093_HB3532

 
                                     LRB093 08009 LRD 08207 b

 1        AN ACT in relation to incarceration.

 2        Be  it  enacted  by  the People of the State of Illinois,
 3    represented in the General Assembly:

 4        Section 5.  The County Jail Act is  amended  by  changing
 5    Section 5 as follows:

 6        (730 ILCS 125/5) (from Ch. 75, par. 105)
 7        Sec. 5. Costs of maintaining prisoners.
 8        (a)  Except  as  provided in subsection (b), all costs of
 9    maintaining persons committed for violations of Illinois law,
10    shall  be  the  responsibility  of  the  county.   Except  as
11    provided in subsection (b), all costs of maintaining  persons
12    committed  under  any  ordinance  or  resolution of a unit of
13    local   government,   including   medical   costs,   is   the
14    responsibility of the unit of local government  enacting  the
15    ordinance or resolution, and arresting the person.
16        (b)  If  a  person  who has been convicted of a felony or
17    who has violated mandatory supervised release is incarcerated
18    in a county jail,  the  Illinois  Department  of  Corrections
19    shall  pay  the  county in which that jail is located $59 for
20    each day the person remains in  the  county  jail  after  the
21    fifteenth  day  after  receipt  of the documentation from the
22    clerk of the court authorizing the person's transfer  to  the
23    State  facility  to  which  he  or  she  has  been sentenced.
24    (Source: P.A. 83-1073.)