Comments: IL HB1095 | 2021-2022 | 102nd General Assembly

Bill Title: Makes changes to various provisions amended by Public Act 101-652, concerning pretrial release. Amends the State Finance Act. Establishes the Public Defender Fund as a special fund in the State treasury. Requires money in the Public Defender Fund to be used, subject to appropriation, to provide funding to counties for public defenders and public defender services. Amends the Counties Code. Requires the Administrative Office of the Illinois Courts, subject to appropriation, to establish a grant program for counties for the purpose of training and hiring attorneys on contract to assist the county public defender in pretrial detention hearings. Authorizes the Administrative Office of the Illinois Courts to adopt emergency rules to implement the grant program. Amends the Law Enforcement Officer-Worn Body Camera Act. Provides that "community caretaking function" excludes law enforcement-related encounters or activities. Provides that "law enforcement-related encounter or activities" does not include when the officer is participating in training in a classroom setting or officers while not performing any other law enforcement-related activity. Amends the Law Enforcement Camera Grant Act. Provides that the Illinois Law Enforcement Training Standards Board must make grants to units of local government in Illinois and Illinois public universities for the purpose of purchasing officer-worn body cameras and associated technology for law enforcement officers, including covering associated data storage costs. Makes conforming and other changes in the Code of Criminal Procedure of 1963, the Rights of Crime Victims and Witnesses Act, and the Unified Code of Corrections. Effective January 1, 2023, except that some provisions are effective immediately.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 45-0)

Status: (Passed) 2022-12-06 - Public Act . . . . . . . . . 102-1104 [HB1095 Detail]

Text: Latest bill text (Chaptered) [HTML]

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