Traffic/DUI

(Martwick, D-Chicago) amends the Circuit Courts Act to provide that in 2021 the General Assembly must redraw the boundaries of the subcircuits of the Circuit of Cook County to reflect the results of the 2020 federal decennial census. A resident judgeship assigned to a subcircuit will continue to be assigned to that subcircuit. Any vacancy in a resident judgeship existing on or occurring after the effective date of a law redrawing the boundaries of the subcircuits must be filled by a resident of the redrawn subcircuit. Assigned to House Executive Committee. 

(Bennett, R-Pontiac) extends the statute of limitations for a violation of perjury to seven years. Current law is three years. House Bill 914 was just introduced.

(Van Pelt, D-Chicago) provides that the chief judge of each judicial circuit may establish a Justice for Juveniles Program. It would require that juveniles arrested or detained for eligible offenses be represented by legal counsel throughout the entire custodial interrogation of the juvenile. If the chief judge does establish such a program, any oral, written, or sign language statement of a juvenile made without the presence of legal counsel during a custodial interrogation on or after the effective date of the Program shall be inadmissible as evidence against the juvenile in a juvenile or criminal proceeding. Defines “eligible offense” and “juvenile.” Senate Bill 63 was just introduced.

(Wheeler, R-Crystal Lake) makes the sentence for attempt to commit a Class A misdemeanor the sentence for a Class B misdemeanor, the sentence for attempt to commit a Class B misdemeanor the sentence for a Class C misdemeanor, and the sentence for attempt to commit a Class C misdemeanor the sentence for a Class C misdemeanor. Scheduled for hearing November 27th in House Criminal Law. 

(Clayborne, D- East St. Louis; Gordon-Booth, D-Peoria) amends the Adult Redeploy Illinois program to include those convicted of a probation-eligible offense rather than a non-violent offender. Effective January 1, 2019.

(Mulroe, D-Chicago; Andersson, R-Geneva) is a trailer bill to resolve technical concerns in the rewrite of the fines and costs statutes in the just enacted Criminal and Traffic Assessment Act. Effective July 1, 2019. 

(Andersson, R-Geneva; Mulroe, D-Chicago) creates the Criminal and Traffic Assessment Act. The Act would standardize court-filing fees and fines into 13 schedules of potential assessments for criminal and traffic offenses and four schedules for civil court cases. The Act also caps the maximum amount of money that can be assessed under each schedule and for various services or filings within the court process. The money collected under these assessment schedules would then be distributed at the state, county, and local levels for officials to decide how to best allocate their portion for maintaining the courts. It would also provide a sliding-scale waiver for some civil litigants and criminal defendants depending on their income relative to the federal poverty level. It has an immediate effective date for part of it and a delayed effective date for most of it.