Bill Text: IL HB0240 | 2009-2010 | 96th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the State Facilities Closure Act. Creates the Correctional Facilities Panel. Provides that the Panel shall perform a detailed examination of the State's correctional facilities and the respective populations and workforces of the facilities. Sets forth the membership of the panel. Provides that no correctional facility managed or operated by the Illinois Department of Corrections may be closed, eliminated, or otherwise required to reduce its 2008 average daily population or average daily workforce by more than 20% prior to the completion of the submission of the final report by the Correctional Facilities Panel. Effective immediately.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2009-03-13 - Rule 19(a) / Re-referred to Rules Committee [HB0240 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2009-HB0240-Introduced.html

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96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2009 and 2010 HB0240 Introduced 1/20/2009, by Rep. Keith P. Sommer SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
30 ILCS 608/5-5
30 ILCS 608/5-12 new
30 ILCS 608/5-15 new
Amends the State Facilities Closure Act. Creates the Correctional Facilities Panel. Provides that the Panel shall perform a detailed examination of the State's correctional facilities and the respective populations and workforces of the facilities. Sets forth the membership of the panel. Provides that no correctional facility managed or operated by the Illinois Department of Corrections may be closed, eliminated, or otherwise required to reduce its 2008 average daily population or average daily workforce by more than 20% prior to the completion of the submission of the final report by the Correctional Facilities Panel. Effective immediately.
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FISCAL NOTE ACT MAY APPLY
A BILL FOR
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AN ACT concerning finance.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The State Facilities Closure Act is amended by
changing Section 5-5 and by adding Sections 5-12 and 5-15 as
follows:
(30 ILCS 608/5-5)
Sec. 5-5. Definitions. In this Act:
"Commission" means the Commission on Government
Forecasting and Accountability.
"State facility" means any facility (i) that is owned and
operated by the State or leased and operated by the State and
(ii) that is the primary stationary work location for 25 or
more State employees. "State facility" does not include any
facility under the jurisdiction of the legislative branch,
including the Auditor General, or the judicial branch.
"Correctional Facilities Panel" means the study panel
created and authorized in Section 5-15 of this Act.
(Source: P.A. 93-839, eff. 7-30-04; 93-1067, eff. 1-15-05.)
(30 ILCS 608/5-12 new)
Sec. 5-12. Correctional facilities closure moratorium.
Beginning on the effective date of this amendatory Act of the

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96th General Assembly, no correctional facility managed or
operated by the Illinois Department of Corrections may be
closed, eliminated, or otherwise required to reduce its 2008
average daily population or average daily workforce by more
than 20% prior to the completion of the required review by the
Correctional Facilities Panel and submission of the panel's
final report as required in Section 5-15 of this Act.
(30 ILCS 608/5-15 new)
Sec. 5-15. Correctional Facilities Panel.
(a) The Correctional Facilities Panel is hereby created and
shall be comprised of the Director of the Department of
Corrections, or his or her designee; 4 members of the General
Assembly: one appointed by the President of the Senate, one
appointed by the Minority Leader of the Senate, one appointed
by the Speaker of the House of Representatives, and one
appointed by the Minority Leader of the House of
Representatives; 2 representatives of the employees who work
within the State's prisons, to be appointed by the Commission
on Government Forecasting and Accountability; and 2 persons or
representatives of organizations with expertise in prisons,
correctional facilities, or prison populations, to be
appointed by the Commission on Government Forecasting and
Accountability.
All members of the Panel are to be appointed within 90 days
after the effective date of this amendatory Act of the 96th

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General Assembly.
(b) The Correctional Facilities Panel shall review the
physical condition, the size and composition of the inmate
population, and any specific and immediate needs of each
correctional facility managed or operated by the State.
(c) The Panel is authorized to hold public hearings, take
testimony, and request detailed and specific information
relating to the inmate population, staff, or both of any
individual correctional facility managed or operated by the
State, as well as the State's prison system at large.
Any data or information requested from any agency of the
State, including but not limited to the Department of
Corrections, is to be provided within 30 days of any written
request for information being submitted by the Panel. If the
requested information or data is not available within 30 days,
the head of the agency to which the request was originally
submitted shall provide the Panel, in writing, a detailed
explanation as to why the data or information requested cannot
be timely provided, whether the information exists, and when it
can be expected to be received by the Panel.
(d) The review conducted by the Panel must include, but not
be limited to, a detailed composition of (i) current prison
populations and their respective requirements for effective
reform, (ii) the geographical location of inmate families and
their respective needs, (iii) employee locations, staffing
levels, and the demands being placed on prison staffs within

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the State, (iv) the physical condition of each of the State's
correctional facilities and their respective needs, (v) the
potential necessity for a geriatric correctional facility in
Illinois, and (vi) the economic impacts created, at both the
State and local levels, by each of the State's correctional
facilities, with special attention given to any correctional
facility recommended to be immediately or abruptly
decommissioned and their respective populations moved
throughout the remainder of the State's prison system.
(e) The Commission on Government Forecasting and
Accountability shall provide staff and administrative
assistance to the Correctional Facilities Panel. All agencies
of the State must cooperate to the fullest extent possible to
assist the Correctional Facilities Panel in the completion of
its work.
(f) The Panel shall perform a detailed examination of the
State's correctional facilities and the respective populations
and workforces of the facilities, including information
concerning the families of the inmates and staff of the
facility. The Panel shall issue its findings and
recommendations in a final report to the General Assembly
outlining a long-term objective plan for the State's
correctional facilities, the populations they hold, and the
workforce needed to best protect the citizens of Illinois. The
final report must be submitted to the General Assembly no later
than September 1, 2010.

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(g) Sixty days after submission of its final report to the
General Assembly, the Correctional Facilities Panel shall be
dissolved.
Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon