SB3014 93RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY

LRB093 21081 RLC 47125 b

93RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2003 and 2004
SB3014

Introduced 2/6/2004, by Kirk W. Dillard

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:

730 ILCS 5/5-4-3a new

Amends the Unified Code of Corrections. Provides that on or before February 1, 2005 and on or before February 1 of each year thereafter, the Department of State Police shall report to the Governor and both houses of the General Assembly the following information: (1) the extent of the backlog of cases awaiting testing or awaiting DNA analysis by that Department; and (2) what measures have been and are being taken to reduce that backlog and the estimated costs or expenditures in doing so. Provides that this information reported shall be made available to the public, at the time it is reported, on the official web site of the Department of State Police. Effective immediately.

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 adding Section 5-4-3a as follows:

(730 ILCS 5/5-4-3a new)

Sec. 5-4-3a. DNA testing backlog accountability.

(a) On or before February 1, 2005 and on or before February 1 of each year thereafter, the Department of State Police shall report to the Governor and both houses of the General Assembly the following information:

(1) the extent of the backlog of cases awaiting testing or awaiting DNA analysis by that Department, including but not limited to those tests conducted under Section 5-4-3, as of December 31 of the previous year; and

(2) what measures have been and are being taken to reduce that backlog and the estimated costs or expenditures in doing so.

(b) The information reported under this Section shall be made available to the public, at the time it is reported, on the official web site of the Department of State Police.

Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon becoming law.