Bill Text: IL HB2129 | 2023-2024 | 103rd General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Counties Code. Provides that a county's full-time public defender must be paid an annual salary that is at least 100% (rather than 90%) of the county State's attorney's annual compensation. Requires the State to pay 100% (rather than 66 2/3%) of the public defender's annual salary. Prohibits a public defender for a county of 30,000 or more inhabitants from engaging in the private practice of law if the public defender is receiving not less than 100% (rather than 90%) of the compensation of the State's attorney of that county. Effective July 1, 2023.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2)

Status: (Failed) 2025-01-07 - Session Sine Die [HB2129 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2023-HB2129-Introduced.html

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103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2023 and 2024 HB2129 Introduced , by Rep. Jennifer Gong-Gershowitz SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
55 ILCS 5/3-4007 from Ch. 34, par. 3-4007
Amends the Counties Code. Provides that a county's full-time public defender must be paid an annual salary that is at least 100% (rather than 90%) of the county State's attorney's annual compensation. Requires the State to pay 100% (rather than 66 2/3%) of the public defender's annual salary. Prohibits a public defender for a county of 30,000 or more inhabitants from engaging in the private practice of law if the public defender is receiving not less than 100% (rather than 90%) of the compensation of the State's attorney of that county. Effective July 1, 2023.
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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 public defender shall be paid out of the county
treasury, and, subject to appropriation, shall be paid by the
Department of Revenue out of the Personal Property Tax
Replacement Fund or the General Revenue Fund 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 100% 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 must pay 100% 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
100% 90% of that county's State's attorney's annual
compensation. Subject to appropriation, these amounts
furnished by the State shall be payable monthly by the

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Department of Revenue out of the Personal Property Tax
Replacement Fund or the General Revenue Fund to the county in
which each Public Defender is employed.
(c) In cases where 2 or more adjoining counties have
joined 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. 97-72, eff. 7-1-11.)
Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect July 1,
2023.