Illinois Statutes Chapter 20. Executive Branch § 4112/15. Task Force on Counsel in Immigration Proceedings

(1) the Governor, or his or her designee;

(2) the President of the Senate, or his or her designee;

(3) the Minority Leader of the Senate, or his or her designee;

(4) the Speaker of the House of Representatives, or his or her designee;

(5) the Minority Leader of the House of Representatives, or his or her designee;

(6) the Attorney General, or his or her designee; and

(7) the Secretary of Human Services, or his or her designee.

(1) the estimated number of covered individuals facing a covered proceeding;

(2) the current infrastructure for providing independent, competent, and zealous legal representation in a covered proceeding;

(3) the additional resources, including salaries and benefits for attorneys and support staff, training, supervision, and material resources that would need to be added to the existing infrastructure described in paragraph (2) in order to provide independent, competent, and zealous legal representation for the number of covered individuals described in paragraph (1), including mechanisms for subcontracted relationships with independent experts and social service providers;

(4) the estimated annual cost of the additional resources described in paragraph (3);

(5) funding sources, public and private, that are or would be available to pay for the additional resources described in paragraph (3); and

(6) the estimated annual cost of bond payment support needed for covered individuals facing a covered proceeding, and the feasibility of a State-sponsored bond fund for those individuals.

(1) State domiciliary versus non-State domiciliary covered individuals, and, among the State domiciliary covered individuals, the regions of residence within the State;

(2) household income above and below 250% of the federal poverty line;

(3) type of proceedings in which the covered individuals need legal representation; and

(4) current percentages of covered individuals in covered proceedings with and without legal representation.