96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2009 and 2010
SB1987

 

Introduced 2/20/2009, by Sen. John M. Sullivan

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
730 ILCS 5/3-2-2   from Ch. 38, par. 1003-2-2

    Amends the Unified Code of Corrections. Provides that effective July 1, 2009, all employees providing medical services at all facilities of the Illinois Department of Corrections or the Department of Juvenile Justice, and those employees providing support services to those employees at those facilities, shall become State employees. Provides that this provision shall not disrupt the existing collective bargaining units or collective bargaining representation of those employees who shall remain represented by their certified collective bargaining representative under their existing collective bargaining agreements. Permits an existing collective bargaining representative to petition the State Panel of the Illinois Labor Relations Board for unit clarification to include any or all of the employees in an existing bargaining unit with a medical vendor into an existing appropriate collective bargaining unit or units of State employees which are represented by the same bargaining agent. Effective July 1, 2009.


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FISCAL NOTE ACT MAY APPLY

 

 

A BILL FOR

 

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1     AN ACT concerning criminal law.
 
2     Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3 represented in the General Assembly:
 
4     Section 5. The Unified Code of Corrections is amended by
5 changing Section 3-2-2 as follows:
 
6     (730 ILCS 5/3-2-2)  (from Ch. 38, par. 1003-2-2)
7     Sec. 3-2-2. Powers and Duties of the Department.
8     (1) In addition to the powers, duties and responsibilities
9 which are otherwise provided by law, the Department shall have
10 the following powers:
11         (a) To accept persons committed to it by the courts of
12     this State for care, custody, treatment and
13     rehabilitation, and to accept federal prisoners and aliens
14     over whom the Office of the Federal Detention Trustee is
15     authorized to exercise the federal detention function for
16     limited purposes and periods of time.
17         (b) To develop and maintain reception and evaluation
18     units for purposes of analyzing the custody and
19     rehabilitation needs of persons committed to it and to
20     assign such persons to institutions and programs under its
21     control or transfer them to other appropriate agencies. In
22     consultation with the Department of Alcoholism and
23     Substance Abuse (now the Department of Human Services), the

 

 

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1     Department of Corrections shall develop a master plan for
2     the screening and evaluation of persons committed to its
3     custody who have alcohol or drug abuse problems, and for
4     making appropriate treatment available to such persons;
5     the Department shall report to the General Assembly on such
6     plan not later than April 1, 1987. The maintenance and
7     implementation of such plan shall be contingent upon the
8     availability of funds.
9         (b-1) To create and implement, on January 1, 2002, a
10     pilot program to establish the effectiveness of
11     pupillometer technology (the measurement of the pupil's
12     reaction to light) as an alternative to a urine test for
13     purposes of screening and evaluating persons committed to
14     its custody who have alcohol or drug problems. The pilot
15     program shall require the pupillometer technology to be
16     used in at least one Department of Corrections facility.
17     The Director may expand the pilot program to include an
18     additional facility or facilities as he or she deems
19     appropriate. A minimum of 4,000 tests shall be included in
20     the pilot program. The Department must report to the
21     General Assembly on the effectiveness of the program by
22     January 1, 2003.
23         (b-5) To develop, in consultation with the Department
24     of State Police, a program for tracking and evaluating each
25     inmate from commitment through release for recording his or
26     her gang affiliations, activities, or ranks.

 

 

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1         (c) To maintain and administer all State correctional
2     institutions and facilities under its control and to
3     establish new ones as needed. Pursuant to its power to
4     establish new institutions and facilities, the Department
5     may, with the written approval of the Governor, authorize
6     the Department of Central Management Services to enter into
7     an agreement of the type described in subsection (d) of
8     Section 405-300 of the Department of Central Management
9     Services Law (20 ILCS 405/405-300). The Department shall
10     designate those institutions which shall constitute the
11     State Penitentiary System.
12         Pursuant to its power to establish new institutions and
13     facilities, the Department may authorize the Department of
14     Central Management Services to accept bids from counties
15     and municipalities for the construction, remodeling or
16     conversion of a structure to be leased to the Department of
17     Corrections for the purposes of its serving as a
18     correctional institution or facility. Such construction,
19     remodeling or conversion may be financed with revenue bonds
20     issued pursuant to the Industrial Building Revenue Bond Act
21     by the municipality or county. The lease specified in a bid
22     shall be for a term of not less than the time needed to
23     retire any revenue bonds used to finance the project, but
24     not to exceed 40 years. The lease may grant to the State
25     the option to purchase the structure outright.
26         Upon receipt of the bids, the Department may certify

 

 

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1     one or more of the bids and shall submit any such bids to
2     the General Assembly for approval. Upon approval of a bid
3     by a constitutional majority of both houses of the General
4     Assembly, pursuant to joint resolution, the Department of
5     Central Management Services may enter into an agreement
6     with the county or municipality pursuant to such bid.
7         (c-5) To build and maintain regional juvenile
8     detention centers and to charge a per diem to the counties
9     as established by the Department to defray the costs of
10     housing each minor in a center. In this subsection (c-5),
11     "juvenile detention center" means a facility to house
12     minors during pendency of trial who have been transferred
13     from proceedings under the Juvenile Court Act of 1987 to
14     prosecutions under the criminal laws of this State in
15     accordance with Section 5-805 of the Juvenile Court Act of
16     1987, whether the transfer was by operation of law or
17     permissive under that Section. The Department shall
18     designate the counties to be served by each regional
19     juvenile detention center.
20         (d) To develop and maintain programs of control,
21     rehabilitation and employment of committed persons within
22     its institutions.
23         (d-5) To provide a pre-release job preparation program
24     for inmates at Illinois adult correctional centers.
25         (e) To establish a system of supervision and guidance
26     of committed persons in the community.

 

 

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1         (f) To establish in cooperation with the Department of
2     Transportation to supply a sufficient number of prisoners
3     for use by the Department of Transportation to clean up the
4     trash and garbage along State, county, township, or
5     municipal highways as designated by the Department of
6     Transportation. The Department of Corrections, at the
7     request of the Department of Transportation, shall furnish
8     such prisoners at least annually for a period to be agreed
9     upon between the Director of Corrections and the Director
10     of Transportation. The prisoners used on this program shall
11     be selected by the Director of Corrections on whatever
12     basis he deems proper in consideration of their term,
13     behavior and earned eligibility to participate in such
14     program - where they will be outside of the prison facility
15     but still in the custody of the Department of Corrections.
16     Prisoners convicted of first degree murder, or a Class X
17     felony, or armed violence, or aggravated kidnapping, or
18     criminal sexual assault, aggravated criminal sexual abuse
19     or a subsequent conviction for criminal sexual abuse, or
20     forcible detention, or arson, or a prisoner adjudged a
21     Habitual Criminal shall not be eligible for selection to
22     participate in such program. The prisoners shall remain as
23     prisoners in the custody of the Department of Corrections
24     and such Department shall furnish whatever security is
25     necessary. The Department of Transportation shall furnish
26     trucks and equipment for the highway cleanup program and

 

 

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1     personnel to supervise and direct the program. Neither the
2     Department of Corrections nor the Department of
3     Transportation shall replace any regular employee with a
4     prisoner.
5         (g) To maintain records of persons committed to it and
6     to establish programs of research, statistics and
7     planning.
8         (h) To investigate the grievances of any person
9     committed to the Department, to inquire into any alleged
10     misconduct by employees or committed persons, and to
11     investigate the assets of committed persons to implement
12     Section 3-7-6 of this Code; and for these purposes it may
13     issue subpoenas and compel the attendance of witnesses and
14     the production of writings and papers, and may examine
15     under oath any witnesses who may appear before it; to also
16     investigate alleged violations of a parolee's or
17     releasee's conditions of parole or release; and for this
18     purpose it may issue subpoenas and compel the attendance of
19     witnesses and the production of documents only if there is
20     reason to believe that such procedures would provide
21     evidence that such violations have occurred.
22         If any person fails to obey a subpoena issued under
23     this subsection, the Director may apply to any circuit
24     court to secure compliance with the subpoena. The failure
25     to comply with the order of the court issued in response
26     thereto shall be punishable as contempt of court.

 

 

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1         (i) To appoint and remove the chief administrative
2     officers, and administer programs of training and
3     development of personnel of the Department. Personnel
4     assigned by the Department to be responsible for the
5     custody and control of committed persons or to investigate
6     the alleged misconduct of committed persons or employees or
7     alleged violations of a parolee's or releasee's conditions
8     of parole shall be conservators of the peace for those
9     purposes, and shall have the full power of peace officers
10     outside of the facilities of the Department in the
11     protection, arrest, retaking and reconfining of committed
12     persons or where the exercise of such power is necessary to
13     the investigation of such misconduct or violations.
14         (j) To cooperate with other departments and agencies
15     and with local communities for the development of standards
16     and programs for better correctional services in this
17     State.
18         (k) To administer all moneys and properties of the
19     Department.
20         (l) To report annually to the Governor on the committed
21     persons, institutions and programs of the Department.
22         (l-5) In a confidential annual report to the Governor,
23     the Department shall identify all inmate gangs by
24     specifying each current gang's name, population and allied
25     gangs. The Department shall further specify the number of
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1     during the past year, and the measures taken by the
2     Department to segregate each leader from his or her gang
3     and allied gangs. The Department shall further report the
4     current status of leaders identified and segregated in
5     previous years. All leaders described in the report shall
6     be identified by inmate number or other designation to
7     enable tracking, auditing, and verification without
8     revealing the names of the leaders. Because this report
9     contains law enforcement intelligence information
10     collected by the Department, the report is confidential and
11     not subject to public disclosure.
12         (m) To make all rules and regulations and exercise all
13     powers and duties vested by law in the Department.
14         (n) To establish rules and regulations for
15     administering a system of good conduct credits,
16     established in accordance with Section 3-6-3, subject to
17     review by the Prisoner Review Board.
18         (o) To administer the distribution of funds from the
19     State Treasury to reimburse counties where State penal
20     institutions are located for the payment of assistant
21     state's attorneys' salaries under Section 4-2001 of the
22     Counties Code.
23         (p) To exchange information with the Department of
24     Human Services and the Department of Healthcare and Family
25     Services for the purpose of verifying living arrangements
26     and for other purposes directly connected with the

 

 

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1     administration of this Code and the Illinois Public Aid
2     Code.
3         (q) To establish a diversion program.
4         The program shall provide a structured environment for
5     selected technical parole or mandatory supervised release
6     violators and committed persons who have violated the rules
7     governing their conduct while in work release. This program
8     shall not apply to those persons who have committed a new
9     offense while serving on parole or mandatory supervised
10     release or while committed to work release.
11         Elements of the program shall include, but shall not be
12     limited to, the following:
13             (1) The staff of a diversion facility shall provide
14         supervision in accordance with required objectives set
15         by the facility.
16             (2) Participants shall be required to maintain
17         employment.
18             (3) Each participant shall pay for room and board
19         at the facility on a sliding-scale basis according to
20         the participant's income.
21             (4) Each participant shall:
22                 (A) provide restitution to victims in
23             accordance with any court order;
24                 (B) provide financial support to his
25             dependents; and
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1             court-ordered obligations.
2             (5) Each participant shall complete community
3         service in addition to employment.
4             (6) Participants shall take part in such
5         counseling, educational and other programs as the
6         Department may deem appropriate.
7             (7) Participants shall submit to drug and alcohol
8         screening.
9             (8) The Department shall promulgate rules
10         governing the administration of the program.
11         (r) To enter into intergovernmental cooperation
12     agreements under which persons in the custody of the
13     Department may participate in a county impact
14     incarceration program established under Section 3-6038 or
15     3-15003.5 of the Counties Code.
16         (r-5) (Blank).
17         (r-10) To systematically and routinely identify with
18     respect to each streetgang active within the correctional
19     system: (1) each active gang; (2) every existing inter-gang
20     affiliation or alliance; and (3) the current leaders in
21     each gang. The Department shall promptly segregate leaders
22     from inmates who belong to their gangs and allied gangs.
23     "Segregate" means no physical contact and, to the extent
24     possible under the conditions and space available at the
25     correctional facility, prohibition of visual and sound
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1     "leaders" means persons who:
2             (i) are members of a criminal streetgang;
3             (ii) with respect to other individuals within the
4         streetgang, occupy a position of organizer,
5         supervisor, or other position of management or
6         leadership; and
7             (iii) are actively and personally engaged in
8         directing, ordering, authorizing, or requesting
9         commission of criminal acts by others, which are
10         punishable as a felony, in furtherance of streetgang
11         related activity both within and outside of the
12         Department of Corrections.
13     "Streetgang", "gang", and "streetgang related" have the
14     meanings ascribed to them in Section 10 of the Illinois
15     Streetgang Terrorism Omnibus Prevention Act.
16         (s) To operate a super-maximum security institution,
17     in order to manage and supervise inmates who are disruptive
18     or dangerous and provide for the safety and security of the
19     staff and the other inmates.
20         (t) To monitor any unprivileged conversation or any
21     unprivileged communication, whether in person or by mail,
22     telephone, or other means, between an inmate who, before
23     commitment to the Department, was a member of an organized
24     gang and any other person without the need to show cause or
25     satisfy any other requirement of law before beginning the
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1     monitoring may be by video, voice, or other method of
2     recording or by any other means. As used in this
3     subdivision (1)(t), "organized gang" has the meaning
4     ascribed to it in Section 10 of the Illinois Streetgang
5     Terrorism Omnibus Prevention Act.
6         As used in this subdivision (1)(t), "unprivileged
7     conversation" or "unprivileged communication" means a
8     conversation or communication that is not protected by any
9     privilege recognized by law or by decision, rule, or order
10     of the Illinois Supreme Court.
11         (u) To establish a Women's and Children's Pre-release
12     Community Supervision Program for the purpose of providing
13     housing and services to eligible female inmates, as
14     determined by the Department, and their newborn and young
15     children.
16         (v) To do all other acts necessary to carry out the
17     provisions of this Chapter.
18     (2) The Department of Corrections shall by January 1, 1998,
19 consider building and operating a correctional facility within
20 100 miles of a county of over 2,000,000 inhabitants, especially
21 a facility designed to house juvenile participants in the
22 impact incarceration program.
23     (3) When the Department lets bids for contracts for medical
24 services to be provided to persons committed to Department
25 facilities by a health maintenance organization, medical
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1 only be let to a health care provider that has obtained an
2 irrevocable letter of credit or performance bond issued by a
3 company whose bonds are rated AAA by a bond rating
4 organization.
5     (3.5) Effective July 1, 2009, all employees providing
6 medical services at all facilities of the Illinois Department
7 of Corrections or the Department of Juvenile Justice, and those
8 employees providing support services to those employees at
9 those facilities, shall become State employees. Nothing in this
10 subsection (3.5) shall disrupt the existing collective
11 bargaining units or collective bargaining representation of
12 those employees who shall remain represented by their certified
13 collective bargaining representative under their existing
14 collective bargaining agreements. Notwithstanding the
15 provisions of this subsection (3.5), nothing shall preclude an
16 existing collective bargaining representative from petitioning
17 the State Panel of the Illinois Labor Relations Board for unit
18 clarification to include any or all of the employees in an
19 existing bargaining unit with a medical vendor into an existing
20 appropriate collective bargaining unit or units of State
21 employees which are represented by the same bargaining agent. A
22 unit clarification petition with the State Panel of the
23 Illinois Labor Relations Board to include any or all
24 professional employees employed by a medical vendor into an
25 existing unit of professional employees represented by the same
26 collective bargaining agent shall be deemed appropriate as

 

 

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1 shall any petition by the bargaining agent to include other
2 categories of employees into an existing collective bargaining
3 unit or units of similar categories of employees to those being
4 petitioned for which are represented by the same collective
5 bargaining representative.
6     (4) When the Department lets bids for contracts for food or
7 commissary services to be provided to Department facilities,
8 the bid may only be let to a food or commissary services
9 provider that has obtained an irrevocable letter of credit or
10 performance bond issued by a company whose bonds are rated AAA
11 by a bond rating organization.
12 (Source: P.A. 93-839, eff. 7-30-04; 94-696, eff. 6-1-06;
13 94-1067, eff. 8-1-06.)
 
14     Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect July 1,
15 2009.