Bill Text: IL HB4505 | 2017-2018 | 100th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Unified Code of Corrections. Provides that the Department of Corrections, through its Illinois Correctional Industries division, may operate or contract with the private sector for substantial involvement in a correctional industries enhancement program. Sets forth requirements and rules for the correctional industries enhancement program. Provides that the Department may take limited deductions from wages of a committed person worker who participates in the correctional industries enhancement program.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Failed) 2019-01-08 - Session Sine Die [HB4505 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2017-HB4505-Introduced.html

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100TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2017 and 2018 HB4505 Introduced , by Rep. Tim Butler SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
730 ILCS 5/3-12-17 new
Amends the Unified Code of Corrections. Provides that the Department of Corrections, through its Illinois Correctional Industries division, may operate or contract with the private sector for substantial involvement in a correctional industries enhancement program. Sets forth requirements and rules for the correctional industries enhancement program. Provides that the Department may take limited deductions from wages of a committed person worker who participates in the correctional industries enhancement program.
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FISCAL NOTE ACT MAY APPLY
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 Unified Code of Corrections is amended by
adding Section 3-12-17 as follows:
(730 ILCS 5/3-12-17 new)
Sec. 3-12-17. Correctional industries enhancement program.
(a) The Department, through its Illinois Correctional
Industries division, may operate or contract with the private
sector for substantial involvement in a correctional
industries enhancement program that includes, but is not
limited to, contracts for the operation of a direct private
sector business within a correctional institution and the
hiring of committed persons.
(b) The purposes and objectives of this program are to:
(1) increase the benefits to the general public by
reimbursing the State for a portion of the costs of
incarceration;
(2) provide purposeful work for committed persons;
(3) increase job skills of committed persons;
(4) provide additional opportunities for
rehabilitating committed persons who are otherwise
ineligible to work outside correctional institutions, such

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as committed persons incarcerated in maximum security
facilities;
(5) develop and establish new models for
correctional-based businesses that create jobs
approximating conditions of private sector employment;
(6) substantially involve the private sector and its
capital, management skills, and expertise in the design,
development, and operation of correctional-based
businesses;
(7) provide the financial basis for a committed person
to contribute to the support of his or her family;
(8) provide for the payment of State and federal taxes
on a committed person's wages, which are paid at the rate
of the prevailing or minimum wage rate; and
(9) provide savings for the committed person to have
available for his or her use upon the committed person's
eventual release from the correctional institution;
(c) Any contract authorized under a correctional
industries enhancement program must be in compliance with
federal law governing committed person work programs.
(d) Any contract authorized under a correctional
industries enhancement program shall not result in the
significant displacement of employed workers in the community.
(e) The Department may take deductions from committed
person worker wages, but permissible deductions are limited to
taxes, room and board, family support, and victim compensation.

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If victim compensation deductions are taken, the Department
must provide written assurances that the deductions will be not
less than 5% and not more than 20% of gross wages and that
deductions for all purposes will not total more than 80% of
gross wages.
(f) Written proof of compliance with the National
Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (42 U.S.C. 4321 et seq.) is
required prior to program startup.
(g) Organized labor and local private industry must be
consulted prior to any business startup.
(h) Committed person workers must receive wages at a rate
not less than that paid for work of a similar nature in the
locality in which the work is performed.
(i) Committed person worker participation must be
voluntary.
(j) Notwithstanding any other law to the contrary, private
sector employers shall provide workers' compensation coverage
to committed persons who participate in a correctional
industries enhancement program under this Section.