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Rep. Daniel V. Beiser
Filed: 4/11/2005
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| AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 2241
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| AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 2241 by replacing |
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| everything after the enacting clause with the following:
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| "Section 5. The Department of State Police Law of the
Civil |
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| Administrative Code of Illinois is amended by changing Section |
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| 2605-480 as follows:
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| (20 ILCS 2605/2605-480)
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| Sec. 2605-480. Statewide kidnapping alert and prevention |
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| program;
Child and Senior Safety Coordinator; reports of |
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| missing endangered seniors.
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| (a) The Department of
State Police shall develop a |
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| coordinated program for a statewide emergency
alert system when |
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| a child is missing or kidnapped or a senior is missing and |
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| endangered.
The system shall include, but is not limited to, |
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| the use in coordination with
the Illinois
Department of |
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| Transportation, of electronic message signs on roads and |
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| highways
in the
vicinity of a child abduction or the vicinity |
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| where a missing endangered senior was last seen to immediately |
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| provide critical information to
the public.
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| (b) The Department of State Police shall establish an AMBER |
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| Plan Task Force
to
monitor and review the implementation and |
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| operation of the system developed
under
subsection (a), |
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| including procedures, budgetary requirements, and response
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| protocols.
The Task Force shall also develop additional network |
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| resources for use in the
system.
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| (c) The Department of State Police, in coordination with |
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| the Illinois
Emergency
Management Agency, shall develop and |
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| implement a community outreach program to
promote awareness |
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| among citizens of the State
the State's parents and children of |
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| child abduction and senior endangerment
prevention
and |
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| response.
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| (d) The Department of State Police, in coordination with |
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| the State Board of
Education, shall develop child abduction |
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| prevention instruction for inclusion
in elementary and |
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| secondary school curricula throughout the State. The
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| Department and
State Board of Education shall encourage the |
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| inclusion of the child abduction
prevention
instruction in |
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| private elementary and secondary school curricula throughout |
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| the
State.
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| (e) The Department shall appoint a Child and Senior Safety |
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| Coordinator to assist in the
establishment of State standards |
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| for child and senior safety from kidnap,
and abduction, and |
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| endangerment and
to advocate for the achievement of those |
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| standards. The Child and Senior Safety
Coordinator shall have |
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| the
qualifications and experience that the Department shall |
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| require by rule. The
Child and Senior Safety Coordinator shall |
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| receive no compensation but shall be reimbursed
for his or her |
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| expenses from the Department's operations budget. No funds |
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| shall
be appropriated solely
for the expenses of the Child and |
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| Senior Safety Coordinator. The Department shall provide
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| technical assistance for the Child and Senior Safety |
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| Coordinator from its existing
resources.
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| (f) If the Department of State Police receives a |
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| notification concerning a missing endangered senior, it shall |
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| prepare a report on the missing endangered senior. The report |
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| must include all of the following: |
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| (1) Relevant information obtained from the |
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| notification concerning the missing endangered senior, |
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| including all of the following: |
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| (A) a physical description of the missing |
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| endangered senior; |
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| (B) the date, time, and place that the missing |
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| endangered senior was last seen; and |
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| (C) the missing endangered senior's address. |
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| (2) Information gathered by a preliminary |
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| investigation, if one was made. |
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| (3) A statement by the law enforcement officer in |
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| charge stating the officer's assessment of the case based |
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| on the evidence and information received. |
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| The Department of State Police shall prepare the report |
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| required by this subsection (f) as soon as practicable, but not |
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| later than 5 hours after the Department receives notification |
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| of a missing endangered senior. |
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| (g) Upon completion of the report required by subsection |
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| (f) the Department of State Police shall immediately forward |
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| the contents of the report to all of the following: |
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| (1) all law enforcement agencies that have |
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| jurisdiction in the location where the missing endangered |
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| senior lives and all law enforcement agencies that have |
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| jurisdiction in the location where the missing endangered |
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| senior was last seen; |
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| (2) all law enforcement agencies to which the person |
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| who made the notification concerning the missing |
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| endangered senior requests the report be sent, if the |
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| Department determines that the request is reasonable in |
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| light of the information received; |
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| (3) all law enforcement agencies that request a copy of |
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| the report; and |
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| (4) the National Crime Information Center's Missing |
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| Person File, if appropriate. |
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| (h) The Department of State Police shall begin an |
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| investigation concerning the missing endangered senior not |
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| later than 24 hours after receiving notification of a missing |
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| endangered senior. |
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| (i) For the purposes of this Section, "missing endangered |
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| senior" means an individual 65 years of age or older who is |
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| reported missing to a law enforcement agency and is, or is |
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| believed to be: |
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| (1) a temporary or permanent resident of Illinois; |
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| (2) at a location that cannot be determined by an |
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| individual familiar with the missing individual; and |
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| (3) incapable of returning to the individual's |
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| residence without assistance.
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| (Source: P.A. 92-259, eff. 1-1-02; 92-468, eff. 8-22-01; |
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| 93-310, eff.
7-23-03.)
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| Section 10. The Illinois Police Training Act is amended by |
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| changing Section 10.10 as follows:
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| (50 ILCS 705/10.10)
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| Sec. 10.10. Training in child abduction and missing |
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| endangered senior alert system. The Board shall
conduct a
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| training program for law enforcement personnel of local |
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| governmental agencies
in the
statewide coordinated child |
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| abduction and missing endangered senior alert system developed |
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| under Section
2605-480 of
the Department of State Police Law of |
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| the Civil Administrative Code of
Illinois.
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| (Source: P.A. 93-310, eff. 7-23-03.)
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| Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect July 1, |
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| 2006.".
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