Illinois General Assembly 5/29/2021

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UPDATE(S)

 

HB1091 "Fix the FOID" passed in the House 60/50/0

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Though we'll continue to monitor HB3173 Sch Cd - Gun Safety Course, adoption of Senate Amendment 1 by the Executive Committee makes it a shell bill. It's been removed from our daily watch list, at least for now.

 

 

The House is schedule for an unknown time as they continue floor debate into the evening, and the Senate for 11:00 AM.

 

ETA The House is scheduled for 10:00 AM

 

Next Days Scheduled

 

House: 5/30/2021

Senate: 5/30/2021

 

 

 

House Calendar

 

Senate Calendar

 

Senate Supplemental Calendar 1

 

 

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House Calendar

10:00 AM

 

 

HB1091 "Fix The FOID Act"

 

Oppose

 

House Sponsor: Hirschauer, Welch, Willis, Stoneback, Delgado, Carroll, Slaughter, Mussmanm, Mah, Ortiz, Robinson, Costa Howard, Ford, Williams, Stava-Murray, Croke, West, Conroy, Cassidy, LaPonte, Gong-Gershowitz, Morgan, Evans, Moeller, Guzzardi, Collins, Ammons, Gonzalez, Hernandez (Barbara), Hernandez (Elizabeth), Walker, Gabel, Didech, Yang Rohr, Harris, Mason, Williams

 

Status: Held on Second Reading/Deadline Extended to 5/31/2021

 

Synopsis As Introduced

 

Amends the Criminal Code of 2012. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the applicability of the common law.

 

House Amendment 1 to HB1091 - Approved for Consideration

 

Replaces everything after the enacting clause. Amends the Department of State Police Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois. Provides that the Illinois State Police shall establish a portal for use by federal, State, or local law enforcement agencies, including Offices of the State's Attorneys and the Office of the Attorney General to capture a report of persons whose Firearm Owner's Identification Cards have been revoked or suspended. Provides that the portal is for law enforcement purposes only. Amends the Firearm Owners Identification Card Act. Provides that an applicant for the issuance or renewal of a Firearm Owner's Identification Card shall include a full set of his or her fingerprints in electronic format to the Illinois State Police, unless the applicant has previously provided a full set of his or her fingerprints to the Illinois State Police under the Act or the Firearm Concealed Carry Act. Provides that a Firearm Owner's Identification Card issued under the Act shall be valid for the person to whom it is issued for a period of 5 years (rather than 10 years) from the date of issuance, but provides that any person whose card was previously issued for a period of 10 years shall retain the 10-year issuance period until the next date of renewal, at which point the card shall be renewed for 5 years. Provides that the Firearm Disposition Record shall contain a statement to be signed by the transferee that the transferee: (1) is aware of, and will abide by, current law regarding the unlawful transfer of a firearm; (2) is aware of the penalties for violating the law as it pertains to unlawful transfer of a firearm; and (3) intends to retain possession of the firearm or firearms until it is determined that the transferor is legally eligible to possess a firearm and has an active Firearm Owners Identification Card, if applicable, or until a new person is chosen to hold the firearm or firearms. Creates within the Illinois State Police a Firearm Owner's Identification Card Review Board to consider any appeal of the denial or revocation and seizure of a Firearm Owner's Identification Card by the Illinois State Police, other than an appeal directed to the circuit court. Provides that a Firearm Owner's Identification Card of a licensee under the Firearm Concealed Carry Act shall not expire during the term of the licensee's concealed carry license. Provides that the Illinois State Police shall deny an application or shall revoke and seize a Firearm Owner's Identification Card previously issued under the Act if the Illinois State Police finds that the applicant or person to whom such card was issued is or was at the time of issuance subject to a civil no contact order or a stalking no contact order. Provides for email notifications from the Illinois State Police upon request of an applicant or Card holder. Amends various other Acts to make conforming changes.

 

 

 

 

HR346 Gun Violence Awareness Day

 

Neutral

 

House Sponsor: Hirschauer

 

Status: Rules Committee

 

Synopsis As Introduced

 

Declares June 4, 2021 Gun Violence Awareness Day in the State of Illinois.

 

 

 

 

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Senate Calendar

11:00 AM

 

HB1092 Criminal Law - Tech

 

Oppose

 

House Sponsor: Stoneback, Welch, Slaughter, Hirschauer, Ramirez, LaPointe, Yang Rohr, Morgan, Gabel, Gong-Gershowitz, Williams (Jawaharial), Stava-Murray, Evans, Mason, Walker, Buckner (Added after passage: Lilly)

 

Senate Sponsor: Gillespie, Morrison, Villivalam

 

Status: In Senate Committee

 

Synopsis As Introduced

 

Amends the Criminal Code of 2012. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the definition of "conviction".

 

House Amendment 1 to HB1092 - Adopted

 

Replaces everything after the enacting clause. Amends the Department of Public Health Powers and Duties Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois. Provides that the Department of Public Health, subject to appropriation or other available funding, shall conduct a program to promote awareness of firearms restraining orders to the general public. Provides that beginning July 1, 2022, the program must include the development and dissemination, through print, digital, and broadcast media, of public service announcements that publicize the options victims of domestic violence have to seek help with special emphasis on the firearms restraining order. Amends the Department of State Police Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois. Creates the Commission on Implementing the Firearms Restraining Order Act. Amends the Illinois Police Training Act. Provides that the Illinois Law Enforcement Training Standards Board shall develop and approve a standard curriculum for a training program on the Firearms Restraining Order Act. Provides that the Board shall conduct a training program that trains officers on the use of firearms restraining orders, how to identify situations in which a firearms restraining order is appropriate, and how to safely promote the usage of the firearms restraining order in a domestic violence situation. Provides that the curriculum of police training schools shall also include training on the use of a firearms restraining order by providing instruction on the process used to file a firearms restraining order, how to identify situations in which a firearms restraining order is appropriate, and how to promote a firearms restraining order in a domestic violence situation. Provides that if adequate firearms restraining order training is unavailable, the Illinois Law Enforcement Training Standards Board may approve training to be conducted by a third party. Officers who have successfully completed this program shall be issued a certificate attesting to their attendance. Amends the Firearms Restraining Order Act. Provides that a firearms restraining order includes the seizure of the respondent's ammunition and firearm parts that could be assembled to make an operable firearm. Provides that "family member of the respondent" includes a former spouse and a person with whom the respondent has or allegedly has a child in common. Provides that a petition for a firearms restraining order may be filed in any county where an incident occurred that involved the respondent posing an immediate and present danger of causing personal injury to the respondent or another by having in his or her custody or control, or purchasing, possessing, or receiving, a firearm or ammunition or firearm parts that could be assembled to make an operable firearm. Includes printing a petition for a firearms restraining order for which no fees may be charged by the circuit clerk. Provides that the Illinois State Police shall submit a yearly report to the General Assembly concerning the applications and issuance of firearms restraining orders. Makes other changes.

 

Senate Amendment 1 to HB1092 - Pending

 

Further amends the Department of Public Health Powers and Duties Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois. Provides that the Department of Public Health's program to promote awareness of firearms restraining orders shall include production of materials that can be given to health care workers that assist in identifying people who may benefit from awareness of the Firearms Restraining Order Act (rather than victims of domestic violence and how to safely and discreetly determine if a potential abuser possesses a firearm). Deletes language providing that the program must include the development and dissemination of public service announcements that publicize the options for victims of domestic violence to seek help. Further amends the Department of State Police Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois. Changes the composition of the Commission on Implementing the Firearms Restraining Order Act. Removes language providing for a member of a nonprofit organization whose mission is to reduce gun violence with experience educating the public about the Firearms Restraining Order Act, nominated by such an organization whose membership is the most numerous in Illinois. Adds to the membership the Director of Public Health or the Director's designee. Further amends the Illinois Police Training Act. Deletes language providing that police officer training shall include how to promote a firearms restraining order in a domestic violence situation. Further amends the Firearms Restraining Order Act. In the definition of "family member of the respondent", replaces new provision that the definition includes a person with whom the respondent has or allegedly has a child in common with a person with whom the respondent has a minor child in common.

 

 

 

 

SB1165 "FOID Modernization Act"

 

Oppose

 

Senate Sponsor: Koehler, Holmes, Belt, Hastings, Crowe, Joyce, Glowiak Hilton, Connor, Cappel, Cullerton, Bennett, Martwick, Turner (Doris), Muñoz, Cunningham, Curran, Johnson, Landek, Stadelman (Sponsorship Removed: Bryant, DeWitte)

 

Status: Third Reading/Re-Referred to Assignments

 

Synopsis As Introduced

 

Amends the Abandoned Refrigerator Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title.

 

Senate Amendment 1 to SB1165 - Pending

 

Replaces everything after the enacting clause. Amends the Department of State Police Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois. Provides that the Illinois State Police shall establish a portal for use by federal, State, or local law enforcement agencies, including Offices of the State's Attorneys and the Office of the Attorney General to capture a report of persons whose Firearm Owner's Identification Cards have been revoked or suspended. Provides that the portal is for law enforcement purposes only. Amends the Firearm Owners Identification Card Act. Provides that each applicant for the issuance of a Firearm Owner's Identification Card may include a full set of his or her fingerprints in electronic format to the Illinois State Police. Provides that a Firearm Owner's Identification Card of a licensee under the Firearm Concealed Carry Act shall not expire during the term of the licensee's concealed carry license. Provides that the Illinois State Police shall deny an application or shall revoke and seize a Firearm Owner's Identification Card previously issued under the Act if the Illinois State Police finds that the applicant or person to whom such card was issued is or was at the time of issuance subject to a civil no contact order or a stalking no contact order. Provides for email notifications from the Illinois State Police upon request of an applicant or Card holder. Create expanded rule making authority for the Illinois State Police concerning the Firearm Owners Identification Card Act and the Firearm Concealed Carry Act. Makes conforming changes in various other Acts.

 

 

 

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The House is coming to order.

 

114 members are present.

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HB1091 "Fix the FOID" is up and moved to third reading.

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Representative Hirschauer presents the bill as keeping guns out of the hands of dangerous people and also solving problems for their constituents. She lists some things she considers improvements for law abiding gun owners as if those few things make this bill acceptable in some way.

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She mentions the Henry Pratt shooting without explaining the failure of the system that would have identified the problem if ISP has done the same internet searches the media performed after the fact.

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And now there is a delay, perhaps some confusion.

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HB1091 has been taken out of the record.

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What the heck just happened?

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Interesting. Methinks someone wasn’t happy that it was called…

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Wait, so is it killed?

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Wait, so is it killed?

No. There are some absences today that might have affected it's ability to move, or it could be something else. I don't think we're done with it yet.

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Taken out of the record for now. But it could always come back. If it doesn’t pass out of the house today, I believe they will need to do some procedural magic to get it passed in both houses by the end of Monday. Possible, but tougher to do.

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Taken out of the record for now. But it could always come back. If it doesn’t pass out of the house today, I believe they will need to do some procedural magic to get it passed in both houses by the end of Monday. Possible, but tougher to do.

It would not be possible to move the bill through the Senate by 5/31 if the House doesn't send it to them today.

 

There is some potential light on the horizon in ways I won't go into right now.

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Taken out of the record for now. But it could always come back. If it doesn’t pass out of the house today, I believe they will need to do some procedural magic to get it passed in both houses by the end of Monday. Possible, but tougher to do.

 

It would not be possible to move the bill through the Senate by 5/31 if the House doesn't send it to them today.

There is some potential light on the horizon in ways I won't go into right now.

Correct, not this bill. I just meant that there are procedural tricks they could play using other existing bills as a vehicle to still get it through…but tough to pull that off with controversial bills that can’t get the votes through the normal process. So it would be a very good sign if it doesn’t get out of the house today.

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Correct, not this bill. I just meant that there are procedural tricks they could play using other existing bills as a vehicle to still get it through…but tough to pull that off with controversial bills that can’t get the votes through the normal process. So it would be a very good sign if it doesn’t get out of the house today.

Agreed

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Per Todd V on HB1091

 

Amendment was not filed. It has since been released. Expect it to come back

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The Senate is coming to order.

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Senate Supplemental Calendar 1 is available.

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Wow Willis is going on a mask rant LOFL

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Representative Karen Willis berates her fellow House members who dare to bare their faces without permission.

 

I believe she forgot to include Mr. Zalewski's name. Perhaps he sits behind her, on the same side of the aisle.

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Representative Karen Willis berates her fellow House members who dare to bare their faces without permission.

 

I believe she forgot to include Mr. Zalewski's name. Perhaps he sits behind her, on the same side of the aisle.

 

Whose permission would they be required to seek?

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Whose permission would they be required to seek?

Her side of the aisle, from the tone of her statement.

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Dems really are the authoritarian type, aren’t they.....

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As Representative Flowers lowers her mask while presenting her resolution, Ms. Willis maintains her silence.

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The Senate is in recess, returning after caucuses and committees for more floor action.

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HB1091 is back up.

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The Chair seems confused. There is silence.