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 1        AN ACT to amend the Jury Act by changing Section 10.2.

 2        Be it enacted by the People of  the  State  of  Illinois,
 3    represented in the General Assembly:

 4        Section  5.   The Jury Act is amended by changing Section
 5    10.2 as follows:

 6        (705 ILCS 305/10.2) (from Ch. 78, par. 10.2)
 7        Sec. 10.2.  Excusing prospective jurors; hardship.
 8        (a)  The county boards of the  respective  counties,  the
 9    jury   commissioners  for  those  counties  which  have  been
10    appointed under the Jury Commission Act, pursuant to "An  Act
11    in  relation  to jury commissioners and authorizing judges to
12    appoint such commissioners and to make rules concerning their
13    powers and duties", approved June 15, 1887, as amended, or  a
14    jury   administrator  shall  have  the  authority  to  submit
15    questionnaires to prospective jurors to inquire as  to  their
16    qualifications  for  jury service and as to the hardship that
17    jury service would pose  to  the  prospective  jurors.   Upon
18    prior approval by the chief judge of the judicial circuits in
19    which   a   county   board,   jury   administrator,  or  jury
20    commissioners  are   situated,   the   county   board,   jury
21    administrator,   or   jury   commissioners   shall  excuse  a
22    prospective juror from jury service if the prospective  juror
23    shows  that  such  service  would impose an undue hardship on
24    account of the nature of the prospective juror's  occupation,
25    business  affairs,  physical health, family situation, active
26    duty  in  the  Illinois  National  Guard  or  Illinois  Naval
27    Militia, or other personal affairs, and cause his or her name
28    to be returned to the jury list or general jury list.
29        (b)  When an undue hardship caused by a family  situation
30    is  due to the prospective juror being the primary care giver
31    of a person with a mental or physical  disability,  a  person
 
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 1    with a medically diagnosed behavior problem, or a child under
 2    age  12,  then  the  county board, jury commissioners or jury
 3    administrator shall excuse such a prospective  juror,  if  it
 4    finds  that  no reasonable alternative care is feasible which
 5    would not impose an undue hardship on the  prospective  juror
 6    or  the  person  for  whom the prospective juror is providing
 7    care, or both.
 8    (Source: P.A. 90-482, eff. 1-1-98.)

 9        Section 99.  Effective date.  This Act takes effect  July
10    1, 1999.

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