Rep. Rita Mayfield

Amends the Unified Code of Corrections. Provides that a mandatory supervised release term shall not be imposed for a Class 4 felony. Makes conforming changes. Fiscal Note (Prisoner Review Board) HB 3659 has no fiscal impact projected to the Prisoner Review Board. House Floor Amendment No. 1 Deletes reference to: 730 ILCS 5/3-3-8 730 ILCS 5/5-8-1 Adds reference to: 730 ILCS 5/3-6-3 from Ch. 38, par. 1003-6-3 Replaces everything after the enacting clause. Amends the Unified Code of Corrections. Includes time served in a county jail as part of the minimum of 60 days of the sentence that must be served before the Director of Corrections may award discretionary earned sentence credit.

Amends the Public Community College Act. Provides for the election (rather than appointment) of the board of trustees of the City Colleges of Chicago beginning with the 2023 consolidated election. Provides that the City of Chicago shall be subdivided into 20 trustee districts by the General Assembly for seats on the board of trustees, in addition to one at-large trustee. Makes related changes. Effective immediately.

Amends the Code of Civil Procedure. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the effect of Article, Part, and Section headings.

Makes appropriations for the ordinary and contingent expenses of the Law Enforcement Training Standards Board for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2022, as follows: General Funds $26,879,400; Other State Funds $51,185,000; Federal Funds $8,000,000; Total $76,064,400.

Amends the Children and Family Services Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title.

Amends the Illinois Department of Transportation Law. Grants the City of North Chicago an exclusive option to acquire specified property from the Department of Transportation for public purposes for a period of 3 years.

Amends the Criminal Code of 2012. Repeals the armed habitual criminal statute. Amends the Unified Code of Corrections. Repeals the general recidivism and habitual criminal provisions of the Code. Provides that notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, a person convicted before the repeal of the armed habitual criminal statute and the general recidivism and habitual criminal provisions of the Code shall not be eligible for consideration of conditions of parole or mandatory supervised release if any of his or her convictions under those statutes was first degree murder, second degree murder, or any sex offense under the Sex Offenses Article of the Criminal Code of 2012. Amends the Illinois Vehicle Code and the Code of Criminal Procedure of 1963 to make conforming changes.

Amends the Property Tax Code. Provides that there shall be printed on each tax bill, or on a separate slip mailed with a tax bill, each taxing district affected by revenues received by a tax increment financing district. Amends the Tax Increment Allocation Redevelopment Act of the Illinois Municipal Code. Revises the definition of "blighted area": (1) to require that a reasonable person would conclude that each factor of a blighted area is present to a meaningful extent so that a municipality may reasonably find that the factor is clearly present, is reasonably distributed throughout the improved or vacant part of the redevelopment project area, and that public intervention is necessary to address the factor; and (2) to provide that a "blighted area" does not include any area within another redevelopment project area. Provides that a municipality must reevaluate whether a redevelopment project area designated as a blighted area is still a blighted area every 10th calendar year after the year in which the ordinance approving the redevelopment project area was adopted, redesignating the redevelopment project area as a blighted area if it meets the requirements or discontinuing the redevelopment project area if it does not meet the requirements. Limits where municipalities may jointly undertake plans or utilize revenues in contiguous redevelopment projects areas.

Makes appropriations for the ordinary and contingent expenses of the Office of the State Fire Marshal for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2022, as follows: Other State Funds $46,012,300; Federal Funds $1,000,000; Total $47,012,300.

Appropriates $21,434,350 to the Office of the State’s Attorneys Appellate Prosecutor for its ordinary and contingent expenses. Effective July 1, 2022.