Illinois General Assembly 4/2/2024

mauserme · April 1, 2024 at 11:08 PM

UPDATE(S):

HB2323 Uniform Crime Statistics Data has been approved by the Jud - Crim Committee (as amended).

mauserme · April 1, 2024 at 11:09 PM

Please see our current Call to Action, and get those witness alips filed!

The House is scheduled for 12:00 Noon today. The Senate is not in.

Next Days Scheduled

House: 4/3/2024

Senate: 4/9/2024

House Calendar

mauserme · April 1, 2024 at 11:10 PM

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 Provides that the Act is repealed on January 1, 2030.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.