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[mauserme]

House Floor Amendment No 4 to SB1034 - Controlled Substance Cathinone was approved for consideration of the full House yesterday by the Executive Committee.  Once adopted, our opposition to this bill will be changed to neutral.  House Floor Amendment No 3 remains assigned to the Executive Committee though it seems unlikely this amendment will see any movement.


The Houseis scheduled for 12:00 Noon today and the Senatefor 11:00 AM.

House Calendar

12:00 Noon

House Audio/Video Link

How a Bill Becomes a Law

AHR0757 - Firearm Task Force Due Date

Neutral

House Sponsor:  Ford

Status:  Order of Resolutions

Synopsis As Introduced

Modifies the due date for the report from the Firearm Public Awareness Task Force, established by House Resolution 550, from March 1, 2012 to May 1, 2012.

House Committee Amendment No 2

Changes the due date for the report from the Firearm Public Awareness Task Force from May 1, 2012 to December 31, 2012.





SB1034 - Controlled Substance Cathinone

Neutral as Amended (HFA 4)

Senate Sponsor:  Collins
House Sponsor:  Soto, Sacia, Arroyo, Cassidy, Osmond, Krezwick, May, Jakobsson, Harris (David)

Status:  House/Third Reading

House Floor Amendment No 4

Replaces everything after the enacting clause. Reinserts the provisions of the bill as amended by House Amendment No.2 but: (1) provides that any person who becomes a resident of the State, who is not otherwise prohibited from obtaining, possessing, or using a firearm or firearm ammunition, shall not be required to have a Firearm Owner's Identification Card to possess firearms or firearms ammunition until 60 calendar days after he or she obtains an Illinois driver's license or Illinois Identification Card; (2) provides that if a person qualifies for a photograph exemption, in lieu of a photograph, the Firearm Owner's Identification Card shall contain a copy of the card holder's fingerprints; (3) provides that whenever any person moves from the residence address named on his or her card the person shall within 21 calendar days thereafter notify in a form and manner prescribed by the Department of State Police of his or her old and new residence addresses and the card number held by him or her; (4) provides that any person whose legal name has changed from the name on the card that he or she has been previously issued must apply for a corrected card within 30 calendar days after the change; (5) provides that the cost for a corrected card shall be $5 which shall be deposited into the Firearm Owner's Notification Fund; (6) amends the Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities Code to provides that when a person has been adjudicated as a mental defective as defined in the Firearm Owners Identification Card Act, the court shall direct the circuit court clerk to immediately notify the Department of State Police, Firearm Owner's Identification (FOID) Office, in a form and manner prescribed by the Department of State Police, and shall forward a copy of the court order to the Department; (7) in the amendatory changes to the Firearm Owners Identification Card Act, provides that only a person who is 21 years of age or older who seeks a religious exemption to the photograph requirement must submit a copy of United States Department of the Treasury Internal Revenue Service Form 4029; and (8) makes other changes relating to notifying the Department of State Police of persons convicted of certain domestic violence offenses.

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HB1907 - Crim Cd Crim Pro RICO

Oppose

House Sponsor:  Zalewski, Reboletti, DeLuca, Connelly, Carli, Mell, Cunningham, Gordon, Moffitt, Lyons, D'Amico, Williams, Brown
Senate Sponsor:  Muñoz, Noland, Kotowski, Millner, Jones, Landek, Sandoval, LaHood, Maloney

Status:  Motion to Concur with SA1

Senate Committee Amendment No 1

Replaces everything after the enacting clause. Reinserts the bill as amended but: (1) adds a definition of "labor organization" and definition of "operation or management"; (2) deletes from the definition of "predicate activity" criminal drug conspiracy and unlawful use of buildings to produce controlled substances; (3) in the definition of "predicate activity", provides that the production or possession of cannabis plants must involve more than 500 grams of any substance containing cannabis or involve more than 50 cannabis sativa plants; (4) eliminates various offenses from the definition of "predicate activity"; (5) provides that "pattern of predicate activity" means at least 3 occurrences of predicate activity that are in some way related to each other and that have continuity between them, and that are separate acts; (6) limits "predicate activity" to Class 2 or higher felonies that involve the various proscribed offenses and to acts under the laws of another jurisdiction for an offense that could be charged as a Class 2 or felony or higher in this State; (7) changes the definition of "enterprise"; (8) changes the offense to making it unlawful for for any person, who intentionally participates in the operation or management of an enterprise, directly or indirectly, to: (A) knowingly do so, directly or indirectly, through a pattern of predicate activity; ( B ) knowingly cause another to violate the RICO Article; or ( C ) knowingly conspire to violate the RICO Article; (9) provides that the State's Attorney, or a person designated by law to act for him or her and to perform his or her duties during his or her absence or disability, may authorize a criminal prosecution under the RICO Law; (10) makes grammatical and technical changes in the bill; (11) provides that prior to any State's Attorney authorizing a criminal prosecution under the RICO Article, the State's Attorney shall adopt rules and procedures governing the investigation and prosecution of any offense enumerated in the RICO Article; (12) changes penalties for violations of the RICO Article; (13) provides that nothing in the RICO Article shall be construed as to make unlawful any activity which is arguably protected or prohibited by the National Labor Relations Act, the Illinois Educational Labor Relations Act, the Illinois Public Labor Relations Act, or the Railway Labor Act; (14) provides that the following organizations, and any officer or agent of those organizations acting in his or her official capacity as an officer or agent, may not be sued in civil actions under the RICO Article: (i) a labor organization; or (ii) any business defined in Division D, E, F, G, H, or I of the Standard Industrial Classification as established by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, U.S. Department of Labor; (15) provides that the RICO Article is repealed 5 years after it becomes law; (16) makes changes concerning the interpretation of the Law; and (17) provides that a labor organization and any officer or agent of that organization acting in his or her capacity as an officer or agent of the labor organization are exempt from prosecution under the RICO Article. Effective immediately.





HB2582 - Criminal Law Tech

Neutral

House Sponsor:  Durkin, Golar, Ramey, Mayfield, Sacia
Senate Sponsor:  Dillard, Millner, Sullivan

Status:  Motion to Concur with SA1, SA2

Senate Floor Amendment No 2

Replaces everything after the enacting clause. Deletes the substance of the bill. Amends the Criminal Code of 1961 and certain other Acts. Moves, adds, deletes, renumbers, repeals, and changes certain provisions. Adds or changes mental states for certain offenses. Changes certain statutory evidence presumptions to permissive inferences. Repeals various Acts and replaces those Acts by adding certain provisions from those Acts to the Criminal Code of 1961 and creates other Acts and Laws. Makes other changes.

House Committee(s)

House Executive Committee - 4:00 PM

House Floor Amendment No 3 to SB1034 - Controlled Substance Cathinone

Other Active Bills

HB3499 - Crim Cd Firearms Waiting Time - SA1 is Neutral/Not Monitoring

HB4063 - FOID Firearms (Uncle Harley's BB Gun Bill) - Support/Passed Both Houses

HB4498 - Crim Cd Firearm Felon & Minor - Oppose/Lost 42/60/4

HB4673 - Crim Cd FOID - Neutral/Passed Both Houses

HB4901 - Criminal Law Tech (Military Reenactor) - Support/Passed Both Houses

HB5682 - Crim Cd Security Training - Support/Passed Both Houses




Next Days Scheduled

House:   5/30/2012
Senate::  5/30/2012



 House Calendar 5-29-12.pdf   5.44MB   63 downloads


Edited to update HB1034 to "Neutral" with adoption of House Floor Amendment No 4.

Edited by mauserme, 29 May 2012 - 02:31 PM.

[mauserme]

HB4819 - Wildlife Tech (Crossbows Deer) passed in the Senate yesterday with one amendment.  This bill will be sent back to the House for concurrence.

I see no firearm related bills on the Senate calendar today.



 Senate Calendar 5-29-12.pdf   5.42MB   29 downloads

Edited by mauserme, 29 May 2012 - 06:12 AM.

[tricky1]

Just want to take a moment to say thanks again for staying up to get this info up in a timely manner. I worked 3rd shift for about a year and a half and I am now on a bit of a split schedule where 2 days a week I work 3rd and the other days I work 9-5. I look forward to your updates when I work 3rd. So again. Thanks!

[GarandFan]

Yes ... mauserme, your service in this capacity is great and really appreciated!!!

[mauserme]

I'm more than happy to help, but for now please take a look at Abolt's SB1034 Update Thread.

We need to contact legislators that were previously contacted in opposition to let them know we are neutral on (or support if you wish) House Floor Amendment No 4.  Finding common ground is always a good approach and we should acknowledge their effort in this regard.

[TyGuy]

If the current date for the task is May 1st, and it's the 29th, why isn't the report in?  Do due dates not matter then?  If this was covered elsewhere feel free to point me in the right direction.

[Molly B.]

Deadlines can be important but they are not fixed and can be moved around like game pieces at will.
The report is not out because the staff working on it are also working on a bazillion other things right
here at the end of session.

But that does not lessen the frustration at having to wait and wonder if the delay is political maneuvering  . . .

[Jeckler]

Time is quickly running out in the regular session.  May 31st appears to be the last scheduled day.  Today, Wedensday, and Thursday...

If they are going to go into an extended / emergency session, when does that get announced?  Is there a deadline to make that officially happen?

Final question, who makes that decision?  Is it Quinn, Cullerton, Madigan?  Who calls the exended session?

Thanks.

[GuitarJedi]

I am under the impression that the due dates are more of a guidline and not a set in stone date. The task force report is still being working on I read somewhere too.

[Molly B.]

Jeckler, on 29 May 2012 - 09:43 AM, said:

Final question, who makes that decision?  Is it Quinn, Cullerton, Madigan?  Who calls the exended session?

Thanks.

I am not where I can access my Blue Book of rules for the 97th Gen Ass. and I do not remember the rules for extended session.

[TyGuy]

If they don't have to follow the due date then why even have one?  I can understand asking to extend the deadline, but if going past the deadline means nothing then why even have one, vote on extending it, etc....  oh well.  Laws and sausages I guess.

[Drylok]

Jeckler, I had to ask Andria at Roses office about that the other day and the answer to your question is YES. Madigan, Cullerton or Quinn can make the call on extended session at any time.

[mauserme]

The House is convening.

[mauserme]

Representative Feigenholtz is absent on the Democrat side.  All Republicans are present.

[mauserme]

I was distracted for a moment but I believe the Republicans are in caucus (until 2PM ?)

[1911]

mauserme, on 29 May 2012 - 11:30 AM, said:

I was distracted for a moment but I believe the Republicans are in caucus (until 2PM ?)

I was wathcing it to but they kind of stumbled on there words either 1:30 or 2

[mauserme]

Thanks member 1911.

The House is back.

[Mr. Fife]

They're back

[TyGuy]

Just as terrifying!

Edited by TyGuy, 29 May 2012 - 01:14 PM.

[Drylok]

Hernandez has sb 3458 and Bost asks why don't we extend the language in that bill to apply to those wanting to get their foids back or better yet why don't we just reconsider what we consider a felony in IL???? This goes back to the 1034 issue

[mauserme]

Can somebody watch for about 20 minutes?

[TyGuy]

trying to get it now

[TyGuy]

I'm on.

[Scooter1981]

I just tuned in also.  I'm not sure what they're discussing exactly, but Rep Cross is going off on everyone, including King Madigan.

[TyGuy]

Something about pension reform.

My connection is spotty.  Please someone back me up.

Edited by TyGuy, 29 May 2012 - 01:49 PM.

[1911]

mauserme, on 29 May 2012 - 01:36 PM, said:

Can somebody watch for about 20 minutes?

I'm watching to but my connection is cutting in and out.

[lieut89]

Gotta give Rep. Cross some credit. He's right, Madigan is throwing the cost shift in to kill the bill, nothing more.

[lieut89]

member 1911, on 29 May 2012 - 01:52 PM, said:

mauserme, on 29 May 2012 - 01:36 PM, said:

Can somebody watch for about 20 minutes?

I'm watching to but my connection is cutting in and out.

Try the audio feed, it's clean.

[Scots]

The connection is going in and out for me too. I think it's an issue on their end.

[mauserme]

Thanks everone.  I'm back too.

Yeah, it does seem to get choopy in the afternoon sometimes (like today).