Bill Text: IL HB4612 | 2011-2012 | 97th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Unified Code of Corrections. Provides that the Department of Corrections shall make information about the availability of referral services to any other State or local agencies known to a parolee or releasee prior to his or her release from the correctional facility where the parolee or releasee has been residing. Effective immediately.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)

Status: (Failed) 2013-01-08 - Session Sine Die [HB4612 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2011-HB4612-Introduced.html

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97TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2011 and 2012 HB4612 Introduced , by Rep. Camille Y Lilly SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
730 ILCS 5/3-14-3 from Ch. 38, par. 1003-14-3
Amends the Unified Code of Corrections. Provides that the Department of Corrections shall make information about the availability of referral services to any other State or local agencies known to a parolee or releasee prior to his or her release from the correctional facility where the parolee or releasee has been residing. Effective immediately.
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A BILL FOR
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AN ACT concerning corrections.
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
changing Section 3-14-3 as follows:
(730 ILCS 5/3-14-3) (from Ch. 38, par. 1003-14-3)
Sec. 3-14-3. Parole Services. To assist parolees or
releasees, the Department shall provide employment counseling
and job placement services, and may in addition to other
services provide the following:
(1) assistance in residential placement;
(2) family and individual counseling and treatment
placement;
(3) financial counseling;
(4) vocational and educational counseling and placement;
and
(5) referral services to any other State or local agencies.
The Department shall make information about the availability of
these services known to a parolee or releasee prior to his or
her release from the correctional facility where the parolee or
releasee has been residing. The Department may purchase
necessary services for a parolee or releasee if they are
otherwise unavailable and the parolee or releasee is unable to

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pay for them. It may assess all or part of the costs of such
services to a parolee or releasee in accordance with his
ability to pay for them.
(Source: P.A. 84-669.)
Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
becoming law.