101ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2019 and 2020
HB4965

 

Introduced 2/18/2020, by Rep. Allen Skillicorn

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
725 ILCS 5/108-1  from Ch. 38, par. 108-1

    Amends the Code of Criminal Procedure of 1963. Provides that a law enforcement officer may not search or inspect a wireless communications device or any audio, video, text, or other form of message on a wireless communications device without a search warrant. Defines "wireless communications device".


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A BILL FOR

 

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1    AN ACT concerning criminal law.
 
2    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3represented in the General Assembly:
 
4    Section 5. The Code of Criminal Procedure of 1963 is
5amended by changing Section 108-1 as follows:
 
6    (725 ILCS 5/108-1)  (from Ch. 38, par. 108-1)
7    Sec. 108-1. Search without warrant.
8    (1) When a lawful arrest is effected a peace officer may
9reasonably search the person arrested and the area within such
10person's immediate presence for the purpose of:
11        (a) protecting the officer from attack; or
12        (b) preventing the person from escaping; or
13        (c) discovering the fruits of the crime; or
14        (d) discovering any instruments, articles, or things
15    which may have been used in the commission of, or which may
16    constitute evidence of, an offense.
17    (2) (Blank).
18    (3) A law enforcement officer may not search or inspect a
19motor vehicle, its contents, the driver, or a passenger solely
20because of a violation of Section 12-603.1 of the Illinois
21Vehicle Code.
22    (4) A law enforcement officer may not search or inspect a
23wireless communications device or any audio, video, text, or

 

 

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1other form of message on a wireless communications device
2without a search warrant. As used in this subsection (4),
3"wireless communications device" has the meaning provided in
4Section 5 of the Resale Dealers Act.
5(Source: P.A. 93-99, eff. 7-3-03.)