Bill Text: IL SB1499 | 2025-2026 | 104th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Probation and Probation Officers Act. Defines "evidence-based practices" as any procedures, practices, or methods of supervision that have been studied and reviewed with an emphasis on such practices that enable probation officers to improve the outcomes when applied in their supervision of offenders and defendants.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2025-02-04 - Referred to Assignments [SB1499 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2025-SB1499-Introduced.html

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104TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2025 and 2026 SB1499 Introduced 2/4/2025, by Sen. Javier L. Cervantes SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
730 ILCS 110/9b from Ch. 38, par. 204-1b
Amends the Probation and Probation Officers Act. Defines "evidence-based practices" as any procedures, practices, or methods of supervision that have been studied and reviewed with an emphasis on such practices that enable probation officers to improve the outcomes when applied in their supervision of offenders and defendants.
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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 and Probation Officers Act is
amended by changing Section 9b as follows:
(730 ILCS 110/9b) (from Ch. 38, par. 204-1b)
Sec. 9b. For the purposes of this Act, the words and
phrases described in this Section have the meanings designated
in this Section, except when a particular context clearly
requires a different meaning.
(1) "Division" means the Division of Probation Services of
the Supreme Court.
(2) "Department" means a probation or court services
department that provides probation or court services and such
other related services assigned to it by the circuit court or
by law.
(3) "Probation Officer" means a person employed full time
in a probation or court services department or a person
employed full-time or part-time as a detention officer
providing services to a court under this Act or the Juvenile
Court Act of 1987. A probation officer includes detention
staff, non-secure group home staff and management personnel
who meet minimum standards established by the Supreme Court

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and who are hired under the direction of the circuit court.
These probation officers are judicial employees designated on
a circuit wide or county basis and compensated by the
appropriate county board or boards.
(4) "Basic Services" means the number of personnel
determined by the Division as necessary to comply with adult,
juvenile, and detention services workload standards and to
operate authorized programs of intermediate sanctions,
intensive probation supervision, public or community service,
intake services, secure detention services, non-secure group
home services and home confinement.
(5) "New or Expanded Services" means personnel necessary
to operate pretrial programs, victim and restitution programs,
psychological services, drunk driving programs, specialized
caseloads, community resource coordination programs, and other
programs designed to generally improve the quality of
probation and court services.
(6) "Individualized Services and Programs" means
individualized services provided through purchase of service
agreements with individuals, specialists, and local public or
private agencies providing non-residential services for the
rehabilitation of adult and juvenile offenders as an
alternative to local or state incarceration.
(7) "Jurisdiction" means the geographical area of
authority of a probation department as designated by the chief
judge of each circuit court under Section 15 of this Act.

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