SB1746ham001 97TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

Rep. Barbara Flynn Currie

Filed: 5/5/2011

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AMENDMENT TO SENATE BILL 1746

AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend Senate Bill 1746 by replacing everything after the enacting clause with the following:

"Section 5. The State Finance Act is amended by adding Sections 5.786 and 6z-87 as follows:

(30 ILCS 105/5.786 new)

Sec. 5.786. Supreme Court E-Business Plan Fund.

(30 ILCS 105/6z-87 new)

Sec. 6z-87. Supreme Court E-Business Plan Fund.

(a) The Supreme Court E-Business Plan Fund is created in the State treasury as a special fund. All moneys collected and payable under Section 27.11 of the Clerks of Courts Act shall be deposited into the Fund.

(b) Moneys in the Fund shall be appropriated to the Supreme Court, and expenditures shall be used exclusively for the purposes of providing for, establishing, maintaining, and supporting the Supreme Court E-Business Plan and shall not be appropriated, loaned, or in any manner transferred to the General Revenue Fund of the State of Illinois.

(c) Investment income that is attributable to the investment of moneys in the Supreme Court E-Business Plan Fund shall be retained in the Fund for the uses specified in this Section.

Section 10. The Clerks of Courts Act is amended by adding Section 27.11 as follows:

(705 ILCS 105/27.11 new)

Sec. 27.11. Supreme Court E-Business Plan fee.

(a) As used in this Section, "e-business" means the process of developing, enhancing, initiating, establishing, and maintaining a single point of access automated case and statistics management system, including applications for e-filing, e-guilty, e-signatures, and trial court and probation data exchanges.

(b) To defray the expense of establishing and maintaining the Supreme Court E-Business Plan, each circuit court clerk shall charge and collect a Supreme Court E-Business Plan fee of $10. This fee shall be paid (i) at the time of filing the first pleading, paper, or other appearance by each party in all civil cases and (ii) by the defendant in any felony, traffic, misdemeanor, municipal ordinance, or conservation case upon a judgment of guilty or grant of supervision. This fee shall be collected in the manner in which all other fees or costs are collected, and the moneys shall be remitted by the circuit court clerk to the State Treasurer within one month after receipt for deposit into the Supreme Court E-Business Plan Fund.".