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Short title. This Article may be cited as the Pretrial Success Act. References in this Article to "this Act" mean this Article.(Source: P.A. 103-588, eff. 6-5-24; 104-417, eff. 8-15-25.)
Illinois · statute · 725 ILCS 187 · 19 active provisions
Short title. This Article may be cited as the Pretrial Success Act. References in this Article to "this Act" mean this Article.(Source: P.A. 103-588, eff. 6-5-24; 104-417, eff. 8-15-25.)
Intent; purposes. This Act creates a comprehensive approach to ensuring pretrial success, justice, and individual and communal well-being. The Act minimizes the number of people detained pretrial by ensuring access to community-based pretrial supports and services. (Source: P.A. 103-588, eff. 6-5-24.)
Definitions. As used in this Act: "Case management" means assessment, planning, coordination, and advocacy services for individuals who need multiple services and require assistance in gaining access to and in using behavioral health, physical health, social, vocational, educational, housing, public income entitlements…
Findings. The General Assembly finds that: (1) The Pretrial Fairness Act defines when an arrested person can be denied pretrial release and prohibits the imposition of financial conditions for release by abolishing money bond. This prevents the pretrial detention of many arrested individuals with mental health or subst…
Grant-making authority. (a) The Department of Human Services shall have grant-making, operational, and procurement authority to distribute funds to local government health and human services agencies, community-based organizations, and other entities necessary to execute the functions established in this Act. (b) Subje…
Community-based pretrial supports and services. (a) Subject to appropriation, the Department shall make grants to organizations for community-based pretrial supports and services. (b) The Department shall issue grants to at least one organization in each of the service areas and no more than 3 organizations in each of…
Service areas. (a) Each judicial circuit with a population of at least 500,000 constitutes a service area. Each judicial circuit with a population of less than 500,000 shall be combined with at least one other geographically contiguous judicial circuit to constitute a service area with a population of at least 500,000.…
Local advisory councils. (a) Subject to appropriation, and no later than July 1, 2025, the Department shall create local advisory councils for each of the service areas for the purpose of obtaining recommendations on how to distribute funds in these areas to maximize pretrial success. Local advisory councils shall cons…
Medicaid services. (a) Funds awarded under this Act may be used for behavioral health services until July 1, 2027. (b) Any organization being reimbursed from funds awarded under this Act for behavioral health services must also file a plan to become Medicaid certified for behavioral health services under the Illinois M…
Evaluation. (a) The Department shall issue a report to the General Assembly no later than January 1 of each year beginning at least 12 months after grants are first issued under this Act. The report shall cover the previous fiscal year and identify gaps in community-based pretrial supports and services in each service…
Rulemaking authority. The Department shall adopt rules as are necessary to implement all elements of this Act. (Source: P.A. 103-588, eff. 6-5-24.) (725 ILCS 187/Art. 3 heading) Article 3. Amendatory provisions; text omitted)(Source: P.A. 103-588, eff. 6-5-24; text omitted.) (725 ILCS 187/Art. 5 heading) Article 5. (Am…
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Severability. The provisions of this Act are severable under Section 1.31 of the Statute on Statutes. (Source: P.A. 103-588, eff. 6-5-24.)
Effective date. This Act takes effect upon becoming law, except that Sections 3-15, 3-25, 3-27, 3-45, 3-50, and 3-60 and Article 45 take effect July 1, 2024 and Sections 3-7, 3-11, 3-30, 3-55, and 3-57 take effect January 1, 2025. (Source: P.A. 103-588, eff. 6-5-24.)