Illinois House Bill 5487 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: Failed on January 8 2013 - 100% progression
Action: 2013-01-08 - Session Sine Die
Text: Latest bill text (Amended) [HTML]

Amends the Unified Code of Corrections and the Illinois Marriage and Dissolution of Marriage Act. Provides that whenever the Department of Corrections is to release any inmate who has been convicted of a felony, earlier than it otherwise would because of a grant of good conduct credit, the Department shall give written notice of the impending release not less than 120 days prior to the date of the release to the victim of the offense for which the inmate was convicted and the victim's family members. Provides that a court may not award either sole custody or joint custody to a parent who has been convicted of a felony unless certain criteria are first met, including that (i) a psychological examination of the parent has been conducted by a qualified individual, and that individual is of the opinion that the parent is a fit person to raise and care for the child and (ii) the child or the child's legal guardian has consented to an award of custody to the parent. Provides that a court may not award unsupervised visitation to a parent who has been convicted of a felony unless similar criteria are first met. Provides for immediate suspension of a parent's unsupervised visitation if the child alleges that he or she has been a victim of abuse or sexual molestation perpetrated by a person in the home where the unsupervised visitation has taken place.

DCFS-CUSTODY-VISITATION-FELON

Rep. Richard Morthland [R]

Date	Chamber	Action
2013-01-08	House	Session Sine Die
2012-03-09	House	Rule 19(a) / Re-referred to Rules Committee
2012-03-09	House	House Committee Amendment No. 1 Tabled Pursuant to Rule 40
2012-03-06	House	House Committee Amendment No. 1 Rules Refers to Judiciary I - Civil Law Committee
2012-03-02	House	House Committee Amendment No. 1 Referred to Rules Committee
2012-03-02	House	House Committee Amendment No. 1 Filed with Clerk by Rep. Richard Morthland
2012-02-27	House	Assigned to Judiciary I - Civil Law Committee
2012-02-15	House	Referred to Rules Committee
2012-02-15	House	First Reading
2012-02-10	House	Filed with the Clerk by Rep. Richard Morthland

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
730	5	3-6-3	Amended Code	Citation Text
750	5	602	Amended Code	Citation Text
750	5	607	Amended Code	Citation Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.ilga.gov/legislation/BillStatus.asp?DocNum=5487&GAID=11&DocTypeID=HB&SessionID=84&GA=97
Text	https://www.ilga.gov/legislation/97/HB/09700HB5487.htm
Text	https://www.ilga.gov/legislation/97/HB/09700HB5487ham001.htm