Bill Text: IL HB5363 | 2023-2024 | 103rd General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Probation and Probation Officers Act. Provides that in the supervision of offenders and defendants, probation officers shall use evidence-based practices. Defines "evidence-based practices".

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-02-09 - Referred to Rules Committee [HB5363 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2023-HB5363-Introduced.html

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103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2023 and 2024 HB5363 Introduced , by Rep. Dave Vella SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
730 ILCS 110/9b from Ch. 38, par. 204-1b
730 ILCS 110/9c new
Amends the Probation and Probation Officers Act. Provides that in the supervision of offenders and defendants, probation officers shall use evidence-based practices. Defines "evidence-based practices".
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A BILL FOR
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AN ACT concerning criminal law.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The Probation and Probation Officers Act is
amended by changing Section 9b and by adding Section 9c as
follows:
(730 ILCS 110/9b) (from Ch. 38, par. 204-1b)
Sec. 9b. For the purposes of this Act, the words and
phrases described in this Section have the meanings designated
in this Section, except when a particular context clearly
requires a different meaning.
(1) "Division" means the Division of Probation Services of
the Supreme Court.
(2) "Department" means a probation or court services
department that provides probation or court services and such
other related services assigned to it by the circuit court or
by law.
(3) "Probation Officer" means a person employed full time
in a probation or court services department or a person
employed full-time or part-time as a detention officer
providing services to a court under this Act or the Juvenile
Court Act of 1987. A probation officer includes detention
staff, non-secure group home staff and management personnel

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who meet minimum standards established by the Supreme Court
and who are hired under the direction of the circuit court.
These probation officers are judicial employees designated on
a circuit wide or county basis and compensated by the
appropriate county board or boards.
(4) "Basic Services" means the number of personnel
determined by the Division as necessary to comply with adult,
juvenile, and detention services workload standards and to
operate authorized programs of intermediate sanctions,
intensive probation supervision, public or community service,
intake services, secure detention services, non-secure group
home services and home confinement.
(5) "New or Expanded Services" means personnel necessary
to operate pretrial programs, victim and restitution programs,
psychological services, drunk driving programs, specialized
caseloads, community resource coordination programs, and other
programs designed to generally improve the quality of
probation and court services.
(6) "Individualized Services and Programs" means
individualized services provided through purchase of service
agreements with individuals, specialists, and local public or
private agencies providing non-residential services for the
rehabilitation of adult and juvenile offenders as an
alternative to local or state incarceration.
(7) "Jurisdiction" means the geographical area of
authority of a probation department as designated by the chief

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judge of each circuit court under Section 15 of this Act.
(8) "Transfer case" means any case where an adult or
juvenile offender seeks to have supervision transferred from
one county to another or from another state to a county in
Illinois, and the transfer is approved by a judicial officer,
a department, or through an interstate compact.
(9) "Evidence-based practices" means any procedures,
practices or methods of supervision that have been studied and
reviewed with an emphasis on such practices that enable
probation officers to improve the outcomes when applied in
their supervision of offenders and defendants.
(Source: P.A. 102-699, eff. 4-19-22.)