HB3416 Summary

• Appropriates $4,200,000 from the General Revenue Fund to the Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity for a grant to Treatment Alternatives for Safe Communities (TASC).

• Funds specialized case management services for individuals in pretrial detention in Winnebago County and St. Clair County who are no longer eligible for detention under the Pretrial Fairness Act.

• TASC has demonstrated success since 1976, with program participants showing a 71% reduction in drug and property crime re-arrests within two years of enrollment.

• The grant addresses changes made by the Pretrial Fairness Act (Public Acts 101-652, 102-28, and 102-1104) to Article 110 of the Code of Criminal Procedure.

• The act takes effect upon becoming law.