Bill Status of HB0255  102nd General Assembly

Short Description:  SPECIAL PROSECUTOR-APPOINTMENT

House Sponsors
Rep. Kambium Buckner - Carol Ammons, Edgar Gonzalez, Jr. and Curtis J. Tarver, II

Last Action
DateChamber Action
  1/10/2023HouseSession Sine Die

Statutes Amended In Order of Appearance
50 ILCS 727/1-10
55 ILCS 5/3-9008from Ch. 34, par. 3-9008


Synopsis As Introduced
Amends the Police and Community Relations Improvement Act. Provides that in the case of a law enforcement officer-involved death, the chief judge of the circuit court of the circuit in which the law enforcement officer-involved death occurred shall appoint a special prosecutor to review the report of the investigators assigned to investigate an officer-involved death and to prosecute the officer involved in the death, if the special prosecutor determines that there is a basis for the prosecution. Amends the Counties Code to make conforming changes. Effective immediately.

Actions 
DateChamber Action
  1/25/2021HouseFiled with the Clerk by Rep. Kambium Buckner
  1/29/2021HouseFirst Reading
  1/29/2021HouseReferred to Rules Committee
  2/5/2021HouseAdded Co-Sponsor Rep. Edgar Gonzalez, Jr.
  2/22/2021HouseAdded Chief Co-Sponsor Rep. Carol Ammons
  2/23/2021HouseAssigned to Judiciary - Criminal Committee
  3/27/2021HouseRule 19(a) / Re-referred to Rules Committee
  4/16/2021HouseAdded Co-Sponsor Rep. Curtis J. Tarver, II
  1/10/2023HouseSession Sine Die