98TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2013 and 2014
SB1843

Introduced 2/15/2013, by Sen. John G. Mulroe

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
730 ILCS 110/9b from Ch. 38, par. 204-1b

Amends the Probation and Probation Officers Act. Defines "transfer case" as 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 probation or court services department, or through an interstate compact.
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A BILL FOR

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1 AN ACT concerning criminal law.
2 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3represented in the General Assembly:
4 Section 5. The Probation and Probation Officers Act is
5amended by changing Section 9b as follows:
6 (730 ILCS 110/9b) (from Ch. 38, par. 204-1b)
7 Sec. 9b. For the purposes of this Act, the words and
8phrases described in this Section have the meanings designated
9in this Section, except when a particular context clearly
10requires a different meaning.
11 (1) "Division" means the Division of Probation Services of
12the Supreme Court.
13 (2) "Department" means a probation or court services
14department that provides probation or court services and such
15other related services assigned to it by the circuit court or
16by law.
17 (3) "Probation Officer" means a person employed full time
18in a probation or court services department providing services
19to a court under this Act or the Juvenile Court Act of 1987. A
20probation officer includes detention staff, non-secure group
21home staff and management personnel who meet minimum standards
22established by the Supreme Court and who are hired under the
23direction of the circuit court. These probation officers are

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1judicial employees designated on a circuit wide or county basis
2and compensated by the appropriate county board or boards.
3 (4) "Basic Services" means the number of personnel
4determined by the Division as necessary to comply with adult,
5juvenile, and detention services workload standards and to
6operate authorized programs of intermediate sanctions,
7intensive probation supervision, public or community service,
8intake services, secure detention services, non-secure group
9home services and home confinement.
10 (5) "New or Expanded Services" means personnel necessary to
11operate pretrial programs, victim and restitution programs,
12psychological services, drunk driving programs, specialized
13caseloads, community resource coordination programs, and other
14programs designed to generally improve the quality of probation
15and court services.
16 (6) "Individualized Services and Programs" means
17individualized services provided through purchase of service
18agreements with individuals, specialists, and local public or
19private agencies providing non-residential services for the
20rehabilitation of adult and juvenile offenders as an
21alternative to local or state incarceration.
22 (7) "Jurisdiction" means the geographical area of
23authority of a probation department as designated by the chief
24judge of each circuit court under Section 15 of this Act.
25 (8) "Transfer case" means any case where an adult or
26juvenile offender seeks to have supervision transferred from

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1one county to another or from another state to a county in
2Illinois, and the transfer is approved by a judicial officer, a
3department, or through an interstate compact.
4(Source: P.A. 89-198, eff. 7-21-95.)