97TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2011 and 2012
SB2061

 

Introduced 2/10/2011, by Sen. Gary Forby

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
5 ILCS 315/3  from Ch. 48, par. 1603
730 ILCS 5/3-2-2  from Ch. 38, par. 1003-2-2

    Amends the Illinois Public Labor Relations Act. Provides that where an historical pattern of representation exists for the workers of a private medical vendor prior to becoming certified employees under the Personnel Code, the Board shall find the labor organization that has historically represented the workers to be the exclusive representative under the Act, and shall find the unit represented by the exclusive representative to be the appropriate unit. Provides that nothing shall preclude the exclusive representative of the workers from petitioning the Illinois Labor Relations Board for unit clarification to include any or all of the employees in an existing bargaining unit or units. Amends the Unified Code of Corrections. Provides that effective July 1, 2011, all contracts between the State and outside contractors to provide workers for medical services and related support services at all facilities of the Illinois Department of Corrections or the Department of Juvenile Justice shall be amended to allow for the conversion of vendor employees performing under the terms of a collective bargaining agreement to become employees of the State of Illinois. Provides that upon amendment of the contracts, each worker or staff member employed under the terms of a collective bargaining agreement shall be offered certified employment status under the Personnel Code with the State of Illinois. Provides that the position offered to each person shall be at the same facility and shall consist of the same duties and hours as previously existed under the amended contract or contracts. Effective July 1, 2011.


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1    AN ACT concerning medical services.
 
2    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3represented in the General Assembly:
 
4    Section 5. The Illinois Public Labor Relations Act is
5amended by changing Section 3 as follows:
 
6    (5 ILCS 315/3)  (from Ch. 48, par. 1603)
7    Sec. 3. Definitions. As used in this Act, unless the
8context otherwise requires:
9    (a) "Board" means the Illinois Labor Relations Board or,
10with respect to a matter over which the jurisdiction of the
11Board is assigned to the State Panel or the Local Panel under
12Section 5, the panel having jurisdiction over the matter.
13    (b) "Collective bargaining" means bargaining over terms
14and conditions of employment, including hours, wages, and other
15conditions of employment, as detailed in Section 7 and which
16are not excluded by Section 4.
17    (c) "Confidential employee" means an employee who, in the
18regular course of his or her duties, assists and acts in a
19confidential capacity to persons who formulate, determine, and
20effectuate management policies with regard to labor relations
21or who, in the regular course of his or her duties, has
22authorized access to information relating to the effectuation
23or review of the employer's collective bargaining policies.

 

 

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1    (d) "Craft employees" means skilled journeymen, crafts
2persons, and their apprentices and helpers.
3    (e) "Essential services employees" means those public
4employees performing functions so essential that the
5interruption or termination of the function will constitute a
6clear and present danger to the health and safety of the
7persons in the affected community.
8    (f) "Exclusive representative", except with respect to
9non-State fire fighters and paramedics employed by fire
10departments and fire protection districts, non-State peace
11officers, and peace officers in the Department of State Police,
12means the labor organization that has been (i) designated by
13the Board as the representative of a majority of public
14employees in an appropriate bargaining unit in accordance with
15the procedures contained in this Act, (ii) historically
16recognized by the State of Illinois or any political
17subdivision of the State before July 1, 1984 (the effective
18date of this Act) as the exclusive representative of the
19employees in an appropriate bargaining unit, (iii) after July
201, 1984 (the effective date of this Act) recognized by an
21employer upon evidence, acceptable to the Board, that the labor
22organization has been designated as the exclusive
23representative by a majority of the employees in an appropriate
24bargaining unit; (iv) recognized as the exclusive
25representative of personal care attendants or personal
26assistants under Executive Order 2003-8 prior to the effective

 

 

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1date of this amendatory Act of the 93rd General Assembly, and
2the organization shall be considered to be the exclusive
3representative of the personal care attendants or personal
4assistants as defined in this Section; or (v) recognized as the
5exclusive representative of child and day care home providers,
6including licensed and license exempt providers, pursuant to an
7election held under Executive Order 2005-1 prior to the
8effective date of this amendatory Act of the 94th General
9Assembly, and the organization shall be considered to be the
10exclusive representative of the child and day care home
11providers as defined in this Section.
12    With respect to non-State fire fighters and paramedics
13employed by fire departments and fire protection districts,
14non-State peace officers, and peace officers in the Department
15of State Police, "exclusive representative" means the labor
16organization that has been (i) designated by the Board as the
17representative of a majority of peace officers or fire fighters
18in an appropriate bargaining unit in accordance with the
19procedures contained in this Act, (ii) historically recognized
20by the State of Illinois or any political subdivision of the
21State before January 1, 1986 (the effective date of this
22amendatory Act of 1985) as the exclusive representative by a
23majority of the peace officers or fire fighters in an
24appropriate bargaining unit, or (iii) after January 1, 1986
25(the effective date of this amendatory Act of 1985) recognized
26by an employer upon evidence, acceptable to the Board, that the

 

 

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1labor organization has been designated as the exclusive
2representative by a majority of the peace officers or fire
3fighters in an appropriate bargaining unit.
4    Where an historical pattern of representation exists for
5the workers of a private medical vendor prior to becoming
6certified employees under the Personnel Code, the Board shall
7find the labor organization that has historically represented
8the workers to be the exclusive representative under this Act,
9and shall find the unit represented by the exclusive
10representative to be the appropriate unit. Nothing shall
11preclude the exclusive representative of the workers from
12petitioning the Illinois Labor Relations Board for unit
13clarification to include any or all of the employees in an
14existing bargaining unit or units.
15    (g) "Fair share agreement" means an agreement between the
16employer and an employee organization under which all or any of
17the employees in a collective bargaining unit are required to
18pay their proportionate share of the costs of the collective
19bargaining process, contract administration, and pursuing
20matters affecting wages, hours, and other conditions of
21employment, but not to exceed the amount of dues uniformly
22required of members. The amount certified by the exclusive
23representative shall not include any fees for contributions
24related to the election or support of any candidate for
25political office. Nothing in this subsection (g) shall preclude
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1conjunction with his or her fair share payment.
2    (g-1) "Fire fighter" means, for the purposes of this Act
3only, any person who has been or is hereafter appointed to a
4fire department or fire protection district or employed by a
5state university and sworn or commissioned to perform fire
6fighter duties or paramedic duties, except that the following
7persons are not included: part-time fire fighters, auxiliary,
8reserve or voluntary fire fighters, including paid on-call fire
9fighters, clerks and dispatchers or other civilian employees of
10a fire department or fire protection district who are not
11routinely expected to perform fire fighter duties, or elected
12officials.
13    (g-2) "General Assembly of the State of Illinois" means the
14legislative branch of the government of the State of Illinois,
15as provided for under Article IV of the Constitution of the
16State of Illinois, and includes but is not limited to the House
17of Representatives, the Senate, the Speaker of the House of
18Representatives, the Minority Leader of the House of
19Representatives, the President of the Senate, the Minority
20Leader of the Senate, the Joint Committee on Legislative
21Support Services and any legislative support services agency
22listed in the Legislative Commission Reorganization Act of
231984.
24    (h) "Governing body" means, in the case of the State, the
25State Panel of the Illinois Labor Relations Board, the Director
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1Director of the Department of Labor; the county board in the
2case of a county; the corporate authorities in the case of a
3municipality; and the appropriate body authorized to provide
4for expenditures of its funds in the case of any other unit of
5government.
6    (i) "Labor organization" means any organization in which
7public employees participate and that exists for the purpose,
8in whole or in part, of dealing with a public employer
9concerning wages, hours, and other terms and conditions of
10employment, including the settlement of grievances.
11    (j) "Managerial employee" means an individual who is
12engaged predominantly in executive and management functions
13and is charged with the responsibility of directing the
14effectuation of management policies and practices.
15    (k) "Peace officer" means, for the purposes of this Act
16only, any persons who have been or are hereafter appointed to a
17police force, department, or agency and sworn or commissioned
18to perform police duties, except that the following persons are
19not included: part-time police officers, special police
20officers, auxiliary police as defined by Section 3.1-30-20 of
21the Illinois Municipal Code, night watchmen, "merchant
22police", court security officers as defined by Section 3-6012.1
23of the Counties Code, temporary employees, traffic guards or
24wardens, civilian parking meter and parking facilities
25personnel or other individuals specially appointed to aid or
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1in civil defense or disaster, parking enforcement employees who
2are not commissioned as peace officers and who are not armed
3and who are not routinely expected to effect arrests, parking
4lot attendants, clerks and dispatchers or other civilian
5employees of a police department who are not routinely expected
6to effect arrests, or elected officials.
7    (l) "Person" includes one or more individuals, labor
8organizations, public employees, associations, corporations,
9legal representatives, trustees, trustees in bankruptcy,
10receivers, or the State of Illinois or any political
11subdivision of the State or governing body, but does not
12include the General Assembly of the State of Illinois or any
13individual employed by the General Assembly of the State of
14Illinois.
15    (m) "Professional employee" means any employee engaged in
16work predominantly intellectual and varied in character rather
17than routine mental, manual, mechanical or physical work;
18involving the consistent exercise of discretion and adjustment
19in its performance; of such a character that the output
20produced or the result accomplished cannot be standardized in
21relation to a given period of time; and requiring advanced
22knowledge in a field of science or learning customarily
23acquired by a prolonged course of specialized intellectual
24instruction and study in an institution of higher learning or a
25hospital, as distinguished from a general academic education or
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1routine mental, manual, or physical processes; or any employee
2who has completed the courses of specialized intellectual
3instruction and study prescribed in this subsection (m) and is
4performing related work under the supervision of a professional
5person to qualify to become a professional employee as defined
6in this subsection (m).
7    (n) "Public employee" or "employee", for the purposes of
8this Act, means any individual employed by a public employer,
9including (i) interns and residents at public hospitals, (ii)
10as of the effective date of this amendatory Act of the 93rd
11General Assembly, but not before, personal care attendants and
12personal assistants working under the Home Services Program
13under Section 3 of the Disabled Persons Rehabilitation Act,
14subject to the limitations set forth in this Act and in the
15Disabled Persons Rehabilitation Act, and (iii) as of the
16effective date of this amendatory Act of the 94th General
17Assembly, but not before, child and day care home providers
18participating in the child care assistance program under
19Section 9A-11 of the Illinois Public Aid Code, subject to the
20limitations set forth in this Act and in Section 9A-11 of the
21Illinois Public Aid Code, but excluding all of the following:
22employees of the General Assembly of the State of Illinois;
23elected officials; executive heads of a department; members of
24boards or commissions; the Executive Inspectors General; any
25special Executive Inspectors General; employees of each Office
26of an Executive Inspector General; commissioners and employees

 

 

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1of the Executive Ethics Commission; the Auditor General's
2Inspector General; employees of the Office of the Auditor
3General's Inspector General; the Legislative Inspector
4General; any special Legislative Inspectors General; employees
5of the Office of the Legislative Inspector General;
6commissioners and employees of the Legislative Ethics
7Commission; employees of any agency, board or commission
8created by this Act; employees appointed to State positions of
9a temporary or emergency nature; all employees of school
10districts and higher education institutions except
11firefighters and peace officers employed by a state university
12and except peace officers employed by a school district in its
13own police department in existence on the effective date of
14this amendatory Act of the 96th General Assembly; managerial
15employees; short-term employees; confidential employees;
16independent contractors; and supervisors except as provided in
17this Act.
18    Personal care attendants and personal assistants shall not
19be considered public employees for any purposes not
20specifically provided for in the amendatory Act of the 93rd
21General Assembly, including but not limited to, purposes of
22vicarious liability in tort and purposes of statutory
23retirement or health insurance benefits. Personal care
24attendants and personal assistants shall not be covered by the
25State Employees Group Insurance Act of 1971 (5 ILCS 375/).
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1public employees for any purposes not specifically provided for
2in this amendatory Act of the 94th General Assembly, including
3but not limited to, purposes of vicarious liability in tort and
4purposes of statutory retirement or health insurance benefits.
5Child and day care home providers shall not be covered by the
6State Employees Group Insurance Act of 1971.
7    Notwithstanding Section 9, subsection (c), or any other
8provisions of this Act, all peace officers above the rank of
9captain in municipalities with more than 1,000,000 inhabitants
10shall be excluded from this Act.
11    (o) Except as otherwise in subsection (o-5), "public
12employer" or "employer" means the State of Illinois; any
13political subdivision of the State, unit of local government or
14school district; authorities including departments, divisions,
15bureaus, boards, commissions, or other agencies of the
16foregoing entities; and any person acting within the scope of
17his or her authority, express or implied, on behalf of those
18entities in dealing with its employees. As of the effective
19date of the amendatory Act of the 93rd General Assembly, but
20not before, the State of Illinois shall be considered the
21employer of the personal care attendants and personal
22assistants working under the Home Services Program under
23Section 3 of the Disabled Persons Rehabilitation Act, subject
24to the limitations set forth in this Act and in the Disabled
25Persons Rehabilitation Act. The State shall not be considered
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1assistants for any purposes not specifically provided for in
2this amendatory Act of the 93rd General Assembly, including but
3not limited to, purposes of vicarious liability in tort and
4purposes of statutory retirement or health insurance benefits.
5Personal care attendants and personal assistants shall not be
6covered by the State Employees Group Insurance Act of 1971 (5
7ILCS 375/). As of the effective date of this amendatory Act of
8the 94th General Assembly but not before, the State of Illinois
9shall be considered the employer of the day and child care home
10providers participating in the child care assistance program
11under Section 9A-11 of the Illinois Public Aid Code, subject to
12the limitations set forth in this Act and in Section 9A-11 of
13the Illinois Public Aid Code. The State shall not be considered
14to be the employer of child and day care home providers for any
15purposes not specifically provided for in this amendatory Act
16of the 94th General Assembly, including but not limited to,
17purposes of vicarious liability in tort and purposes of
18statutory retirement or health insurance benefits. Child and
19day care home providers shall not be covered by the State
20Employees Group Insurance Act of 1971.
21    "Public employer" or "employer" as used in this Act,
22however, does not mean and shall not include the General
23Assembly of the State of Illinois, the Executive Ethics
24Commission, the Offices of the Executive Inspectors General,
25the Legislative Ethics Commission, the Office of the
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1General's Inspector General, and educational employers or
2employers as defined in the Illinois Educational Labor
3Relations Act, except with respect to a state university in its
4employment of firefighters and peace officers and except with
5respect to a school district in the employment of peace
6officers in its own police department in existence on the
7effective date of this amendatory Act of the 96th General
8Assembly. County boards and county sheriffs shall be designated
9as joint or co-employers of county peace officers appointed
10under the authority of a county sheriff. Nothing in this
11subsection (o) shall be construed to prevent the State Panel or
12the Local Panel from determining that employers are joint or
13co-employers.
14    (o-5) With respect to wages, fringe benefits, hours,
15holidays, vacations, proficiency examinations, sick leave, and
16other conditions of employment, the public employer of public
17employees who are court reporters, as defined in the Court
18Reporters Act, shall be determined as follows:
19        (1) For court reporters employed by the Cook County
20    Judicial Circuit, the chief judge of the Cook County
21    Circuit Court is the public employer and employer
22    representative.
23        (2) For court reporters employed by the 12th, 18th,
24    19th, and, on and after December 4, 2006, the 22nd judicial
25    circuits, a group consisting of the chief judges of those
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1    employer and employer representative.
2        (3) For court reporters employed by all other judicial
3    circuits, a group consisting of the chief judges of those
4    circuits, acting jointly by majority vote, is the public
5    employer and employer representative.
6    (p) "Security employee" means an employee who is
7responsible for the supervision and control of inmates at
8correctional facilities. The term also includes other
9non-security employees in bargaining units having the majority
10of employees being responsible for the supervision and control
11of inmates at correctional facilities.
12    (q) "Short-term employee" means an employee who is employed
13for less than 2 consecutive calendar quarters during a calendar
14year and who does not have a reasonable assurance that he or
15she will be rehired by the same employer for the same service
16in a subsequent calendar year.
17    (r) "Supervisor" is an employee whose principal work is
18substantially different from that of his or her subordinates
19and who has authority, in the interest of the employer, to
20hire, transfer, suspend, lay off, recall, promote, discharge,
21direct, reward, or discipline employees, to adjust their
22grievances, or to effectively recommend any of those actions,
23if the exercise of that authority is not of a merely routine or
24clerical nature, but requires the consistent use of independent
25judgment. Except with respect to police employment, the term
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1preponderance of their employment time to exercising that
2authority, State supervisors notwithstanding. In addition, in
3determining supervisory status in police employment, rank
4shall not be determinative. The Board shall consider, as
5evidence of bargaining unit inclusion or exclusion, the common
6law enforcement policies and relationships between police
7officer ranks and certification under applicable civil service
8law, ordinances, personnel codes, or Division 2.1 of Article 10
9of the Illinois Municipal Code, but these factors shall not be
10the sole or predominant factors considered by the Board in
11determining police supervisory status.
12    Notwithstanding the provisions of the preceding paragraph,
13in determining supervisory status in fire fighter employment,
14no fire fighter shall be excluded as a supervisor who has
15established representation rights under Section 9 of this Act.
16Further, in new fire fighter units, employees shall consist of
17fire fighters of the rank of company officer and below. If a
18company officer otherwise qualifies as a supervisor under the
19preceding paragraph, however, he or she shall not be included
20in the fire fighter unit. If there is no rank between that of
21chief and the highest company officer, the employer may
22designate a position on each shift as a Shift Commander, and
23the persons occupying those positions shall be supervisors. All
24other ranks above that of company officer shall be supervisors.
25    (s) (1) "Unit" means a class of jobs or positions that are
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1    be represented by a labor organization for collective
2    bargaining. Except with respect to non-State fire fighters
3    and paramedics employed by fire departments and fire
4    protection districts, non-State peace officers, and peace
5    officers in the Department of State Police, a bargaining
6    unit determined by the Board shall not include both
7    employees and supervisors, or supervisors only, except as
8    provided in paragraph (2) of this subsection (s) and except
9    for bargaining units in existence on July 1, 1984 (the
10    effective date of this Act). With respect to non-State fire
11    fighters and paramedics employed by fire departments and
12    fire protection districts, non-State peace officers, and
13    peace officers in the Department of State Police, a
14    bargaining unit determined by the Board shall not include
15    both supervisors and nonsupervisors, or supervisors only,
16    except as provided in paragraph (2) of this subsection (s)
17    and except for bargaining units in existence on January 1,
18    1986 (the effective date of this amendatory Act of 1985). A
19    bargaining unit determined by the Board to contain peace
20    officers shall contain no employees other than peace
21    officers unless otherwise agreed to by the employer and the
22    labor organization or labor organizations involved.
23    Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act, a
24    bargaining unit, including a historical bargaining unit,
25    containing sworn peace officers of the Department of
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1    Conservation) shall contain no employees other than such
2    sworn peace officers upon the effective date of this
3    amendatory Act of 1990 or upon the expiration date of any
4    collective bargaining agreement in effect upon the
5    effective date of this amendatory Act of 1990 covering both
6    such sworn peace officers and other employees.
7        (2) Notwithstanding the exclusion of supervisors from
8    bargaining units as provided in paragraph (1) of this
9    subsection (s), a public employer may agree to permit its
10    supervisory employees to form bargaining units and may
11    bargain with those units. This Act shall apply if the
12    public employer chooses to bargain under this subsection.
13        (3) Public employees who are court reporters, as
14    defined in the Court Reporters Act, shall be divided into 3
15    units for collective bargaining purposes. One unit shall be
16    court reporters employed by the Cook County Judicial
17    Circuit; one unit shall be court reporters employed by the
18    12th, 18th, 19th, and, on and after December 4, 2006, the
19    22nd judicial circuits; and one unit shall be court
20    reporters employed by all other judicial circuits.
21(Source: P.A. 95-331, eff. 8-21-07; 96-1257, eff. 7-23-10.)
 
22    Section 10. The Unified Code of Corrections is amended by
23changing Section 3-2-2 as follows:
 
24    (730 ILCS 5/3-2-2)  (from Ch. 38, par. 1003-2-2)

 

 

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1    Sec. 3-2-2. Powers and Duties of the Department.
2    (1) In addition to the powers, duties and responsibilities
3which are otherwise provided by law, the Department shall have
4the following powers:
5        (a) To accept persons committed to it by the courts of
6    this State for care, custody, treatment and
7    rehabilitation, and to accept federal prisoners and aliens
8    over whom the Office of the Federal Detention Trustee is
9    authorized to exercise the federal detention function for
10    limited purposes and periods of time.
11        (b) To develop and maintain reception and evaluation
12    units for purposes of analyzing the custody and
13    rehabilitation needs of persons committed to it and to
14    assign such persons to institutions and programs under its
15    control or transfer them to other appropriate agencies. In
16    consultation with the Department of Alcoholism and
17    Substance Abuse (now the Department of Human Services), the
18    Department of Corrections shall develop a master plan for
19    the screening and evaluation of persons committed to its
20    custody who have alcohol or drug abuse problems, and for
21    making appropriate treatment available to such persons;
22    the Department shall report to the General Assembly on such
23    plan not later than April 1, 1987. The maintenance and
24    implementation of such plan shall be contingent upon the
25    availability of funds.
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1    pilot program to establish the effectiveness of
2    pupillometer technology (the measurement of the pupil's
3    reaction to light) as an alternative to a urine test for
4    purposes of screening and evaluating persons committed to
5    its custody who have alcohol or drug problems. The pilot
6    program shall require the pupillometer technology to be
7    used in at least one Department of Corrections facility.
8    The Director may expand the pilot program to include an
9    additional facility or facilities as he or she deems
10    appropriate. A minimum of 4,000 tests shall be included in
11    the pilot program. The Department must report to the
12    General Assembly on the effectiveness of the program by
13    January 1, 2003.
14        (b-5) To develop, in consultation with the Department
15    of State Police, a program for tracking and evaluating each
16    inmate from commitment through release for recording his or
17    her gang affiliations, activities, or ranks.
18        (c) To maintain and administer all State correctional
19    institutions and facilities under its control and to
20    establish new ones as needed. Pursuant to its power to
21    establish new institutions and facilities, the Department
22    may, with the written approval of the Governor, authorize
23    the Department of Central Management Services to enter into
24    an agreement of the type described in subsection (d) of
25    Section 405-300 of the Department of Central Management
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1    designate those institutions which shall constitute the
2    State Penitentiary System.
3        Pursuant to its power to establish new institutions and
4    facilities, the Department may authorize the Department of
5    Central Management Services to accept bids from counties
6    and municipalities for the construction, remodeling or
7    conversion of a structure to be leased to the Department of
8    Corrections for the purposes of its serving as a
9    correctional institution or facility. Such construction,
10    remodeling or conversion may be financed with revenue bonds
11    issued pursuant to the Industrial Building Revenue Bond Act
12    by the municipality or county. The lease specified in a bid
13    shall be for a term of not less than the time needed to
14    retire any revenue bonds used to finance the project, but
15    not to exceed 40 years. The lease may grant to the State
16    the option to purchase the structure outright.
17        Upon receipt of the bids, the Department may certify
18    one or more of the bids and shall submit any such bids to
19    the General Assembly for approval. Upon approval of a bid
20    by a constitutional majority of both houses of the General
21    Assembly, pursuant to joint resolution, the Department of
22    Central Management Services may enter into an agreement
23    with the county or municipality pursuant to such bid.
24        (c-5) To build and maintain regional juvenile
25    detention centers and to charge a per diem to the counties
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1    housing each minor in a center. In this subsection (c-5),
2    "juvenile detention center" means a facility to house
3    minors during pendency of trial who have been transferred
4    from proceedings under the Juvenile Court Act of 1987 to
5    prosecutions under the criminal laws of this State in
6    accordance with Section 5-805 of the Juvenile Court Act of
7    1987, whether the transfer was by operation of law or
8    permissive under that Section. The Department shall
9    designate the counties to be served by each regional
10    juvenile detention center.
11        (d) To develop and maintain programs of control,
12    rehabilitation and employment of committed persons within
13    its institutions.
14        (d-5) To provide a pre-release job preparation program
15    for inmates at Illinois adult correctional centers.
16        (e) To establish a system of supervision and guidance
17    of committed persons in the community.
18        (f) To establish in cooperation with the Department of
19    Transportation to supply a sufficient number of prisoners
20    for use by the Department of Transportation to clean up the
21    trash and garbage along State, county, township, or
22    municipal highways as designated by the Department of
23    Transportation. The Department of Corrections, at the
24    request of the Department of Transportation, shall furnish
25    such prisoners at least annually for a period to be agreed
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1    of Transportation. The prisoners used on this program shall
2    be selected by the Director of Corrections on whatever
3    basis he deems proper in consideration of their term,
4    behavior and earned eligibility to participate in such
5    program - where they will be outside of the prison facility
6    but still in the custody of the Department of Corrections.
7    Prisoners convicted of first degree murder, or a Class X
8    felony, or armed violence, or aggravated kidnapping, or
9    criminal sexual assault, aggravated criminal sexual abuse
10    or a subsequent conviction for criminal sexual abuse, or
11    forcible detention, or arson, or a prisoner adjudged a
12    Habitual Criminal shall not be eligible for selection to
13    participate in such program. The prisoners shall remain as
14    prisoners in the custody of the Department of Corrections
15    and such Department shall furnish whatever security is
16    necessary. The Department of Transportation shall furnish
17    trucks and equipment for the highway cleanup program and
18    personnel to supervise and direct the program. Neither the
19    Department of Corrections nor the Department of
20    Transportation shall replace any regular employee with a
21    prisoner.
22        (g) To maintain records of persons committed to it and
23    to establish programs of research, statistics and
24    planning.
25        (h) To investigate the grievances of any person
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1    misconduct by employees or committed persons, and to
2    investigate the assets of committed persons to implement
3    Section 3-7-6 of this Code; and for these purposes it may
4    issue subpoenas and compel the attendance of witnesses and
5    the production of writings and papers, and may examine
6    under oath any witnesses who may appear before it; to also
7    investigate alleged violations of a parolee's or
8    releasee's conditions of parole or release; and for this
9    purpose it may issue subpoenas and compel the attendance of
10    witnesses and the production of documents only if there is
11    reason to believe that such procedures would provide
12    evidence that such violations have occurred.
13        If any person fails to obey a subpoena issued under
14    this subsection, the Director may apply to any circuit
15    court to secure compliance with the subpoena. The failure
16    to comply with the order of the court issued in response
17    thereto shall be punishable as contempt of court.
18        (i) To appoint and remove the chief administrative
19    officers, and administer programs of training and
20    development of personnel of the Department. Personnel
21    assigned by the Department to be responsible for the
22    custody and control of committed persons or to investigate
23    the alleged misconduct of committed persons or employees or
24    alleged violations of a parolee's or releasee's conditions
25    of parole shall be conservators of the peace for those
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1    outside of the facilities of the Department in the
2    protection, arrest, retaking and reconfining of committed
3    persons or where the exercise of such power is necessary to
4    the investigation of such misconduct or violations.
5        (j) To cooperate with other departments and agencies
6    and with local communities for the development of standards
7    and programs for better correctional services in this
8    State.
9        (k) To administer all moneys and properties of the
10    Department.
11        (l) To report annually to the Governor on the committed
12    persons, institutions and programs of the Department.
13        (l-5) In a confidential annual report to the Governor,
14    the Department shall identify all inmate gangs by
15    specifying each current gang's name, population and allied
16    gangs. The Department shall further specify the number of
17    top leaders identified by the Department for each gang
18    during the past year, and the measures taken by the
19    Department to segregate each leader from his or her gang
20    and allied gangs. The Department shall further report the
21    current status of leaders identified and segregated in
22    previous years. All leaders described in the report shall
23    be identified by inmate number or other designation to
24    enable tracking, auditing, and verification without
25    revealing the names of the leaders. Because this report
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1    collected by the Department, the report is confidential and
2    not subject to public disclosure.
3        (m) To make all rules and regulations and exercise all
4    powers and duties vested by law in the Department.
5        (n) To establish rules and regulations for
6    administering a system of good conduct credits,
7    established in accordance with Section 3-6-3, subject to
8    review by the Prisoner Review Board.
9        (o) To administer the distribution of funds from the
10    State Treasury to reimburse counties where State penal
11    institutions are located for the payment of assistant
12    state's attorneys' salaries under Section 4-2001 of the
13    Counties Code.
14        (p) To exchange information with the Department of
15    Human Services and the Department of Healthcare and Family
16    Services for the purpose of verifying living arrangements
17    and for other purposes directly connected with the
18    administration of this Code and the Illinois Public Aid
19    Code.
20        (q) To establish a diversion program.
21        The program shall provide a structured environment for
22    selected technical parole or mandatory supervised release
23    violators and committed persons who have violated the rules
24    governing their conduct while in work release. This program
25    shall not apply to those persons who have committed a new
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1    release or while committed to work release.
2        Elements of the program shall include, but shall not be
3    limited to, the following:
4            (1) The staff of a diversion facility shall provide
5        supervision in accordance with required objectives set
6        by the facility.
7            (2) Participants shall be required to maintain
8        employment.
9            (3) Each participant shall pay for room and board
10        at the facility on a sliding-scale basis according to
11        the participant's income.
12            (4) Each participant shall:
13                (A) provide restitution to victims in
14            accordance with any court order;
15                (B) provide financial support to his
16            dependents; and
17                (C) make appropriate payments toward any other
18            court-ordered obligations.
19            (5) Each participant shall complete community
20        service in addition to employment.
21            (6) Participants shall take part in such
22        counseling, educational and other programs as the
23        Department may deem appropriate.
24            (7) Participants shall submit to drug and alcohol
25        screening.
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1        governing the administration of the program.
2        (r) To enter into intergovernmental cooperation
3    agreements under which persons in the custody of the
4    Department may participate in a county impact
5    incarceration program established under Section 3-6038 or
6    3-15003.5 of the Counties Code.
7        (r-5) (Blank).
8        (r-10) To systematically and routinely identify with
9    respect to each streetgang active within the correctional
10    system: (1) each active gang; (2) every existing inter-gang
11    affiliation or alliance; and (3) the current leaders in
12    each gang. The Department shall promptly segregate leaders
13    from inmates who belong to their gangs and allied gangs.
14    "Segregate" means no physical contact and, to the extent
15    possible under the conditions and space available at the
16    correctional facility, prohibition of visual and sound
17    communication. For the purposes of this paragraph (r-10),
18    "leaders" means persons who:
19            (i) are members of a criminal streetgang;
20            (ii) with respect to other individuals within the
21        streetgang, occupy a position of organizer,
22        supervisor, or other position of management or
23        leadership; and
24            (iii) are actively and personally engaged in
25        directing, ordering, authorizing, or requesting
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1        punishable as a felony, in furtherance of streetgang
2        related activity both within and outside of the
3        Department of Corrections.
4    "Streetgang", "gang", and "streetgang related" have the
5    meanings ascribed to them in Section 10 of the Illinois
6    Streetgang Terrorism Omnibus Prevention Act.
7        (s) To operate a super-maximum security institution,
8    in order to manage and supervise inmates who are disruptive
9    or dangerous and provide for the safety and security of the
10    staff and the other inmates.
11        (t) To monitor any unprivileged conversation or any
12    unprivileged communication, whether in person or by mail,
13    telephone, or other means, between an inmate who, before
14    commitment to the Department, was a member of an organized
15    gang and any other person without the need to show cause or
16    satisfy any other requirement of law before beginning the
17    monitoring, except as constitutionally required. The
18    monitoring may be by video, voice, or other method of
19    recording or by any other means. As used in this
20    subdivision (1)(t), "organized gang" has the meaning
21    ascribed to it in Section 10 of the Illinois Streetgang
22    Terrorism Omnibus Prevention Act.
23        As used in this subdivision (1)(t), "unprivileged
24    conversation" or "unprivileged communication" means a
25    conversation or communication that is not protected by any
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1    of the Illinois Supreme Court.
2        (u) To establish a Women's and Children's Pre-release
3    Community Supervision Program for the purpose of providing
4    housing and services to eligible female inmates, as
5    determined by the Department, and their newborn and young
6    children.
7        (u-5) To issue an order, whenever a person committed to
8    the Department absconds or absents himself or herself,
9    without authority to do so, from any facility or program to
10    which he or she is assigned. The order shall be certified
11    by the Director, the Supervisor of the Apprehension Unit,
12    or any person duly designated by the Director, with the
13    seal of the Department affixed. The order shall be directed
14    to all sheriffs, coroners, and police officers, or to any
15    particular person named in the order. Any order issued
16    pursuant to this subdivision (1) (u-5) shall be sufficient
17    warrant for the officer or person named in the order to
18    arrest and deliver the committed person to the proper
19    correctional officials and shall be executed the same as
20    criminal process.
21        (v) To do all other acts necessary to carry out the
22    provisions of this Chapter.
23    (2) The Department of Corrections shall by January 1, 1998,
24consider building and operating a correctional facility within
25100 miles of a county of over 2,000,000 inhabitants, especially
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1impact incarceration program.
2    (3) When the Department lets bids for contracts for medical
3services to be provided to persons committed to Department
4facilities by a health maintenance organization, medical
5service corporation, or other health care provider, the bid may
6only be let to a health care provider that has obtained an
7irrevocable letter of credit or performance bond issued by a
8company whose bonds are rated AAA by a bond rating
9organization.
10    (3.5) Effective July 1, 2011, all contracts between the
11State and outside contractors to provide workers for medical
12services and related support services at all facilities of the
13Illinois Department of Corrections or the Department of
14Juvenile Justice shall be amended to allow for the conversion
15of vendor employees performing under the terms of a collective
16bargaining agreement to become employees of the State of
17Illinois. Upon amendment of the contracts, each worker or staff
18member employed under the terms of a collective bargaining
19agreement shall be offered certified employment status under
20the Personnel Code with the State of Illinois. The position
21offered to each person shall be at the same facility and shall
22consist of the same duties and hours as previously existed
23under the amended contract or contracts.
24    (4) When the Department lets bids for contracts for food or
25commissary services to be provided to Department facilities,
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1provider that has obtained an irrevocable letter of credit or
2performance bond issued by a company whose bonds are rated AAA
3by a bond rating organization.
4(Source: P.A. 96-1265, eff. 7-26-10.)
 
5    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect July 1,
62011.