Bill Text: IL HB4043 | 2025-2026 | 104th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Probation Community Service Act. Provides that the court may give credit toward the fulfillment of community service hours for participation in activities and treatment as determined by court services.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2026-03-27 - Rule 19(a) / Re-referred to Rules Committee [HB4043 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2025-HB4043-Introduced.html

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104TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2025 and 2026 HB4043 Introduced , by Rep. Jeff Keicher SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
730 ILCS 115/1 from Ch. 38, par. 204a-1
Amends the Probation Community Service Act. Provides that the court may give credit toward the fulfillment of community service hours for participation in activities and treatment as determined by court services.
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A BILL FOR
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AN ACT concerning criminal law.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The Probation Community Service Act is amended
by changing Section 1 as follows:
(730 ILCS 115/1) (from Ch. 38, par. 204a-1)
Sec. 1. (a) "Public or community service" means
uncompensated labor for a not-for-profit organization or
public body whose purpose is to enhance physical, or mental
stability of the offender, environmental quality or the social
welfare and which agrees to accept public or community service
from offenders and to report on the progress of the offender
and the public or community service to the court or to the
authorized diversion program that has referred the offender
for public or community service. "Public or Community Service"
does not include blood donation or assignment to labor at a
blood bank. For the purposes of this Act, "blood bank" has the
meaning ascribed to the term in Section 2-124 of the Illinois
Clinical Laboratory and Blood Bank Act.
(b) "Site" means a not-for-profit organization, public
body, church, charitable organization, or individual agreeing
to accept community service from offenders and to report on
the progress of ordered or required public or community

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service to the court or to the authorized diversion program
that has referred the offender for public or community
service.
(c) The county boards of the several counties in this
State are authorized to establish and operate agencies to
develop and supervise programs of public or community service
for those persons placed by the court on probation,
conditional discharge, or supervision.
(d) The programs shall be developed in cooperation with
the circuit courts for the respective counties developing such
programs and shall conform with any law restricting the use of
public or community service.
(d-1) The court may give credit toward the fulfillment of
community service hours for participation in activities and
treatment as determined by court services.
(e) Neither the State, any local government, probation
department, public or community service program or site, nor
any official, volunteer, or employee thereof acting in the
course of their official duties shall be liable for any injury
or loss a person might receive while performing public or
community service as ordered either (1) by the court or (2) by
any duly authorized station or probation adjustment, teen
court, community mediation, or other administrative diversion
program authorized by the Juvenile Court Act of 1987 for a
violation of a penal statute of this State or a local
government ordinance (whether penal, civil, or quasi-criminal)

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or for a traffic offense, nor shall they be liable for any
tortious acts of any person performing public or community
service, except for wilful, wanton misconduct or gross
negligence on the part of such governmental unit, probation
department, or public or community service program or site or
on the part of the official, volunteer, or employee.
(f) No person assigned to a public or community service
program shall be considered an employee for any purpose, nor
shall the county board be obligated to provide any
compensation to such person.
(Source: P.A. 98-824, eff. 1-1-15.)