Bill Text: IL HB0551 | 2011-2012 | 97th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Counties Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the compensation to be paid to the Public Defender.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)

Status: (Failed) 2013-01-08 - Session Sine Die [HB0551 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2011-HB0551-Introduced.html

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97TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2011 and 2012 HB0551 Introduced , by Rep. Michael J. Madigan SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
55 ILCS 5/3-4007 from Ch. 34, par. 3-4007
Amends the Counties Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the compensation to be paid to the Public Defender.
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A BILL FOR
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AN ACT concerning local government.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The Counties Code is amended by changing Section
3-4007 as follows:
(55 ILCS 5/3-4007) (from Ch. 34, par. 3-4007)
Sec. 3-4007. Compensation.
(a) The The public defender shall be paid out of the county
treasury, and the State treasury as provided in subsection (b),
as the sole compensation for his or her services a salary in an
amount fixed by the County Board. When a Public Defender in a
county of 30,000 or more population is receiving not less than
90% of the compensation of the State's Attorney of such county,
that Public Defender shall not engage in the private practice
of law.
(b) The State treasury must pay 66 2/3% of the public
defender's annual salary. If the public defender is employed
full-time in that capacity, his or her salary must be at least
90% of that county's State's attorney's annual compensation.
These amounts furnished by the State shall be payable monthly
from the State treasury to the county in which each Public
Defender is employed.
(c) In cases where 2 or more adjoining counties have joined

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to form a common office of Public Defender, the salary of the
Public Defender shall be set and paid as provided by a joint
resolution of the various county boards involved.
(Source: P.A. 92-508, eff. 7-1-02.)