SB1509enr 94TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

SB1509 Enrolled LRB094 05642 RLC 35691 b

AN ACT concerning criminal law.

Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly:

Section 5. The County Jail Act is amended by changing Section 5 as follows:

(730 ILCS 125/5) (from Ch. 75, par. 105)

Sec. 5. Costs of maintaining prisoners.

(a) Except as provided in subsection (b), all costs of maintaining persons committed for violations of Illinois law, shall be the responsibility of the county. Except as provided in subsection (b), all costs of maintaining persons committed under any ordinance or resolution of a unit of local government, including medical costs, is the responsibility of the unit of local government enacting the ordinance or resolution, and arresting the person.

(b) If a person who has been convicted of a felony and has violated mandatory supervised release for that felony is incarcerated in a county jail pending the resolution of the violation of mandatory supervised release, the Illinois Department of Corrections shall pay the county in which that jail is located one-half of the cost of incarceration, as calculated by the Governor's Office of Management and Budget and the county's chief financial officer, for each day that the person remains in the county jail. Calculation of the per diem cost shall be agreed upon prior to the passage of the annual State budget.

(Source: P.A. 83-1073.)