Illinois House Bill 5719 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: Failed on January 8 2013 - 100% progression
Action: 2013-01-08 - Session Sine Die
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

Creates the Prisoner Census Adjustment Act. Provides that, in the case of an individual who (i) has less than 4 years remaining on a prison sentence and (ii) completed a census form, responded to a census inquiry, or was included in any report provided to census officials indicating that the person resided at a correctional facility on the date of the inquiry or report, the Secretary of State shall prepare and disseminate adjusted census population counts to include the individual in all applicable population counts for the geographic units that include his or her last address before incarceration and eliminate the person from all applicable population counts for the geographic units that include the facility at which the person was incarcerated on the date for which the census reports population. Requires State and local governmental entities that operate facilities for the incarceration of persons convicted of a criminal offense, including mental health institutions for those persons, or place any person convicted of a criminal offense in a private facility to be incarcerated on behalf of the governmental entity, to prepare certain reports. Effective January 1, 2020.

CENSUS ADJUSTMENT-PRISONERS

Rep. LaShawn Ford [D]

Rep. Elaine Nekritz [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2013-01-08	House	Session Sine Die
2012-02-28	House	Added Chief Co-Sponsor Rep. Elaine Nekritz
2012-02-16	House	Referred to Rules Committee
2012-02-16	House	First Reading
2012-02-16	House	Filed with the Clerk by Rep. La Shawn K. Ford

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.ilga.gov/legislation/BillStatus.asp?DocNum=5719&GAID=11&DocTypeID=HB&SessionID=84&GA=97
Text	https://www.ilga.gov/legislation/97/HB/09700HB5719.htm