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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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| 1 | | AN ACT concerning criminal law.
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| 2 | | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, |
| 3 | | represented in the General Assembly:
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| 4 | | Section 5. The Probation and Probation Officers Act is |
| 5 | | amended by changing Section 9b as follows:
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| 6 | | (730 ILCS 110/9b) (from Ch. 38, par. 204-1b) |
| 7 | | Sec. 9b. For the purposes of this Act, the words and |
| 8 | | phrases described in this Section have the meanings designated |
| 9 | | in this Section, except when a particular context clearly |
| 10 | | requires a different meaning. |
| 11 | | (1) "Division" means the Division of Probation Services of |
| 12 | | the Supreme Court. |
| 13 | | (2) "Department" means a probation or court services |
| 14 | | department that provides probation or court services and such |
| 15 | | other related services assigned to it by the circuit court or |
| 16 | | by law. |
| 17 | | (3) "Probation Officer" means a person employed full time |
| 18 | | in a probation or court services department or a person |
| 19 | | employed full-time or part-time as a detention officer |
| 20 | | providing services to a court under this Act or the Juvenile |
| 21 | | Court Act of 1987. A probation officer includes detention |
| 22 | | staff, non-secure group home staff and management personnel |
| 23 | | who meet minimum standards established by the Supreme Court |
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| 1 | | and who are hired under the direction of the circuit court. |
| 2 | | These probation officers are judicial employees designated on |
| 3 | | a circuit wide or county basis and compensated by the |
| 4 | | appropriate county board or boards. |
| 5 | | (4) "Basic Services" means the number of personnel |
| 6 | | determined by the Division as necessary to comply with adult, |
| 7 | | juvenile, and detention services workload standards and to |
| 8 | | operate authorized programs of intermediate sanctions, |
| 9 | | intensive probation supervision, public or community service, |
| 10 | | intake services, secure detention services, non-secure group |
| 11 | | home services and home confinement. |
| 12 | | (5) "New or Expanded Services" means personnel necessary |
| 13 | | to operate pretrial programs, victim and restitution programs, |
| 14 | | psychological services, drunk driving programs, specialized |
| 15 | | caseloads, community resource coordination programs, and other |
| 16 | | programs designed to generally improve the quality of |
| 17 | | probation and court services. |
| 18 | | (6) "Individualized Services and Programs" means |
| 19 | | individualized services provided through purchase of service |
| 20 | | agreements with individuals, specialists, and local public or |
| 21 | | private agencies providing non-residential services for the |
| 22 | | rehabilitation of adult and juvenile offenders as an |
| 23 | | alternative to local or state incarceration. |
| 24 | | (7) "Jurisdiction" means the geographical area of |
| 25 | | authority of a probation department as designated by the chief |
| 26 | | judge of each circuit court under Section 15 of this Act. |