Bill Text: IL HB1496 | 2017-2018 | 100th General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Amends the Probation Community Service Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning community service programs.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Failed) 2019-01-08 - Session Sine Die [HB1496 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2017-HB1496-Introduced.html
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1 | AN ACT concerning criminal law.
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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 Probation Community Service Act is amended | |||||||||||||||||||
5 | by changing Section 1 as follows:
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6 | (730 ILCS 115/1) (from Ch. 38, par. 204a-1)
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7 | Sec. 1.
(a) "Public or community service" means | |||||||||||||||||||
8 | uncompensated labor
for a not-for-profit organization or | |||||||||||||||||||
9 | public body whose
purpose is to enhance
physical, or mental | |||||||||||||||||||
10 | stability of the
the offender, environmental quality or the
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11 | social welfare
and which agrees to accept public or community | |||||||||||||||||||
12 | service from offenders and
to report on the progress of the | |||||||||||||||||||
13 | offender and the public or community
service to the court or to | |||||||||||||||||||
14 | the authorized diversion program that has referred
the offender | |||||||||||||||||||
15 | for public or community service. "Public or Community Service" | |||||||||||||||||||
16 | does not include blood donation or assignment to labor at a | |||||||||||||||||||
17 | blood bank. For the purposes of this Act, "blood bank" has the | |||||||||||||||||||
18 | meaning ascribed to the term in Section 2-124 of the Illinois | |||||||||||||||||||
19 | Clinical Laboratory and Blood Bank Act. | |||||||||||||||||||
20 | (b) "Site" means a not-for-profit organization, public
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21 | body, church, charitable organization, or individual agreeing | |||||||||||||||||||
22 | to
accept community service from offenders and to report on the | |||||||||||||||||||
23 | progress of
ordered or required public or community service to |
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1 | the court or to the
authorized diversion program that has | ||||||
2 | referred the offender for public or
community
service.
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3 | (c) The county boards of the several counties in this State | ||||||
4 | are
authorized to establish and operate agencies to develop and | ||||||
5 | supervise programs
of public or community service for those | ||||||
6 | persons placed
by the court on probation,
conditional | ||||||
7 | discharge, or supervision.
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8 | (d) The programs shall be developed in cooperation with the | ||||||
9 | circuit courts
for the respective counties developing such | ||||||
10 | programs and shall conform with
any law restricting the use of | ||||||
11 | public or community service.
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12 | (e) Neither the State, any local government, probation | ||||||
13 | department,
public or community service program or site, nor | ||||||
14 | any official, volunteer,
or employee
thereof acting in the | ||||||
15 | course of their official duties shall be liable for
any injury | ||||||
16 | or loss a person might receive while performing public or
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17 | community service as ordered either (1) by the court or (2) by | ||||||
18 | any duly
authorized station or probation adjustment, teen | ||||||
19 | court, community mediation, or
other administrative diversion | ||||||
20 | program authorized by the Juvenile Court Act of
1987 for a | ||||||
21 | violation of a penal statute of this State or a local | ||||||
22 | government
ordinance (whether penal, civil, or quasi-criminal) | ||||||
23 | or for a traffic offense,
nor
shall they be liable for any
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24 | tortious acts of any person performing public or community | ||||||
25 | service, except
for wilful, wanton misconduct or gross | ||||||
26 | negligence on the part of such
governmental unit, probation |
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1 | department, or public or community service
program or site
or | ||||||
2 | on the part of
the official, volunteer, or employee.
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3 | (f) No person assigned to a public or community service | ||||||
4 | program shall be
considered an employee for any purpose, nor | ||||||
5 | shall the county board be
obligated to provide any compensation | ||||||
6 | to such person.
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7 | (Source: P.A. 98-824, eff. 1-1-15 .)
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