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1    AN ACT concerning State government.
 
2    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3represented in the General Assembly:
 
4    Section 1. Short title. This Act may be cited as the Racial
5and Ethnic Impact Research Task Force Act.
 
6    Section 5. Purpose. The purpose of this Act is to determine
7a practical method for the standardized collection and analysis
8of data on the racial and ethnic identity of arrestees by State
9and local law enforcement agencies. The method shall be usable
10not only for the collection and analysis of data on the racial
11and ethnic identity of arrestees under current law, but also in
12predicting the likely racial and ethnic identity of arrestees
13under proposed changes to the Criminal Code of 1961, the Code
14of Criminal Procedure of 1963, and the Unified Code of
15Corrections.
 
16    Section 10. Racial and Ethnic Impact Research Task Force.
17There is created the Racial and Ethnic Impact Research Task
18Force, composed of the following members:
19        (1) Two members of the Senate appointed by the Senate
20    President, one of whom the President shall designate to
21    serve as co-chair, and 2 members of the Senate appointed by
22    the Minority Leader of the Senate.

 

 

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1        (2) Two members of the House of Representatives
2    appointed by the Speaker of the House of Representatives,
3    one of whom the Speaker shall designate to serve as
4    co-chair, and 2 members of the House of Representatives
5    appointed by the Minority Leader of the House of
6    Representatives.
7        (3) The following persons or their designees:
8            (A) the Attorney General,
9            (B) the Chief Judge of the Circuit Court of Cook
10        County,
11            (C) the Director of State Police,
12            (D) the Superintendent of the Chicago Police
13        Department,
14            (E) the Sheriff of Cook County,
15            (F) the State Appellate Defender,
16            (G) the Cook County Public Defender,
17            (H) the Director of the Office of the State's
18        Attorneys Appellate Prosecutor,
19            (I) the Cook County State's Attorney,
20            (J) the Executive Director of the Illinois
21        Criminal Justice Information Authority,
22            (K) the Director of Corrections,
23            (L) the Director of Juvenile Justice, and
24            (M) the Executive Director of the Illinois
25        African-American Family Commission.
26        (4) The co-chairs may name up to 8 persons,

 

 

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1    representing minority communities within Illinois, groups
2    involved in the improvement of the administration of
3    justice, behavioral health, criminal justice, law
4    enforcement, and the rehabilitation of former inmates,
5    community groups, and other interested parties.
 
6    Section 15. Compensation; support. The members of the Task
7Force shall serve without compensation, but may be reimbursed
8for reasonable expenses incurred as a result of their duties as
9members of the Task Force from funds appropriated by the
10General Assembly for that purpose. The Center for Excellence in
11Criminal Justice at the Great Lakes Addiction Technology
12Transfer Center at Jane Addams College of Social Work at the
13University of Illinois at Chicago shall provide staff and
14administrative support services to the Task Force.
 
15    Section 20. Meetings; report. The Task Force shall hold
16one or more public hearings, at which public testimony shall be
17heard. The Task Force shall report its findings and
18recommendations to the General Assembly on or before July 1,
192012. The recommendations shall include, but are not limited
20to:
21        (1) identifying a practical method for the
22    standardized collection and analysis of data on the racial
23    and ethnic identity of arrestees by State and local law
24    enforcement agencies; and

 

 

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1        (2) providing proposed legislation, drafted with the
2    assistance of the Legislative Reference Bureau, and using
3    the identified practical method for the standardized
4    collection and analysis of data on the racial and ethnic
5    identity of arrestees by State and local law enforcement
6    agencies, to create a Racial and Ethnic Impact Statement
7    providing an analysis of the likely racial and ethnic
8    identity of arrestees under proposed changes to the
9    Criminal Code of 1961, the Code of Criminal Procedure of
10    1963, and the Unified Code of Corrections.
 
11    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
12becoming law.