Bill Text: IL SB2271 | 2011-2012 | 97th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the State Police Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning Divisions of the Department and appointment of officers.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-0)

Status: (Passed) 2011-08-16 - Public Act . . . . . . . . . 97-0433 [SB2271 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2011-SB2271-Introduced.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 1. Short title. This Act may be cited as the Racial
and Ethnic Impact Research Task Force Act.
Section 5. Purpose. The purpose of this Act is to determine
a practical method for the standardized collection and analysis
of data on the racial and ethnic identity of arrestees by State
and local law enforcement agencies. The method shall be usable
not only for the collection and analysis of data on the racial
and ethnic identity of arrestees under current law, but also in
predicting the likely racial and ethnic identity of arrestees
under proposed changes to the Criminal Code of 1961, the Code
of Criminal Procedure of 1963, and the Unified Code of
Corrections.
Section 10. Racial and Ethnic Impact Research Task Force.
There is created the Racial and Ethnic Impact Research Task
Force, composed of the following members:
(1) Two members of the Senate appointed by the Senate
President, one of whom the President shall designate to
serve as co-chair, and 2 members of the Senate appointed by
the Minority Leader of the Senate.

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(2) Two members of the House of Representatives
appointed by the Speaker of the House of Representatives,
one of whom the Speaker shall designate to serve as
co-chair, and 2 members of the House of Representatives
appointed by the Minority Leader of the House of
Representatives.
(3) The following persons or their designees:
(A) the Attorney General,
(B) the Chief Judge of the Circuit Court of Cook
County,
(C) the Director of State Police,
(D) the Superintendent of the Chicago Police
Department,
(E) the Sheriff of Cook County,
(F) the State Appellate Defender,
(G) the Cook County Public Defender,
(H) the Director of the Office of the State's
Attorneys Appellate Prosecutor,
(I) the Cook County State's Attorney,
(J) the Executive Director of the Illinois
Criminal Justice Information Authority,
(K) the Director of Corrections,
(L) the Director of Juvenile Justice, and
(M) the Executive Director of the Illinois
African-American Family Commission.
(4) The co-chairs may name up to 8 persons,

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representing minority communities within Illinois, groups
involved in the improvement of the administration of
justice, behavioral health, criminal justice, law
enforcement, and the rehabilitation of former inmates,
community groups, and other interested parties.
Section 15. Compensation; support. The members of the Task
Force shall serve without compensation, but may be reimbursed
for reasonable expenses incurred as a result of their duties as
members of the Task Force from funds appropriated by the
General Assembly for that purpose. The Center for Excellence in
Criminal Justice at the Great Lakes Addiction Technology
Transfer Center at Jane Addams College of Social Work at the
University of Illinois at Chicago shall provide staff and
administrative support services to the Task Force.
Section 20. Meetings; report. The Task Force shall hold
one or more public hearings, at which public testimony shall be
heard. The Task Force shall report its findings and
recommendations to the General Assembly on or before July 1,
2012. The recommendations shall include, but are not limited
to:
(1) identifying a practical method for the
standardized collection and analysis of data on the racial
and ethnic identity of arrestees by State and local law
enforcement agencies; and

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(2) providing proposed legislation, drafted with the
assistance of the Legislative Reference Bureau, and using
the identified practical method for the standardized
collection and analysis of data on the racial and ethnic
identity of arrestees by State and local law enforcement
agencies, to create a Racial and Ethnic Impact Statement
providing an analysis of the likely racial and ethnic
identity of arrestees under proposed changes to the
Criminal Code of 1961, the Code of Criminal Procedure of
1963, and the Unified Code of Corrections.
Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
becoming law.