103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2023 and 2024
SB2175

 

Introduced 2/10/2023, by Sen. Mike Simmons

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
725 ILCS 5/124A-5

    Amends the Code of Criminal Procedure of 1963. Provides that during the first 180 days following a person's release from a penal institution, a court shall not order the person to pay any outstanding fines, taxes, or costs arising from a criminal proceeding involving the person.


LRB103 29288 RLC 55675 b

 

 

A BILL FOR

 

SB2175LRB103 29288 RLC 55675 b

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 Code of Criminal Procedure of 1963 is
5amended by changing Section 124A-5 as follows:
 
6    (725 ILCS 5/124A-5)
7    Sec. 124A-5. Judgment for costs of prosecution.
8    (a)Except as otherwise provided in subsection (b), when
9When a person is convicted of an offense under a statute, or at
10common law, the court shall enter judgment that the offender
11pay the costs of the prosecution. The costs shall include
12reasonable costs incurred by the Sheriff for serving arrest
13warrants, for picking up the offender from a county other than
14the one in which he or she was convicted, and for picking up
15the offender from a location outside the State of Illinois
16pursuant either to his or her extradition or to his or her
17waiver of extradition.
18    (b) During the first 180 days following a person's release
19from a penal institution, a court shall not order the person to
20pay any outstanding fines, taxes, or costs arising from a
21criminal proceeding involving the person.
22(Source: P.A. 89-234, eff. 1-1-96.)