Bill Text: IL HB4843 | 2023-2024 | 103rd General Assembly | Engrossed

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Bill Title: Amends the Unified Code of Corrections. Provides that interest or other income which may be earned from moneys deposited with the Department of Juvenile Justice by a resident of the Department of Juvenile Justice shall accrue to the Residents' Benefit Fund (rather than providing that interest or other income from moneys deposited with the Department of Juvenile Justice by a resident of the Department in excess of $200 shall accrue to the individual's account, or in balances up to $200 shall accrue to the Residents' Benefit Fund).

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-04-19 - Rule 19(a) / Re-referred to Rules Committee [HB4843 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2023-HB4843-Engrossed.html

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AN ACT concerning State government.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The Unified Code of Corrections is amended by
changing Section 3-4-3 as follows:
(730 ILCS 5/3-4-3) (from Ch. 38, par. 1003-4-3)
Sec. 3-4-3. Funds and Property of Persons Committed.
(a) The Department of Corrections and the Department of
Juvenile Justice shall establish accounting records with
accounts for each person who has or receives money while in an
institution or facility of that Department and it shall allow
the withdrawal and disbursement of money by the person under
rules and regulations of that Department. Any interest or
other income which may be earned from moneys deposited with
the Department by a resident of the Department of Juvenile
Justice in excess of $200 shall accrue to the individual's
account, or in balances up to $200 shall accrue to the
Residents' Benefit Fund. For an individual in an institution
or facility of the Department of Corrections the interest
shall accrue to the Residents' Benefit Fund. The Department
shall disburse all moneys so held no later than the person's
final discharge from the Department. Moneys in the account of
a committed person who files a lawsuit determined frivolous

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under Article XXII of the Code of Civil Procedure shall be
deducted to pay for the filing fees and cost of the suit as
provided in that Article. The Department shall under rules and
regulations record and receipt all personal property not
allowed to committed persons. The Department shall return such
property to the individual no later than the person's release
on parole or aftercare.
(b) Any money held in accounts of committed persons
separated from the Department by death, discharge, or
unauthorized absence and unclaimed for a period of 1 year
thereafter by the person or his legal representative shall be
transmitted to the State Treasurer who shall deposit it into
the General Revenue Fund. Articles of personal property of
persons so separated may be sold or used by the Department if
unclaimed for a period of 1 year for the same purpose.
Clothing, if unclaimed within 30 days, may be used or disposed
of as determined by the Department.
(c) Forty percent of the profits on sales from commissary
stores shall be expended by the Department for the special
benefit of committed persons which shall include but not be
limited to the advancement of inmate payrolls, for the special
benefit of employees, and for the advancement or reimbursement
of employee travel, provided that amounts expended for
employees shall not exceed the amount of profits derived from
sales made to employees by such commissaries, as determined by
the Department. The remainder of the profits from sales from

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