Bill Text: IL HB1461 | 2011-2012 | 97th General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Amends the Firearm Owners Identification Card Act. Provides that the Department of State Police may deny an application for or revoke and seize a Firearm Owner's Identification Card previously issued under the Act to a student or former student of a secondary school or institution of higher learning who has been identified by the administration of that school or institution as a person who has acted in a mentally erratic or violent nature while enrolled, thereby creating a possible threat to the safety of the student body, faculty, or staff of the school or institution. Provides that the administration of a secondary school or institution of higher learning may report to the Department of State Police the name and address of a student or former student who has acted in a mentally erratic or violent nature while enrolled. Provides that the Department of State Police may use such information to determine whether to deny an application for or to revoke and seize the student or former student's Firearm Owner's Identification Card. Provides that the administration of a secondary school or an institution of higher learning that reports the name and address of a student or former student to the Department of State Police as having acted in a mentally erratic or violent nature while enrolled are presumed to have acted in good faith and are immune from civil or criminal liability for making such report and the consequences of such report.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-02-21 - Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Charles W. Krezwick [HB1461 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2011-HB1461-Amended.html

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Rep. William Cunningham

Filed: 3/1/2011

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AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 1461
AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 1461 by replacing
line 25 on page 4 and all of page 5 with the following:
"(430 ILCS 65/8.3 new)
Sec. 8.3. Secondary schools and institutions of higher
learning may report mentally erratic or violent behavior by
students and former students to the local law enforcement
agency. Secondary schools and institutions of higher learning
that wish to report mentally erratic or violent behavior by
students and former students for purposes of revocation of an
individual's Firearm Owner's Identification Card shall first
report the incidents to the local law enforcement agency of
jurisdiction. Upon investigation of the purported incidents of
mentally erratic or violent behavior, the local law enforcement
agency of jurisdiction may report the information to the
Department of State Police. The Department of State Police may
use such information to determine whether to deny an

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application for or to revoke and seize the student or former
student's Firearm Owner's Identification Card under paragraph
(q) of Section 8 of this Act. If the Department of State Police
acts to suspend or revoke the student or former student's
Firearm Owner's Identification Card, the local law enforcement
agency of jurisdiction for the secondary school or institution
of higher learning where the incidents of mentally erratic or
violent behavior occurred may seize the student or former
student's Firearm Owner's Identification Card and forward it to
the Department of State Police. The administration of a
secondary school or institution of higher learning that reports
mentally erratic or violent behavior to the local law
enforcement agency of jurisdiction who subsequently reports to
the Department of State Police is presumed to have acted in
good faith and is immune from civil or criminal liability for
making such report and the consequences of such report.".