Full Text of SB0933 96th General Assembly
SB0933eng 96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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| AN ACT concerning transportation.
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| Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, | 3 |
| represented in the General Assembly:
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| Section 5. The Racial Profiling Prevention and Data | 5 |
| Oversight Act is amended by changing Sections 15 and 40 as | 6 |
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| (20 ILCS 2715/15)
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| Sec. 15. Oversight Board.
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| (a) There is created within the Department a Racial | 10 |
| Profiling Prevention and Data Oversight Board, consisting of 15 | 11 |
| members, which shall independently exercise its powers, | 12 |
| duties, and responsibilities. The Board shall have the | 13 |
| authority to allow additional participation from various | 14 |
| groups that the Board deems necessary for additional input. | 15 |
| (b) The membership of the Oversight Board shall consist of: | 16 |
| (1) 4 legislators appointed by the General Assembly | 17 |
| leadership equally apportioned between the 2 houses and | 18 |
| political parties , with appointees of the majority party in | 19 |
| the Senate and the majority party in the House of | 20 |
| Representatives to serve as co-chairs on the Board ; | 21 |
| (2) the Attorney General or his or her designee; | 22 |
| (3) the Secretary of the Illinois Department of | 23 |
| Transportation or his or her designee; |
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| (4) the Director of the Illinois State Police or his or | 2 |
| her designee; | 3 |
| (5) 3 members of county or city law enforcement | 4 |
| agencies, representing jurisdictions of varied size and | 5 |
| geography, with 2 members being appointed by the co-chairs | 6 |
| and one member being appointed by the Governor; | 7 |
| (6) 4 members of community organizations representing | 8 |
| minority interests, with 2 members being appointed by the | 9 |
| co-chairs and 2 members being appointed by the Governor; | 10 |
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| (7) one member of the Illinois academic community
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| specific expertise in both statistical analysis and law | 13 |
| enforcement, appointed by the Governor. | 14 |
| (c) All members shall serve 2 years and until their | 15 |
| successors are appointed. Members may be reappointed for an | 16 |
| unlimited number of terms. The Oversight Board shall meet at | 17 |
| least quarterly.
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| (Source: P.A. 94-997, eff. 1-1-08 .) | 19 |
| (20 ILCS 2715/40)
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| Sec. 40. Powers and Duties of the Oversight Board. The | 21 |
| Oversight Board shall have the following powers, duties, and | 22 |
| responsibilities: | 23 |
| (a) To operate purely as an advisory body. Any changes to | 24 |
| rules and policy promoted by the Oversight Board are only | 25 |
| recommendations, which may be reported to the Governor, the |
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| Secretary of State, and the General Assembly or to appropriate | 2 |
| law enforcement agencies. | 3 |
| (b) To coordinate the development, adoption, and | 4 |
| implementation of plans and strategies to eliminate racial | 5 |
| profiling in Illinois and to coordinate the development, | 6 |
| adoption, and implementation of plans and strategies to create | 7 |
| public awareness programs in minority communities, designed to | 8 |
| educate individuals regarding racial profiling and their civil | 9 |
| rights. | 10 |
| (c) To promulgate model policies for police agencies that | 11 |
| are designed to protect individuals' civil rights related to | 12 |
| police traffic enforcement and to recommend to law enforcement | 13 |
| agencies model rules as may be necessary to effectuate training | 14 |
| regarding data collection and mechanisms to engage those | 15 |
| agencies who willfully fail to comply with the requirements of | 16 |
| the Traffic Stop Statistical Study Act.
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| (d) To study and to issue reports and recommendations to | 18 |
| the Governor, the Secretary of State, and the General Assembly | 19 |
| regarding the following subjects by the following dates: | 20 |
| (1) no later than September 1, 2009 July 1, 2008 , | 21 |
| regarding strategies to improve the benchmark data | 22 |
| available to identify the race, ethnicity, and | 23 |
| geographical residence of the Illinois driving population, | 24 |
| beginning on August 1, 2008, with the collection of race | 25 |
| and ethnicity data on new and renewal applicants for | 26 |
| driver's licenses. This data shall be available for |
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| statistical benchmark comparison purposes only; | 2 |
| (2) no later than September 1, 2009 January 1, 2009 , | 3 |
| regarding data collection requirements with respect to | 4 |
| additional race and ethnicity categories to be added to the | 5 |
| traffic stop statistical study in order to improve data | 6 |
| collection among unreported and under-reported minority | 7 |
| populations. The Board shall study, and recommend if | 8 |
| required, at a minimum, data collection strategies, | 9 |
| categories, and benchmarks for persons of Middle-Eastern | 10 |
| origin. The Board shall also study stops lasting over 30 | 11 |
| minutes and define categorical reasons for the extended | 12 |
| stops; | 13 |
| (3) no later than September 1, 2009 July 1, 2009 , | 14 |
| regarding technological solutions to aid in the | 15 |
| identification, elimination, and prevention of racial | 16 |
| profiling and to recommend funding sources for statewide | 17 |
| implementation of the technological solutions; | 18 |
| (4) no later than September 1, 2009 January 1, 2010 , | 19 |
| regarding whether Illinois should continue the mandatory | 20 |
| data collection required under this Act, as well as the | 21 |
| best practices of data collection as related to the | 22 |
| identification, elimination, and prevention of bias-based | 23 |
| policing; and | 24 |
| (5) on or before April 1 of each year, regarding the | 25 |
| Oversight Board's activities during the previous fiscal | 26 |
| year.
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| (Source: P.A. 94-997, eff. 1-1-08 .)
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| (20 ILCS 2715/20 rep.)
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| Section 90. The Racial Profiling Prevention and Data | 4 |
| Oversight Act is amended by repealing Section 20. | 5 |
| Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | 6 |
| becoming law. |
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