99TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2015 and 2016
SB2151

 

Introduced 7/14/2015, by Sen. Ira I. Silverstein

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
740 ILCS 45/10.1  from Ch. 70, par. 80.1

    Amends the Crime Victims Compensation Act. Provides that a crime victim or another person may be compensated for legal expenses and court costs related to the enforcement of the crime victim's rights.


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FISCAL NOTE ACT MAY APPLY

 

 

A BILL FOR

 

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1    AN ACT concerning civil law.
 
2    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3represented in the General Assembly:
 
4    Section 5. The Crime Victims Compensation Act is amended by
5changing Section 10.1 as follows:
 
6    (740 ILCS 45/10.1)  (from Ch. 70, par. 80.1)
7    Sec. 10.1. Amount of compensation. The amount of
8compensation to which an applicant and other persons are
9entitled shall be based on the following factors:
10    (a) A victim may be compensated for his or her pecuniary
11loss, including but not limited to legal expenses and court
12costs related to the enforcement of the crime victim's rights.
13    (b) A dependent may be compensated for loss of support.
14    (c) Any person, even though not dependent upon the victim
15for his or her support, may be compensated for reasonable
16expenses of the victim to the extent to which he or she has
17paid or become obligated to pay such expenses, including but
18not limited to legal expenses and court costs related to the
19enforcement of the crime victim's rights, and only after
20compensation for reasonable funeral, medical and hospital
21expenses of the victim have been awarded may compensation be
22made for reasonable expenses of the victim incurred for
23psychological treatment of a mental or emotional condition

 

 

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1caused or aggravated by the crime.
2    (d) An award shall be reduced or denied according to the
3extent to which the victim's acts or conduct provoked or
4contributed to his or her injury or death, or the extent to
5which any prior criminal conviction or conduct of the victim
6may have directly or indirectly contributed to the injury or
7death of the victim.
8    (e) An award shall be reduced by the amount of benefits,
9payments or awards payable under those sources which are
10required to be listed under item (7) of Section 7.1(a) and any
11other sources except annuities, pension plans, Federal Social
12Security payments payable to dependents of the victim and the
13net proceeds of the first $25,000 of life insurance that would
14inure to the benefit of the applicant, which the applicant or
15any other person dependent for the support of a deceased
16victim, as the case may be, has received or to which he or she
17is entitled as a result of injury to or death of the victim.
18    (f) A final award shall not exceed $10,000 for a crime
19committed prior to September 22, 1979, $15,000 for a crime
20committed on or after September 22, 1979 and prior to January
211, 1986, $25,000 for a crime committed on or after January 1,
221986 and prior to August 7, 1998, or $27,000 for a crime
23committed on or after August 7, 1998. If the total pecuniary
24loss is greater than the maximum amount allowed, the award
25shall be divided in proportion to the amount of actual loss
26among those entitled to compensation.

 

 

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1    (g) Compensation under this Act is a secondary source of
2compensation and the applicant must show that he or she has
3exhausted the benefits reasonably available under the Criminal
4Victims' Escrow Account Act or any governmental or medical or
5health insurance programs, including but not limited to
6Workers' Compensation, the Federal Medicare program, the State
7Public Aid program, Social Security Administration burial
8benefits, Veterans Administration burial benefits, and life,
9health, accident or liability insurance.
10(Source: P.A. 97-817, eff. 1-1-13.)