Bill Text: IL SB2494 | 2015-2016 | 99th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Counties Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the compensation to be paid to the Public Defender.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-02-09 - Referred to Assignments [SB2494 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2015-SB2494-Introduced.html

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99TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2015 and 2016 SB2494 Introduced 2/9/2016, by Sen. Melinda Bush SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
55 ILCS 5/3-4007 from Ch. 34, par. 3-4007
Amends the Counties Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the compensation to be paid to the Public Defender.
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A BILL FOR
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AN ACT concerning local government.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The Counties Code is amended by changing Section
3-4007 as follows:
(55 ILCS 5/3-4007) (from Ch. 34, par. 3-4007)
Sec. 3-4007. Compensation.
(a) The The public defender shall be paid out of the county
treasury, and, subject to appropriation, shall be paid by the
Department of Revenue out of the Personal Property Tax
Replacement Fund or the General Revenue Fund as provided in
subsection (b), as the sole compensation for his or her
services a salary in an amount fixed by the County Board. When
a Public Defender in a county of 30,000 or more population is
receiving not less than 90% of the compensation of the State's
Attorney of such county, that Public Defender shall not engage
in the private practice of law.
(b) The State must pay 66 2/3% of the public defender's
annual salary. If the public defender is employed full-time in
that capacity, his or her salary must be at least 90% of that
county's State's attorney's annual compensation. Subject to
appropriation, these amounts furnished by the State shall be
payable monthly by the Department of Revenue out of the

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Personal Property Tax Replacement Fund or the General Revenue
Fund to the county in which each Public Defender is employed.
(c) In cases where 2 or more adjoining counties have joined
to form a common office of Public Defender, the salary of the
Public Defender shall be set and paid as provided by a joint
resolution of the various county boards involved.
(Source: P.A. 97-72, eff. 7-1-11.)