New laws signed by Gov. J.B. Pritzker are set to impact education, public safety, agriculture and labor
While much of the recent political spotlight in Illinois concentrated on the state’s gubernatorial election and the passage of Amendment 1, over 180 new laws passed by the General Assembly are set to take effect on Jan. 1, 2023. Ten days later, the 103rd General Assembly, most recently elected this past cycle, will be inaugurated.
Several laws are anticipated to have potentially far-reaching consequences on Illinois’ existing policies on education, public safety, agriculture and labor.
SAFE-T Act
A hot-button topic in the 2022 election cycle, provisions of the SAFE-T Act taking effect in 2023 will replace the state’s current cash-bail system with a pretrial release framework intended to eliminate inequality for defendants who can’t afford to post bail.
Under the new system, judges have a heightened discretion to release or detain defendants awaiting trial based on their threat to public safety or likelihood to flee or obstruct justice.
The bill also requires increased training for police officers and phases in a mandate that all police departments use body cameras by 2025. It loosens the requirements for complaints against officers and would end so-called “prison gerrymandering” by counting prisoners as living in their last known residence for the purposes of legislative redistricting.
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