Public Act 097-0402
 
HB1298 EnrolledLRB097 02852 PJG 42874 b

    AN ACT concerning finance.
 
    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
 
    Section 2. The Department of State Police Law of the Civil
Administrative Code of Illinois is amended by changing Section
2605-375 as follows:
 
    (20 ILCS 2605/2605-375)  (was 20 ILCS 2605/55a in part)
    Sec. 2605-375. Missing persons; Law Enforcement Agencies
Data System (LEADS).
    (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
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.
Funds may be appropriated from the LEADS Maintenance Fund to
the Department to finance any of its lawful purposes or
functions in relation to defraying the expenses associated with
establishing, maintaining, and supporting the issuance of
electronic citations.
    (b) In exercising its duties under this Section, the
Department shall provide a uniform reporting format (LEADS) for
the entry of pertinent information regarding the report of a
missing person into LEADS. The report must include all of the
following:
        (1) Relevant information obtained from the
    notification concerning the missing person, including all
    of the following:
            (A) a physical description of the missing person;
            (B) the date, time, and place that the missing
        person was last seen; and
            (C) the missing person'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
    on the evidence and information received.
    (b-5) The Department of State Police shall:
        (1) 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.
        (2) Notify all law enforcement agencies that reports of
    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.
        (3) 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.
        (4) 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.
        (5) 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.
    (c) The Illinois Law Enforcement Training Standards Board
shall conduct a training program for law enforcement personnel
of local governmental agencies in the Missing Persons
Identification Act.
    (d) The Department of State Police shall perform the duties
prescribed in the Missing Persons Identification Act, subject
to appropriation.
(Source: P.A. 94-145, eff. 1-1-06; 95-192, eff. 8-16-07.)
 
    Section 10. The Clerks of Courts Act is amended by changing
Section 27.3e as follows:
 
    (705 ILCS 105/27.3e)
    Sec. 27.3e. Electronic citation fee. As used in this
Section, "electronic citation" means the process of
transmitting traffic, misdemeanor, municipal ordinance,
conservation, or other citations and law enforcement data via
electronic means to a circuit court clerk.
    To defray the expense of establishing and maintaining
electronic citations, each Circuit Court Clerk shall charge and
collect an electronic citation fee of $5. Such fee shall be
paid by the defendant in any traffic, misdemeanor, municipal
ordinance, or conservation case upon a judgment of guilty or
grant of supervision. This fee shall be in addition to all
other fees and charges and assessable as costs and shall not be
subject to disbursement under Section 27.5 or 27.6 of this Act.
60% of the fee shall be deposited into the Circuit Court Clerk
Electronic Citation Fund and 40% of the fee shall be disbursed
to the arresting agency to defray expenses related to the
establishment and maintenance of electronic citations. The
Circuit Court Clerk shall be the custodian, ex officio, of the
Circuit Court Clerk Electronic Citation Fund and shall use the
Fund to perform the duties required by the office for
establishing and maintaining electronic citations. The Fund
shall be audited by the County's auditor. The Circuit Court
Clerk shall not charge and collect an electronic citation fee
if the County Board has by ordinance elected not to be subject
to this Section. Any funds collected under this Section before
such an ordinance takes effect shall be disbursed to the
Illinois State Police for expenses related to the establishment
and maintenance of electronic citations.
    With respect to funds designated for, as well as citations
issued by, the Department of State Police, the moneys shall be
remitted by the circuit court clerk to the State Treasurer
within one month after receipt for deposit into the LEADS
Maintenance Fund.
(Source: P.A. 96-1210, eff. 1-1-11.)
 
    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
becoming law.