Date	Chamber	Action
1/11/2005	Senate	Session Sine Die

Statutes Amended In Order of Appearance

720 ILCS 5/26-4

from Ch. 38, par. 26-4

Synopsis As Introduced
Amends the Criminal Code of 1961. Includes in the offense of unauthorized videotaping, electronically recording or electronically surveilling another person without that person's consent in a private place. Provides that it is unlawful for any person to place or cause to be placed an electronic video surveillance device in a restroom, tanning bed, tanning salon, locker room, changing room, hotel bedroom, or any other private place, with the intent to electronically record, electronically surveil, videotape, photograph, or film another person without that person's consent. Provides that it is unlawful for any person to place or cause to be placed an electronic video surveillance device in another person's residence without that person's consent, with the intent to secretly electronically record, electronically surveil, videotape, photograph, or film another person without that person's consent. Increases the penalties for the offense from a Class A misdemeanor to a Class 4 felony and if the images are disseminated from a Class 4 felony to a Class 3 felony. Provides that if the person electronically recorded, electronically surveilled, videotaped, photographed, or filmed is under 18 years of age, the penalty is a Class 2 felony. Effective January 1, 2005.

Senate Floor Amendment No. 2
Deletes everything after the enacting clause. Amends the Criminal Code of 1961. Provides that the offense of unauthorized videotaping consists of knowingly making a video record or transmission of live video made in violation of the statute (rather than videotaping, photographing, or filming). Exempts from a violation the making of a video record or transmission of live video in a locker room by a reporter or news medium, where the reporter or news medium has been granted access to the locker room by an appropriate authority for the purpose of conducting interviews. Provides that it is unlawful for any person to place or cause to be placed a device that makes a video record or transmits a live video in violation of the statute. Provides that it is unlawful for any person to, by any means, knowingly disseminate, or permit to be disseminated, a video record or live video that he or she knows to have been made or transmitted in violation of the statute. Establishes penalties for these violations.

Actions 

Date	Chamber	Action
2/6/2004	Senate	Filed with Secretary by Sen. Don Harmon
2/6/2004	Senate	First Reading
2/6/2004	Senate	Referred to Rules
2/10/2004	Senate	Assigned to Judiciary
2/18/2004	Senate	Senate Committee Amendment No. 1 Filed with Secretary by Sen. Don Harmon
2/18/2004	Senate	Senate Committee Amendment No. 1 Referred to Rules
2/18/2004	Senate	Senate Committee Amendment No. 1 Rules Refers to Judiciary
2/19/2004	Senate	Postponed - Judiciary
2/20/2004	Senate	Added as Chief Co-Sponsor Sen. Jeffrey M. Schoenberg
2/26/2004	Senate	Do Pass Judiciary; 010-000-000
2/26/2004	Senate	Placed on Calendar Order of 2nd Reading March 2, 2004
2/27/2004	Senate	Senate Committee Amendment No. 1 Rule 3-9(a) / Re-referred to Rules
3/23/2004	Senate	Senate Floor Amendment No. 2 Filed with Secretary by Sen. Don Harmon
3/23/2004	Senate	Senate Floor Amendment No. 2 Referred to Rules
3/23/2004	Senate	Senate Floor Amendment No. 2 Rules Refers to Judiciary
3/23/2004	Senate	Added as Co-Sponsor Sen. M. Maggie Crotty
3/24/2004	Senate	Added as Chief Co-Sponsor Sen. Kirk W. Dillard
3/24/2004	Senate	Added as Co-Sponsor Sen. Antonio Munoz
3/24/2004	Senate	Added as Co-Sponsor Sen. Iris Y. Martinez
3/24/2004	Senate	Added as Co-Sponsor Sen. Debbie DeFrancesco Halvorson
3/24/2004	Senate	Added as Co-Sponsor Sen. Ira I. Silverstein
3/24/2004	Senate	Senate Floor Amendment No. 2 Be Adopted Judiciary; 009-000-000
3/24/2004	Senate	Sponsor Removed Sen. Ira I. Silverstein
3/24/2004	Senate	Added as Chief Co-Sponsor Sen. Ira I. Silverstein
3/24/2004	Senate	Added as Chief Co-Sponsor Sen. Jacqueline Y. Collins
3/24/2004	Senate	Second Reading
3/24/2004	Senate	Senate Floor Amendment No. 2 Adopted; Harmon
3/24/2004	Senate	Placed on Calendar Order of 3rd Reading March 25, 2004
3/26/2004	Senate	Third Reading - Passed; 056-000-000
3/26/2004	Senate	Senate Committee Amendment No. 1 Tabled Pursuant to Rule 5-4(a)
3/26/2004	House	Arrived in House
3/26/2004	House	Placed on Calendar Order of First Reading
3/29/2004	House	Chief House Sponsor Rep. John J. Millner
3/29/2004	House	First Reading
3/29/2004	House	Referred to Rules Committee
3/29/2004	House	Added Alternate Chief Co-Sponsor Rep. Paul D. Froehlich
3/30/2004	House	Added Alternate Chief Co-Sponsor Rep. Kathleen A. Ryg
3/31/2004	Senate	Added as Co-Sponsor Sen. James A. DeLeo
3/31/2004	Senate	Added as Co-Sponsor Sen. Kimberly A. Lightford
4/2/2004	House	Added Alternate Co-Sponsor Rep. Careen Gordon
4/2/2004	House	Added Alternate Co-Sponsor Rep. Naomi D. Jakobsson
4/2/2004	House	Added Alternate Co-Sponsor Rep. Lisa M. Dugan
4/2/2004	House	Added Alternate Co-Sponsor Rep. Robert F. Flider
4/2/2004	House	Added Alternate Co-Sponsor Rep. John E. Bradley
4/2/2004	House	Added Alternate Co-Sponsor Rep. Brandon W. Phelps
4/2/2004	House	Added Alternate Co-Sponsor Rep. William J. Grunloh
4/21/2004	House	Added Alternate Co-Sponsor Rep. Mike Boland
4/27/2004	House	Added Alternate Co-Sponsor Rep. Karen May
4/29/2004	House	Added Alternate Co-Sponsor Rep. Joseph M. Lyons
4/29/2004	House	Added Alternate Co-Sponsor Rep. Steve Davis
4/29/2004	House	Added Alternate Co-Sponsor Rep. Eddie Washington
4/29/2004	House	Added Alternate Co-Sponsor Rep. Kevin Joyce
4/29/2004	House	Added Alternate Co-Sponsor Rep. Robin Kelly
4/29/2004	House	Added Alternate Co-Sponsor Rep. Ricca Slone
4/29/2004	House	Added Alternate Co-Sponsor Rep. Cynthia Soto
4/29/2004	House	Added Alternate Co-Sponsor Rep. Annazette Collins
5/4/2004	House	Added Alternate Co-Sponsor Rep. David E. Miller
5/4/2004	House	Added Alternate Co-Sponsor Rep. Charles G. Morrow, III
5/4/2004	House	Added Alternate Co-Sponsor Rep. Michael K. Smith
1/11/2005	Senate	Session Sine Die

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