Sen. Mattie Hunter
Filed: 5/14/2009
 
 

 




 

 		












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AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 3795 




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    AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 3795 on page 1, by 
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replacing line 7 with the following:
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    "Sec.  15.  Authorization.
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    (a) The Chief Judge of each judicial"; and


 
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on page 1, by inserting immediately below line 9 the following:
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    "(b) Whenever the county boards of 2 or more counties 
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within the same judicial circuit shall determine that a single 
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drug court program would best serve those counties, the county 
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board of each such county shall adopt a resolution to the 
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effect that there shall be a single drug court program serving 
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those counties, and shall provide a copy of the resolution to 
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the Chief Judge of the judicial circuit.  Upon receipt of those 
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resolutions, the Chief Judge shall establish or, in the case of 
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an existing drug court program, re-organize a single drug court 
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program to serve those counties.
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    (c) Upon petition of the county board by the State's 
 


 






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Attorney, the court may, for good cause shown of financial 
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hardship or lack of necessary resources, enter an order 
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delaying the implementation of the requirements of subsection 
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(a) of this Section for an individual county, for a period not 
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to exceed 2 years.".