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Senate Calendar 11:00 AM HB2323 Uniform Crime Statistics Data Neutral House Sponsor: Didech, Cabello Senate Sponsor: Edly-Allen, Johnson Status: Senate/Third Reading (Deadline 5/10/2024) Synopsis As Introduced Amends the Illinois State Police Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois. Provides that the Illinois State Police shall establish a Uniform Statewide Crime Statistics Task Force within 90 days after the effective date of the amendatory Act. Provides for the appointment of the members to the Task Force by the Director of the Illinois State Police. Provides that the Task Force shall meet at least monthly to assist the Illinois State Police in the development and implementation of an integrated software system for gathering and publishing crime data from all law enforcement agencies throughout the State. Requires submission, within one year after the effective date of the amendatory Act, of a final report and recommendations to the Director of the Illinois State Police with, at a minimum, the following information: progress on the development of the integrated software system, what the expected cost would be to implement the integrated software system, and what protocols on accessing and updating the information should be implemented. Dissolves the Task Force and repeals the provisions 2 years after the effective date of the amendatory Act. House Amendment 1 to HB2323 – Adopted Replaces everything after the enacting clause. Reinserts the provisions of the introduced bill with the following changes. Moves the provisions to the Illinois Criminal Justice Information Act from the Illinois State Police Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois. Provides that the Illinois Criminal Justice Information Authority (rather than the Illinois State Police) shall establish a Uniform Statewide Crime Statistics Task Force within 120 days (rather than 90 days) after the effective date of the amendatory Act and provide administrative and technical (rather than other) support to the Task Force. Provides that the members of the Task Force shall be appointed by the Executive Director of the Illinois Criminal Justice Information Authority (rather than the Director of the Illinois State Police), and modifies the membership of the Task Force. Requires the Task Force to meet at least quarterly (rather than monthly). Requires the Task Force to submit a report no later than 18 months after first convening (rather than one year after the effective date of the amendatory Act) to the Governor, General Assembly, and the Director of the Illinois State Police (rather than only to the Director). Modifies the requirements of the report. Further amends the Illinois Criminal Justice Information Act. Provides that the Authority may exercise any other powers that are reasonable and necessary to fulfill the responsibilities of the Authority under this Act and to comply with the requirements of applicable State or federal law (rather than federal law) or regulation. Senate Amendment 1 to HB2323 - Adopted Provides that the Uniform Statewide Crime Statistics Task Force shall meet at least quarterly to assist in the development and implementation of certain software for certain purposes (rather than shall meet quarterly to assist the Illinois State Police in the development and implementation of certain software for certain purposes). Provides that the Task Force shall submit a final report to the Governor, General Assembly, and the Executive Director of the Illinois Criminal Justice Information Authority (rather than the Governor, General Assembly, and the Director of the Illinois State Police). HB5495 ISP - Various Under Review House Sponsor: Crespo, Frese, Kelly, Cabello, Guerrero-Cuellar, Yednock, Ford, DeLuca, Hanson, Gill, Moylan, Sheehan Senate Sponsor: Feigenholtz, DeWitte, Belt, Anderson, Stoller, Faraci, Hastings, Turner (Sally) Status: Senate/Second Reading (Deadline 5/10/2024) Synopsis As Introduced Amends the Seizure and Forfeiture Reporting Act. Removes provisions about the State Police Asset Forfeiture Section. Amends the State Finance Act. Changes the name of the State Police Revocation Enforcement Fund to the State Police Firearm Enforcement Fund (and makes conforming changes within the Act, the Illinois State Police Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois, and the Firearm Owners Identification Card Act). Provides that the balance remaining in the State Police Training and Academy Fund shall be transferred to the State Police Law Enforcement Administration Fund, and dissolves the State Police Training and Academy Fund (amends the Illinois Vehicle Hijacking and Motor Vehicle Theft Prevention and Insurance Verification Act and the Illinois Insurance Code to make conforming changes). Makes changes concerning the uses of the State Police Law Enforcement Administration Fund. Amends the School Code. Includes provisions relating to reporting of verified incidents involving a firearm or drugs to the State Board of Education, the State Board of Education reporting data by school district on its website, and local law enforcement reporting specified data from the previous year to the Illinois State Police's Illinois Uniform Crime Reporting Program. Amends the Illinois Gambling Act. Makes changes regarding applying for licensure and Fingerprinting. Amends the Criminal Code of 2012 and the Drug Asset Forfeiture Procedure Act. In provisions concerning non-judicial forfeiture, provides that the director or the director's designee (instead of just the director) shall dispose of property forfeited in accordance with law. Amends the Arsonist Registration Act. Changes the short title of the Act to the Arsonist Registry Act. Eliminates registration of arsonists (makes conforming changes in the Criminal Identification Act, the Unified Code of Corrections, and the Code of Civil Procedure). Provides that the Illinois State Police shall establish and maintain a Statewide Arsonist Database for the purpose of identifying arsonists and making that information available to law enforcement and the general public. Contains requirements for operation of the Database. Effective July 1, 2024. House Amendment 1 to HB5495 - Adopted Replaces everything after the enacting clause. Reinserts the provisions of the introduced bill with the following changes. Further amends the Illinois State Police Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois. Provides that the Division of Criminal Investigation shall cooperate and liaise with all federal law enforcement and other partners on criminal investigations, intelligence, information sharing, and national security planning and response. Provides that the Division of Forensic Services shall examine digital evidence. In provisions relating to the Illinois Forensic Science Commission, changes references to forensic laboratory to ISO 17025 accredited forensic laboratory. Amends the Illinois State Police Act. Provides that the Illinois State Police Academy shall maintain and store training records for Illinois State Police officers. Amends the Narcotic Control Division Abolition Act. Provides that the Director of the Illinois State Police shall make the results obtained in the enforcement of this Act available on the Illinois State Police website and may make such other information and recommendations to the Governor annually as the Director deems proper (rather than report the results obtained in the enforcement of the Act, in an annual report to the Governor, together with such other information and recommendations as the Director deems proper). In the State Finance Act: repeals provisions creating the State Police Training and Academy Fund on July 1, 2025 (rather than January 1, 2025); in provisions relating to the State Police Law Enforcement Administration Fund, provides that the primary purpose of the Fund shall be to finance State Police cadet classes (rather than to finance State Police cadet classes in May and October of every year); and changes the date remaining moneys shall be transferred from the State Police Training and Academy Fund to the State Police Law Enforcement Administration Fund from July 1, 2024 to July 1, 2025, and repeals the provisions relating to the State Police Training and Academy Fund on January 1, 2026 (rather than January 1, 2025). In the Arsonist Registration Act, provides that the Statewide Arsonist Database shall contain information relating to each arsonist for a period of 10 years after conviction for an arson offense and the Illinois State Police must have the Statewide Arsonist Database created and ready to comply with the requirements of the provisions no later than July 1, 2025. In various Acts, adds references to the Arsonist Registry Act where references to the Arsonist Registration Act are stricken. Effective July 1, 2024. House Amendment 2 to HB5495 - Adopted In the Arsonist Registration Act, repeals provisions relating to discharge of an arsonist from a penal institution (rather than changing the provisions to require the forwarding of specified conviction information to the Illinois State Police by a circuit clerk or the Director of Corrections).

Yesterday in the Senate, HB2323 Uniform Crime Statistics Data was moved to 3rd reading and HB5495 ISP - Various was approved by the State Government Committee. The House is scheduled for 12:00 Noon today and Senate for 11:00 AM. Next Days Scheduled House: 5/10/2024 Senate: 5/13/2024 House Calendar Senate Calendar

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Unbelievable isn't it. And everytime I have to make two trips to the gun shop when purchasing a new arm. Pisses me off.

I'll be on with John Crump tonight at 9pm central to talk about 2 A litigation and bad judges

Oh yes. I am charging her $0.91 + $0.09 (taxes) + $5.00 (bcgrnd check) + $25.00 (Cook Cnty Tax) = $31.00. She has to pay $31.00 for a firearm that I charged her $0.91 for. Welcome to Cook County, IL...

The case has been filed at the US Supreme Court, but it is still awaiting a petition, so there isn't a (real) docket yet. 18 USC 922(g)(3) bans people who illegally use controlled substances from possessing firearms. In January 2020, Jonathan Alexander Morales-Lopez and an accomplice stole firearms from a Sportsman's Warehouse in Utah during business hours. The accomplice was the one who actually took the firearms. Morales-Lopez was the lookout. Store employees called police, who apprehended Morales-Lopez in the parking lot. When they frisked him, they found him in possession of a handgun that the accomplice had stolen from the same Sportsman's Warehouse five days earlier. [Editorial comment: So how many firearms does this Sportsman's Warehouse location lose to "shrinkage" every day/week/month? Curious minds want to know.] Officers also discovered methamphetamine (Schedule II controlled substance) in the accomplice's car. Several months later while awaiting trial for his role in the January theft, Morales-Lopez admitted during questioning to being a regular user of methamphetamine. Illegal possession of a firearm under 18 USC 922(g)(3) was added to the charges against him. The jury in his trial in the Federal District Court of Utah found Morales-Lopez guilty of violating 18 USC 922(g)(3), but he moved to have the conviction dismissed on the grounds that 18 USC 922(g)(3) was unconstitutional on its face (for vagueness) and as applied to him. The district court agreed and dismissed the conviction. The government appealed to the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals, which reinstated the jury verdict. Morales-Lopez is now appealing the reinstatement to the US Supreme Court. The original deadline to file the petition for certiorari was May 9, but Morales-Lopez asked for an extension. Gorsuch granted an extension to July 8. (shadow docket)

This is where the whole topic of guns and gun control gets really, really tricky. If we acknowledge that much of the gun violence in America is actually gang violence, and much of that gang violence is driven by young men, then we can start having a discussion about how to reach out to those young men before they turn to lives of crime and violence, and what to do when they do. But then these discussions always get derailed by calls for stronger gun control. The fact is, those who are seeking solutions to the violence must accept that gun control cannot and will not fix the issue. They seem to be on the right track with their outreach programs, although I can't really judge how successful those programs are, and if not, what the best next steps should be. When you think about it, the gangs represent several generations of lost men. That's not acceptable, and something's gotta be done to stop the crisis before more young men get sucked into that vortex. But it's also unacceptable to propose ineffective legislation that won't actually do anything, and which infringes on a right that some parties simply won't acknowledge the existence of.

That's just the BAR MafiaTM sucking everyone dry on all 3 sides of every single dispute.

So not malls per se, but the Morgan Park Neighborhood of Chicago, once that we know of, and a Michigan Avenue store. That we know of ...

I have one spot left and registration closes tomorrow.

https://abc7chicago.com/chicago-guns-crime-violence-gun-sniffing-dogs/13664732/ https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/chicago-retail-theft-gun-sniffing-dog-makes-first-arrest-at-neiman-marcus-on-michigan-avenue

I use one to make it harder for someone to steal the outboard off my fishing boat.

The committee stands adjourned.

The Senate Senate State Government Committee has come to order and almost immediately approved HB5495 ISP - Various for consideration. It is one of two agreed bills posted to their schedule.

The House stands adjourned until 5/9/2024 @ 12:00 Noon.

The Senate stands adjourned until 5/9/2024 @ 11:00 AM. Before adjournment, Senate Supplemental Calendar 1 was posted.

An inanimate object can't be happy, sad, giddy, mean, passive, or violent. This is anthro. ampo, apmro, onomatopoeia, no that's not it either.... what's the word? It's violence by the two legged animals whether with a knife, bat, vehicle, or anything else used as a weapon, and it could be a gun, but most of the time it's not. Regardless, none of these objects can be, "violent." If you want to demonize look to drugs and alcohol, which causes tens of thousands times the amount of death and destruction. Don't get me wrong, I like a sip now and then. Just say'n.

The rich and corps use it too, in the same way. Also, the system is clogged, as you said, and kicking the can down the road is standard.

Sadly it's one of the legal games played by both sides... A lot of defense lawyers will attempt to get away with as many requests for extensions as possible in criminal cases, knowing the longer they push things out the less reliable witness accounts become and the more pressure on the prosecutor's office to clear the case out of the workload... Out legal system is still likely the best in the world, but it has a lot of broken and abused aspects and that list of broken and abused aspects grows by the year...

They run people out of money with all the extensions, they know it and it's one of best ploys. Also, some cases become moot as there's a status change in whatever they were asking relief for.

They've gotten so used to getting their way, that they're not used to not getting their way. The same is true of states that keep putting forward incredibly stupid legal arguments. They've always gotten away with it, and now that they have to pivot to a new legal standard, they can't do it.

HB2323 Uniform Crime Statistics Data was moved to 3rd reading in the Senate.

The House is coming to order. 112 members are present.