Bill Amendment: IL HB4828 | 2023-2024 | 103rd General Assembly
NOTE: For additional amemendments please see the Bill Drafting List
Bill Title: ISOLATED CONFINEMENT RESTRICT
Status: 2025-03-21 - Effective Date March 21, 2025 [HB4828 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2023-HB4828-House_Amendment_001.html
Bill Title: ISOLATED CONFINEMENT RESTRICT
Status: 2025-03-21 - Effective Date March 21, 2025 [HB4828 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2023-HB4828-House_Amendment_001.html
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| 1 | AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 4828 | ||||||
| 2 | AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 4828 by replacing | ||||||
| 3 | everything after the enacting clause with the following:
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| 4 | "Section 1. Short title. This Act may be cited as the | ||||||
| 5 | Restrictive Housing Data Publication and Verification Act.
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| 6 | Section 5. Data publication. | ||||||
| 7 | (a) Definition. In this Act: | ||||||
| 8 | "Restrictive housing" includes the confinement statutes | ||||||
| 9 | currently designated in Department of Corrections rules and | ||||||
| 10 | administrative directives as "Restrictive Housing, | ||||||
| 11 | Administrative Detention, Investigatory Status, Disciplinary | ||||||
| 12 | Segregation and Temporary Confinement", as well as any similar | ||||||
| 13 | designations used by the Department in the future. | ||||||
| 14 | (b) Quarterly reports. Beginning on January 1, 2025, the | ||||||
| 15 | Department of Corrections shall post quarterly reports on the | ||||||
| 16 | use of restrictive housing on the Department's official | ||||||
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| 1 | website. Those reports shall include: | ||||||
| 2 | (1) data, both aggregated and disaggregated by | ||||||
| 3 | facility, regarding individuals placed in restrictive | ||||||
| 4 | housing during the prior quarter by age, sex, gender | ||||||
| 5 | identity, ethnicity, whether the individuals were | ||||||
| 6 | designated Serious Mental Illness (SMI) at the time of the | ||||||
| 7 | conduct that led to their placement in restrictive | ||||||
| 8 | housing, the type of confinement status, and both the | ||||||
| 9 | total length and the length for the prior 12 months that | ||||||
| 10 | the person spent and was sentenced to restrictive housing. | ||||||
| 11 | Such data shall also include the charge or charges that | ||||||
| 12 | resulted in restrictive housing and a description of the | ||||||
| 13 | activity that formed the basis of the charge; | ||||||
| 14 | (2) the population of each restrictive housing unit on | ||||||
| 15 | the last day of each quarter and a non-duplicative | ||||||
| 16 | cumulative count of persons confined to restrictive | ||||||
| 17 | housing for the previous 12 months; | ||||||
| 18 | (3) the conduct that led to their placement in | ||||||
| 19 | restrictive housing and incidences of emergency | ||||||
| 20 | confinement, self-harm, suicide, and assault in any | ||||||
| 21 | restrictive housing unit; | ||||||
| 22 | (4) the number of facility wide lockdowns at each | ||||||
| 23 | facility for the prior quarter and an explanation of the | ||||||
| 24 | reason for each such lockdown; | ||||||
| 25 | (5) data on access to health care, including the | ||||||
| 26 | amount of time it takes for a person in restrictive | ||||||
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| 1 | housing to see a physician after requesting to see a | ||||||
| 2 | physician, how many times a person sees a nurse or other | ||||||
| 3 | medical staff before seeing the physician, whether it is a | ||||||
| 4 | medical emergency, and the time between routine medical | ||||||
| 5 | and physical checkups; | ||||||
| 6 | (6) the number of grievances filed appealing placement | ||||||
| 7 | in restrictive housing, disaggregated by race, gender, | ||||||
| 8 | age, and reason for placement; and | ||||||
| 9 | (7) the number of alternative programs to restrictive | ||||||
| 10 | housing available by facility, the frequency of their use, | ||||||
| 11 | and their attendance by committed persons, disaggregated | ||||||
| 12 | by race, gender, age, and reason for placement, utilized | ||||||
| 13 | in response, or as an alternative to, restrictive housing. | ||||||
| 14 | These reports shall not include personally identifiable | ||||||
| 15 | information regarding any committed person. | ||||||
| 16 | (c) Annual reports. Beginning on January 1, 2025, the | ||||||
| 17 | Department of Corrections shall compile an annual report | ||||||
| 18 | summarizing the data collected under this Section and shall | ||||||
| 19 | submit the annual report to the Governor and the General | ||||||
| 20 | Assembly, and shall make the annual report available to the | ||||||
| 21 | public. This report shall be made available on the Department | ||||||
| 22 | of Corrections website, beginning January 1, 2025.
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| 23 | Section 10. Verification of data accuracy. | ||||||
| 24 | (a) The Department of Corrections shall implement | ||||||
| 25 | procedures to ensure the accuracy and reliability of the data | ||||||
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