Full Text of SB2379 103rd General Assembly
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| 1 | | AN ACT concerning State government.
| 2 | | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
| 3 | | represented in the General Assembly:
| 4 | | Section 5. The Right to Counsel in Immigration Proceedings | 5 | | Act is amended by changing Sections 1, 5, 10, 15, 20, and 99 as | 6 | | follows: | 7 | | (20 ILCS 4112/15) | 8 | | (Section scheduled to be repealed on July 1, 2024)
| 9 | | Sec. 15. Task Force on Counsel in Immigration Proceedings. | 10 | | (a) The Task Force on Counsel in Immigration Proceedings | 11 | | is established. | 12 | | (b) The Task Force shall consist of the following 7 | 13 | | members: | 14 | | (1) the Governor, or his or her designee; | 15 | | (2) the President of the Senate, or his or her | 16 | | designee; | 17 | | (3) the Minority Leader of the Senate, or his or her | 18 | | designee; | 19 | | (4) the Speaker of the House of Representatives, or | 20 | | his or her designee; | 21 | | (5) the Minority Leader of the House of | 22 | | Representatives, or his or her designee; | 23 | | (6) the Attorney General, or his or her designee; and |
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| 1 | | (7) the Secretary of Human Services, or his or her | 2 | | designee. | 3 | | (c) Members of the Task Force shall serve without | 4 | | compensation. | 5 | | (d) The Department of Human Services shall provide | 6 | | administrative and other support to the Task Force. | 7 | | (e) The Task Force shall investigate the implementation of | 8 | | universal representation for covered individuals in | 9 | | immigration removal proceedings as described in subsection (f) | 10 | | of Section 5. The Task Force investigation shall include, but | 11 | | is not limited to, the following matters: | 12 | | (1) the estimated number of covered individuals facing | 13 | | a covered proceeding; | 14 | | (2) the current infrastructure for providing | 15 | | independent, competent, and zealous legal representation | 16 | | in a covered proceeding; | 17 | | (3) the additional resources, including salaries and | 18 | | benefits for attorneys and support staff, training, | 19 | | supervision, and material resources that would need to be | 20 | | added to the existing infrastructure described in | 21 | | paragraph (2) in order to provide independent, competent, | 22 | | and zealous legal representation for the number of covered | 23 | | individuals described in paragraph (1), including | 24 | | mechanisms for subcontracted relationships with | 25 | | independent experts and social service providers; | 26 | | (4) the estimated annual cost of the additional |
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| 1 | | resources described in paragraph (3);
| 2 | | (5) funding sources, public and private, that are or | 3 | | would be available to pay for the additional resources | 4 | | described in paragraph (3); and | 5 | | (6) the estimated annual cost of bond payment support | 6 | | needed for covered individuals facing a covered | 7 | | proceeding, and the feasibility of a State-sponsored bond | 8 | | fund for those individuals. | 9 | | (f) In order for the Governor and General Assembly to | 10 | | evaluate different scopes of legal representation in | 11 | | immigration court proceedings, the Task Force investigation | 12 | | described in subsection (e) shall provide additional findings | 13 | | in the following categories: | 14 | | (1) State domiciliary versus non-State domiciliary | 15 | | covered individuals, and, among the State domiciliary | 16 | | covered individuals, the regions of residence within the | 17 | | State; | 18 | | (2) household income above and below 250% of the | 19 | | federal poverty line; | 20 | | (3) type of proceedings in which the covered | 21 | | individuals need legal representation; and | 22 | | (4) current percentages of covered individuals in | 23 | | covered proceedings with and without legal representation. | 24 | | (g) The Task Force shall submit a report of its findings in | 25 | | the investigation described in subsection (e) and its | 26 | | recommendations for how to fully provide legal representation |
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| 1 | | for covered individuals facing covered proceedings no later | 2 | | than July 1, 2024 2023 .
| 3 | | (Source: P.A. 102-827, eff. 5-13-22.) | 4 | | (20 ILCS 4112/20) | 5 | | (Section scheduled to be repealed on July 1, 2024)
| 6 | | Sec. 20. Repeal. This Act is repealed on July 1, 2025 2024 .
| 7 | | (Source: P.A. 102-827, eff. 5-13-22.)
| 8 | | Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | 9 | | becoming law.
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