Traffic/DUI

(Martwick, D-Chicago) amends the Circuit Courts Act to provide that in 2021 the General Assembly must redraw the boundaries of the subcircuits of the Circuit of Cook County to reflect the results of the 2020 federal decennial census. A resident judgeship assigned to a subcircuit will continue to be assigned to that subcircuit. Any vacancy in a resident judgeship existing on or occurring after the effective date of a law redrawing the boundaries of the subcircuits must be filled by a resident of the redrawn subcircuit. Assigned to House Executive Committee. 

(Bennett, R-Pontiac) extends the statute of limitations for a violation of perjury to seven years. Current law is three years. House Bill 914 was just introduced.

(Van Pelt, D-Chicago) provides that the chief judge of each judicial circuit may establish a Justice for Juveniles Program. It would require that juveniles arrested or detained for eligible offenses be represented by legal counsel throughout the entire custodial interrogation of the juvenile. If the chief judge does establish such a program, any oral, written, or sign language statement of a juvenile made without the presence of legal counsel during a custodial interrogation on or after the effective date of the Program shall be inadmissible as evidence against the juvenile in a juvenile or criminal proceeding. Defines “eligible offense” and “juvenile.” Senate Bill 63 was just introduced.

(Wheeler, R-Crystal Lake) makes the sentence for attempt to commit a Class A misdemeanor the sentence for a Class B misdemeanor, the sentence for attempt to commit a Class B misdemeanor the sentence for a Class C misdemeanor, and the sentence for attempt to commit a Class C misdemeanor the sentence for a Class C misdemeanor. Scheduled for hearing November 27th in House Criminal Law. 

(Clayborne, D- East St. Louis; Gordon-Booth, D-Peoria) amends the Adult Redeploy Illinois program to include those convicted of a probation-eligible offense rather than a non-violent offender. Effective January 1, 2019.

(Mulroe, D-Chicago; Andersson, R-Geneva) is a trailer bill to resolve technical concerns in the rewrite of the fines and costs statutes in the just enacted Criminal and Traffic Assessment Act. Effective July 1, 2019.