093_HB3532 LRB093 08009 LRD 08207 b 1 AN ACT in relation to incarceration. 2 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, 3 represented in the General Assembly: 4 Section 5. The County Jail Act is amended by changing 5 Section 5 as follows: 6 (730 ILCS 125/5) (from Ch. 75, par. 105) 7 Sec. 5. Costs of maintaining prisoners. 8 (a) Except as provided in subsection (b), all costs of 9 maintaining persons committed for violations of Illinois law, 10 shall be the responsibility of the county. Except as 11 provided in subsection (b), all costs of maintaining persons 12 committed under any ordinance or resolution of a unit of 13 local government, including medical costs, is the 14 responsibility of the unit of local government enacting the 15 ordinance or resolution, and arresting the person. 16 (b) If a person who has been convicted of a felony or 17 who has violated mandatory supervised release is incarcerated 18 in a county jail, the Illinois Department of Corrections 19 shall pay the county in which that jail is located $59 for 20 each day the person remains in the county jail after the 21 fifteenth day after receipt of the documentation from the 22 clerk of the court authorizing the person's transfer to the 23 State facility to which he or she has been sentenced. 24 (Source: P.A. 83-1073.)