HB5556 102ND GENERAL ASSEMBLY

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102ND GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2021 and 2022
HB5556

Introduced 1/31/2022, by Rep. Ann M. Williams

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:

605 ILCS 140/5
605 ILCS 140/90 rep.

Amends the Expressway Camera Act. In addition to offenses involving the use of a firearm, adds carjacking and other violent crimes as offenses that a law enforcement agency may investigate using images from an expressway camera. Provides that nothing in the Act shall prohibit the Illinois State Police from using images from an expressway camera to investigate any offense involving a violent crime. Removes the Act repeal date of July 1, 2023.

A BILL FOR

AN ACT concerning transportation.

Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly:

Section 5. The Expressway Camera Act is amended by changing Section 5 as follows:

(605 ILCS 140/5)

(Section scheduled to be repealed on July 1, 2023)

Sec. 5. Camera program.

(a) The Illinois State Police, the Illinois Department of Transportation, and the Illinois State Toll Highway Authority shall work together to conduct a program to increase the amount of cameras along expressways in Cook County.

(b) Images from the cameras may be used by any municipal police department, county sheriff's office, State Police officer, or other law enforcement agency with jurisdiction over the expressway in Cook County in the investigation of any offense involving carjacking, the use of a firearm, or other violent crime and to detect expressway hazards. Images from the cameras shall not be used to enforce petty offenses.

(b-5) Nothing in this Act shall prohibit the Illinois State Police from using images from an expressway camera to investigate any offense involving a violent crime.

(c) Subject to appropriation, any funds needed to conduct the program for use on expressways under the jurisdiction of the Department of Transportation shall be taken from the Road Fund.

(d) As used in this Section, "expressway" has the meaning provided in Section 1-119.3 of the Illinois Vehicle Code.

(Source: P.A. 101-42, eff. 1-1-20.)

(605 ILCS 140/90 rep.)

Section 10. The Expressway Camera Act is amended by repealing Section 90.