99TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

 

State of Illinois

 

2015 and 2016   

HB6563

 

Introduced , by Rep. Luis Arroyo

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:

 

Makes appropriations for the ordinary and contingent expenses of the Office of the State Appellate Defender. Makes further appropriations for: expenses related to federally assisted programs to work on systemic sentencing issues appeals cases; expenses related to providing public defenders in rural counties the resources needed to adequately investigate and defend indigent clients; the ordinary and contingent expenses of the Expungement Program; statewide training to Public Defenders; and developing a Juvenile Defender Resource Center. Effective July 1, 2016.

 

 

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  $STATE APPELLATE DEFENDER

 

 

 


    AN ACT concerning appropriations.

 

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

 

    Section 5. The following named amounts, or so much of those amounts as may be necessary, respectively, for the objects and purposes named, are appropriated from the General Revenue Fund to meet the ordinary and contingent expenses of the Office of the State Appellate Defender:

  For Personal Services........................ $16,277,738

  For State Contributions to Social Security.... $1,204,553

  For Contractual Services...................... $2,204,000

  For Travel....................................... $55,000

  For Commodities.................................. $43,000

  For Printing..................................... $44,000

  For Equipment.................................... $45,000

  For EDP......................................... $874,000

  For Telecommunications.......................... $125,000

  For Law Student Program.......................... $65,000

    Total ..................................... $20,937,291

 

    Section 10. The amount of $225,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is appropriated from the State Appellate Defender Federal Trust Fund to the Office of the State Appellate Defender for expenses related to federally assisted programs to work on systemic sentencing issues appeals cases to which the agency is appointed and provide public defenders in rural counties the resources needed to adequately investigate and defend indigent clients.

 

    Section 15. The amount of $75,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is appropriated from the General Revenue Fund to the Office of the State Appellate Defender for expenses related to providing public defenders in rural counties the resources needed to adequately investigate and defend indigent clients.

 

    Section 20.   The amount of $160,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is appropriated from the General Revenue Fund to the Office of the State Appellate Defender for the ordinary and contingent expenses of the Expungement Program.

 

    Section 25. The amount $63,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is appropriated from the General Revenue Fund to the Office of the State Appellate Defender to provide statewide training to Public Defenders under the Public Defender Training Program.

 

    Section 30. The amount of $320,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is appropriated from General Revenue Fund to the Office of the State Appellate Defender to develop a Juvenile Defender Resource Center.

 

Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect July 1, 2016.