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HB 1656 — CRIM-IDENTIFYING INFORMATION
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This bill died with 101st Regular Session. It reached “Passed House” and never advanced before the session ended, so it can no longer move — a new version would have to be reintroduced in the current session.
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Summary
Amends the Criminal Code of 2012. Defines "personal identifying information" for purposes of identity theft to include (1) any information regarding an individual's medical history, mental or physical condition, or medical treatment or diagnosis by a health care professional and (2) a person's health insurance policy number or subscriber identification number, any unique identifier used by a health insurer to identify a person, or any information in an individual's application and claims history, including, but not limited to, appeals history.
Bill Text
What changed in the latest version
15 added · 34 removedPlain-language change summary
The latest version of HB 1656 now includes a clearer definition of "personal identifying information" related to identity theft. Specifically, it specifies that this includes medical history details and various identifiers used by health insurers. This change is significant because it helps strengthen protections against identity theft involving sensitive health information, ensuring that such personal data is treated with heightened security under the law.
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Margo McDermed SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
ILCS 5/16-0.1 Amends the Criminal Code of 2012.
Defines "personal identifying information" for purposes of identity theft to include (1) any information regarding an individual's medical history, mental or physical condition, or medical treatment or diagnosis by a health care professional and (2) a person's health insurance policy number or subscriber identification number, any unique identifier used by a health insurer to identify a person, or any information in an individual's application and claims history, including, but not limited to, appeals history.
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"Communication device" means any type of instrument, device, machine, or equipment which is capable of transmitting, acquiring, decrypting, or receiving any telephonic, electronic, data, Internet access, audio, video, microwave, or radio transmissions, signals, communications, or services, HB1656 Engrossed - 2 - LRB101 08581 SLF 53660 b including the receipt, acquisition, transmission, or decryption of all such communications, transmissions, signals, or services provided by or through any cable television, fiber optic, telephone, satellite, microwave, radio, Internet-based, data transmission, or wireless distribution network, system or facility;
and also any service lawfully provided by any radio, telephone, cable television, fiber optic, satellite, microwave, Internet-based or wireless distribution network, system, facility or technology, including, but not limited to, any and all electronic, data, video, audio, Internet access, telephonic, microwave and radio communications, transmissions, signals and services, and any such communications, transmissions, signals and services HB1656 Engrossed - 3 - LRB101 08581 SLF 53660 b lawfully provided directly or indirectly by or through any of those networks, systems, facilities or technologies.
"Delivery container" means any bakery basket of wire or plastic used to transport or store bread or bakery products, any dairy case of wire or plastic used to transport or store HB1656 Engrossed - 4 - LRB101 08581 SLF 53660 b dairy products, and any dolly or cart of 2 or 4 wheels used to transport or store any bakery or dairy product.
(B) Certifying or guaranteeing to a person or business the availability to the device holder of funds HB1656 Engrossed - 5 - LRB101 08581 SLF 53660 b on deposit to honor a draft or check payable to the order of that person or business.
"Library card" means a card or plate issued by a library HB1656 Engrossed - 6 - LRB101 08581 SLF 53660 b facility for purposes of identifying the person to whom the library card was issued as authorized to borrow library material, subject to all limitations and conditions imposed on the borrowing by the library facility issuing such card.
"Manufacture or assembly of an unlawful access device" means to make, produce or assemble an unlawful access device or to modify, alter, program or re-program any instrument, device, machine, equipment or software so that it is capable of defeating or circumventing any technology, device or software used by the provider, owner or licensee of a communication service or of any data, audio or video programs or transmissions to protect any such communication, data, audio or video services, programs or transmissions from unauthorized access, acquisition, disclosure, receipt, decryption, HB1656 Engrossed - 7 - LRB101 08581 SLF 53660 b communication, transmission or re-transmission.
"Merchant" also means a person who receives from an authorized user of a payment card, or someone the person believes to be an authorized user, a payment card or information from a payment card, or what the person believes to be a payment card or information from a HB1656 Engrossed - 8 - LRB101 08581 SLF 53660 b payment card, as the instrument for obtaining, purchasing or receiving goods, services, money, or anything else of value from the person.
"Personal identification document" means a birth certificate, a driver's license, a State identification card, a public, government, or private employment identification card, a social security card, a firearm owner's identification card, a credit card, a debit card, or a passport issued to or on behalf of a person other than the offender, or any document made or issued, or falsely purported to have been made or issued, by or under the authority of the United States Government, the State of Illinois, or any other state political HB1656 Engrossed - 9 - LRB101 08581 SLF 53660 b subdivision of any state, or any other governmental or quasi-governmental organization that is of a type intended for the purpose of identification of an individual, or any such document made or altered in a manner that it falsely purports to have been made on behalf of or issued to another person or by the authority of one who did not give that authority.
(10) The number assigned to a person's credit or debit card, commonly known as a "Visa Card", "MasterCard", "American Express Card", "Discover Card", or other similar HB1656 Engrossed - 10 - LRB101 08581 SLF 53660 b cards whether issued by a financial institution, corporation, or business entity.
any HB1656 Engrossed - 11 - LRB101 08581 SLF 53660 b common use areas in shopping centers;
"Radio frequency identification device" means any implement, computer file, computer disc, electronic device, computer hardware, computer software, or instrument that is used to activate, read, receive, or decode information stored HB1656 Engrossed - 12 - LRB101 08581 SLF 53660 b on a RFID tag or transponder attached to a personal identification document.
"Sound or audio visual recording" means any sound or audio visual phonograph record, disc, pre-recorded tape, film, wire, magnetic tape or other object, device or medium, now known or HB1656 Engrossed - 13 - LRB101 08581 SLF 53660 b hereafter invented, by which sounds or images may be reproduced with or without the use of any additional machine, equipment or device.
"Unlawful access device" means any type of instrument, device, machine, equipment, technology, or software which is primarily possessed, used, designed, assembled, manufactured, sold, distributed or offered, promoted or advertised for the purpose of defeating or circumventing any technology, device or software, or any component or part thereof, used by the provider, owner or licensee of any communication service or of any data, audio or video programs or transmissions to protect any such communication, audio or video services, programs or transmissions from unauthorized access, acquisition, receipt, decryption, disclosure, communication, transmission or HB1656 Engrossed - 14 - LRB101 08581 SLF 53660 b re-transmission.
and (2) any communication or wireless device which is capable of, or has been altered, designed, modified, programmed or reprogrammed, alone or in conjunction with another communication or wireless device or devices, so as to be capable of, facilitating the disruption, HB1656 Engrossed - 15 - LRB101 08581 SLF 53660 b acquisition, receipt, transmission or decryption of a communication service without the express consent or express authorization of the communication service provider, including, but not limited to, any device, technology, product, service, equipment, computer software or component or part thereof, primarily distributed, sold, designed, assembled, manufactured, modified, programmed, reprogrammed or used for the purpose of providing the unauthorized receipt of, transmission of, disruption of, decryption of, access to or acquisition of any communication service provided by any communication service provider.
Action History
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Referred to Assignments
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First Reading
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Chief Senate Sponsor Sen. Michael E. Hastings
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Placed on Calendar Order of First Reading March 21, 2019
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Arrive in Senate
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Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Deanne M. Mazzochi
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Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Amy Grant
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Added Chief Co-Sponsor Rep. John Connor
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Added Chief Co-Sponsor Rep. Jonathan Carroll
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Added Chief Co-Sponsor Rep. Grant Wehrli
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Added Chief Co-Sponsor Rep. Mark Batinick
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Third Reading - Short Debate - Passed 115-000-000
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Placed on Calendar Order of 3rd Reading - Short Debate
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Second Reading - Short Debate
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Placed on Calendar 2nd Reading - Short Debate
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Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Kelly M. Cassidy
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Do Pass / Short Debate Judiciary - Criminal Committee; 016-000-000
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Assigned to Judiciary - Criminal Committee
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Referred to Rules Committee
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First Reading
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Filed with the Clerk by Rep. Margo McDermed
Sponsors
- Jonathan Carroll · Cosponsor
- John Connor · Cosponsor
- Kelly M. Cassidy · Cosponsor
- Amy L. Grant · Cosponsor
- Deanne M. Mazzochi · Cosponsor
- Michael E. Hastings · Cosponsor
- Margo McDermed · Cosponsor
- Mark Batinick · Cosponsor
- Grant Wehrli · Cosponsor
Sponsorship breakdown
Export CSV (upgrade) →0 sponsors · 9 co-sponsors · 174 not signed on
Sponsors (0)
None.
Co-sponsors (9)
- Jonathan Carroll
- John Connor
- Kelly M. Cassidy Democrat
- Amy L. Grant Republican
- Deanne M. Mazzochi
- Michael E. Hastings Democrat
- Margo McDermed
- Mark Batinick
- Grant Wehrli
Not signed on (174)
174 members have not signed on to this bill.
Show all 174 →"Not signed on" means a member has not sponsored or co-sponsored this bill — it does not imply opposition. Members flagged Voted No have a recorded No vote on this bill.
Votes
| Party | Yea | Nay | Present | Not Voting |
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| Unaffiliated | 48 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Republican | 20 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Democrat | 47 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Total | 115 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| % of votes cast | 97% | 0% | 0% | 3% |
How each member voted (118)
| Member | Party | Vote |
|---|---|---|
| Sommer | — | Yea |
| Durkin | — | Yea |
| Arroyo | — | Yea |
| Mazzochi | — | Yea |
| Bailey | — | Yea |
| McAuliffe | — | Yea |
| Flowers | — | Yea |
| Batinick | — | Yea |
| McDermed | — | Yea |
| Frese | — | Yea |
| Bourne | — | Yea |
| Thapedi | — | Yea |
| McSweeney | — | Yea |
| Brady | — | Yea |
| Turner | — | Yea |
| Bristow | — | Yea |
| Unes | — | Yea |
| Greenwood | — | Yea |
| Burke | — | Yea |
| Butler | — | Yea |
| Madigan | — | Yea |
| Demmer | — | Yea |
| Marron | — | Yea |
| Bennett | — | Not Voting |
| Welter | — | Not Voting |
| Carroll | — | Yea |
| Wehrli | — | Yea |
| Caulkins | — | Yea |
| Harris | — | Yea |
| Pappas | — | Yea |
| Connor | — | Yea |
| Parkhurst | — | Yea |
| Conroy | — | Yea |
| Wheeler | — | Yea |
| Ramirez | — | Yea |
| Conyears-Ervin | — | Yea |
| Hurley | — | Yea |
| Williams | — | Yea |
| Jones | — | Yea |
| Costello | — | Yea |
| Willis | — | Yea |
| Robinson | — | Yea |
| Kalish | — | Yea |
| D'Amico | — | Yea |
| Yednock | — | Yea |
| Yingling | — | Yea |
| Skillicorn | — | Yea |
| Davis | — | Yea |
| Zalewski | — | Yea |
| Costa Howard | — | Yea |
| Aarón M. Ortíz | Democrat | Yea |
| Anna Moeller | Democrat | Yea |
| Anne Stava | Democrat | Yea |
| Anthony DeLuca | Democrat | Yea |
| Barbara Hernandez | Democrat | Yea |
| Bob Morgan | Democrat | Yea |
| Camille Y. Lilly | Democrat | Yea |
| Carol Ammons | Democrat | Yea |
| Celina Villanueva | Democrat | Yea |
| Curtis J. Tarver, II | Democrat | Yea |
| Daniel Didech | Democrat | Yea |
| Debbie Meyers-Martin | Democrat | Yea |
| Elizabeth "Lisa" Hernandez | Democrat | Yea |
| Emanuel "Chris" Welch | Democrat | Yea |
| Fred Crespo | Democrat | Yea |
| Jaime M. Andrade, Jr. | Democrat | Yea |
| Jay Hoffman | Democrat | Yea |
| Jehan Gordon-Booth | Democrat | Not Voting |
| Jennifer Gong-Gershowitz | Democrat | Yea |
| Joyce Mason | Democrat | Yea |
| Julie A. Morrison | Democrat | Yea |
| Justin Slaughter | Democrat | Yea |
| Kam Buckner | Democrat | Yea |
| Karina Villa | Democrat | Yea |
| Katie Stuart | Democrat | Yea |
| Kelly M. Cassidy | Democrat | Yea |
| La Shawn K. Ford | Democrat | Yea |
| Laura M. Murphy | Democrat | Yea |
| Lawrence "Larry" Walsh, Jr. | Democrat | Yea |
| Marcus C. Evans, Jr. | Democrat | Yea |
| Mark L. Walker | Democrat | Yea |
| Martin J. Moylan | Democrat | Yea |
| Mary Edly-Allen | Democrat | Yea |
| Maurice A. West, II | Democrat | Yea |
| Michael W. Halpin | Democrat | Yea |
| Michelle Mussman | Democrat | Yea |
| Natalie A. Manley | Democrat | Yea |
| Nicholas K. Smith | Democrat | Yea |
| Rita Mayfield | Democrat | Yea |
| Robert "Bob" Rita | Democrat | Yea |
| Robert F. Martwick | Democrat | Yea |
| Robyn Gabel | Democrat | Yea |
| Sara Feigenholtz | Democrat | Yea |
| Sonya M. Harper | Democrat | Yea |
| Stephanie A. Kifowit | Democrat | Yea |
| Sue Scherer | Democrat | Yea |
| Theresa Mah | Democrat | Yea |
| Will Guzzardi | Democrat | Yea |
| Amy L. Grant | Republican | Yea |
| Andrew S. Chesney | Republican | Yea |
| Blaine Wilhour | Republican | Yea |
| Brad Halbrook | Republican | Yea |
| Charles Meier | Republican | Yea |
| Chris Miller | Republican | Yea |
| Christopher "C.D." Davidsmeyer | Republican | Yea |
| Dan Swanson | Republican | Yea |
| Daniel J. Ugaste | Republican | Yea |
| Dave Severin | Republican | Yea |
| Jeff Keicher | Republican | Yea |
| Joe C. Sosnowski | Republican | Yea |
| John M. Cabello | Republican | Yea |
| Norine K. Hammond | Republican | Yea |
| Patrick Windhorst | Republican | Yea |
| Ryan Spain | Republican | Yea |
| Steven Reick | Republican | Yea |
| Terri Bryant | Republican | Yea |
| Tom Weber | Republican | Yea |
| Tony M. McCombie | Republican | Yea |
Subjects
Frequently asked questions
- What does HB 1656 do?
- Amends the Criminal Code of 2012. Defines "personal identifying information" for purposes of identity theft to include (1) any information regarding an individual's medical history, mental or physical condition, or medical treatment or diagnosis by a health care professional and (2) a person's health insurance policy number or subscriber identification number, any unique identifier used by a health insurer to identify a person, or any information in an individual's application and claims history, including, but not limited to, appeals history.
- Who sponsors HB 1656?
- HB 1656 is sponsored by Jonathan Carroll, John Connor, Kelly M. Cassidy (Democrat), Amy L. Grant (Republican), Deanne M. Mazzochi, Michael E. Hastings (Democrat), Margo McDermed, Mark Batinick, and Grant Wehrli.
- What is the current status of HB 1656?
- This bill died with 101st Regular Session. It reached “Passed House” and never advanced before the session ended, so it can no longer move — a new version would have to be reintroduced in the current session.
- Where can I track HB 1656?
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