Bill Text: IL HB1202 | 2017-2018 | 100th General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Amends the Counties Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the compensation to be paid to the Public Defender.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Failed) 2019-01-08 - Session Sine Die [HB1202 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2017-HB1202-Introduced.html
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1 | AN ACT concerning local government.
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2 | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, | |||||||||||||||||||
3 | represented in the General Assembly:
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4 | Section 5. The Counties Code is amended by changing Section | |||||||||||||||||||
5 | 3-4007 as follows:
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6 | (55 ILCS 5/3-4007) (from Ch. 34, par. 3-4007)
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7 | Sec. 3-4007. Compensation.
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8 | (a) The
The public defender
shall be paid out of the county | |||||||||||||||||||
9 | treasury, and, subject to appropriation, shall be paid by the | |||||||||||||||||||
10 | Department of Revenue out of the Personal Property Tax | |||||||||||||||||||
11 | Replacement Fund or the General Revenue Fund as provided
in | |||||||||||||||||||
12 | subsection (b), as the
sole compensation for his or her | |||||||||||||||||||
13 | services a salary in an
amount
fixed by the County Board. When | |||||||||||||||||||
14 | a Public Defender in a county of 30,000 or
more population
is | |||||||||||||||||||
15 | receiving not less than 90% of the compensation of the State's | |||||||||||||||||||
16 | Attorney
of such county, that Public Defender shall not engage | |||||||||||||||||||
17 | in the private
practice of law. | |||||||||||||||||||
18 | (b) The State must pay 66 2/3% of the public defender's | |||||||||||||||||||
19 | annual
salary. If the public defender is employed full-time in | |||||||||||||||||||
20 | that capacity, his or
her salary must be at least 90% of that | |||||||||||||||||||
21 | county's State's attorney's annual
compensation. Subject to | |||||||||||||||||||
22 | appropriation, these amounts furnished by the State shall be | |||||||||||||||||||
23 | payable monthly
by
the Department of Revenue out of the |
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1 | Personal Property Tax Replacement Fund or the General Revenue | ||||||
2 | Fund to the county in which each Public Defender is employed.
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3 | (c) In cases where 2 or more adjoining counties have joined
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4 | to form a common office of Public Defender, the salary of the | ||||||
5 | Public
Defender shall be set and paid as provided by a joint | ||||||
6 | resolution of the
various county boards involved.
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7 | (Source: P.A. 97-72, eff. 7-1-11.)
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