, 1998.

(Source: P.A. 90-9, eff. 7-1-97; 90-587, eff. 7-1-98.)