Bill Text: IL SB3034 | 2015-2016 | 99th General Assembly | Chaptered

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Bill Title: Amends the Counties Code. Creates the Lake County Children's Advocacy Center Pilot Program. Provides that under the pilot program, which begins January 1, 2017 and ends December 31, 2018, any grand or petit juror in Lake County may elect to have his or her juror fees donated to the Lake County Children's Advocacy Center. Provides that the Lake County board shall create rules and policies concerning the pilot program and report yearly to the General Assembly and Governor on the pilot program. Further provides that the Section will be repealed on December 31, 2019. Effective immediately.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-2)

Status: (Passed) 2016-07-15 - Public Act . . . . . . . . . 99-0583 [SB3034 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2015-SB3034-Chaptered.html

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Public Act 099-0583
SB3034 Enrolled LRB099 18799 AWJ 43183 b
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 adding Section
4-11001.5 as follows:
(55 ILCS 5/4-11001.5 new)
Sec. 4-11001.5. Lake County Children's Advocacy Center
Pilot Program.
(a) The Lake County Children's Advocacy Center Pilot
Program is established. Under the Pilot Program, any grand
juror or petit juror in Lake County may elect to have his or
her juror fees earned under Section 4-11001 of this Code to be
donated to the Lake County Children's Advocacy Center, a
division of the Lake County State's Attorney's office.
(b) On or before January 1, 2017, the Lake County board
shall adopt, by ordinance or resolution, rules and policies
governing and effectuating the ability of jurors to donate
their juror fees to the Lake County Children's Advocacy Center
beginning January 1, 2017 and ending December 31, 2018. At a
minimum, the rules and policies must provide:
(1) for a form that a juror may fill out to elect to
donate their juror fees. The form must contain a statement,
in at least 14-point bold type, that donation of juror fees

is optional;
(2) that all monies donated by jurors shall be
transferred by the county to the Lake County Children's
Advocacy Center at the same time a juror is paid under
Section 4-11001 of this Code who did not elect to donate
their juror fees; and
(3) that all juror fees donated under this Section
shall be used exclusively for the operation of Lake County
Children's Advocacy Center.
(c) The following information shall be reported to the
General Assembly and the Governor by the Lake County board
after each calendar year of the Pilot Program on or before
March 31, 2018 and March 31, 2019:
(1) the number of grand and petit jurors who earned
fees under Section 4-11001 of this Code during the previous
calendar year;
(2) the number of grand and petit jurors who donated
fees under this Section during the previous calendar year;
(3) the amount of donated fees under this Section
during the previous calendar year;
(4) how the monies donated in the previous calendar
year were used by the Lake County Children's Advocacy
Center; and
(5) how much cost there was incurred by Lake County and
the Lake County State's Attorney's office in the previous
calendar in implementing the Pilot Program.

(d) This Section is repealed on December 31, 2019.
Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
becoming law.