Illinois 94th Regular Session Status: Passed Senate

SB 1624 — GOVT-ST POLICE-AMBER ALERT

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Summary

Amends the Department of State Police Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois. Requires the Department of State Police to develop a statewide emergency alert system for missing endangered seniors, to develop a community outreach program to promote awareness among State citizens of senior endangerment prevention and response, and to appoint a Child and Senior Safety Coordinator (rather than a Child Safety Coordinator). Requires the Department to prepare a report containing certain information when it receives a notification of a missing endangered senior and to forward the report to certain other parties. Requires the Department to begin an investigation concerning the missing endangered senior no later than 24 hours after receiving notification of the missing endangered senior. Provides a definition of "missing endangered senior". Amends the Illinois Police Training Act to require the Illinois Law Enforcement Training Standards Board to provide a training program for law enforcement personnel of local governmental agencies in the statewide coordinated child abduction and missing endangered senior alert system (rather than the child abduction alert system). Effective January 1, 2006.

Bill Text

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Plain-language change summary

The updated version of SB 1624 adds a detailed definition of "missing endangered senior," which includes specific age and condition criteria for individuals who are considered missing and need assistance. Additionally, it eliminates some earlier provisions about a mandated emergency alert system and community outreach program intended for seniors, simplifying the Department of State Police's role. These changes matter because they clarify who qualifies as a missing endangered senior, ensuring more efficient responses from law enforcement, but they may reduce some proactive measures originally planned to raise public awareness about senior safety.

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*LRB09408107LJB38292b* SB1624 94TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois and 2006 SB1624 Introduced 2/23/2005, by Sen.
SB1624 Engrossed LRB094 08107 LJB 38292 b AN ACT concerning State government.
Louis S.
Viverito SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
ILCS 2605/2605-480 ILCS 705/10.10 Amends the Department of State Police Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois.
Requires the Department of State Police to develop a statewide emergency alert system for missing endangered seniors, to develop a community outreach program to promote awareness among State citizens of senior endangerment prevention and response, and to appoint a Child and Senior Safety Coordinator (rather than a Child Safety Coordinator).
Requires the Department to prepare a report containing certain information when it receives a notification of a missing endangered senior and to forward the report to certain other parties.
Requires the Department to begin an investigation concerning the missing endangered senior no later than 24 hours after receiving notification of the missing endangered senior.
Provides a definition of "missing endangered senior".
Amends the Illinois Police Training Act to require the Illinois Law Enforcement Training Standards Board to provide a training program for law enforcement personnel of local governmental agencies in the statewide coordinated child abduction and missing endangered senior alert system (rather than the child abduction alert system).
Effective January 1, 2006.
LRB094 08107 LJB 38292 b FISCAL NOTE ACT MAY APPLY A BILL FOR SB1624 LRB094 08107 LJB 38292 b AN ACT concerning state government.
The Department of State Police Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois is amended by changing Section 2605-480 as follows:
The Department of State Police Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois is amended by changing Sections 2605-5 and 2605-375 as follows:
(20 ILCS 2605/2605-480) Sec.
(20 ILCS 2605/2605-5) Sec.
2605-480.
2605-5.
Statewide kidnapping alert and prevention program;
Definitions.
Child and Senior Safety Coordinator;
In this Law:
reports of missing endangered seniors.
"Department" means the Department of State Police.
(a) The Department of State Police shall develop a coordinated program for a statewide emergency alert system when a child is missing or kidnapped or a senior is missing and endangered.
"Director" means the Director of State Police.
The system shall include, but is not limited to, the use in coordination with the Illinois Department of Transportation, of electronic message signs on roads and highways in the vicinity of a child abduction or the vicinity where a missing endangered senior was last seen to immediately provide critical information to the public.
"Missing endangered senior" means an individual 65 years of age or older who is reported missing to a law enforcement agency and is, or is believed to be:
(b) The Department of State Police shall establish an AMBER Plan Task Force to monitor and review the implementation and operation of the system developed under subsection (a), including procedures, budgetary requirements, and response protocols.
The Task Force shall also develop additional network resources for use in the system.
(c) The Department of State Police, in coordination with the Illinois Emergency Management Agency, shall develop and implement a community outreach program to promote awareness among citizens of the State the State’s parents and children of child abduction and senior endangerment prevention and response.
(d) The Department of State Police, in coordination with SB1624 - 2 - LRB094 08107 LJB 38292 b the State Board of Education, shall develop child abduction prevention instruction for inclusion in elementary and secondary school curricula throughout the State.
The Department and State Board of Education shall encourage the inclusion of the child abduction prevention instruction in private elementary and secondary school curricula throughout the State.
(e) The Department shall appoint a Child and Senior Safety Coordinator to assist in the establishment of State standards for child and senior safety from kidnap, and abduction, and endangerment and to advocate for the achievement of those standards.
The Child and Senior Safety Coordinator shall have the qualifications and experience that the Department shall require by rule.
The Child and Senior Safety Coordinator shall receive no compensation but shall be reimbursed for his or her expenses from the Department’s operations budget.
No funds shall be appropriated solely for the expenses of the Child and Senior Safety Coordinator.
The Department shall provide technical assistance for the Child and Senior Safety Coordinator from its existing resources.
(f) If the Department of State Police receives a notification concerning a missing endangered senior, it shall prepare a report on the missing endangered senior.
The report must include all of the following:
(1) Relevant information obtained from the notification concerning the missing endangered senior, including all of the following:
(A) a physical description of the missing endangered senior;
(B) the date, time, and place that the missing endangered senior was last seen;
and (C) the missing endangered senior’s address.
(2) Information gathered by a preliminary investigation, if one was made.
(3) A statement by the law enforcement officer in charge stating the officer’s assessment of the case based SB1624 - 3 - LRB094 08107 LJB 38292 b on the evidence and information received.
The Department of State Police shall prepare the report required by this subsection (f) as soon as practicable, but not later than 5 hours after the Department receives notification of a missing endangered senior.
(g) Upon completion of the report required by subsection (f) the Department of State Police shall immediately forward the contents of the report to all of the following:
(1) all law enforcement agencies that have jurisdiction in the location where the missing endangered senior lives and all law enforcement agencies that have jurisdiction in the location where the missing endangered senior was last seen;
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(2) all law enforcement agencies to which the person who made the notification concerning the missing endangered senior requests the report be sent, if the Department determines that the request is reasonable in light of the information received;
(3) all law enforcement agencies that request a copy of the report;
and (4) the National Crime Information Center’s Missing Person File, if appropriate.
(h) The Department of State Police shall begin an investigation concerning the missing endangered senior not later than 24 hours after receiving notification of a missing endangered senior.
(i) For the purposes of this Section, "missing endangered senior" means an individual 65 years of age or older who is reported missing to a law enforcement agency and is, or is believed to be:
92-259, eff.
91-239, eff.
1-1-02;
1-1-00.) (20 ILCS 2605/2605-375) (was 20 ILCS 2605/55a in part) Sec.
92-468, eff.
2605-375.
8-22-01;
Missing persons;
SB1624 - 4 - LRB094 08107 LJB 38292 b 93-310, eff.
Law Enforcement Agencies Data System (LEADS).
7-23-03.) Section 10.
(a) To establish and maintain a statewide Law Enforcement Agencies Data System (LEADS) for the purpose of providing electronic access by authorized entities to criminal justice data repositories and effecting an immediate law enforcement response to reports of missing persons, including lost, missing or runaway minors and missing endangered seniors.
The Department shall implement an automatic data exchange system to compile, to maintain, and to make available to other law enforcement agencies for immediate dissemination data that can SB1624 Engrossed - 2 - LRB094 08107 LJB 38292 b assist appropriate agencies in recovering missing persons and provide access by authorized entities to various data repositories available through LEADS for criminal justice and related purposes.
To assist the Department in this effort, funds may be appropriated from the LEADS Maintenance Fund.
(b) In exercising its duties under this Section, the Department shall do the following:
(1) Provide a uniform reporting format for the entry of pertinent information regarding the report of a missing person into LEADS.
The report must include all of the following:
(A) Relevant information obtained from the notification concerning the missing person, including all of the following:
(i) a physical description of the missing person;
(ii) the date, time, and place that the missing person was last seen;
and (iii) the missing person’s address.
(B) Information gathered by a preliminary investigation, if one was made.
(C) A statement by the law enforcement officer in charge stating the officer’s assessment of the case based on the evidence and information received.
The Department of State Police shall prepare the report required by this paragraph (1) as soon as practical, but not later than 5 hours after the Department receives notification of a missing person.
(2) Develop and implement a policy whereby a statewide or regional alert would be used in situations relating to the disappearances of individuals, based on criteria and in a format established by the Department.
Such a format shall include, but not be limited to, the age of the missing person and the suspected circumstance of the disappearance.
(3) Notify all law enforcement agencies that reports of SB1624 Engrossed - 3 - LRB094 08107 LJB 38292 b missing persons shall be entered as soon as the minimum level of data specified by the Department is available to the reporting agency and that no waiting period for the entry of the data exists.
(4) Compile and retain information regarding lost, abducted, missing, or runaway minors in a separate data file, in a manner that allows that information to be used by law enforcement and other agencies deemed appropriate by the Director, for investigative purposes.
The information shall include the disposition of all reported lost, abducted, missing, or runaway minor cases.
(5) Compile and maintain an historic data repository relating to lost, abducted, missing, or runaway minors and other missing persons, including, but not limited to, missing endangered seniors in order to develop and improve techniques utilized by law enforcement agencies when responding to reports of missing persons.
(6) Create a quality control program regarding confirmation of missing person data, timeliness of entries of missing person reports into LEADS, and performance audits of all entering agencies.
(7) Upon completion of the report required by paragraph (1), the Department of State Police shall immediately forward the contents of the report to all of the following:
(A) all law enforcement agencies that have jurisdiction in the location where the missing person lives and all law enforcement agencies that have jurisdiction in the location where the missing person was last seen;
(B) all law enforcement agencies to which the person who made the notification concerning the missing person requests the report be sent, if the Department determines that the request is reasonable in light of the information received;
(C) all law enforcement agencies that request a copy of the report;
and SB1624 Engrossed - 4 - LRB094 08107 LJB 38292 b (D) the National Crime Information Center’s Missing Person File, if appropriate.
(8) The Department of State Police shall begin an investigation concerning the missing person not later than 24 hours after receiving notification of a missing person.
(c) The Illinois Law Enforcement Training Standards Board shall conduct a training program for law enforcement personnel of local governmental agencies in the statewide coordinated missing endangered senior alert system established under this Section.
(Source:
P.A.
90-18, eff.
7-1-97;
90-130, eff.
1-1-98;
90-372, eff.
7-1-98;
90-590, eff.
1-1-00;
90-655, eff.
7-30-98;
90-793, eff.
8-14-98;
91-239, eff.
1-1-00.) Section 10.
The Board shall conduct a training program for law enforcement personnel of local governmental agencies in the statewide coordinated child abduction and missing endangered senior alert system developed under Section 2605-480 of the Department of State Police Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois.
The Board shall conduct a training program for law enforcement personnel of local governmental agencies in the statewide coordinated child abduction alert system developed under Section 2605-480 of the Department of State Police Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois and the statewide coordinated missing endangered senior alert system developed under Section 2605-375 of the Department of State Police Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois.
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Action History

  1. Session Sine Die

  2. Added Alternate Co-Sponsor Rep. Cynthia Soto

  3. Added Alternate Co-Sponsor Rep. Michael K. Smith

  4. Added Alternate Co-Sponsor Rep. John D'Amico

  5. Rule 19(a) / Re-referred to Rules Committee

  6. Added Alternate Co-Sponsor Rep. William Delgado

  7. Added Alternate Co-Sponsor Rep. Edward J. Acevedo

  8. Added Alternate Co-Sponsor Rep. Linda Chapa LaVia

  9. Added Alternate Co-Sponsor Rep. Charles E. Jefferson

  10. Added Alternate Co-Sponsor Rep. Michelle Chavez

  11. Added Alternate Co-Sponsor Rep. Patricia Bailey

  12. Added Alternate Chief Co-Sponsor Rep. Robin Kelly

  13. Added Alternate Chief Co-Sponsor Rep. Elaine Nekritz

  14. Added Alternate Chief Co-Sponsor Rep. Kurt M. Granberg

  15. Added Alternate Chief Co-Sponsor Rep. Robert Rita

  16. Alternate Chief Sponsor Changed to Rep. Daniel J. Burke

  17. Assigned to Executive Committee

  18. Referred to Rules Committee

  19. First Reading

  20. Chief House Sponsor Rep. Robert Rita

  21. Placed on Calendar Order of First Reading

  22. Arrived in House

  23. Third Reading - Passed; 057-000-000

  24. Placed on Calendar Order of 3rd Reading

  25. Senate Floor Amendment No. 1 Adopted; Viverito

  26. Recalled to Second Reading

  27. Added as Co-Sponsor Sen. Edward D. Maloney

  28. Added as Chief Co-Sponsor Sen. Arthur J. Wilhelmi

  29. Added as Chief Co-Sponsor Sen. Deanna Demuzio

  30. Added as Chief Co-Sponsor Sen. Christine Radogno

  31. Senate Floor Amendment No. 1 Be Adopted Health & Human Services; 008-000-000

  32. Senate Floor Amendment No. 1 Rules Refers to Health & Human Services

  33. Senate Floor Amendment No. 1 Referred to Rules

  34. Senate Floor Amendment No. 1 Filed with Secretary by Sen. Louis S. Viverito

  35. Added as Co-Sponsor Sen. James T. Meeks

  36. Added as Co-Sponsor Sen. Jacqueline Y. Collins

  37. Added as Co-Sponsor Sen. Iris Y. Martinez

  38. Added as Co-Sponsor Sen. Ira I. Silverstein

  39. Placed on Calendar Order of 3rd Reading April 8, 2005

  40. Second Reading

  41. Placed on Calendar Order of 2nd Reading April 6, 2005

  42. Do Pass Health & Human Services; 010-000-000

  43. Assigned to Health & Human Services

  44. Referred to Rules

  45. First Reading

  46. Filed with Secretary by Sen. Louis S. Viverito

Sponsors

  • Louis S. Viverito · Cosponsor
  • Patricia Bailey · Cosponsor
  • Michelle Chavez · Cosponsor
  • Charles E. Jefferson · Cosponsor
  • Edward J. Acevedo · Cosponsor
  • William Delgado · Cosponsor
  • John D'Amico · Cosponsor
  • Michael K. Smith · Cosponsor
  • Cynthia Soto · Cosponsor
  • Chapa LaVia · Cosponsor

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0 sponsors · 10 co-sponsors · 173 not signed on

Sponsors (0)

None.

Co-sponsors (10)

  • Louis S. Viverito
  • Patricia Bailey
  • Michelle Chavez
  • Charles E. Jefferson
  • Edward J. Acevedo
  • William Delgado
  • John D'Amico
  • Michael K. Smith
  • Cynthia Soto
  • Chapa LaVia

Not signed on (173)

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Votes

Third Reading

Passed 57 Yea · 0 Nay · 2 Other
Party YeaNayPresentNot Voting
Unaffiliated 51002
Democrat 5000
Republican 1000
Total 57002
% of votes cast 97%0%0%3%
How each member voted (59)
Member Party Vote
Sandoval — Yea
Maloney — Yea
Althoff — Yea
Martinez — Yea
Bomke — Yea
Burzynski — Yea
DeLeo — Not Voting
Garrett — Yea
Halvorson — Yea
Lauzen — Yea
Link — Yea
Luechtefeld — Yea
Meeks — Yea
Munoz — Yea
Pankau — Yea
Brady — Yea
Peterson — Yea
Sullivan, D. — Yea
Sullivan, J. — Yea
Petka — Yea
Schoenberg — Yea
Shadid — Yea
Sieben — Yea
Jacobs — Yea
Silverstein — Yea
Jones, J. — Yea
Cullerton — Yea
Watson — Yea
Jones, W. — Yea
Demuzio — Yea
Trotter — Yea
Viverito — Yea
Wilhelmi — Yea
Clayborne — Yea
Cronin — Yea
Crotty — Yea
Dahl — Yea
Dillard — Yea
Forby — Yea
Geo-Karis — Yea
Haine — Yea
Hendon — Yea
Winkel — Yea
Wojcik — Yea
Radogno — Yea
Raoul — Yea
Rauschenberger — Yea
Righter — Yea
Risinger — Yea
Ronen — Yea
Roskam — Yea
Rutherford — Yea
del Valle — Not Voting
Don Harmon Democrat Yea
Emil Jones, III Democrat Yea
Kimberly A. Lightford Democrat Yea
Lakesia Collins Democrat Yea
Mattie Hunter Democrat Yea
Dave Syverson Republican Yea

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What does SB 1624 do?
Amends the Department of State Police Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois. Requires the Department of State Police to develop a statewide emergency alert system for missing endangered seniors, to develop a community outreach program to promote awareness among State citizens of senior endangerment prevention and response, and to appoint a Child and Senior Safety Coordinator (rather than a Child Safety Coordinator). Requires the Department to prepare a report containing certain information when it receives a notification of a missing endangered senior and to forward the report to certain other parties. Requires the Department to begin an investigation concerning the missing endangered senior no later than 24 hours after receiving notification of the missing endangered senior. Provides a definition of "missing endangered senior". Amends the Illinois Police Training Act to require the Illinois Law Enforcement Training Standards Board to provide a training program for law enforcement personnel of local governmental agencies in the statewide coordinated child abduction and missing endangered senior alert system (rather than the child abduction alert system). Effective January 1, 2006.
Who sponsors SB 1624?
SB 1624 is sponsored by Louis S. Viverito, Patricia Bailey, Michelle Chavez, Charles E. Jefferson, Edward J. Acevedo, William Delgado, John D'Amico, Michael K. Smith, Cynthia Soto, and Chapa LaVia.
What is the current status of SB 1624?
This bill died with 94th Regular Session. It reached “Passed Senate” 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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