Full Text of HB5363 103rd General Assembly
HB5363 103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY | | | 103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2023 and 2024 HB5363 Introduced 2/9/2024, by Rep. Dave Vella SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED: | | 730 ILCS 110/9b | from Ch. 38, par. 204-1b | 730 ILCS 110/9c new | |
| Amends the Probation and Probation Officers Act. Provides that in the supervision of offenders and defendants, probation officers shall use evidence-based practices. Defines "evidence-based practices". |
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| 1 | | AN ACT concerning criminal law. | 2 | | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, | 3 | | represented in the General Assembly: | 4 | | Section 5. The Probation and Probation Officers Act is | 5 | | amended by changing Section 9b and by adding Section 9c as | 6 | | follows: | 7 | | (730 ILCS 110/9b) (from Ch. 38, par. 204-1b) | 8 | | Sec. 9b. For the purposes of this Act, the words and | 9 | | phrases described in this Section have the meanings designated | 10 | | in this Section, except when a particular context clearly | 11 | | requires a different meaning. | 12 | | (1) "Division" means the Division of Probation Services of | 13 | | the Supreme Court. | 14 | | (2) "Department" means a probation or court services | 15 | | department that provides probation or court services and such | 16 | | other related services assigned to it by the circuit court or | 17 | | by law. | 18 | | (3) "Probation Officer" means a person employed full time | 19 | | in a probation or court services department or a person | 20 | | employed full-time or part-time as a detention officer | 21 | | providing services to a court under this Act or the Juvenile | 22 | | Court Act of 1987. A probation officer includes detention | 23 | | staff, non-secure group home staff and management personnel |
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| 1 | | who meet minimum standards established by the Supreme Court | 2 | | and who are hired under the direction of the circuit court. | 3 | | These probation officers are judicial employees designated on | 4 | | a circuit wide or county basis and compensated by the | 5 | | appropriate county board or boards. | 6 | | (4) "Basic Services" means the number of personnel | 7 | | determined by the Division as necessary to comply with adult, | 8 | | juvenile, and detention services workload standards and to | 9 | | operate authorized programs of intermediate sanctions, | 10 | | intensive probation supervision, public or community service, | 11 | | intake services, secure detention services, non-secure group | 12 | | home services and home confinement. | 13 | | (5) "New or Expanded Services" means personnel necessary | 14 | | to operate pretrial programs, victim and restitution programs, | 15 | | psychological services, drunk driving programs, specialized | 16 | | caseloads, community resource coordination programs, and other | 17 | | programs designed to generally improve the quality of | 18 | | probation and court services. | 19 | | (6) "Individualized Services and Programs" means | 20 | | individualized services provided through purchase of service | 21 | | agreements with individuals, specialists, and local public or | 22 | | private agencies providing non-residential services for the | 23 | | rehabilitation of adult and juvenile offenders as an | 24 | | alternative to local or state incarceration. | 25 | | (7) "Jurisdiction" means the geographical area of | 26 | | authority of a probation department as designated by the chief |
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| 1 | | judge of each circuit court under Section 15 of this Act. | 2 | | (8) "Transfer case" means any case where an adult or | 3 | | juvenile offender seeks to have supervision transferred from | 4 | | one county to another or from another state to a county in | 5 | | Illinois, and the transfer is approved by a judicial officer, | 6 | | a department, or through an interstate compact. | 7 | | (9) "Evidence-based practices" means any procedures, | 8 | | practices or methods of supervision that have been studied and | 9 | | reviewed with an emphasis on such practices that enable | 10 | | probation officers to improve the outcomes when applied in | 11 | | their supervision of offenders and defendants. | 12 | | (Source: P.A. 102-699, eff. 4-19-22.) | 13 | | (730 ILCS 110/9c new) | 14 | | Sec. 9c. Evidence-based practices. In the supervision of | 15 | | offenders and defendants, probation officers shall use | 16 | | evidence-based practices. |
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