Full Text of HB1235 95th General Assembly
HB1235sam001 95TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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Sen. Christine Radogno
Filed: 5/8/2008
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| AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 1235
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| AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 1235 by replacing | 3 |
| everything after the enacting clause with the following:
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| "Section 5. The State Facilities Closure Act is amended by | 5 |
| changing Section 5-5 and by adding Sections 5-12 and 5-15 as | 6 |
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| (30 ILCS 608/5-5)
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| Sec. 5-5. Definitions. In this Act: | 9 |
| "Commission" means the
Commission on Government | 10 |
| Forecasting and Accountability. | 11 |
| "State facility" means any facility (i) that is owned and | 12 |
| operated by the State or leased and operated by the State and | 13 |
| (ii) that is the primary stationary work location for 25 or | 14 |
| more State employees. "State facility" does not include any | 15 |
| facility under the jurisdiction of the legislative branch, | 16 |
| including the Auditor General, or the judicial branch.
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| "Correctional Facilities Panel" means the study panel | 2 |
| created and authorized in Section 5-15 of this Act. | 3 |
| (Source: P.A. 93-839, eff. 7-30-04; 93-1067, eff. 1-15-05.) | 4 |
| (30 ILCS 608/5-12 new) | 5 |
| Sec. 5-12. Correctional facilities closure moratorium. | 6 |
| Beginning on the effective date of this amendatory Act of the | 7 |
| 95th General Assembly, no correctional facility managed or | 8 |
| operated by the Illinois Department of Corrections may be | 9 |
| closed, eliminated, or otherwise required to reduce its 2007 | 10 |
| average daily population or average daily workforce by more | 11 |
| than 20% prior to the completion of the required review by the | 12 |
| Correctional Facilities Panel and submission of the panel's | 13 |
| final report as required in Section 5-15 of this Act. | 14 |
| (30 ILCS 608/5-15 new) | 15 |
| Sec. 5-15. Correctional Facilities Panel. | 16 |
| (a) The Correctional Facilities Panel is hereby created and | 17 |
| shall be comprised of the Director of the Department of | 18 |
| Corrections, or his or her designee; 4 members of the General | 19 |
| Assembly: one appointed by the President of the Senate, one | 20 |
| appointed by the Minority Leader of the Senate, one appointed | 21 |
| by the Speaker of the House of Representatives, and one | 22 |
| appointed by the Minority Leader of the House of | 23 |
| Representatives; 2 representatives of the employees who work | 24 |
| within the State's prisons, to be appointed by the Commission |
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| on Government Forecasting and Accountability; and 2 persons or | 2 |
| representatives of organizations with expertise in prisons, | 3 |
| correctional facilities, or prison populations, to be | 4 |
| appointed by the Commission on Government Forecasting and | 5 |
| Accountability. | 6 |
| All members of the Panel are to be appointed within 90 days | 7 |
| after the effective date of this amendatory Act of the 95th | 8 |
| General Assembly. | 9 |
| (b) The Correctional Facilities Panel shall review the | 10 |
| physical condition, the size and composition of the inmate | 11 |
| population, and any specific and immediate needs of each | 12 |
| correctional facility managed or operated by the State. | 13 |
| (c) The Panel is authorized to hold public hearings, take | 14 |
| testimony, and request detailed and specific information | 15 |
| relating to the inmate population, staff, or both of any | 16 |
| individual correctional facility managed or operated by the | 17 |
| State, as well as the State's prison system at large. | 18 |
| Any data or information requested from any agency of the | 19 |
| State, including but not limited to the Department of | 20 |
| Corrections, is to be provided within 30 days of any written | 21 |
| request for information being submitted by the Panel. If the | 22 |
| requested information or data is not available within 30 days, | 23 |
| the head of the agency to which the request was originally | 24 |
| submitted shall provide the Panel, in writing, a detailed | 25 |
| explanation as to why the data or information requested cannot | 26 |
| be timely provided, whether the information exists, and when it |
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| can be expected to be received by the Panel. | 2 |
| (d) The review conducted by the Panel must include, but not | 3 |
| be limited to, a detailed composition of (i) current prison | 4 |
| populations and their respective requirements for effective | 5 |
| reform, (ii) the geographical location of inmate families and | 6 |
| their respective needs, (iii) employee locations, staffing | 7 |
| levels, and the demands being placed on prison staffs within | 8 |
| the State, (iv) the physical condition of each of the State's | 9 |
| correctional facilities and their respective needs, (v) the | 10 |
| potential necessity for a geriatric correctional facility in | 11 |
| Illinois, and (vi) the economic impacts created, at both the | 12 |
| State and local levels, by each of the State's correctional | 13 |
| facilities, with special attention given to any correctional | 14 |
| facility recommended to be immediately or abruptly | 15 |
| decommissioned and their respective populations moved | 16 |
| throughout the remainder of the State's prison system. | 17 |
| (e) The Commission on Government Forecasting and | 18 |
| Accountability shall provide staff and administrative | 19 |
| assistance to the Correctional Facilities Panel. All agencies | 20 |
| of the State must cooperate to the fullest extent possible to | 21 |
| assist the Correctional Facilities Panel in the completion of | 22 |
| its work. | 23 |
| (f) The Panel shall perform a detailed examination of the | 24 |
| State's correctional facilities and the respective populations | 25 |
| and workforces of the facilities, including information | 26 |
| concerning the families of the inmates and staff of the |
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| facility. The Panel shall issue its findings and | 2 |
| recommendations in a final report to the General Assembly | 3 |
| outlining a long-term objective plan for the State's | 4 |
| correctional facilities, the populations they hold, and the | 5 |
| workforce needed to best protect the citizens of Illinois. The | 6 |
| final report must be submitted to the General Assembly no later | 7 |
| than September 1, 2009. | 8 |
| (g) Sixty days after submission of its final report to the | 9 |
| General Assembly, the Correctional Facilities Panel shall be | 10 |
| dissolved.
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| Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | 12 |
| becoming law.".
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