SB1238enr 100TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

SB1238 Enrolled LRB100 09501 SLF 19664 b

AN ACT concerning criminal law.

Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly:

Section 5. The Veterans and Servicemembers Court Treatment Act is amended by changing Section 15 as follows:

(730 ILCS 167/15)

(Text of Section before amendment by P.A. 99-807)

Sec. 15. Authorization. The Chief Judge of each judicial circuit may establish a Veterans and Servicemembers Court program including a format under which it operates under this Act. The Veterans and Servicemembers Court may, at the discretion of the Chief Judge, be a separate court or a program of a problem-solving court, including but not limited to a drug court or mental health court. At the discretion of the Chief Judge, the Veterans and Servicemembers Court program may be operated in one or more counties county in the Circuit, and allow veteran and servicemember defendants from all counties within the Circuit to participate.

(Source: P.A. 96-924, eff. 6-14-10; 97-946, eff. 8-13-12.)

(Text of Section after amendment by P.A. 99-807)

Sec. 15. Authorization. The Chief Judge of each judicial circuit shall establish a Veterans and Servicemembers Court program including a format under which it operates under this Act. The Veterans and Servicemembers Court may, at the discretion of the Chief Judge, be a separate court or a program of a problem-solving court, including but not limited to a drug court or mental health court. At the discretion of the Chief Judge, the Veterans and Servicemembers Court program may be operated in one or more counties county in the Circuit, and allow veteran and servicemember defendants from all counties within the Circuit to participate.

(Source: P.A. 99-807, eff. 1-1-18.)

Section 95. No acceleration or delay. Where this Act makes changes in a statute that is represented in this Act by text that is not yet or no longer in effect (for example, a Section represented by multiple versions), the use of that text does not accelerate or delay the taking effect of (i) the changes made by this Act or (ii) provisions derived from any other Public Act.