For additional roll call votes on Illinois HB5441 please see the Vote List

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Bill Title: Amends State Appellate Defender Act. Deletes the discretionary duty of the State Appellate Defender to provide assistance to trial counsel in capital cases. Adds the discretionary duty to provide training, assistance of expert witnesses, and investigators to public defenders from funds appropriated for those purposes. Prohibits the State Appellate Defender from being appointed as trial counsel. Deletes authority of investigators for the Capital Trial Assistance Unit and Capital Post Conviction Unit to access the Law Enforcement Agencies Data System (LEADS) for witness background checks. Deletes the authority for the State Appellate Defender to request appropriations from the Capital Litigation Trust Fund for capital case expenses in assisting trial counsel, representing petitioners in post-conviction proceedings, and in defending cases in counties other than Cook County. Effective immediately. [Track Bill]

Status: 2012-08-17 - Public Act . . . . . . . . . 97-1003 [HB5441 Detail]

Text: Latest bill text (Chaptered) [HTML]

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Vote: Third Reading in House

Yea: 77
Nay: 32
NV: 0
Absent: 2

Result: Passed

Name	Yea	Nay	Not Voting	Absent
Rep. Acevedo
Rep. Arroyo
Rep. Beiser
Rep. Bellock
Rep. Berrios
Rep. Biss
Rep. Bost
Rep. Bradley
Rep. Brady
Rep. Brauer
Rep. Brown
Rep. Burke, J.
Rep. Burke, K.
Rep. Camille Lilly
Rep. Carli
Rep. Cassidy
Rep. Cavaletto
Rep. Chris Nybo
Rep. Coladipietro
Rep. Cole
Rep. Colvin
Rep. Connelly
Rep. Costello
Rep. Crespo
Rep. Cross
Rep. Cunningham
Rep. Currie
Rep. D'Amico
Rep. Davis
Rep. Davis
Rep. DeLuca
Rep. DuBuclet
Rep. Dugan
Rep. Dunkin
Rep. Durkin
Rep. Evans
Rep. Farnham
Rep. Feigenholtz
Rep. Flowers
Rep. Ford
Rep. Fortner
Rep. Franks
Rep. Gabel
Rep. Gaffney
Rep. Golar
Rep. Hammond
Rep. Harris, D.
Rep. Harris, G.
Rep. Hatcher
Rep. Hays
Rep. Hernandez
Rep. Howard
Rep. Jackson
Rep. Jakobsson
Rep. Jason Barickman
Rep. Jefferson
Rep. Kay
Rep. Kosel
Rep. Krezwick
Rep. Lang
Rep. LaVia
Rep. Leitch
Rep. Lyons
Rep. Madigan
Rep. Mathias
Rep. Mautino
Rep. May
Rep. Mayfield
Rep. McAsey
Rep. McGuire
Rep. Mell
Rep. Mitchell
Rep. Moffitt
Rep. Morrison
Rep. Morthland
Rep. Mulligan
Rep. Mussman
Rep. Nekritz
Rep. Osmond
Rep. Penny
Rep. Phelps
Rep. Pihos
Rep. Poe
Rep. Pritchard
Rep. Reboletti
Rep. Reis
Rep. Riley
Rep. Rita
Rep. Rosenthal
Rep. Roth
Rep. Sacia
Rep. Saviano
Rep. Schmitz
Rep. Senger
Rep. Sente
Rep. Smith
Rep. Sommer
Rep. Sosnowski
Rep. Soto
Rep. Sullivan
Rep. Thaddeus Jones
Rep. Thapedi
Rep. Tryon
Rep. Turner
Rep. Unes
Rep. Verschoore
Rep. Watson
Rep. Williams
Rep. Winters
Rep. Yarbrough
Rep. Zalewski