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  1. A quick update - the hearing date has been changed from 3/20/2024 to 3/21/2024. Witness slips survived the change, but keep 'em coming!
  2. Thanks for spotting that. We do SUPPORT HB5037, and a corrected email clarifying that is on the way.
  3. Call to Action Witness Slips Needed! Legislatures in blue states continue their attempts to ignore NYSRPA v Bruen, which requires them to base new gun legislation on law that existed at the time of America's founding. If analogous law cannot be found from circa 1791 or, to a lesser extent, circa 1868 when the 14th Amendment was adopted, the Supreme Court tells us those laws are presumptively unconstitutional. In an earlier Call to Action we brought to your attention HB5178 Elec Cd – Firearms Polling Place, a bill that duplicates existing laws prohibiting firearms in polling places. Seemingly embarrassed by his lack of understanding the sponsor, Bridge-Too-Far-Bob Morgan, has filed House Amendment 1 designed to punish gun owning voters by preventing firearm storage within their vehicle while voting. In doing so, by removing the endpoint of a voter's travels from legal firearm possession, it removes possession from the entirety of the journey. This will have a chilling effect on gun owners exercising their right to vote. It will create a choice between the fundamental right to vote and the fundamental right to keep and bear arms. Of course, for people like Mr. Morgan, reducing the number of pro-gun votes might be a desirable, if not intended consequence of this amendment. Another bill, HB4744 Voluntary Do Not Sell Firearms, is the height of anti-gun nonsense. It proposes to create a list to which a person choosing not to own a firearm, can add their name in order to prohibit ownership. As brilliant as the Founders were, in may ways they were simple men and women. Common sense in their day would tell them that if they didn't want to buy something, they simply wouldn't buy it. In their day it didn't need to be any more complicated than that. And it doesn't need to be more complicated now. People have been making choices for millennia without needing a law to compel the choice they made. We do not need this law now, and we certainly don't need a law that may eventually allow family members, law enforcement and “intimate partners” to add the names of gun owners as they can under similar law. And we don't need judges predicating pretrial release on your “voluntary” addition to the list. HB5595 Reporting Lost & Stolen Firearms proposes to increase penalties, including loss of rights, but only for law abiding FOID Card holders. Those illegally in possession of firearms, arguably the same people who are most likely to fail to report, are exempt. In the ultimate logical conundrum, losing one's rights by failing to report stolen firearms removes you from any further reporting requirement. Please help us oppose these bills. There is some light on the horizon, however, and from an unlikely source. Historically anti-gun Representative Kelly Cassidy has filed HB5037 Firearms Used to Commit Crime proposing to return some degree of sentencing control to the courts. Under current law, certain firearm violations require the addition of 15 years to life, to the offender's sentence. This is true even, in some cases, when the accused was not personally in possession of a firearm. HB5037 still allows the imposition of these sentencing enhancements when the court feels they are warranted, but only for offenders who were personally armed. We believe in the need to hold violent offenders accountable for their actions but we also believe in the need to respect a separation of powers between the Legislature and the Judiciary, a separation that requires allowing the Judiciary to weigh facts and sentence accordingly. We invite you to join us in supporting this bill. File Witness Slips Now! Detailed Witness Slip Instructions Log On to the ILGA Dashboard In order to avoid completing each field manually, at the top right Log on to your ILGA Dashboard or Create a New Account if you haven't already created one, then return to this email and click on the links for each witness slip. ### HB4744 Voluntary Do Not Sell Firearm OPPOSE! Read More About This Bill File an OPPONENT Witness Slip Track the Witness Slips HB5178 Elec Cd – Firearms Polling Place HCA 1 OPPOSE! Read More About This Amendment File an OPPONENT Witness Slip on HCA1 Track the Witness Slips HB5595 Reporting Lost & Stolen Firearms OPPOSE! Read More About This Bill File an OPPONENT Witness Slip Track the Witness Slips HB5037 Firearm Used To Commit Crime SUPPORT! Read More About This Bill File a SUPPORTING Witness Slip Track the Witness Slips
  4. When I think of companion bills, I usually think of bills with identical language filed in the two separate chambers. HB5555 is very different from HB3239. Part of a larger, anti-gun agenda for sure but not really a companion to HB3239,
  5. The Senate stands adjourned until 3/20/2024 @ 2:00 PM.
  6. Senate session for 3/15/2024 has been cancelled.
  7. House Committee(s) House Mental Health & Addiction Committee - 10:00 AM Room C-1 HB5129 Mental Health - Danger Notice - OPPOSE *Items in bold are included in our current Calls to Action
  8. House Calendar 12:00 Noon HB1224 Illiana Tsk Force - Firearm Violence Neutral House Sponsor: Jones Status: Second Reading Synopsis As Introduced Creates the Illiana Task Force Act. Creates the Illiana Task Force, consisting of 24 police officers, appointed by the Director of the Illinois State Police. Provides that the members of the Task Force shall select a chairperson. Provides that members of the Task Force shall receive no compensation for their service on the Task Force but shall be reimbursed for necessary expenses incurred in the performance of their duties from appropriations made by the General Assembly for that purpose. Provides that the Task Force shall meet at least once monthly to study ways to reduce violence in local communities caused by the illegal use of firearms and to make recommendations to the Governor and the General Assembly on suggested legislative solutions to this problem. Provides that the Task Force shall submit an annual report to the Governor and the General Assembly on or before December 31 of each year and a final report 5 years after the creation of the Task Force. Provides that the Task Force shall be dissolved 6 years after its creation. Provides that the Act is repealed on January 1, 2030. Effective immediately. HB1675 State Government - Tech Support HA 1 House Sponsor: Cabello Status: Second Reading Synopsis As Introduced Amends the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title House Amendment 1 to HB1675 - Pending Replaces everything after the enacting clause. Amends the Illinois State Police Act. Provides that a member of the Illinois State Police may not discipline or retaliate in any way against a State Police officer for exercising the officer's duty to intervene, for reporting unconstitutional or unlawful conduct, or for failing to follow what the officer reasonably believes is an unconstitutional or unlawful directive or is a directive against Illinois State Police policies. Amends the Illinois Police Training Act. Provides the Illinois Law Enforcement Training Standards Board has the power and duty to adopt rules that a law enforcement agency must follow prohibiting a member of the law enforcement agency from disciplining or retaliating in any way against a law enforcement officer for exercising the officer's duty to intervene, for reporting unconstitutional or unlawful conduct, or for failing to follow what the officer reasonably believes is an unconstitutional or unlawful directive or is a directive against the law enforcement agency's policies. HB1881 Criminal Law - Tech Neutral House Sponsor: Tipsword Status: Second Reading Synopsis As Introduced Amends the Criminal Code of 2012. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title. House Amendment 1 to HB1881 - Pending Replaces everything after the enacting clause. Amends the Criminal Code of 2012. Provides that that the provisions concerning the unlawful use of weapons as those provisions pertain to firearms do not apply to or affect the carrying or possession of firearms by a qualified current or retired law enforcement officer qualified under the laws of the State or under the federal Law Enforcement Officers Safety Act in any school, regardless of the time of day or the time of year, in residential property owned, operated, or managed by a public housing agency or leased by a public housing agency as part of a scattered site or mixed-income development, in a public park, in a courthouse, on the real property comprising any school, regardless of the time of day or the time of year, on residential property owned, operated, or managed by a public housing agency or leased by a public housing agency as part of a scattered site or mixed-income development, on the real property comprising any public park, on the real property comprising any courthouse, in any conveyance owned, leased, or contracted by a school to transport students to or from school or a school related activity, in any conveyance owned, leased, or contracted by a public transportation agency, or on any public way within 1,000 feet of the real property comprising any school, public park, courthouse, public transportation facility, or residential property owned, operated, or managed by a public housing agency or leased by a public housing agency as part of a scattered site or mixed-income development. HB4500 Unlawful Possession Weapons Neutral House Sponsor: Buckner, Cassidy, Avelar Status: Second Reading Synopsis As Introduced Amends the Criminal Code of 2012. Changes the names of the offenses of unlawful use of weapons, unlawful use of weapons by felons or persons in the custody of the Department of Corrections facilities, aggravated unlawful use of a weapon, being an armed habitual criminal, unlawful use of firearm projectiles, and unlawful use of a firearm in the shape of a wireless telephone to unlawful possession of weapons, unlawful possession of weapons by felons or persons in the custody of the Department of Corrections facilities, aggravated unlawful possession of a weapon, persistent unlawful possession of a weapon, unlawful possession of firearm projectiles, and unlawful possession of a firearm in the shape of a wireless telephone. Provides that if any person before the effective date of the amendatory Act has been arrested, charged, prosecuted, convicted, or sentenced for unlawful use of weapons, unlawful use or possession of weapons by felons or persons in the custody of the Department of Corrections facilities, aggravated unlawful use of a weapon, being an armed habitual criminal, unlawful use of firearm projectiles, or unlawful use of a firearm in the shape of a wireless telephone, the changes of the names and the defendants to unlawful possession of weapons, unlawful possession of weapons by felons or persons in the custody of the Department of Corrections facilities, aggravated unlawful possession of a weapon, persistent unlawful possession of a weapon, unlawful possession of firearm projectiles, and unlawful possession of a firearm in the shape of a wireless telephone, shall retroactively be made in any criminal background records maintained by the Illinois State Police, law enforcement agencies, clerks of the circuit court, and any other State agencies providing criminal background information to the public under specified timelines. Amends various Acts to make conforming changes. Effective January 1, 2025. HB4770 Cd Corr - Agg Factors - Sentence Support House Sponsor: Guzzardi Status: Second Reading Synopsis As Introduced Amends the Unified Code of Corrections. In provisions listing factors that shall be accorded weight in favor of imposing a term of imprisonment or may be considered by the court as reasons to impose a more severe sentence under specified provisions of the Code, deletes as a factor that the sentence is necessary to deter others from committing the same crime.
  9. HB5129 Mental Health - Danger Notice is posted to today's House Mental Health & Addiction Committee hearing. This bill is included in our Current Call to Action. Get those slips opposing this bill filed! The House is scheduled for 12:00 Noon today, and the Senate for 11:00 AM. Next Days Scheduled House: 3/20/2024 Senate: 3/15/2024 3/20/2024 House Calendar Senate Calendar
  10. You're right. It doesn't apply to us, at least not right now. We just keep an eye on most gun related bills.
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