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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 2. The Clerks of Courts Act is amended by changing
5Section 27.3a as follows:
 
6    (705 ILCS 105/27.3a)  (from Ch. 25, par. 27.3a)
7    Sec. 27.3a. Fees for automated record keeping, probation
8and court services operations, and State Police operations.
9    1. The expense of establishing and maintaining automated
10record keeping systems in the offices of the clerks of the
11circuit court shall be borne by the county. To defray such
12expense in any county having established such an automated
13system or which elects to establish such a system, the county
14board may require the clerk of the circuit court in their
15county to charge and collect a court automation fee of not less
16than $1 nor more than $15 to be charged and collected by the
17clerk of the court. Such fee shall be paid at the time of
18filing the first pleading, paper or other appearance filed by
19each party in all civil cases or by the defendant in any
20felony, traffic, misdemeanor, municipal ordinance, or
21conservation case upon a judgment of guilty or grant of
22supervision, provided that the record keeping system which
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1automated or has been approved for automation by the county
2board, and provided further that no additional fee shall be
3required if more than one party is presented in a single
4pleading, paper or other appearance. Such fee shall be
5collected in the manner in which all other fees or costs are
6collected.
7    1.1. Starting on the effective date of this amendatory Act
8of the 97th General Assembly and pursuant to an administrative
9order from the chief judge of the circuit or the presiding
10judge of the county authorizing such collection, a clerk of the
11circuit court in any county that imposes a fee pursuant to
12subsection 1 of this Section shall also charge and collect an
13additional $10 operations fee for probation and court services
14department operations, except as follows: such $10 operations
15fee shall not be charged and collected in cases governed by
16Supreme Court Rule 529 and the bail amount is $120 or less.
17    1.2. With respect to the fee imposed and collected under
18subsection 1.1 of this Section, each clerk shall transfer all
19fees monthly to the county treasurer for deposit into the
20probation and court services fund created under Section 15.1 of
21the Probation and Probation Officers Act.
22    1.5. Starting on the effective date of this amendatory Act
23of the 96th General Assembly, a clerk of the circuit court in
24any county that imposes a fee pursuant to subsection 1 of this
25Section, shall charge and collect an additional fee in an
26amount equal to the amount of the fee imposed pursuant to

 

 

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1subsection 1 of this Section. This additional fee shall be paid
2by the defendant in any felony, traffic, misdemeanor, local
3ordinance, or conservation case upon a judgment of guilty or
4grant of supervision.
5    2. With respect to the fee imposed under subsection 1 of
6this Section, each clerk shall commence such charges and
7collections upon receipt of written notice from the chairman of
8the county board together with a certified copy of the board's
9resolution, which the clerk shall file of record in his office.
10    3. With respect to the fee imposed under subsection 1 of
11this Section, such fees shall be in addition to all other fees
12and charges of such clerks, and assessable as costs, and may be
13waived only if the judge specifically provides for the waiver
14of the court automation fee. The fees shall be remitted monthly
15by such clerk to the county treasurer, to be retained by him in
16a special fund designated as the court automation fund. The
17fund shall be audited by the county auditor, and the board
18shall make expenditure from the fund in payment of any cost
19related to the automation of court records, including hardware,
20software, research and development costs and personnel related
21thereto, provided that the expenditure is approved by the clerk
22of the court and by the chief judge of the circuit court or his
23designate.
24    4. With respect to the fee imposed under subsection 1 of
25this Section, such fees shall not be charged in any matter
26coming to any such clerk on change of venue, nor in any

 

 

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1proceeding to review the decision of any administrative
2officer, agency or body.
3    5. With respect to the additional fee imposed under
4subsection 1.5 of this Section, the fee shall be remitted by
5the circuit clerk to the State Treasurer within one month after
6receipt for deposit into the State Police Operations Assistance
7Fund.
8(Source: P.A. 96-1029, eff. 7-13-10.)
 
9    Section 5. The Probation and Probation Officers Act is
10amended by changing Section 15.1 as follows:
 
11    (730 ILCS 110/15.1)  (from Ch. 38, par. 204-7.1)
12    Sec. 15.1. Probation and Court Services Fund.
13    (a) The county treasurer in each county shall establish a
14probation and court services fund consisting of fees collected
15pursuant to subsection (i) of Section 5-6-3 and subsection (i)
16of Section 5-6-3.1 of the Unified Code of Corrections,
17subsection (10) of Section 5-615 and subsection (5) of Section
185-715 of the Juvenile Court Act of 1987, and paragraph 14.3 of
19subsection (b) of Section 110-10 of the Code of Criminal
20Procedure of 1963. The county treasurer shall disburse monies
21from the fund only at the direction of the chief judge of the
22circuit court in such circuit where the county is located. The
23county treasurer of each county shall, on or before January 10
24of each year, submit an annual report to the Supreme Court.

 

 

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1    (b) Monies in the probation and court services fund shall
2be appropriated by the county board to be used within the
3county or jurisdiction where collected in accordance with
4policies and guidelines approved by the Supreme Court for the
5costs of operating the probation and court services department
6or departments; however, except as provided in subparagraphs
7subparagraph (g) and (h), monies in the probation and court
8services fund shall not be used for the payment of salaries of
9probation and court services personnel.
10    (c) Monies expended from the probation and court services
11fund shall be used to supplement, not supplant, county
12appropriations for probation and court services.
13    (d) Interest earned on monies deposited in a probation and
14court services fund may be used by the county for its ordinary
15and contingent expenditures.
16    (e) The county board may appropriate moneys from the
17probation and court services fund, upon the direction of the
18chief judge, to support programs that are part of the continuum
19of juvenile delinquency intervention programs which are or may
20be developed within the county. The grants from the probation
21and court services fund shall be for no more than one year and
22may be used for any expenses attributable to the program
23including administration and oversight of the program by the
24probation department.
25    (f) The county board may appropriate moneys from the
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1chief judge, to support practices endorsed or required under
2the Sex Offender Management Board Act, including but not
3limited to sex offender evaluation, treatment, and monitoring
4programs that are or may be developed within the county.
5    (g) For the State Fiscal Years 2005, 2006, and 2007 only,
6the Administrative Office of the Illinois Courts may permit a
7county or circuit to use its probation and court services fund
8for the payment of salaries of probation officers and other
9court services personnel whose salaries are reimbursed under
10this Act if the State's FY2005, FY2006, or FY2007 appropriation
11to the Supreme Court for reimbursement to counties for
12probation salaries and services is less than the amount
13appropriated to the Supreme Court for these purposes for State
14Fiscal Year 2004. The Administrative Office of the Illinois
15Courts shall take into account each county's or circuit's
16probation fee collections and expenditures when apportioning
17the total reimbursement for each county or circuit.
18    (h) The Administrative Office of the Illinois Courts may
19permit a county or circuit to use its probation and court
20services fund for the payment of salaries of probation officers
21and other court services personnel whose salaries are
22reimbursed under this Act in any State fiscal year that the
23appropriation for reimbursement to counties for probation
24salaries and services is less than the amount appropriated to
25the Supreme Court for these purposes for State Fiscal Year
262002, except that the Administrative Office of the Illinois

 

 

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1Courts shall adjust this amount appropriated in 2002 by 3% per
2year and may continue to permit use of the probation and court
3services fund for salaries in any State fiscal year where the
4State reimbursement to counties is regularly delayed more than
54 months. The Administrative Office of the Illinois Courts
6shall take into account each county's or circuit's probation
7fee collections and expenditures when appropriating the total
8reimbursement for each county or circuit. Any amount
9appropriated to the Supreme Court in any State fiscal year for
10the purpose of reimbursing Cook County for the salaries and
11operations of the Cook County Juvenile Temporary Detention
12Center shall not be counted in the total appropriation to the
13Supreme Court in that State fiscal year for reimbursement to
14counties for probation salaries and services, for the purposes
15of this paragraph (h).
16(Source: P.A. 94-91, eff. 7-1-05; 94-839, eff. 6-6-06; 95-707,
17eff. 1-11-08.)
 
18    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
19becoming law.