Date	Chamber	Action
8/9/2019	House	Public Act . . . . . . . . . 101-0236

Statutes Amended In Order of Appearance

5 ILCS 140/7.5

55 ILCS 80/2.5

55 ILCS 80/4.5 new

Synopsis As Introduced
Amends the Children's Advocacy Center Act. Provides that consent is not required for a forensic interview to be electronically recorded and that failure to record does not render a forensic interview inadmissible. Provides that a forensic interview, an electronic recording, or a transcription of an interview or electronic recording is confidential and exempt from public inspection and copying and may only be viewed by a court, attorneys, investigators, or experts for the purpose of judicial and administrative hearings and shall not be disseminated except pursuant to a court's protective order. Provides that nothing in the Act shall be construed to limit or prohibit electronically recorded forensic interviewing in accordance with provisions concerning surveillance and investigations in the Criminal Code of 2012 and Code of Criminal Procedure of 1963. Adds a definition and modifies a definition. Amends the Freedom of Information Act making conforming changes. Effective January 1, 2020.

House Floor Amendment No. 1
Defines a "forensic interview transcription" as a verbatim transcript of a forensic interview for the purpose of translating the interview into another language. Makes a conforming change.

Actions 

Date	Chamber	Action
1/25/2019	House	Filed with the Clerk by Rep. Emanuel Chris Welch
1/28/2019	House	First Reading
1/28/2019	House	Referred to Rules Committee
2/5/2019	House	Assigned to Adoption & Child Welfare Committee
2/13/2019	House	Added Chief Co-Sponsor Rep. Tony McCombie
2/13/2019	House	Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Kelly M. Burke
2/13/2019	House	Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Katie Stuart
2/19/2019	House	Do Pass / Short Debate Adoption & Child Welfare Committee; 013-000-000
2/19/2019	House	Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Michelle Mussman
2/20/2019	House	Placed on Calendar 2nd Reading - Short Debate
2/22/2019	House	Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Monica Bristow
2/25/2019	House	Added Co-Sponsor Rep. John Connor
2/26/2019	House	Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Keith P. Sommer
2/26/2019	House	Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Margo McDermed
2/26/2019	House	Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Natalie A. Manley
2/27/2019	House	Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Mark Batinick
2/28/2019	House	House Floor Amendment No. 1 Filed with Clerk by Rep. Emanuel Chris Welch
2/28/2019	House	House Floor Amendment No. 1 Referred to Rules Committee
3/5/2019	House	House Floor Amendment No. 1 Recommends Be Adopted Rules Committee; 004-000-000
3/6/2019	House	Second Reading - Short Debate
3/6/2019	House	House Floor Amendment No. 1 Adopted
3/6/2019	House	Placed on Calendar Order of 3rd Reading - Short Debate
3/7/2019	House	Added Chief Co-Sponsor Rep. Natalie A. Manley
3/7/2019	House	Removed Co-Sponsor Rep. Natalie A. Manley
3/20/2019	House	Third Reading - Short Debate - Passed 115-000-000
3/20/2019	House	Added Chief Co-Sponsor Rep. Fred Crespo
3/20/2019	House	Added Chief Co-Sponsor Rep. Jonathan Carroll
3/20/2019	House	Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Frances Ann Hurley
3/20/2019	Senate	Arrive in Senate
3/20/2019	Senate	Placed on Calendar Order of First Reading
3/20/2019	Senate	Chief Senate Sponsor Sen. Rachelle Crowe
3/20/2019	Senate	First Reading
3/20/2019	Senate	Referred to Assignments
3/27/2019	Senate	Alternate Chief Sponsor Changed to Sen. Kimberly A. Lightford
3/27/2019	Senate	Added as Alternate Chief Co-Sponsor Sen. Rachelle Crowe
4/24/2019	Senate	Assigned to Criminal Law
5/2/2019	Senate	Do Pass Criminal Law; 009-000-000
5/2/2019	Senate	Placed on Calendar Order of 2nd Reading May 7, 2019
5/9/2019	Senate	Added as Alternate Chief Co-Sponsor Sen. Julie A. Morrison
5/9/2019	Senate	Second Reading
5/9/2019	Senate	Placed on Calendar Order of 3rd Reading May 14, 2019
5/24/2019	Senate	Third Reading - Passed; 057-000-000
5/24/2019	House	Passed Both Houses
6/21/2019	House	Sent to the Governor
8/9/2019	House	Governor Approved
8/9/2019	House	Effective Date January 1, 2020
8/9/2019	House	Public Act . . . . . . . . . 101-0236

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