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Public Act 099-0255


 

Public Act 0255 99TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

  
  
  

 


 
Public Act 099-0255
 
HB3141 EnrolledLRB099 10706 RLC 30982 b

    AN ACT concerning criminal law.
 
    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
 
    Section 5. The Unified Code of Corrections is amended by
changing Sections 3-2.5-65 and 3-5-3.1 and by adding Section
3-2.5-61 as follows:
 
    (730 ILCS 5/3-2.5-61 new)
    Sec. 3-2.5-61. Annual and other reports.
    (a) The Director shall make an annual report to the
Governor and General Assembly concerning persons committed to
the Department, its institutions, facilities, and programs, of
all moneys expended and received, and on what accounts expended
and received no later than January 1 of each year. The report
shall include the ethnic and racial background data, not
identifiable to an individual, of all persons committed to the
Department, its institutions, facilities, programs, and
outcome measures established with the Juvenile Advisory Board.
    (b) The Department of Juvenile Justice shall, by January 1,
April 1, July 1, and October 1 of each year, transmit to the
Governor and General Assembly, a report which shall include the
following information:
        (1) the number of youth in each of the Department's
    facilities and the number of youth on aftercare;
        (2) the demographics of sex, age, race and ethnicity,
    classification of offense, and geographic location where
    the offense occurred;
        (3) the educational and vocational programs provided
    at each facility and the number of residents participating
    in each program;
        (4) the present capacity levels in each facility; and
        (5) the ratio of the security staff to residents in
    each facility by federal Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA)
    definitions.
 
    (730 ILCS 5/3-2.5-65)
    Sec. 3-2.5-65. Juvenile Advisory Board.
    (a) There is created a Juvenile Advisory Board composed of
11 persons, appointed by the Governor to advise the Director on
matters pertaining to juvenile offenders. The members of the
Board shall be qualified for their positions by demonstrated
interest in and knowledge of juvenile correctional work
consistent with the definition of purpose and mission of the
Department in Section 3-2.5-5 and shall not be officials of the
State in any other capacity. The members under this amendatory
Act of the 94th General Assembly shall be appointed as soon as
possible after the effective date of this amendatory Act of the
94th General Assembly and be appointed to staggered terms 3
each expiring in 2007, 2008, and 2009 and 2 of the members'
terms expiring in 2010. Thereafter all members will serve for a
term of 6 years, except that members shall continue to serve
until their replacements are appointed. Any vacancy occurring
shall be filled in the same manner for the remainder of the
term. The Director of Juvenile Justice shall be an ex officio
member of the Board. The Board shall elect a chair from among
its appointed members. The Director shall serve as secretary of
the Board. Members of the Board shall serve without
compensation but shall be reimbursed for expenses necessarily
incurred in the performance of their duties. The Board shall
meet quarterly and at other times at the call of the chair.
    (b) The Board shall:
        (1) Advise the Director concerning policy matters and
    programs of the Department with regard to the custody,
    care, study, discipline, training, and treatment of
    juveniles in the State juvenile correctional institutions
    and for the care and supervision of juveniles on aftercare
    release.
        (2) Establish, with the Director and in conjunction
    with the Office of the Governor, outcome measures for the
    Department in order to ascertain that it is successfully
    fulfilling the mission mandated in Section 3-2.5-5 of this
    Code. The annual results of the Department's work as
    defined by those measures shall be approved by the Board
    and shall be included in an annual report transmitted to
    the Governor and General Assembly jointly by the Director
    and the Board.
(Source: P.A. 98-558, eff. 1-1-14.)
 
    (730 ILCS 5/3-5-3.1)  (from Ch. 38, par. 1003-5-3.1)
    Sec. 3-5-3.1. As used in this Section, "facility" includes
any facility of the Department of Corrections and any facility
of the Department of Juvenile Justice.
    The Department of Corrections and the Department of
Juvenile Justice shall each, by January 1st, April 1st, July
1st, and October 1st of each year, transmit to the General
Assembly, a report which shall include the following
information reflecting the period ending fifteen days prior to
the submission of the report: 1) the number of residents in all
Department facilities indicating the number of residents in
each listed facility; 2) a classification of each facility's
residents by the nature of the offense for which each resident
was committed to the Department; 3) the number of residents in
maximum, medium, and minimum security facilities indicating
the classification of each facility's residents by the nature
of the offense for which each resident was committed to the
Department; 4) the educational and vocational programs
provided at each facility and the number of residents
participating in each such program; 5) the present capacity
levels in each facility; 6) the projected capacity of each
facility six months and one year following each reporting date;
7) the ratio of the security guards to residents in each
facility; 8) the ratio of total employees to residents in each
facility; 9) the number of residents in each facility that are
single-celled and the number in each facility that are
double-celled; 10) information indicating the distribution of
residents in each facility by the allocated floor space per
resident; 11) a status of all capital projects currently funded
by the Department, location of each capital project, the
projected on-line dates for each capital project, including
phase-in dates and full occupancy dates; 12) the projected
adult prison facility populations of in respect to the
Department of Corrections and the projected juvenile facility
population with respect to the Department of Juvenile Justice
for each of the succeeding twelve months following each
reporting date, indicating all assumptions built into such
population estimates; 13) the projected exits and projected
admissions in each facility for each of the succeeding twelve
months following each reporting date, indicating all
assumptions built into such population estimate; and 14) the
locations of all Department-operated or contractually operated
community correctional centers, including the present capacity
and population levels at each facility.
(Source: P.A. 97-1083, eff. 8-24-12.)

Effective Date: 1/1/2016