98TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2013 and 2014
SB3007

 

Introduced 2/7/2014, by Sen. Don Harmon

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
725 ILCS 5/109-3.1  from Ch. 38, par. 109-3.1

    Amends the Code of Criminal Procedure of 1963. Makes a technical change in Section on time period for preliminary hearing or indictment of persons charged with felonies.


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A BILL FOR

 

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1    AN ACT concerning criminal law.
 
2    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3represented in the General Assembly:
 
4    Section 5. The Code of Criminal Procedure of 1963 is
5amended by changing Section 109-3.1 as follows:
 
6    (725 ILCS 5/109-3.1)  (from Ch. 38, par. 109-3.1)
7    Sec. 109-3.1. Persons Charged with Felonies. (a) In any
8case involving a person charged with a felony in this State,
9alleged to have been committed on or after January 1, 1984, the
10the provisions of this Section shall apply.
11    (b) Every person in custody in this State for the alleged
12commission of a felony shall receive either a preliminary
13examination as provided in Section 109-3 or an indictment by
14Grand Jury as provided in Section 111-2, within 30 days from
15the date he or she was taken into custody. Every person on bail
16or recognizance for the alleged commission of a felony shall
17receive either a preliminary examination as provided in Section
18109-3 or an indictment by Grand Jury as provided in Section
19111-2, within 60 days from the date he or she was arrested.
20The provisions of this paragraph shall not apply in the
21following situations:
22    (1) when delay is occasioned by the defendant; or
23    (2) when the defendant has been indicted by the Grand Jury

 

 

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1on the felony offense for which he or she was initially taken
2into custody or on an offense arising from the same transaction
3or conduct of the defendant that was the basis for the felony
4offense or offenses initially charged; or
5    (3) when a competency examination is ordered by the court;
6or
7    (4) when a competency hearing is held; or
8    (5) when an adjudication of incompetency for trial has been
9made; or
10    (6) when the case has been continued by the court under
11Section 114-4 of this Code after a determination that the
12defendant is physically incompetent to stand trial.
13    (c) Delay occasioned by the defendant shall temporarily
14suspend, for the time of the delay, the period within which the
15preliminary examination must be held. On the day of expiration
16of the delay the period in question shall continue at the point
17at which it was suspended.
18(Source: P.A. 83-644.)