SB1609ham001 101ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY

Rep. Justin Slaughter

Filed: 5/21/2019

10100SB1609ham001 LRB101 09491 RLC 60766 a

AMENDMENT TO SENATE BILL 1609

AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend Senate Bill 1609 on page 1, by inserting immediately below line 3 the following:

"Section 3. The Criminal and Traffic Assessment Act is amended by changing Section 5-20 as follows:

(705 ILCS 135/5-20)

(This Section may contain text from a Public Act with a delayed effective date)

(Section scheduled to be repealed on January 1, 2021)

Sec. 5-20. Credit; time served; community service.

(a) Any credit for time served prior to sentencing that reduces the amount a defendant is required to pay shall be deducted first from the fine, if any, ordered by the court. Any remainder of the credit shall be equally divided between the assessments indicated in the ordered schedule and conditional assessments.

(b) Excluding any ordered conditional assessment, a defendant who has been ordered to pay an assessment may petition the court to convert all or part of the assessment into court-approved public or community service. One hour of public or community service shall be equivalent to $4 of assessment. The performance of this public or community service shall be a condition of probation, conditional discharge, or supervision and shall be in addition to the performance of any other period of public or community service ordered by the court or required by law.

(Source: P.A. 100-987, eff. 7-1-19.)"; and

on page 2, by inserting immediately below line 7 the following:

"Section 95. No acceleration or delay. Where this Act makes changes in a statute that is represented in this Act by text that is not yet or no longer in effect (for example, a Section represented by multiple versions), the use of that text does not accelerate or delay the taking effect of (i) the changes made by this Act or (ii) provisions derived from any other Public Act.".