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90_SB0508eng

      730 ILCS 5/3-7-6          from Ch. 38, par. 1003-7-6
      735 ILCS 5/4-101          from Ch. 110, par. 4-101
          Amends the Unified Code of Corrections and  the  Code  of
      Civil  Procedure.    Reenacts  the  provisions  of Public Act
      89-428  relating  to  prisoner  reimbursement  for  costs  of
      incarceration  (Section  3-7-6  of  the   Unified   Code   of
      Corrections   and   Section   4-101  of  the  Code  of  Civil
      Procedure).  Also reenacts the changes made to Section  3-7-6
      of  the  Unified Code of Corrections that were made by Public
      Act 89-688.  Effective immediately.
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 1        AN ACT to  reenact  certain  provisions  of  Public  Acts
 2    89-428  and  89-688,  relating  to prisoner reimbursement for
 3    expenses of incarceration.
 4        Be it enacted by the People of  the  State  of  Illinois,
 5    represented in the General Assembly:
 6        Section 5.  The Unified Code of Corrections is amended by
 7    changing Section 3-7-6 as follows:
 8        (730 ILCS 5/3-7-6) (from Ch. 38, par. 1003-7-6)
 9        Sec. 3-7-6.  Reimbursement for expenses.
10        (a)  Responsibility.   Convicted persons committed to the
11    Department correctional institutions or facilities  shall  be
12    responsible  to  reimburse  the  Department  for the expenses
13    incurred by their incarceration at a rate to be determined by
14    the Department in accordance with this Section.
15        (b)  Expenses.  The rate at which sums to be charged  for
16    the  expenses  incurred  by  a  convicted person committed to
17    Department correctional institutions or facilities for his or
18    her incarceration shall be computed by the Department as  the
19    average  per  capita  cost  per  day  for all inmates of that
20    institution or facility for that fiscal  year.   The  average
21    per  capita  cost per day shall be computed by the Department
22    based on  the  average  per  capita  cost  per  day  for  the
23    operation of that institution or facility for the fiscal year
24    immediately  preceding  the period of incarceration for which
25    the rate is being calculated.  The Department shall establish
26    rules and regulations providing for the  computation  of  the
27    above  costs, and shall determine the average per capita cost
28    per day for each of its institutions or facilities  for  each
29    fiscal  year.   The Department shall have the power to modify
30    its rules and regulations, so as  to  provide  for  the  most
31    accurate  and  most  current  average per capita cost per day
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 1    computation.  Where the  convicted  person  is  placed  in  a
 2    facility  outside  the Department, the Department may pay the
 3    actual cost of services in that  facility,  and  may  collect
 4    reimbursement  for  the entire amount paid from the convicted
 5    person receiving those services.
 6        (c)  Records.  The records of the Department,  including,
 7    but not limited to, those relating to: the average per capita
 8    cost  per  day for a particular institution or facility for a
 9    particular year, and  the  calculation  of  the  average  per
10    capita  cost  per  day;  the  average  daily  population of a
11    particular Department correctional  institution  or  facility
12    for a particular year; the specific placement of a particular
13    convicted   person   in   various   Department   correctional
14    institutions  or  facilities for various periods of time; and
15    the record of transactions of a particular convicted person's
16    trust account under Section 3-4-3 of this Act; may be  proved
17    in any legal proceeding, by a reproduced copy thereof or by a
18    computer   printout   of   Department   records,   under  the
19    certificate of the Director.  If reproduced copies are  used,
20    the  Director  must  certify  that  those  are true and exact
21    copies of the  records  on  file  with  the  Department.   If
22    computer  printouts  of records of the Department are offered
23    as proof, the  Director  must  certify  that  those  computer
24    printouts  are  true  and  exact  representations  of records
25    properly   entered   into   standard   electronic   computing
26    equipment,  in  the  regular  course  of   the   Department's
27    business, at or reasonably near the time of the occurrence of
28    the   facts   recorded,   from   trustworthy   and   reliable
29    information.  The reproduced copy or computer printout shall,
30    without further proof, be admitted into evidence in any legal
31    proceeding,  and shall be prima facie correct and prima facie
32    evidence  of  the  accuracy  of  the  information   contained
33    therein.
34        (d)  Authority.    The   Director,   or   the  Director's
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 1    designee, may, when he or she knows  or  reasonably  believes
 2    that   a   convicted   person  committed  to  the  Department
 3    correctional institutions or facilities,  or  the  estate  of
 4    that  person,  has assets which may be used to satisfy all or
 5    part of a judgment rendered under this Act, or when he or she
 6    knows  or  reasonably  believes  that  a   convicted   person
 7    committed  to  the  Department  correctional  institutions or
 8    facilities is engaged in  gang-related  activity  and  has  a
 9    substantial  sum  of  money  or  other  assets, authorize the
10    Attorney General to  institute  proceedings  to  require  the
11    persons,  or  the  estates  of  the persons, to reimburse the
12    Department for the expenses incurred by their  incarceration.
13    The  Attorney General, upon authorization of the Director, or
14    the Director's designee, shall institute actions on behalf of
15    the Department and pursue claims on the  Department's  behalf
16    in  probate  and  bankruptcy  proceedings,  to  recover  from
17    convicted   persons   committed  to  Department  correctional
18    facilities the expenses incurred by  their  confinement.  For
19    purposes  of this subsection (d), "gang-related" activity has
20    the meaning ascribed to it in  Section  10  of  the  Illinois
21    Streetgang Terrorism Omnibus Prevention Act.
22        (e)  Scope and limitations.
23             (1)  No action under this Section shall be initiated
24        more  than  2  years  after  the  release or death of the
25        convicted person in question.
26             (2)  The death of a convicted person,  by  execution
27        or   otherwise,   while   committed   to   a   Department
28        correctional  institution  or facility shall not act as a
29        bar to any action or proceeding under this Section.
30             (3)  The assets  of  a  convicted  person,  for  the
31        purposes  of  this  Section,  shall  include  any and all
32        assets and property of whatever  character  held  in  the
33        name  of  the person, held for the benefit of the person,
34        or payable or otherwise deliverable to the  person.   Any
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 1        trust, or portion of a trust, of which a convicted person
 2        is  a  beneficiary, shall be construed as an asset of the
 3        person,  to  the  extent  that  benefits  thereunder  are
 4        required to be paid to the person, or shall  in  fact  be
 5        paid  to  the person.  No provision of this Section shall
 6        be  construed  in  violation  of  any  State  or  federal
 7        limitation on the collection of money judgments.
 8             (4)  Nothing in  this  Section  shall  preclude  the
 9        Department   from  applying  federal  benefits  that  are
10        specifically provided for the care  and  treatment  of  a
11        convicted  person  toward  the cost of care provided by a
12        State facility  or  private  agency.   (a)  The  Director
13        shall,  when  reasonably  able, require convicted persons
14        committed  to  Department  correctional  institutions  or
15        facilities to reimburse the Department for  the  expenses
16        incurred by their incarceration.  The reimbursement shall
17        include,  but  not be limited to, room and board, health,
18        medical and dental care, costs  arising  from  damage  to
19        State  property,  and  costs incurred due to disciplinary
20        infractions.  Costs of incarceration shall  be  deemed  a
21        civil  judgment against an incarcerated person and his or
22        her estate and shall run from the  date  of  his  or  her
23        conviction until his or her release from incarceration or
24        his  or  her  death  while  incarcerated, whichever shall
25        first occur.  In the case of a person who dies or is  put
26        to  death  while  still incarcerated, the judgment may be
27        submitted by the Attorney  General  as  a  claim  by  the
28        People  of  the  State  of Illinois against that person's
29        estate.  Any asset owned by the  incarcerated  person  at
30        the   time  of  his  transfer  to  a  receiving  facility
31        designated by the Department, or acquired by him  or  her
32        during the period of his or her incarceration, is subject
33        to the provisions of this Section provided the person (1)
34        is  incarcerated  at  the time initial action is taken by
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 1        the Attorney General to  levy  against  it,  or  (2)  was
 2        incarcerated  and  died  or  was  put  to  death  and the
 3        Attorney General brings a claim against his or her estate
 4        within the period provided for limitation of claims under
 5        Section 18-12 of the Probate Act of 1975, or the Attorney
 6        General otherwise perfects a claim against the estate  or
 7        executes  a  judgment  against it under the Code of Civil
 8        Procedure or in some manner provided by law.
 9        (b)  Upon  notification   by   the   Director   that   an
10    incarcerated  person  has,  or  probably has, acquired assets
11    from which a  judgment  for  incarceration  expenses  may  be
12    satisfied  in  whole or in part, or if, as a result of his or
13    her own inquiry or investigation  the  Attorney  General  has
14    reason  to  believe  that  those  assets  exist, the Attorney
15    General may, in the name  of  the  People  of  the  State  of
16    Illinois,  request  that  a citation to discover assets issue
17    against the incarcerated person or any other person, or bring
18    an action in the name of the People of the State of  Illinois
19    under  the Code of Civil Procedure or the Probate Act of 1975
20    to levy upon or perfect a claim or lien, in whole or in part,
21    against a judgment debtor or lien debtor or the estate  of  a
22    deceased person, as the case may be.
23        (c)  The   Department   may,   at  any  time  during  the
24    confinement of an incarcerated person, or within 2  years  of
25    the   death   of   a  person  occurring  during  his  or  her
26    incarceration, request the Attorney General (1) to cause  the
27    judgment,   or   a   portion  of  the  judgment,  against  an
28    incarcerated person to be satisfied out of property or assets
29    that the Department believes to have been owned by him or her
30    at the time of his or her conviction or that have  come  into
31    his  or  her  possession  during  the  period  of  his or her
32    incarceration, or (2)  file  a  claim  against  the  person's
33    estate,  as  the  case  may  be.  Following receipt of such a
34    request, or as a result  of  his  or  her  own  investigation
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 1    indicating  the  probable  existence  of  assets available to
 2    satisfy the judgment  in  whole  or  in  part,  the  Attorney
 3    General  may  ask  the Department to provide documentation of
 4    the defendant's  incarceration  and  incarceration  expenses.
 5    The  Department  shall forthwith provide the Attorney General
 6    with a certified copy of the order committing  the  defendant
 7    to its custody and a summary of the defendant's incarceration
 8    costs  broken  out in such detail as the Attorney General may
 9    require.
10        The Department shall also provide  the  Attorney  General
11    with  the  location  of any asset owned by the defendant that
12    has served as a basis for its request for an order satisfying
13    all or a portion of the  incarceration  costs,  judgment,  or
14    estate claim.
15        (d)  The  Attorney  General may seek an order in the name
16    of the People of the State of  Illinois  in  any  appropriate
17    court  to levy upon assets of an incarcerated person, or file
18    a claim against the  assets  of  the  estate  of  a  deceased
19    person,  for  the  costs of a defendant's incarceration.  The
20    incarcerated person or, in the case of a  decedent's  estate,
21    the representative of the estate, shall be named as defendant
22    or  respondent  and  shall  be  served  or  notified  of  all
23    proceedings  to  collect  the  judgment  or  portion  of  the
24    judgment,  or  perfect  a  claim  under  the  Code  of  Civil
25    Procedure or the Probate Act of 1975, as the case may be.
26    (Source: P.A. 88-669, eff. 11-29-94; 88-679, eff. 7-1-95.)
27        Section  10.   The  Code of Civil Procedure is amended by
28    changing Section 4-101 as follows:
29        (735 ILCS 5/4-101) (from Ch. 110, par. 4-101)
30        Sec.  4-101.  Cause.  In  any  court   having   competent
31    jurisdiction,  a  creditor  having  a  money  claim,  whether
32    liquidated  or unliquidated, and whether sounding in contract
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 1    or tort, or based upon a statutory cause of action created by
 2    law in favor of the People of the State of Illinois,  or  any
 3    agency  of  the  State,  may  have  an attachment against the
 4    property of his or her debtor, or that of any one or more  of
 5    several  debtors,  either  at the time of commencement of the
 6    action or thereafter, when the claim exceeds $20, in any  one
 7    of the following cases:
 8             1.  Where  the  debtor  is  not  a  resident of this
 9        State.
10             2.  When the debtor conceals himself or  herself  or
11        stands  in defiance of an officer, so that process cannot
12        be served upon him or her.
13             3.  Where the debtor has departed  from  this  State
14        with  the  intention of having his or her effects removed
15        from this State.
16             4.  Where the debtor is about to  depart  from  this
17        State  with  the  intention  of having his or her effects
18        removed from this State.
19             5.  Where the debtor is about to remove his  or  her
20        property from this State to the injury of such creditor.
21             6.  Where  the  debtor  has within 2 years preceding
22        the  filing  of  the  affidavit  required,   fraudulently
23        conveyed  or  assigned  his  or  her  effects,  or a part
24        thereof, so as to hinder or delay his or her creditors.
25             7.  Where the debtor has, within 2  years  prior  to
26        the  filing  of such affidavit, fraudulently concealed or
27        disposed of his or her property so as to hinder or  delay
28        his or her creditors.
29             8.  Where   the  debtor  is  about  fraudulently  to
30        conceal, assign, or  otherwise  dispose  of  his  or  her
31        property  or effects, so as to hinder or delay his or her
32        creditors.
33             9.  Where  the  debt  sued  for   was   fraudulently
34        contracted  on  the part of the debtor. The statements of
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 1        the  debtor,  his  or  her  agent  or   attorney,   which
 2        constitute the fraud, shall have been reduced to writing,
 3        and  his or her signature attached thereto, by himself or
 4        herself, agent or attorney.
 5             10.  When the debtor is a person convicted of  first
 6        degree   murder,   a   Class   X  felony,  or  aggravated
 7        kidnapping, or found not guilty by reason of insanity  or
 8        guilty but mentally ill of first degree murder, a Class X
 9        felony,  or  aggravated  kidnapping, against the creditor
10        and that crime makes the creditor a  "victim"  under  the
11        Criminal Victims' Asset Discovery Act.
12             11.  When  the  debtor  is  a  defendant  in  a suit
13        brought by the Attorney General under  Section  3-7-6  of
14        the  Unified  Code of Corrections to recover the expenses
15        incurred  as  a  result  of   that   debtor's   cost   of
16        incarceration.
17    (Source: P.A. 87-1157; 88-378.)
18        Section  99.  Effective date.  This Act takes effect upon
19    becoming law.

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