Traffic/DUI

(Scott Bennett, D-Champaign; McAsey, D-Plainfield) creates the Sexual Assault Incident Procedure Act and allows the Illinois State Police to establish administrative rules to standardize requirements for the disclosure of toxicology results and related documents. These administrative rules are designed to provide minimum standard for compliance of toxicology results is not intended to limit the production and discovery of material information. Passed both chambers.

(Tom Bennett, R-Pontiac; Barickman, R-Bloomington) amends the Counties Code to clarify that “all questions” or “ordinances” also includes any resolutions and motions that arise during meetings. It also allows a county at any properly noticed public meeting to take a single or omnibus vote by unanimous consent on any two or more questions, ordinances, resolutions, or motions. The bill states that this is declarative of existing law. It also requires public defenders in counties under one million population prepare and file monthly or quarterly written reports as determined by the county board. Passed both chambers. 

(Cabello, R-Loves Park; Link, D-Gurnee) amends the plea statute of the Code of Criminal Procedure to require the court to admonish the defendant of the following possible consequences for a conviction or plea of guilty:

(1) Maximum and mental minimum penalty penalty;

(2) Future convictions may be more severe or make possible consecutive sentences;

(3) Registration requirements that may restrict where the defendant may work, live, or be present; and

(4) Affect the defendant’s ability to retain or obtain housing, employment, a firearm, an occupational license, or a driver’s license.

Passed both chambers. 

The Access to Justice Act created the Statutory Court Fee Task Force to study the current system of fees, fines, and other court costs and propose recommendations to the Illinois General Assembly and Illinois Supreme Court. Its report may be found at the URL below. 

(Silverstein, D-Chicago; Lang, D-Skokie) makes the following changes to supplementary proceedings: (1) Clarifies that a petition to revive a judgment must served and an order entered for a judgment to be revived. (2) Requires the amount of the bond to be posted after an entry of an order of prejudgment attachment against the property of a debtor who may conceal property or flee the state. (3) Makes taxable as court costs of all charges relating to the electronic filing of cases and pleadings. (4) Under current law, a court must vacate a judgment and dismiss the action when a release or full satisfaction for judgment is filed by the prevailing party. This provides that a judge may do so. (5) Eliminates the sheriff’s levy sale of corporate stock as superseded by the Uninform Commercial Code or a citation to discover assets statute. Passed both chambers. 

(Barbara Wheeler, R-Crystal Lake; Raoul, D-Chicago) allows a person to petition for expungement at any time for an offense occurring before their 18th birthday if no petition for delinquency was filed, the minor was charged with an offense but the petition was dismissed without a finding of delinquency, the minor was found not delinquent, the minor was placed on juvenile court supervision, or was adjudicated for an offense that if committed by an adult would be a Class B or C misdemeanor or petty offense.