98TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2013 and 2014
HB6287

 

Introduced , by Rep. Sam Yingling

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
40 ILCS 5/1-136 new
730 ILCS 5/3-7-6  from Ch. 38, par. 1003-7-6
735 ILCS 5/12-108.5 new

    Amends the General Provisions Article of the Illinois Pension Code. Provides that if a member or participant is receiving an annuity or pension from a pension fund or retirement system and is incarcerated within the Department of Corrections for a felony, then, after receipt of the certified cost of confinement from the Director of the Department of Corrections, the board of trustees of that pension fund or retirement system shall use the amount of the annuity or pension payment otherwise payable to that member or participant to reimburse the Department of Corrections for the cost of confinement of that participant or member, up to the amount certified by the Director of the Department of Corrections. Amends the Unified Code of Corrections. Requires the Director of the Department of Corrections to certify to the applicable pension fund or retirement system the cost of confinement for the member or participant. Amends the Code of Civil Procedure. Provides that the provisions of the Code of Civil Procedure concerning the enforcement of judgments do not preclude a pension fund or retirement system established under the Illinois Pension Code from using a member's or participant's annuity or pension to reimburse the Department of Corrections for the cost of confinement of an individual. Amends the State Mandates Act to require implementation without reimbursement by the State. Effective immediately.


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FISCAL NOTE ACT MAY APPLY
PENSION IMPACT NOTE ACT MAY APPLY
STATE MANDATES ACT MAY REQUIRE REIMBURSEMENT

 

 

A BILL FOR

 

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1    AN ACT concerning public employee benefits.
 
2    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3represented in the General Assembly:
 
4    Section 5. The Illinois Pension Code is amended by adding
5Section 1-136 as follows:
 
6    (40 ILCS 5/1-136 new)
7    Sec. 1-136. Reimbursement for the cost of confinement.
8    (a) If a member or participant is receiving an annuity or
9pension from a pension fund or retirement system established
10under this Code and is incarcerated within the Department of
11Corrections for a felony, then, after receipt of the certified
12cost of confinement as provided in subsection (d-5) of Section
133-7-6 of the Unified Code of Corrections, the board of trustees
14of that pension fund or retirement system shall use the amount
15of the annuity or pension payment that is otherwise payable to
16that member or participant to reimburse the Department of
17Corrections for the cost of confinement of that member or
18participant, up to the certified amount.
19    (b) This Section is operable to the extent allowable for
20the pension fund or retirement system to maintain qualified
21plan status under the federal Internal Revenue Code of 1986 and
22other applicable federal laws.
23    (c) This Section applies without regard to whether the

 

 

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1member or participant is in active service on or after the
2effective date of this amendatory Act of the 98th General
3Assembly.
 
4    Section 10. The Unified Code of Corrections is amended by
5changing Section 3-7-6 as follows:
 
6    (730 ILCS 5/3-7-6)  (from Ch. 38, par. 1003-7-6)
7    Sec. 3-7-6. Reimbursement for expenses.
8    (a) Responsibility of committed persons. For the purposes
9of this Section, "committed persons" mean those persons who
10through judicial determination have been placed in the custody
11of the Department on the basis of a conviction as an adult.
12Committed persons shall be responsible to reimburse the
13Department for the expenses incurred by their incarceration at
14a rate to be determined by the Department in accordance with
15this Section.
16        (1) Committed persons shall fully cooperate with the
17    Department by providing complete financial information for
18    the purposes under this Section.
19        (2) The failure of a committed person to fully
20    cooperate as provided for in clauses (3) and (4) of
21    subsection (a-5) shall be considered for purposes of a
22    parole determination. Any committed person who willfully
23    refuses to cooperate with the obligations set forth in this
24    Section may be subject to the loss of sentence credit

 

 

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1    towards his or her sentence of up to 180 days.
2    (a-5) Assets information form.
3        (1) The Department shall develop a form, which shall be
4    used by the Department to obtain information from all
5    committed persons regarding assets of the persons.
6        (2) In order to enable the Department to determine the
7    financial status of the committed person, the form shall
8    provide for obtaining the age and marital status of a
9    committed person, the number and ages of children of the
10    person, the number and ages of other dependents, the type
11    and value of real estate, the type and value of personal
12    property, cash and bank accounts, the location of any lock
13    boxes, the type and value of investments, pensions and
14    annuities and any other personalty of significant cash
15    value, including but not limited to jewelry, art work and
16    collectables, and all medical or dental insurance policies
17    covering the committed person. The form may also provide
18    for other information deemed pertinent by the Department in
19    the investigation of a committed person's assets.
20        (3) Upon being developed, the form shall be submitted
21    to each committed person as of the date the form is
22    developed and to every committed person who thereafter is
23    sentenced to imprisonment under the jurisdiction of the
24    Department. The form may be resubmitted to a committed
25    person by the Department for purpose of obtaining current
26    information regarding the assets of the person.

 

 

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1        (4) Every committed person shall complete the form or
2    provide for completion of the form and the committed person
3    shall swear under oath or affirm that to the best of his or
4    her knowledge the information provided is complete and
5    accurate.
6    (b) Expenses. The rate at which sums to be charged for the
7expenses incurred by a committed person for his or her
8confinement shall be computed by the Department as the average
9per capita cost per day for all inmates of that institution or
10facility for that fiscal year. The average per capita cost per
11day shall be computed by the Department based on the average
12per capita cost per day for the operation of that institution
13or facility for the fiscal year immediately preceding the
14period of incarceration for which the rate is being calculated.
15The Department shall establish rules and regulations providing
16for the computation of the above costs, and shall determine the
17average per capita cost per day for each of its institutions or
18facilities for each fiscal year. The Department shall have the
19power to modify its rules and regulations, so as to provide for
20the most accurate and most current average per capita cost per
21day computation. Where the committed person is placed in a
22facility outside the Department, the Department may pay the
23actual cost of services in that facility, and may collect
24reimbursement for the entire amount paid from the committed
25person receiving those services.
26    (c) Records. The records of the Department, including, but

 

 

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1not limited to, those relating to: the average per capita cost
2per day for a particular institution or facility for a
3particular year, and the calculation of the average per capita
4cost per day; the average daily population of a particular
5Department correctional institution or facility for a
6particular year; the specific placement of a particular
7committed person in various Department correctional
8institutions or facilities for various periods of time; and the
9record of transactions of a particular committed person's trust
10account under Section 3-4-3 of this Act; may be proved in any
11legal proceeding, by a reproduced copy thereof or by a computer
12printout of Department records, under the certificate of the
13Director. If reproduced copies are used, the Director must
14certify that those are true and exact copies of the records on
15file with the Department. If computer printouts of records of
16the Department are offered as proof, the Director must certify
17that those computer printouts are true and exact
18representations of records properly entered into standard
19electronic computing equipment, in the regular course of the
20Department's business, at or reasonably near the time of the
21occurrence of the facts recorded, from trustworthy and reliable
22information. The reproduced copy or computer printout shall,
23without further proof, be admitted into evidence in any legal
24proceeding, and shall be prima facie correct and prima facie
25evidence of the accuracy of the information contained therein.
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1may, when he or she knows or reasonably believes that a
2committed person, or the estate of that person, has assets
3which may be used to satisfy all or part of a judgment rendered
4under this Act, or when he or she knows or reasonably believes
5that a committed person is engaged in gang-related activity and
6has a substantial sum of money or other assets, provide for the
7forwarding to the Attorney General of a report on the committed
8person and that report shall contain a completed form under
9subsection (a-5) together with all other information available
10concerning the assets of the committed person and an estimate
11of the total expenses for that committed person, and authorize
12the Attorney General to institute proceedings to require the
13persons, or the estates of the persons, to reimburse the
14Department for the expenses incurred by their incarceration.
15The Attorney General, upon authorization of the Director, or
16the Director's designee, shall institute actions on behalf of
17the Department and pursue claims on the Department's behalf in
18probate and bankruptcy proceedings, to recover from committed
19persons the expenses incurred by their confinement. For
20purposes of this subsection (d), "gang-related" activity has
21the meaning ascribed to it in Section 10 of the Illinois
22Streetgang Terrorism Omnibus Prevention Act.
23    (d-5) The Director, or the Director's designee, must, when
24he or she knows or reasonably believes that a committed person
25is a member or participant in a pension fund or retirement
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1receiving an annuity or pension from that pension fund or
2retirement system, certify to the applicable pension fund or
3retirement system the cost of confinement for that person using
4the rate provided in subsection (b) of this Section.
5    (e) Scope and limitations.
6        (1) No action under this Section shall be initiated
7    more than 2 years after the release or death of the
8    committed person in question.
9        (2) The death of a convicted person, by execution or
10    otherwise, while committed to a Department correctional
11    institution or facility shall not act as a bar to any
12    action or proceeding under this Section.
13        (3) The assets of a committed person, for the purposes
14    of this Section, shall include any property, tangible or
15    intangible, real or personal, belonging to or due to a
16    committed or formerly committed person including income or
17    payments to the person from social security, worker's
18    compensation, veteran's compensation, pension benefits, or
19    from any other source whatsoever and any and all assets and
20    property of whatever character held in the name of the
21    person, held for the benefit of the person, or payable or
22    otherwise deliverable to the person. Any trust, or portion
23    of a trust, of which a convicted person is a beneficiary,
24    shall be construed as an asset of the person, to the extent
25    that benefits thereunder are required to be paid to the
26    person, or shall in fact be paid to the person. At the time

 

 

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1    of a legal proceeding by the Attorney General under this
2    Section, if it appears that the committed person has any
3    assets which ought to be subjected to the claim of the
4    Department under this Section, the court may issue an order
5    requiring any person, corporation, or other legal entity
6    possessed or having custody of those assets to appropriate
7    any of the assets or a portion thereof toward reimbursing
8    the Department as provided for under this Section. No
9    provision of this Section shall be construed in violation
10    of any State or federal limitation on the collection of
11    money judgments.
12        (4) Nothing in this Section shall preclude the
13    Department from applying federal benefits that are
14    specifically provided for the care and treatment of a
15    committed person toward the cost of care provided by a
16    State facility or private agency.
17(Source: P.A. 97-697, eff. 6-22-12.)
 
18    Section 15. The Code of Civil Procedure is amended by
19adding Section 12-108.5 as follows:
 
20    (735 ILCS 5/12-108.5 new)
21    Sec. 12-108.5. Reimbursement for the cost of confinement.
22Nothing contained in this Article precludes a pension fund or
23retirement system established under the Illinois Pension Code
24from using a participant's or member's annuity or pension to

 

 

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1reimburse the Department of Corrections for the cost of
2confinement as provided in Section 1-136 of the Illinois
3Pension Code.
 
4    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
5becoming law.