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 1        AN ACT to amend the Code of Criminal Procedure of 1963 by
 2    changing Section 115-5.

 3        Be  it  enacted  by  the People of the State of Illinois,
 4    represented in the General Assembly:

 5        Section 5.  The Code of Criminal  Procedure  of  1963  is
 6    amended by changing Section 115-5 as follows:

 7        (725 ILCS 5/115-5) (from Ch. 38, par. 115-5)
 8        Sec. 115-5. Business records as evidence.
 9        (a)  Any  writing  or  record,  whether in the form of an
10    entry in a book or otherwise, made as a memorandum or  record
11    of  any  act,  transaction,  occurrence,  or  event, shall be
12    admissible as evidence of such act, transaction,  occurrence,
13    or  event,  if made in regular course of any business, and if
14    it was the regular course  of  such  business  to  make  such
15    memorandum  or  record  at the time of such act, transaction,
16    occurrence, or event or within a reasonable time thereafter.
17        All other circumstances of the making of such writing  or
18    record,  including  lack of personal knowledge by the entrant
19    or maker, may  be  shown  to  affect  its  weight,  but  such
20    circumstances shall not affect its admissibility.
21        The  term  "business,"  as used in this Section, includes
22    business, profession, occupation, and calling of every kind.
23        (b)  If any business, institution, member of a profession
24    or calling, or any department or agency of government, in the
25    regular course of business or activity has kept  or  recorded
26    any  memorandum,  writing,  entry,  print,  representation or
27    combination thereof, of any act, transaction, occurrence,  or
28    event,  and  in the regular course of business has caused any
29    or all of the same to be recorded, copied, or  reproduced  by
30    any   photographic,   photostatic,   microfilm,   micro-card,
31    miniature  photographic,  optical  imaging,  or other process
 
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 1    which  accurately  reproduces  or  forms  a  medium  for   so
 2    reproducing  the  original,  the original may be destroyed in
 3    the regular course of business  unless  its  preservation  is
 4    required  by  law.  Such  reproduction,  when  satisfactorily
 5    identified,  is  as  admissible  in  evidence as the original
 6    itself in any proceeding whether the original is in existence
 7    or not and an enlargement or facsimile of  such  reproduction
 8    is   likewise   admissible   in   evidence  if  the  original
 9    reproduction is in existence  and  available  for  inspection
10    under  direction  of  court. The introduction of a reproduced
11    record, enlargement, or facsimile does not preclude admission
12    of the original. This  Section  shall  not  be  construed  to
13    exclude  from  evidence any document or copy thereof which is
14    otherwise admissible under the rules of evidence.
15        (c)  No writing or record made in the regular  course  of
16    any  business  shall  become  admissible  as  evidence by the
17    application of this Section if:
18        (1)  Such writing or record has been made  by  anyone  in
19    the  regular  course  of  any  form  of  hospital  or medical
20    business; or
21        (2)  Such writing or  record  has  been  made  by  anyone
22    during  an  investigation of an alleged offense or during any
23    investigation relating to pending or  anticipated  litigation
24    of  any kind, except during a hearing to revoke a sentence of
25    probation or conditional  discharge  or  an  order  of  court
26    supervision  that  is  based  on  a  technical violation of a
27    sentencing order.   For  purposes  of  this  subsection  (c),
28    "technical  violation"  means  a breach of a sentencing order
29    but does not include an allegation of a  subsequent  criminal
30    act asserted in a formal criminal charge.
31    (Source: P.A. 89-437, eff. 12-15-95.)

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