Bill Text: IL HB2747 | 2019-2020 | 101st General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Amends the Missing Persons Identification Act. Provides that no later than 30 days after a responding law enforcement agency has received a missing person report, that agency shall transmit the report to the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System. Effective immediately.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-03-29 - Rule 19(a) / Re-referred to Rules Committee [HB2747 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2019-HB2747-Introduced.html
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1 | AN ACT concerning local government.
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2 | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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3 | represented in the General Assembly:
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4 | Section 5. The Missing Persons Identification Act is | |||||||||||||||||||
5 | amended by changing Section 10 as follows:
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6 | (50 ILCS 722/10)
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7 | Sec. 10. Law enforcement analysis and reporting of missing | |||||||||||||||||||
8 | person information. | |||||||||||||||||||
9 | (a) Prompt determination of high-risk missing person. | |||||||||||||||||||
10 | (1) Definition. "High-risk missing person" means a | |||||||||||||||||||
11 | person whose whereabouts are not currently known and whose | |||||||||||||||||||
12 | circumstances indicate that the person may be at risk of | |||||||||||||||||||
13 | injury or death. The circumstances that indicate that a | |||||||||||||||||||
14 | person is a high-risk missing person include, but are not | |||||||||||||||||||
15 | limited to, any of the following: | |||||||||||||||||||
16 | (A) the person is missing as a result of a stranger | |||||||||||||||||||
17 | abduction; | |||||||||||||||||||
18 | (B) the person is missing under suspicious | |||||||||||||||||||
19 | circumstances; | |||||||||||||||||||
20 | (C) the person is missing under unknown | |||||||||||||||||||
21 | circumstances; | |||||||||||||||||||
22 | (D) the person is missing under known dangerous | |||||||||||||||||||
23 | circumstances; |
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1 | (E) the person is missing more than 30 days; | ||||||
2 | (F) the person has already been designated as a | ||||||
3 | high-risk missing person by another law enforcement | ||||||
4 | agency; | ||||||
5 | (G) there is evidence that the person is at risk | ||||||
6 | because: | ||||||
7 | (i) the person is in need of medical attention, | ||||||
8 | including but not limited to persons with | ||||||
9 | dementia-like symptoms, or prescription | ||||||
10 | medication; | ||||||
11 | (ii) the person does not have a pattern of | ||||||
12 | running away or disappearing; | ||||||
13 | (iii) the person may have been abducted by a | ||||||
14 | non-custodial parent; | ||||||
15 | (iv) the person is mentally impaired, | ||||||
16 | including, but not limited to, a person having a | ||||||
17 | developmental disability, as defined in Section | ||||||
18 | 1-106 of the Mental Health and Developmental | ||||||
19 | Disabilities Code, or a person having an | ||||||
20 | intellectual disability, as defined in Section | ||||||
21 | 1-116 of the Mental Health and Developmental | ||||||
22 | Disabilities Code; | ||||||
23 | (v) the person is under the age of 21; | ||||||
24 | (vi) the person has been the subject of past | ||||||
25 | threats or acts of violence; | ||||||
26 | (vii) the person has eloped from a nursing |
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1 | home; | ||||||
2 | (G-5) the person is a veteran or active duty member | ||||||
3 | of the United States Armed Forces, the National Guard, | ||||||
4 | or any reserve component of the United States Armed | ||||||
5 | Forces who is believed to have a physical or mental | ||||||
6 | health condition that is related to his or her service; | ||||||
7 | or | ||||||
8 | (H) any other factor that may, in the judgment of | ||||||
9 | the law enforcement official, indicate that the | ||||||
10 | missing person may be at risk. | ||||||
11 | (2) Law enforcement risk assessment. | ||||||
12 | (A) Upon initial receipt of a missing person | ||||||
13 | report, the law enforcement agency shall immediately | ||||||
14 | determine whether there is a basis to determine that | ||||||
15 | the missing person is a high-risk missing person. | ||||||
16 | (B) If a law enforcement agency has previously | ||||||
17 | determined that a missing person is not a high-risk | ||||||
18 | missing person, but obtains new information, it shall | ||||||
19 | immediately determine whether the information | ||||||
20 | indicates that the missing person is a high-risk | ||||||
21 | missing person. | ||||||
22 | (C) Law enforcement agencies are encouraged to | ||||||
23 | establish written protocols for the handling of | ||||||
24 | missing person cases to accomplish the purposes of this | ||||||
25 | Act. | ||||||
26 | (3) Law enforcement agency reports. |
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1 | (A) The responding local law enforcement agency | ||||||
2 | shall immediately enter all collected information | ||||||
3 | relating to the missing person case in the Law | ||||||
4 | Enforcement Agencies Data System (LEADS) and the | ||||||
5 | National Crime Information Center (NCIC) databases. | ||||||
6 | The information shall be provided in accordance with | ||||||
7 | applicable guidelines relating to the databases. The | ||||||
8 | information shall be entered as follows: | ||||||
9 | (i) All appropriate DNA profiles, as | ||||||
10 | determined by the Department of State Police, | ||||||
11 | shall be uploaded into the missing person | ||||||
12 | databases of the State DNA Index System (SDIS) and | ||||||
13 | National DNA Index System (NDIS) after completion | ||||||
14 | of the DNA analysis and other procedures required | ||||||
15 | for database entry. | ||||||
16 | (ii) Information relevant to the Federal | ||||||
17 | Bureau of Investigation's Violent Criminal | ||||||
18 | Apprehension Program shall be entered as soon as | ||||||
19 | possible. | ||||||
20 | (iii) The Department of State Police shall | ||||||
21 | ensure that persons entering data relating to | ||||||
22 | medical or dental records in State or federal | ||||||
23 | databases are specifically trained to understand | ||||||
24 | and correctly enter the information sought by | ||||||
25 | these databases. The Department of State Police | ||||||
26 | shall either use a person with specific expertise |
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1 | in
medical or dental records for this purpose or | ||||||
2 | consult with a chief medical examiner, forensic | ||||||
3 | anthropologist, or odontologist to ensure the | ||||||
4 | accuracy and completeness of information entered | ||||||
5 | into the State and federal databases.
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6 | (B) The Department of State Police shall | ||||||
7 | immediately notify all law enforcement agencies within | ||||||
8 | this State and the surrounding region of the | ||||||
9 | information that will aid in the prompt location and | ||||||
10 | safe return of the high-risk missing person. | ||||||
11 | (C) The local law enforcement agencies that | ||||||
12 | receive the notification from the Department of State | ||||||
13 | Police shall notify officers to be on the lookout for | ||||||
14 | the missing person or a suspected abductor. | ||||||
15 | (D) Pursuant to any applicable State criteria, | ||||||
16 | local law enforcement agencies shall also provide for | ||||||
17 | the prompt use of an Amber Alert in cases involving | ||||||
18 | abducted children; or use of the Endangered Missing | ||||||
19 | Person Advisory in appropriate high risk cases.
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20 | (4) No later than 30 days after a responding law | ||||||
21 | enforcement agency has received a missing person report, | ||||||
22 | that agency shall transmit the report to the National | ||||||
23 | Missing and Unidentified Persons System. | ||||||
24 | (Source: P.A. 100-631, eff. 1-1-19; 100-662, eff. 1-1-19; | ||||||
25 | 100-835, eff. 1-1-19; revised 9-28-18.)
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26 | Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon |
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1 | becoming law.
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