Bill Text: IL SB0563 | 2021-2022 | 102nd General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Creates the Judicial Quality Act. Requires the Administrative Office of the Illinois Courts to develop and implement an ongoing education and training program for judges and relevant court personnel regarding domestic violence or intimate partner violence, child abuse, racial bias in sentencing, cultural competency, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and gender nonconforming individuals, and the impact of trauma on youth brain development. Provides requirements for the education and training program. Allows the education and training program to be conducted virtually or held through an in-person convening.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-05-11 - Added as Chief Co-Sponsor Sen. Mike Simmons [SB0563 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2021-SB0563-Introduced.html

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102ND GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2021 and 2022 SB0563 Introduced 2/23/2021, by Sen. Omar Aquino SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
New Act
Creates the Judicial Quality Act. Requires the Administrative Office of the Illinois Courts to develop and implement an ongoing education and training program for judges and relevant court personnel regarding domestic violence or intimate partner violence, child abuse, racial bias in sentencing, cultural competency, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and gender nonconforming individuals, and the impact of trauma on youth brain development. Provides requirements for the education and training program. Allows the education and training program to be conducted virtually or held through an in-person convening.
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A BILL FOR
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AN ACT concerning courts.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 1. Short title. This Act may be cited as the
Judicial Quality Act.
Section 5. Education and training program.
(a) Subject to appropriation, the Administrative Office of
the Illinois Courts shall develop and implement an ongoing
education and training program for judges and relevant court
personnel, including guardians ad litem, regarding domestic
violence or intimate partner violence, child abuse, racial
bias in sentencing, cultural competency, transgender and
gender nonconforming, and the impact of trauma on youth brain
development. The education and training program shall:
(1) be conducted quarterly;
(2) include the latest, best practices from
evidence-based and peer-reviewed research;
(3) be designed to improve the ability of courts to
recognize and respond to the impact of child abuse,
domestic violence, racial bias in sentencing, and trauma
on all victims, specifically youth and lesbian, gay,
bisexual, transgender, and gender nonconforming
individuals;

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