093_HB3532
LRB093 08009 LRD 08207 b
1 AN ACT in relation to incarceration.
2 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3 represented in the General Assembly:
4 Section 5. The County Jail Act is amended by changing
5 Section 5 as follows:
6 (730 ILCS 125/5) (from Ch. 75, par. 105)
7 Sec. 5. Costs of maintaining prisoners.
8 (a) Except as provided in subsection (b), all costs of
9 maintaining persons committed for violations of Illinois law,
10 shall be the responsibility of the county. Except as
11 provided in subsection (b), all costs of maintaining persons
12 committed under any ordinance or resolution of a unit of
13 local government, including medical costs, is the
14 responsibility of the unit of local government enacting the
15 ordinance or resolution, and arresting the person.
16 (b) If a person who has been convicted of a felony or
17 who has violated mandatory supervised release is incarcerated
18 in a county jail, the Illinois Department of Corrections
19 shall pay the county in which that jail is located $59 for
20 each day the person remains in the county jail after the
21 fifteenth day after receipt of the documentation from the
22 clerk of the court authorizing the person's transfer to the
23 State facility to which he or she has been sentenced.
24 (Source: P.A. 83-1073.)