Full Text of SB2563 99th General Assembly
SB2563sam001 99TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY | Sen. Thomas Cullerton Filed: 3/8/2016
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| 1 | | AMENDMENT TO SENATE BILL 2563
| 2 | | AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend Senate Bill 2563 by replacing | 3 | | everything after the enacting clause with the following:
| 4 | | "Section 5. The Jury Act is amended by changing Section | 5 | | 10.2 and by adding Section 10.5 as follows:
| 6 | | (705 ILCS 305/10.2) (from Ch. 78, par. 10.2)
| 7 | | Sec. 10.2. Excusing prospective jurors; hardship.
| 8 | | (a) The county boards of the respective counties, the jury
| 9 | | commissioners for those counties which have been appointed | 10 | | under the Jury
Commission Act,
or a jury administrator
shall | 11 | | submit
questionnaires to prospective jurors to inquire as to | 12 | | their qualifications
for jury service and as to the hardship | 13 | | that jury service would pose to the
prospective jurors. Upon | 14 | | prior approval by the chief judge of the judicial
circuits in | 15 | | which a county board, jury administrator,
or jury commissioners | 16 | | are situated, the
county board, jury administrator,
or jury |
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| 1 | | commissioners shall excuse a prospective juror from jury
| 2 | | service if the prospective juror shows that such
service would | 3 | | impose an undue hardship
on account of the nature of the | 4 | | prospective juror's occupation, business
affairs, physical | 5 | | health, family situation, active duty in the Illinois
National | 6 | | Guard or Illinois Naval Militia, or other personal affairs, and
| 7 | | cause his or her name to be returned to the jury list or | 8 | | general jury list.
| 9 | | (b) When an undue hardship caused by a family situation is | 10 | | due to the
prospective juror being the primary care giver of a | 11 | | person with a mental or
physical disability, a person with a | 12 | | medically diagnosed behavior problem, or a
child under age 12, | 13 | | then the county board, jury commissioners or jury
administrator | 14 | | shall excuse such a prospective juror, if it finds that no
| 15 | | reasonable alternative care is feasible which would not impose | 16 | | an undue
hardship on the prospective juror or the person for | 17 | | whom the prospective juror
is providing care, or both.
| 18 | | (Source: P.A. 90-482, eff. 1-1-98; 91-264, eff. 7-23-99.)
| 19 | | (705 ILCS 305/10.5 new) | 20 | | Sec. 10.5. Servicemembers. Any active member of the United | 21 | | States Armed Forces, Illinois National Guard, or Illinois Naval | 22 | | Militia shall, upon request, be excused from jury service.
| 23 | | Section 10. The Jury Commission Act is amended by adding | 24 | | Section 10.6 as follows: |
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| 1 | | (705 ILCS 310/10.6 new) | 2 | | Sec. 10.6. Servicemembers. Any active member of the United | 3 | | States Armed Forces, Illinois National Guard, or Illinois Naval | 4 | | Militia shall, upon request, be excused from jury service. ".
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