Full Text of SB2116 102nd General Assembly
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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 Re-Entering Citizens Civics Education Act | 5 | | is amended by changing Sections 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, and 35 | 6 | | and by adding Section 21 as follows: | 7 | | (730 ILCS 200/5)
| 8 | | Sec. 5. Definitions. In this Act: | 9 | | "Co-facilitators" means a committed person at the | 10 | | Department of Juvenile Justice who is specifically trained in | 11 | | voting rights education, who shall assist in conducting voting | 12 | | and civics education workshops for committed persons at the | 13 | | Department of Juvenile Justice who are scheduled for discharge | 14 | | within 12 months. | 15 | | "Committed person" means a person committed and confined | 16 | | to and in the physical custody of the Department of | 17 | | Corrections or the Department of Juvenile Justice . | 18 | | "Commitment" means a judicially determined placement in | 19 | | the physical custody of the Department of Corrections or the | 20 | | Department of Juvenile Justice on the basis of conviction or | 21 | | delinquency. | 22 | | "Correctional institution or facility" means a Department | 23 | | of Corrections or Department of Juvenile Justice building or |
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| 1 | | part of a Department of Corrections or Department of Juvenile | 2 | | Justice building where committed persons are detained in a | 3 | | secure manner.
| 4 | | "Department" includes the Department of Corrections and | 5 | | the Department of Juvenile Justice, unless the text solely | 6 | | specifies a particular Department. | 7 | | "Detainee" means a committed person in the physical | 8 | | custody of the Department of Corrections or the Department of | 9 | | Juvenile Justice. | 10 | | "Director" includes the Directors Director of the | 11 | | Department of Corrections and the Department of Juvenile | 12 | | Justice unless the text solely specifies a particular | 13 | | Director. | 14 | | "Discharge" means the end of a sentence or the final | 15 | | termination of a committed person's detainee's physical | 16 | | commitment to and confinement in the Department of | 17 | | Corrections . Discharge means the end of a sentence or the | 18 | | final termination of a committed person's physical commitment | 19 | | to and confinement in the or Department of Juvenile Justice. | 20 | | "Peer educator" means an incarcerated citizen at the | 21 | | Department of Corrections who is specifically trained in | 22 | | voting rights education, who shall conduct voting and civics | 23 | | education workshops for committed persons at the Department of | 24 | | Corrections who are detainees scheduled for discharge within | 25 | | 12 months. | 26 | | "Program" means the nonpartisan peer education and |
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| 1 | | information instruction established by this Act. | 2 | | "Re-entering citizen" means any United States citizen who | 3 | | is: 17 years of age or older; in the physical custody of the | 4 | | Department of Corrections or Department of Juvenile Justice; | 5 | | and scheduled to be re-entering society within 12 months.
| 6 | | (Source: P.A. 101-441, eff. 1-1-20; revised 8-19-20.) | 7 | | (730 ILCS 200/10)
| 8 | | Sec. 10. Purpose; program.
The Department of Corrections | 9 | | and the Department of Juvenile Justice shall provide a | 10 | | nonpartisan peer-led civics program throughout the | 11 | | correctional institutions of this State to teach civics to | 12 | | soon-to-be released citizens who will be re-entering society. | 13 | | The goal of the program is to promote the successful | 14 | | integration of re-entering citizens, promote democracy, and | 15 | | reduce rates of recidivism within this State. For young people | 16 | | in particular, the study of civics helps people acquire and | 17 | | learn to use the skills, knowledge, and attitudes that will | 18 | | prepare them to be engaged citizens throughout their lives. | 19 | | This program shall coincide with and enhance existing laws to | 20 | | ensure that re-entering citizens understand their civic | 21 | | responsibility and know how to secure or , if applicable, | 22 | | regain their right to vote as part of the exit process.
| 23 | | (Source: P.A. 101-441, eff. 1-1-20 .) | 24 | | (730 ILCS 200/15)
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| 1 | | Sec. 15. Curriculum and eligibility. The civics peer | 2 | | education program shall consist of a rigorous curriculum, and | 3 | | participants shall be instructed on subjects including, but | 4 | | not limited to, voting rights, governmental institutions, | 5 | | current affairs, and simulations of voter registration, | 6 | | election, and democratic processes. Each workshop held at the | 7 | | Department of Corrections shall consist of 3 sessions that are | 8 | | 90 minutes each and that do not need to be taken consecutively. | 9 | | The workshops held at the Department of Juvenile Justice shall | 10 | | consist of 270 minutes of instruction. The Department of | 11 | | Corrections and the Department of Juvenile Justice The | 12 | | Department must offer re-entering citizens scheduled to be | 13 | | discharged within 12 months with the civics peer education | 14 | | program, and each re-entering citizen must enroll in the | 15 | | program one to 12 months prior to his or her expected date of | 16 | | release. This workshop must be included in the standard exit | 17 | | process. The Department of Corrections and the Department of | 18 | | Juvenile Justice The Department should aim to include this
| 19 | | workshop in conjunction with other pre-release procedures and | 20 | | movements. Delays in a workshop being provided shall not cause | 21 | | delays in discharge. Committed persons Detainees may not be | 22 | | prevented from attending workshops due to staffing shortages, | 23 | | lockdowns, or to conflicts with family or legal visits, court | 24 | | dates, medical appointments, commissary visits, recreational | 25 | | sessions, dining, work, class, or bathing schedules. In case | 26 | | of conflict or staffing shortages, re-entering citizens must |
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| 1 | | be given full opportunity to attend a workshop at a later time.
| 2 | | (Source: P.A. 101-441, eff. 1-1-20 .) | 3 | | (730 ILCS 200/20)
| 4 | | Sec. 20. Peer educator training. The civics peer | 5 | | education program shall be taught by peer educators who are | 6 | | citizens incarcerated in Department of Corrections and | 7 | | Department of Juvenile Justice facilities and specially | 8 | | trained by experienced peer educators and established | 9 | | nonpartisan civic organizations. Established nonpartisan civic
| 10 | | organizations may be assisted by area political science or | 11 | | civics educators at colleges,
universities, and high schools | 12 | | and by nonpartisan organizations providing re-entry services. | 13 | | The nonpartisan civic organizations shall provide adequate | 14 | | training to peer educators on matters including, but not | 15 | | limited to, voting rights, governmental institutions, current | 16 | | affairs, and simulations of voter registration, election, and | 17 | | democratic processes, and shall provide periodic updates to | 18 | | program content and to peer educators.
| 19 | | (Source: P.A. 101-441, eff. 1-1-20 .) | 20 | | (730 ILCS 200/21 new) | 21 | | Sec. 21. Co-facilitator training. The civics education | 22 | | program in the Department of Juvenile Justice shall be taught | 23 | | using 2 co-facilitators. One of the co-facilitators shall be a | 24 | | member of an established nonpartisan civic organization and |
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| 1 | | the other co-facilitator shall be a committed person at the | 2 | | Department of Juvenile Justice who is specifically trained in | 3 | | voting rights education and who has been trained by an | 4 | | established nonpartisan civic organization. The organization | 5 | | providing training may be assisted by area political science | 6 | | or civics educators at colleges, universities, and high | 7 | | schools and by nonpartisan organizations providing re-entry | 8 | | services. The nonpartisan civic organizations shall provide | 9 | | adequate training to both co-facilitators on the civics and | 10 | | voting rights curriculum. | 11 | | (730 ILCS 200/25)
| 12 | | Sec. 25. Voter and civic education program; content. | 13 | | (a) Program content shall provide the following: | 14 | | (1) nonpartisan information on voting history | 15 | | procedures; | 16 | | (2) nonpartisan definitions of local, State, and | 17 | | federal governmental
institutions and offices; and | 18 | | (3) examples and simulations of registration and | 19 | | voting processes , and access to voter registration and | 20 | | voting processes for those individuals who are eligible to | 21 | | vote . | 22 | | (b) Established nonpartisan civic organizations shall | 23 | | provide periodic updates to program content and, if | 24 | | applicable, peer educators and co-facilitators . Updates shall | 25 | | reflect major relevant changes to election laws and processes |
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| 1 | | in Illinois. | 2 | | (c) Program content shall be delivered in the following | 3 | | manners: | 4 | | (1) verbally via peer educators and co-facilitators ; | 5 | | (2) broadcasts via Department of Corrections and | 6 | | Department of Juvenile Justice internal television | 7 | | channels; or | 8 | | (3) printed information packets. | 9 | | (d) Peer educators and co-facilitators shall disseminate | 10 | | printed information for voting in the releasee's county, | 11 | | including, but not limited to, election authorities' | 12 | | addresses, all applicable Internet websites, and public | 13 | | contact information for all election authorities. This | 14 | | information shall be compiled into a civics handbook. The | 15 | | handbook shall also include key information condensed into a | 16 | | pocket information card. | 17 | | (e) This information shall also be compiled electronically | 18 | | and posted on Department of Corrections' and Department of | 19 | | Juvenile Justice's website along with the Department of | 20 | | Corrections' Community Support Advisory Councils websites. | 21 | | (f) Department Directors shall ensure that the wardens or | 22 | | superintendents of all correctional institutions and | 23 | | facilities visibly post this information on all common areas | 24 | | of their respective institutions, and shall broadcast the same | 25 | | via in-house institutional information television channels. | 26 | | Directors shall ensure that updated information is distributed |
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| 1 | | in a timely, visible, and accessible manner. | 2 | | (g) The Director of Corrections shall order, in a clearly | 3 | | visible area of each parole office within this State, the | 4 | | posting of a notice stipulating voter eligibility and that | 5 | | contains the current Internet website address and voter | 6 | | registration information provided by State Board of Elections | 7 | | regarding voting rights for citizens released from the | 8 | | physical custody of the Department of Corrections and the | 9 | | Department of Juvenile Justice . | 10 | | (h) All program content and materials shall be distributed | 11 | | annually to the Community Support Advisory Councils of the | 12 | | Department of Corrections for use in re-entry programs across | 13 | | this State.
| 14 | | (Source: P.A. 101-441, eff. 1-1-20 .) | 15 | | (730 ILCS 200/30)
| 16 | | Sec. 30. Power of the Departments Department . The | 17 | | Department of Corrections and the Department of Juvenile | 18 | | Justice shall adopt rules to carry out this Act within 6 months | 19 | | after the effective date of this Act.
| 20 | | (Source: P.A. 101-441, eff. 1-1-20 .) | 21 | | (730 ILCS 200/35)
| 22 | | Sec. 35. Funding. The funding for the voting rights and | 23 | | registration peer education program shall be subject to | 24 | | appropriation by the General Assembly. The Department of |
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| 1 | | Corrections and the Department of Juvenile Justice may use | 2 | | private or federal funding to administer the program, | 3 | | including, but not limited to, funds from the United States | 4 | | Department of Justice.
| 5 | | (Source: P.A. 101-441, eff. 1-1-20 .)
| 6 | | Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect January | 7 | | 1, 2022.
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