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| | 103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2023 and 2024
HB2129 Introduced , by Rep. Jennifer Gong-Gershowitz SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
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| 55 ILCS 5/3-4007 | from Ch. 34, par. 3-4007 |
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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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| | HB2129 | | LRB103 04896 JDS 49906 b |
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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,
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| 3 | | represented in the General Assembly:
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| 4 | | Section 5. The Counties Code is amended by changing |
| 5 | | Section 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 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 100% 90% of the compensation of the |
| 16 | | State's Attorney
of such county, that Public Defender shall |
| 17 | | not engage in the private
practice of law.
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| 18 | | (b) The State must pay 100% 66 2/3% of the public |
| 19 | | defender's annual
salary. If the public defender is employed |
| 20 | | full-time in that capacity, his or
her salary must be at least |
| 21 | | 100% 90% of that county's State's attorney's annual
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| 22 | | compensation. Subject to appropriation, these amounts |
| 23 | | furnished by the State shall be payable monthly
by
the |