103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2023 and 2024
HB1426

 

Introduced 1/31/2023, by Rep. Joe C. Sosnowski

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
20 ILCS 2605/2605-490 new
20 ILCS 2705/2705-625 new

    Amends the Illinois State Police Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois. Provides that the Illinois State Police, with cooperation of the Governor, the Illinois Department of Transportation, any other appropriate State agency, and State or local police and public safety agencies, shall develop and implement an alert system to be activated on report of an active shooter. Provides that the Director of the Illinois State Police shall be the statewide coordinator of the alert system. Provides that the coordinator shall adopt rules and issue directives as necessary to ensure proper implementation of the alert system. Provides that the rules and directives shall prescribe procedures for local law enforcement agencies requesting activation of the alert system. Provides that the Illinois State Police shall recruit public and commercial television and radio broadcasters, mobile telephone service providers, private commercial entities, State or local governmental entities, the public, and other appropriate persons to assist in developing and implementing the alert system. Amends the Department of Transportation Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois to make conforming changes. Effective immediately.


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A BILL FOR

 

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1    AN ACT concerning State government.
 
2    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3represented in the General Assembly:
 
4    Section 5. The Illinois State Police Law of the Civil
5Administrative Code of Illinois is amended by adding Section
62605-490 as follows:
 
7    (20 ILCS 2605/2605-490 new)
8    Sec. 2605-490. Illinois active shooter alert system.
9    (a) The Illinois State Police, with the cooperation of the
10Governor, the Illinois Department of Transportation, any other
11appropriate State agency, and State or local police and public
12safety agencies, shall develop and implement an alert system
13to be activated upon the report of an active shooter.
14    (b) The Director of the Illinois State Police shall be the
15statewide coordinator of the alert system. The coordinator
16shall adopt rules and issue directives as necessary to ensure
17proper implementation of the alert system. The rules and
18directives shall prescribe procedures for local law
19enforcement agencies to request activation of the alert
20system.
21    (c) The Illinois State Police shall recruit public and
22commercial television and radio broadcasters, mobile telephone
23service providers, private commercial entities, State or local

 

 

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1governmental entities, the public, and other appropriate
2persons to assist in developing and implementing the alert
3system. The Illinois State Police may enter into agreements
4with participants in the alert system to provide necessary
5support for the alert system.
6    (d) Upon the request of a local law enforcement agency
7regarding an active shooter, the Illinois State Police shall
8activate the alert system in a 50-mile radius of the active
9shooter's location and notify appropriate participants in the
10alert system as established by rule if the local law
11enforcement agency:
12        (1) believes an active shooter is in the agency's
13    jurisdiction;
14        (2) determines an active shooter alert would assist
15    individuals near the active shooter's location;
16        (3) verifies the active shooter situation through a
17    preliminary investigation; and
18        (4) provides the Illinois State Police with the active
19    shooter's last known location and any identifiable
20    information for the active shooter.
21    The Illinois State Police may modify the criteria
22described by this subsection as necessary for the proper
23implementation of the alert system.
24    (e) Before requesting activation of the alert system, a
25local law enforcement agency must verify that the criteria
26described in subsection (d) have been satisfied. Upon

 

 

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1verification of the applicable criteria, the local law
2enforcement agency may immediately contact the Illinois State
3Police to request activation and supply the necessary
4information in a manner prescribed by the coordinator.
5    (f) A State agency participating in the alert system
6shall:
7        (1) cooperate with the Illinois State Police and
8    assist in developing and implementing the alert system;
9    and
10        (2) establish a plan for providing relevant
11    information to its officers, investigators, or employees,
12    as appropriate, on activation of the alert system.
13    (g) In addition to its other duties prescribed in this
14Section, the Illinois Department of Transportation shall
15establish a plan for providing relevant information to the
16public within 50 miles of an active shooter for which an alert
17has been issued through an existing system of dynamic message
18signs located across the State.
19    (h) The Director shall terminate any activation of the
20alert system for a particular active shooter if:
21        (1) the active shooter situation is resolved; or
22        (2) the Director determines the alert system is no
23    longer an effective tool for providing relevant
24    information to the public about the active shooter.
25    As soon as practicable after the effective date of this
26amendatory Act of the 103rd General Assembly, the Illinois

 

 

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1State Police shall adopt rules and issue directives necessary
2to implement this Section.
 
3    Section 10. The Department of Transportation Law of the
4Civil Administrative Code of Illinois is amended by adding
5Section 2705-625 as follows:
 
6    (20 ILCS 2705/2705-625 new)
7    Sec. 2705-625. Illinois active shooter alert system. The
8Department of Transportation shall perform the duties
9prescribed to it in Section 2605-490 of the Illinois State
10Police Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois.
 
11    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
12becoming law.