Public Act 097-0433

SB2271 Enrolled LRB097 10349 RLJ 50562 b

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.

(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,

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

(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.