HB5525 - Illinois: Crime, Fee, Labor, Prison

CRIME LAB ANALYSIS FEES Amends the Unified Code of Corrections with respect to crime laboratory analysis fees. In the definition of "crime laboratory", provides that it must be formally accredited and must regularly employ persons who conduct analyses and provide testimony with respect to drug identification, latent fingerprint analysis, and DNA analysis. Enumerates additional offenses for which a guilty offender must pay a fee and increases those fees to varied amounts depending on the offense. Provides that laboratories using a crime laboratory fund must have and file documented procedures and policies concerning its response to discoveries of misconduct or incompetence and claims of innocence by convicted prisoners. Makes other changes. House Amendment No. 1 Provides that $10 from each collected analysis fee shall be deposited into the Circuit Court Clerk Operation and Administrative Fund to offset administrative costs incurred in carrying out the clerk's [...]

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