Rep. Kent Gaffney

Filed: 3/26/2012

 

 


 

 


 
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AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 4749

2    AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 4749 by replacing
3everything after the enacting clause with the following:
 
4    "Section 5. The Counties Code is amended by changing
5Section 3-9008 as follows:
 
6    (55 ILCS 5/3-9008)  (from Ch. 34, par. 3-9008)
7    Sec. 3-9008. Appointment of attorney to perform duties.
8    (a) Whenever the State's attorney is sick or absent, or
9unable to attend, or is interested in any cause or proceeding,
10civil or criminal, which it is or may be his duty to prosecute
11or defend, the court in which said cause or proceeding is
12pending may appoint some competent attorney to prosecute or
13defend such cause or proceeding, and the attorney so appointed
14shall have the same power and authority in relation to such
15cause or proceeding as the State's attorney would have had if
16present and attending to the same. Prior to appointing a

 

 

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1private attorney under this subsection (a), the court shall
2contact public agencies, including but not limited to the
3Office of Attorney General, Office of the State's Attorneys
4Appellate Prosecutor, and local State's Attorney's Offices
5throughout the State, to determine a public prosecutor's
6availability to serve as a special prosecutor at no cost to the
7county. , and
8    (b) In in case of a vacancy of more than one year occurring
9in any county in the office of State's attorney, by death,
10resignation or otherwise, and it becomes necessary for the
11transaction of the public business, that some competent
12attorney act as State's attorney in and for such county during
13the period between the time of the occurrence of such vacancy
14and the election and qualification of a State's attorney, as
15provided by law, the vacancy shall be filled upon the written
16request of a majority of the circuit judges of the circuit in
17which is located the county where such vacancy exists, by
18appointment as provided in The Election Code of some competent
19attorney to perform and discharge all the duties of a State's
20attorney in the said county, such appointment and all authority
21thereunder to cease upon the election and qualification of a
22State's attorney, as provided by law. Any attorney appointed
23for any reason under this Section shall possess all the powers
24and discharge all the duties of a regularly elected State's
25attorney under the laws of the State to the extent necessary to
26fulfill the purpose of such appointment, and shall be paid by

 

 

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1the county he serves not to exceed in any one period of 12
2months, for the reasonable amount of time actually expended in
3carrying out the purpose of such appointment, the same
4compensation as provided by law for the State's attorney of the
5county, apportioned, in the case of lesser amounts of
6compensation, as to the time of service reasonably and actually
7expended. The county shall participate in all agreements on the
8rate of compensation of a special prosecutor.
9    (c) An order granting authority to a special prosecutor
10must be construed strictly and narrowly by the court. The power
11and authority of a special prosecutor shall not be expanded
12without prior notice to the county. In the case of the proposed
13expansion of a special prosecutor's power and authority, a
14county may provide the court with information on the financial
15impact of an expansion on the county. Prior to the signing of
16an order requiring a county to pay for attorney's fees or
17litigation expenses, the county shall be provided with a
18detailed copy of the invoice describing the fees, and the
19invoice shall include all activities performed in relation to
20the case and the amount of time spent on each activity.
21(Source: P.A. 86-962.)
 
22    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
23becoming law.".