Full Text of HB3124 101st General Assembly
HB3124 101ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY |
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State of Illinois
2019 and 2020 HB3124 Introduced , by Rep. Justin Slaughter SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED: |
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730 ILCS 5/3-4-1 | from Ch. 38, par. 1003-4-1 |
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Amends the Unified Code of Corrections. Provides that a person committed to the Department of Corrections or the Department of Juvenile Justice may not be charged for making a telephone call from an institution or facility of the Department.
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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 Unified Code of Corrections is amended by | 5 | | changing Section 3-4-1 as follows:
| 6 | | (730 ILCS 5/3-4-1) (from Ch. 38, par. 1003-4-1)
| 7 | | Sec. 3-4-1.
Gifts and Grants; Special Trusts Funds; | 8 | | Department of
Corrections Reimbursement and Education Fund.
| 9 | | (a) The Department may accept, receive and use, for and in | 10 | | behalf of the
State, any moneys, goods or services given for | 11 | | general purposes of this
Code by the federal government or from | 12 | | any other source, public
or private, including collections from | 13 | | inmates, and reimbursement of payments
under the Workers' | 14 | | Compensation Act , and commissions from inmate collect call
| 15 | | telephone systems under an agreement with the Department of | 16 | | Central Management
Services . For these purposes the Department | 17 | | may comply with such
conditions and enter into such agreements | 18 | | upon such covenants, terms, and
conditions as the Department | 19 | | may deem necessary or desirable, if the
agreement is not in | 20 | | conflict with State law.
| 21 | | (a-5) A person committed to the Department of Corrections | 22 | | or the Department of Juvenile Justice may not be charged for | 23 | | making a telephone call from an institution or facility of the |
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| 1 | | Department. Beginning January 1, 2018, the Department of | 2 | | Central Management Services shall contract with the
qualified | 3 | | vendor who proposes the lowest per minute rate not exceeding 7 | 4 | | cents per minute for
debit, prepaid, collect calls and who does | 5 | | not bill to any party any tax, service charge, or additional | 6 | | fee
exceeding the per minute rate, including, but not limited | 7 | | to, any per call surcharge, account set up
fee, bill statement | 8 | | fee, monthly account maintenance charge, or refund fee as | 9 | | established by the
Federal Communications Commission Order for | 10 | | state prisons in the Matter of Rates for Interstate
Inmate | 11 | | Calling Services, Second Report and Order, WC Docket 12-375, | 12 | | FCC 15-136 (adopted Oct. 22,
2015). Telephone services made | 13 | | available through a prepaid or collect call system shall
| 14 | | include international calls; those calls shall be made | 15 | | available at reasonable rates subject to Federal
| 16 | | Communications Commission rules and regulations, but not to | 17 | | exceed 23 cents per minute. This amendatory Act of the 99th | 18 | | General Assembly applies to any new or renewal contract for | 19 | | inmate calling services. | 20 | | (b) On July 1, 1998, the Department of Corrections | 21 | | Reimbursement Fund
and the Department of Corrections Education | 22 | | Fund shall be combined into a
single fund to be known as the | 23 | | Department of Corrections Reimbursement and
Education Fund, | 24 | | which is hereby created as a special fund in the State
| 25 | | Treasury. The moneys deposited into the Department of | 26 | | Corrections
Reimbursement and Education Fund shall be |
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| 1 | | appropriated to the
Department of Corrections for the expenses | 2 | | of the Department.
| 3 | | The following shall be deposited into the Department of | 4 | | Corrections
Reimbursement and Education Fund:
| 5 | | (i) Moneys received or recovered by the Department of | 6 | | Corrections as
reimbursement for expenses incurred for the | 7 | | incarceration of committed persons.
| 8 | | (ii) Moneys received or recovered by the Department as | 9 | | reimbursement
of payments made under the Workers' | 10 | | Compensation Act.
| 11 | | (iii) (Blank). Moneys received by the Department as | 12 | | commissions from inmate
collect call telephone systems.
| 13 | | (iv) Moneys received or recovered by the Department as | 14 | | reimbursement for
expenses incurred by the employment of | 15 | | persons referred to the Department as
participants in the | 16 | | federal Job Training Partnership Act programs.
| 17 | | (v) Federal moneys, including reimbursement and | 18 | | advances for
services rendered or to be rendered and moneys | 19 | | for other than educational
purposes, under grant or | 20 | | contract.
| 21 | | (vi) Moneys identified for deposit into the Fund under | 22 | | Section 13-44.4
of the School Code.
| 23 | | (vii) Moneys in the Department of Corrections | 24 | | Reimbursement Fund and
the Department of Corrections | 25 | | Education Fund at the close of business
on June 30, 1998.
| 26 | | (Source: P.A. 99-878, eff. 1-1-17 .)
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