Bill Text: IL SB3684 | 2019-2020 | 101st General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Clerks of Courts Act. Allows the clerk of court to accept payment of fines, penalties, or costs by certified check.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Failed) 2021-01-13 - Session Sine Die [SB3684 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2019-SB3684-Introduced.html

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101ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2019 and 2020 SB3684 Introduced 2/14/2020, by Sen. Laura M. Murphy SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
705 ILCS 105/27.3b from Ch. 25, par. 27.3b
Amends the Clerks of Courts Act. Allows the clerk of court to accept payment of fines, penalties, or costs by certified check.
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A BILL FOR
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AN ACT concerning courts.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The Clerks of Courts Act is amended by changing
Section 27.3b as follows:
(705 ILCS 105/27.3b) (from Ch. 25, par. 27.3b)
Sec. 27.3b. The clerk of court may accept payment of fines,
penalties, or costs by certified check, credit card or debit
card approved by the clerk from an offender who has been
convicted of or placed on court supervision for a traffic
offense, petty offense, ordinance offense, or misdemeanor or
who has been convicted of a felony offense. The clerk of the
circuit court may accept credit card payments over the Internet
for fines, penalties, or costs from offenders on voluntary
electronic pleas of guilty in minor traffic and conservation
offenses to satisfy the requirement of written pleas of guilty
as provided in Illinois Supreme Court Rule 529. The clerk of
the court may also accept payment of statutory fees by a credit
card or debit card. The clerk of the court may also accept the
credit card or debit card for the cash deposit of bail bond
fees.
The Clerk of the circuit court is authorized to enter into
contracts with credit card or debit card companies approved by

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the clerk and to negotiate the payment of convenience and
administrative fees normally charged by those companies for
allowing the clerk of the circuit court to accept their credit
cards or debit cards in payment as authorized herein. The clerk
of the circuit court is authorized to enter into contracts with
third party fund guarantors, facilitators, and service
providers under which those entities may contract directly with
customers of the clerk of the circuit court and guarantee and
remit the payments to the clerk of the circuit court. Where the
offender pays fines, penalties, or costs by credit card or
debit card or through a third party fund guarantor,
facilitator, or service provider, or anyone paying statutory
fees of the circuit court clerk or the posting of cash bail,
the clerk shall collect a service fee of up to $5 or the amount
charged to the clerk for use of its services by the credit card
or debit card issuer, third party fund guarantor, facilitator,
or service provider. This service fee shall be in addition to
any other fines, penalties, or costs. The clerk of the circuit
court is authorized to negotiate the assessment of convenience
and administrative fees by the third party fund guarantors,
facilitators, and service providers with the revenue earned by
the clerk of the circuit court to be remitted to the county
general revenue fund.
For the purposes of this Section, "certified check" has the
meaning provided in Section 3-409 of the Uniform Commercial
Code.

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(Source: P.A. 95-331, eff. 8-21-07.)