Bill Text: IL SB1320 | 2009-2010 | 96th General Assembly | Enrolled

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Bill Title: Amends the Unified Code of Corrections. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning receiving procedures.

Sponsorship: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 2-1)

Status: (Passed) 2009-08-25 - Public Act . . . . . . . . . 96-0711 [SB1320 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2009-SB1320-Enrolled.html

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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 5-8-8 as follows:
(730 ILCS 5/5-8-8 new)
Sec. 5-8-8. Illinois Sentencing Policy Advisory Council.
(a) Creation. There is created under the jurisdiction of
the Governor the Illinois Sentencing Policy Advisory Council,
hereinafter referred to as the Council.
(b) Purposes and goals. The purpose of the Council is to
review sentencing policies and practices and examine how these
policies and practices impact the criminal justice system as a
whole in the State of Illinois. In carrying out its duties, the
Council shall be mindful of and aim to achieve the purposes of
sentencing in Illinois, which are set out in Section 1-1-2 of
this Code:
(1) prescribe sanctions proportionate to the
seriousness of the offenses and permit the recognition of
differences in rehabilitation possibilities among
individual offenders;
(2) forbid and prevent the commission of offenses;
(3) prevent arbitrary or oppressive treatment of

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persons adjudicated offenders or delinquents; and
(4) restore offenders to useful citizenship.
(c) Council composition.
(1) The Council shall consist of the following members:
(A) the President of the Senate, or his or her
designee;
(B) the Minority Leader of the Senate, or his or
her designee;
(C) the Speaker of the House, or his or her
designee;
(D) the Minority Leader of the House, or his or her
designee;
(E) the Governor, or his or her designee;
(F) the Attorney General, or his or her designee;
(G) two retired judges, who may have been circuit,
appellate or supreme court judges, selected by the members
of the Council designated in clauses (c)(1)(A) through (L);
(H) the Cook County State's Attorney, or his or her
designee;
(I) the Cook County Public Defender, or his or her
designee;
(J) a State's Attorney not from Cook County,
appointed by the State's Attorney's Appellate
Prosecutor;
(K) the State Appellate Defender, or his or her
designee;

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(L) the Director of the Administrative Office of
the Illinois Courts, or his or her designee;
(M) a victim of a violent felony or a
representative of a crime victims' organization,
selected by the members of the Council designated in
clauses (c)(1)(A) through (L);
(N) a representative of a community-based
organization, selected by the members of the Council
designated in clauses (c)(1)(A) through (L);
(O) a criminal justice academic researcher, to be
selected by the members of the Council designated in
clauses (c)(1)(A) through (L);
(P) a representative of law enforcement from a unit
of local government to be selected by the members of
the Council designated in clauses (c)(1)(A) through
(L);
(Q) a sheriff selected by the members of the
Council designated in clauses (c)(1)(A) through (L);
(R) ex-officio members shall include:
(i) the Director of Corrections, or his or her
designee;
(ii) the Chair of the Prisoner Review Board, or
his or her designee;
(iii) the Director of the Illinois State
Police, or his or her designee;
(iv) the Director of the Illinois Criminal

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Justice Information Authority, or his or her
designee; and
(v) the assistant Director of the
Administrative Office of the Illinois Courts, or
his or her designee; and
(T) the Chair and Vice Chair shall be elected from
among its members by a majority of the members of the
Council.
(2) Members of the Council who serve because of their
public office or position, or those who are designated as
members by such officials, shall serve only as long as they
hold such office or position.
(3) Council members shall serve without compensation
but shall be reimbursed for travel and per diem expenses
incurred in their work for the Council.
(4) The Council may exercise any power, perform any
function, take any action, or do anything in furtherance of
its purposes and goals upon the appointment of a quorum of
its members. The term of office of each member of the
Council ends on the date of repeal of this amendatory Act
of the 96th General Assembly.
(d) Duties. The Council shall perform, as resources permit,
duties including:
(1) Collect and analyze information including
sentencing data, crime trends, and existing correctional
resources to support legislative and executive action

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affecting the use of correctional resources on the State
and local levels.
(2) Prepare criminal justice population projections
annually, including correctional and community-based
supervision populations.
(3) Analyze data relevant to proposed sentencing
legislation and its effect on current policies or
practices, and provide information to support
evidence-based sentencing.
(4) Ensure that adequate resources and facilities are
available for carrying out sentences imposed on offenders
and that rational priorities are established for the use of
those resources. To do so, the Council shall prepare
criminal justice resource statements, identifying the
fiscal and practical effects of proposed criminal
sentencing legislation, including, but not limited to, the
correctional population, court processes, and county or
local government resources.
(5) Perform such other studies or tasks pertaining to
sentencing policies as may be requested by the Governor or
the Illinois General Assembly.
(6) Perform such other functions as may be required by
law or as are necessary to carry out the purposes and goals
of the Council prescribed in subsection (b).
(e) Authority.
(1) The Council shall have the power to perform the

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functions necessary to carry out its duties, purposes and
goals under this Act. In so doing, the Council shall
utilize information and analysis developed by the Illinois
Criminal Justice Information Authority, the Administrative
Office of the Illinois Courts, and the Illinois Department
of Corrections.
(2) Upon request from the Council, each executive
agency and department of State and local government shall
provide information and records to the Council in the
execution of its duties.
(f) Report. The Council shall report in writing annually to
the General Assembly and the Governor.
(g) This Section is repealed on December 31, 2012.
Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon