Rep. John D'Amico
Filed: 4/18/2007
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1 | AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 2749
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2 | AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 2749 by replacing | ||||||
3 | everything after the enacting clause with the following:
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4 | "Section 5. The Unified Code of Corrections is amended by | ||||||
5 | changing Section 5-8A-2 as follows:
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6 | (730 ILCS 5/5-8A-2) (from Ch. 38, par. 1005-8A-2)
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7 | Sec. 5-8A-2. Definitions. As used in this Article:
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8 | (A) "Approved electronic monitoring device" means a device | ||||||
9 | approved by
the supervising authority which is primarily | ||||||
10 | intended to record or transmit
information as to the | ||||||
11 | defendant's presence or nonpresence in the home.
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12 | An approved electronic monitoring device may record or | ||||||
13 | transmit: oral or
wire communications or an auditory sound; | ||||||
14 | visual images; or information
regarding the offender's | ||||||
15 | activities while inside the offender's home.
These devices are | ||||||
16 | subject to the required consent as set forth in Section
5-8A-5 |
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1 | of this Article.
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2 | An approved electronic monitoring device may be used to | ||||||
3 | record a
conversation between the participant and the | ||||||
4 | monitoring device, or the
participant and the person | ||||||
5 | supervising the participant solely for the
purpose of | ||||||
6 | identification and not for the purpose of eavesdropping or
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7 | conducting any other illegally intrusive monitoring.
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8 | (B) "Excluded offenses" means first degree murder, escape, | ||||||
9 | predatory
criminal sexual assault of a child, aggravated | ||||||
10 | criminal sexual assault,
criminal sexual assault, aggravated | ||||||
11 | battery with a firearm, bringing or
possessing a firearm, | ||||||
12 | ammunition or explosive in a penal institution, any
"Super-X" | ||||||
13 | drug offense or calculated criminal drug conspiracy or | ||||||
14 | streetgang
criminal drug conspiracy, or any predecessor or | ||||||
15 | successor offenses with the
same or substantially the same | ||||||
16 | elements, or any inchoate offenses relating to
the foregoing | ||||||
17 | offenses.
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18 | (C) "Home detention" means the confinement of a person | ||||||
19 | convicted or
charged with an offense to his or her place of | ||||||
20 | residence under the terms
and conditions established by the | ||||||
21 | supervising authority.
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22 | (D) "Participant" means an inmate or offender placed into | ||||||
23 | an
electronic monitoring program.
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24 | (E) "Supervising authority" means the Department of | ||||||
25 | Corrections,
probation supervisory authority, sheriff, | ||||||
26 | superintendent of
municipal house of corrections or any other |
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1 | officer or agency charged with
authorizing and supervising home | ||||||
2 | detention. In counties of over 3,000,000 inhabitants, for the | ||||||
3 | purpose of determining eligibility of a person to be placed in | ||||||
4 | an electronic home detention program, the "supervising | ||||||
5 | authority" shall be the judge and not the sheriff.
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6 | (F) "Super-X drug offense" means a violation of Section | ||||||
7 | 401(a)(1)(B), (C),
or (D); Section 401(a)(2)(B), (C), or (D); | ||||||
8 | Section 401(a)(3)(B), (C), or (D);
or Section 401(a)(7)(B), | ||||||
9 | (C), or (D) of the Illinois Controlled Substances
Act.
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10 | (Source: P.A. 88-311; 89-428, eff. 12-13-95; 89-462, eff. | ||||||
11 | 5-29-96; 89-498,
eff. 6-27-96.)".
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