101ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2019 and 2020
HB3214

 

Introduced , by Rep. Rita Mayfield

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
730 ILCS 5/3-3-3  from Ch. 38, par. 1003-3-3
730 ILCS 5/3-3-3.1 new

    Amends the Unified Code of Corrections. Provides that notwithstanding to the contrary any provision of the Code, post-conviction hearing provisions under the Code of Criminal Procedure of 1963, habeas corpus hearing provisions under the Code of Civil Procedure, or the relief from judgment provisions of the Code of Civil Procedure, a person serving a term of imprisonment in a Department of Corrections facility is eligible for parole and a parole hearing if he or she has served the greater of: (1) a term of imprisonment of at least 20 years; (2) 25% of his or her sentence; or (3) the minimum term of imprisonment for the most serious offense for which the person was convicted. Provides that a person serving a term of natural life imprisonment shall be eligible for parole and a parole hearing after at least 20 years imprisonment. Provides that a person seeking early release under this provision may petition the Prisoner Review Board in the same manner as a person eligible for parole under the Code and the parole hearing shall be conducted as otherwise provided in the Parole Article of the Code and the Open Parole Hearings Act unless otherwise provided in this provision. Provides for offenses excluded from this provision. Provides that nothing in the amendatory Act guarantees parole. Provides that it only guarantees the opportunity of the committed person to present evidence at his or her parole hearing to demonstrate the committed person's rehabilitation before the Prisoner Review Board and to seek parole.


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1    AN ACT concerning criminal law.
 
2    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3represented in the General Assembly:
 
4    Section 5. The Unified Code of Corrections is amended by
5changing Section 3-3-3 and by adding Section 3-3-3.1 as
6follows:
 
7    (730 ILCS 5/3-3-3)  (from Ch. 38, par. 1003-3-3)
8    Sec. 3-3-3. Eligibility for parole or release.
9    (a) Except as otherwise provided in Section 3-3-3.1 and
10except Except for those offenders who accept the fixed release
11date established by the Prisoner Review Board under Section
123-3-2.1, every person serving a term of imprisonment under the
13law in effect prior to the effective date of this amendatory
14Act of 1977 shall be eligible for parole when he or she has
15served:
16        (1) the minimum term of an indeterminate sentence less
17    time credit for good behavior, or 20 years less time credit
18    for good behavior, whichever is less; or
19        (2) 20 years of a life sentence less time credit for
20    good behavior; or
21        (3) 20 years or one-third of a determinate sentence,
22    whichever is less, less time credit for good behavior.
23    (b) Except as otherwise provided in Section 3-3-3.1, no No

 

 

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1person sentenced under this amendatory Act of 1977 or who
2accepts a release date under Section 3-3-2.1 shall be eligible
3for parole.
4    (c) Except as otherwise provided in Section 3-3-3.1 and
5except Except for those sentenced to a term of natural life
6imprisonment, every person sentenced to imprisonment under
7this amendatory Act of 1977 or given a release date under
8Section 3-3-2.1 of this Act shall serve the full term of a
9determinate sentence less time credit for good behavior and
10shall then be released under the mandatory supervised release
11provisions of paragraph (d) of Section 5-8-1 of this Code.
12    (d) Except as otherwise provided in Section 3-3-3.1, no No
13person serving a term of natural life imprisonment may be
14paroled or released except through executive clemency.
15    (e) Every person committed to the Department of Juvenile
16Justice under the Juvenile Court Act of 1987 and confined in
17the State correctional institutions or facilities if such
18juvenile has not been tried as an adult shall be eligible for
19aftercare release under Section 3-2.5-85 of this Code. However,
20if a juvenile has been tried as an adult he or she shall only be
21eligible for parole or mandatory supervised release as an adult
22under this Section.
23(Source: P.A. 98-558, eff. 1-1-14; 99-628, eff. 1-1-17.)
 
24    (730 ILCS 5/3-3-3.1 new)
25    Sec. 3-3-3.1. Parole; parole hearings; sentences of 20

 

 

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1years or longer; life imprisonment; early release.
2    (a) Notwithstanding to the contrary any provision of this
3Code, Article 122 of the Code of Criminal Procedure of 1963,
4Article X of the Code of Civil Procedure, or Section 2-1401 of
5the Code of Civil Procedure, a person serving a term of
6imprisonment in a Department of Corrections institution or
7facility is eligible for parole and a parole hearing under this
8Article if he or she has served the greater of: (1) a term of
9imprisonment of at least 20 years; (2) 25% of his or her
10sentence; or (3) the minimum term of imprisonment for the most
11serious offense for which the person was convicted. A person
12serving a term of natural life imprisonment is eligible for
13parole and a parole hearing under this Article after serving a
14term of imprisonment of at least 20 years. A person seeking
15early release under this Section may petition the Prisoner
16Review Board in the same manner as a person eligible for parole
17under Section 3-3-2.1 of this Code and the parole hearing shall
18be conducted as otherwise provided in this Article and the Open
19Parole Hearings Act unless otherwise provided in this Section.
20    (b) A person is ineligible for parole and a parole hearing
21under this Section if he or she was convicted of:
22        (1) the first degree murder of 2 or more individuals
23    under Section 9-1 of the Criminal Code of 1961 or the
24    Criminal Code of 2012 as a principal and not for the
25    inchoate offense regardless of whether the deaths occurred
26    as the result of the same act or of several related or

 

 

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1    unrelated acts so long as the deaths were the result of
2    either an intent to kill more than one person or of
3    separate acts which the person convicted of first degree
4    murder knew would cause death or create a strong
5    probability of death or great bodily harm to the murdered
6    individual or another;
7        (2) criminal sexual assault, aggravated criminal
8    sexual assault, predatory criminal sexual assault of a
9    child, felony criminal sexual abuse, or aggravated
10    criminal sexual abuse; or
11        (3) any law of the United States, former law of this
12    State, or any state or territory of the United States or
13    foreign country that is substantially similar to an offense
14    described in paragraph (1) or (2) of this subsection (b).
15    (c) Veterans, as defined in Section 10 of the Veterans and
16Servicemembers Court Treatment Act, who have been honorably
17discharged are eligible for additional good time credit as
18determined by the Prisoner Review Board.
19    (d) A risk assessment instrument shall be used to evaluate
20every committed person described in this Section at the time of
21his or her admittance to an institution or facility of the
22Department for the offense or offenses that resulted in the
23person's sentence in order to determine the risk factors and
24identify goals or behavior that the committed person needs to
25achieve or change in order to be released.
26    (e) Each committed person eligible for parole under this

 

 

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1Section on the effective date of this amendatory Act of the
2101st General Assembly shall receive a risk assessment within
3one year after the effective date of this amendatory Act of the
4101st General Assembly.
5    (f) Victims have the right to be present and involved in
6the initial outlining of the goals for a committed person
7described in this Section. Victims may have input into the
8goals that must be achieved by a committed person before the
9committed person may be released. The risk assessment
10instrument shall be the primary factor for determining what
11goals a committed person must accomplish before being released.
12Each interested party may have meaningful input before the
13determination of the petitioner's final goals.
14    (g) On the effective date of this amendatory Act of the
15101st General Assembly, prior evidence of the petitioner's
16participation in rehabilitative programs shall be added to the
17petitioner's master record file under Section 3-5-1 and shall
18be considered at the petitioner's parole hearing.
19    (h) The source code of any risk assessment instrument under
20subsection (d) shall be made available to a panel composed of
21representatives from the Illinois Criminal Justice Information
22Authority and the Illinois Sentencing Policy Advisory Council
23for periodic review for racial, religious, ethnic, gender,
24sexual orientation, and socio-economic biases.
25    (i) The Department has a duty to provide rehabilitative
26programming for each committed person described in this

 

 

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1Section.
2    (j) A committed person described in this Section may not be
3barred from rehabilitative programming because his or her
4anticipated release is not in the near future.
5    (k) A committed person described in this Section during any
6period of his or her imprisonment in a Department institution
7or facility has the right to engage in rehabilitative
8programming after meeting with a counselor and developing an
9individualized plan of rehabilitation which shall be made
10available to the Prisoner Review Board prior to the parole
11hearing.
12    (l) On the effective date of this amendatory Act of the
13101st General Assembly, each correctional facility shall
14comprehensively evaluate how well it facilitates relationships
15between committed persons in its custody and their family
16members. This includes, but is not limited to: visiting hours
17and procedures, phone call protocol and costs, letter writing,
18and other factors deemed relevant by the Director of
19Corrections.
20    (m) Every committed person described in this Section shall
21have the right to legal representation at his or her parole
22hearing. If the committed person cannot afford legal counsel,
23free legal service representatives may be utilized.
24    (n) Every committed person described in this Section may
25attend and testify at his or her parole hearing.
26    (o) Nothing in this amendatory Act of the 101st General

 

 

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1Assembly guarantees parole. It only guarantees the opportunity
2of the committed person to present evidence at his or her
3parole hearing to demonstrate the committed person's
4rehabilitation before the Prisoner Review Board and to seek
5parole.
 
6    Section 97. Severability. The provisions of this Act are
7severable under Section 1.31 of the Statute on Statutes.