Bill Text: IL HB3083 | 2025-2026 | 104th General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Amends the Illinois TRUST Act. Adds schools and school employees to provisions regarding law enforcement agencies and law enforcement officials. Defines "school".
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2025-03-21 - Rule 19(a) / Re-referred to Rules Committee [HB3083 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2025-HB3083-Introduced.html
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| 1 | AN ACT concerning government.
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| 2 | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 3 | represented in the General Assembly:
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| 4 | Section 5. The Illinois TRUST Act is amended by changing | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 5 | Sections 10, 15, 25, and 30 as follows:
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| 6 | (5 ILCS 805/10) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 7 | Sec. 10. Definitions. In this Act: | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 8 | "Citizenship or immigration status" means all matters | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 9 | regarding citizenship of the United States or any other | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 10 | country or the authority to reside in or otherwise be present | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 11 | in the United States. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 12 | "Civil immigration warrant" means any document that is not | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 13 | approved or ordered by a judge that can form the basis for an | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 14 | individual's arrest or detention for a civil immigration | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 15 | enforcement purpose. "Civil immigration warrant" includes Form | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 16 | I-200 "Warrant for the Arrest of Alien", Form I-203 "Order to | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 17 | Detain or Release Alien", Form I-205 "Warrant of | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 18 | Removal/Deportation", Form I-286 "Notice of Custody | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 19 | Determination", any predecessor or successor form, and all | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 20 | warrants, hits, or requests contained in the "Immigration | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 21 | Violator File" of the FBI's National Crime Information Center | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 22 | (NCIC) database. "Civil immigration warrant" does not include | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 23 | any criminal warrant. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 1 | "Contact information" means home address, work address, | ||||||
| 2 | telephone number, electronic mail address, social media | ||||||
| 3 | information, or any other personal identifying information | ||||||
| 4 | that could be used as a means to contact an individual. | ||||||
| 5 | "Immigration agent" means an agent of federal Immigration | ||||||
| 6 | and Customs Enforcement, federal Customs and Border | ||||||
| 7 | Protection, or any similar or successor agency. | ||||||
| 8 | "Immigration detainer" means a request to a State or local | ||||||
| 9 | law enforcement agency to provide notice of release or | ||||||
| 10 | maintain custody of an individual based on an alleged | ||||||
| 11 | violation of a civil immigration law, including detainers | ||||||
| 12 | issued under Sections 1226 or 1357 of Title 8 of the United | ||||||
| 13 | States Code or 287.7 or 236.1 of Title 8 of the Code of Federal | ||||||
| 14 | Regulations. "Immigration detainer" includes Form I-247A | ||||||
| 15 | "Immigration Detainer � Notice of Action" and any predecessor | ||||||
| 16 | or successor form. | ||||||
| 17 | "Law enforcement agency" means an agency of the State or | ||||||
| 18 | of a unit of local government charged with enforcement of | ||||||
| 19 | State, county, or municipal laws or with managing custody of | ||||||
| 20 | detained persons in the State. | ||||||
| 21 | "Law enforcement official" means any individual with the | ||||||
| 22 | power to arrest or detain individuals, including law | ||||||
| 23 | enforcement officers, corrections officers, and others | ||||||
| 24 | employed or designated by a law enforcement agency. "Law | ||||||
| 25 | enforcement official" includes any probation officer. | ||||||
| 26 | "School" means any public elementary or secondary school, | ||||||
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| 1 | public community college, public college, or public State | ||||||
| 2 | university. | ||||||
| 3 | (Source: P.A. 102-234, eff. 8-2-21; 103-154, eff. 6-30-23.)
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| 4 | (5 ILCS 805/15) | ||||||
| 5 | Sec. 15. Prohibition on enforcing federal civil | ||||||
| 6 | immigration laws. | ||||||
| 7 | (a) A law enforcement agency or law enforcement official | ||||||
| 8 | shall not detain or continue to detain any individual solely | ||||||
| 9 | on the basis of any immigration detainer or civil immigration | ||||||
| 10 | warrant or otherwise comply with an immigration detainer or | ||||||
| 11 | civil immigration warrant. | ||||||
| 12 | (b) A law enforcement agency or law enforcement official | ||||||
| 13 | shall not stop, arrest, search, detain, or continue to detain | ||||||
| 14 | a person solely based on an individual's citizenship or | ||||||
| 15 | immigration status. | ||||||
| 16 | (c) (Blank). | ||||||
| 17 | (d) A law enforcement agency or law enforcement official | ||||||
| 18 | acting in good faith in compliance with this Section who | ||||||
| 19 | releases a person subject to an immigration detainer or civil | ||||||
| 20 | immigration warrant shall have immunity from any civil or | ||||||
| 21 | criminal liability that might otherwise occur as a result of | ||||||
| 22 | making the release, with the exception of willful or wanton | ||||||
| 23 | misconduct. | ||||||
| 24 | (e) A law enforcement agency or law enforcement official | ||||||
| 25 | may not inquire about or investigate the citizenship or | ||||||
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| 1 | immigration status or place of birth of any individual in the | ||||||
| 2 | agency or official's custody or who has otherwise been stopped | ||||||
| 3 | or detained by the agency or official. Nothing in this | ||||||
| 4 | subsection shall be construed to limit the ability of a law | ||||||
| 5 | enforcement agency or law enforcement official, pursuant to | ||||||
| 6 | State or federal law, to notify a person in the law enforcement | ||||||
| 7 | agency's custody about that person's right to communicate with | ||||||
| 8 | consular officers from that person's country of nationality, | ||||||
| 9 | or facilitate such communication, in accordance with the | ||||||
| 10 | Vienna Convention on Consular Relations or other bilateral | ||||||
| 11 | agreements. Nothing in this subsection shall be construed to | ||||||
| 12 | limit the ability of a law enforcement agency or law | ||||||
| 13 | enforcement official to request evidence of citizenship or | ||||||
| 14 | immigration status pursuant to the Firearm Owners | ||||||
| 15 | Identification Card Act, the Firearm Concealed Carry Act, | ||||||
| 16 | Article 24 of the Criminal Code of 2012, or 18 United States | ||||||
| 17 | Code Sections 921 through 931. | ||||||
| 18 | (f) Unless otherwise limited by federal law, a law | ||||||
| 19 | enforcement agency or law enforcement official may not deny | ||||||
| 20 | services, benefits, privileges, or opportunities to an | ||||||
| 21 | individual in custody or under probation status, including, | ||||||
| 22 | but not limited to, eligibility for or placement in a lower | ||||||
| 23 | custody classification, educational, rehabilitative, or | ||||||
| 24 | diversionary programs, on the basis of the individual's | ||||||
| 25 | citizenship or immigration status, the issuance of an | ||||||
| 26 | immigration detainer or civil immigration warrant against the | ||||||
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| 1 | individual, or the individual being in immigration removal | ||||||
| 2 | proceedings. | ||||||
| 3 | (g)(1) No law enforcement agency, law enforcement | ||||||
| 4 | official, or any unit of State or local government may enter | ||||||
| 5 | into or renew any contract, intergovernmental service | ||||||
| 6 | agreement, or any other agreement to house or detain | ||||||
| 7 | individuals for federal civil immigration violations. | ||||||
| 8 | (2) Any law enforcement agency, law enforcement official, | ||||||
| 9 | or unit of State or local government with an existing | ||||||
| 10 | contract, intergovernmental agreement, or other agreement, | ||||||
| 11 | whether in whole or in part, that is utilized to house or | ||||||
| 12 | detain individuals for civil immigration violations shall | ||||||
| 13 | exercise the termination provision in the agreement as applied | ||||||
| 14 | to housing or detaining individuals for civil immigration | ||||||
| 15 | violations no later than January 1, 2022. | ||||||
| 16 | (h) Unless presented with a federal criminal warrant, or | ||||||
| 17 | otherwise required by federal law, a law enforcement agency, | ||||||
| 18 | law enforcement or official, school, or school employee may | ||||||
| 19 | not: | ||||||
| 20 | (1) participate, support, or assist in any capacity | ||||||
| 21 | with an immigration agent's enforcement operations, | ||||||
| 22 | including any collateral assistance such as coordinating | ||||||
| 23 | an arrest in a courthouse or other public facility, | ||||||
| 24 | providing use of any equipment, transporting any | ||||||
| 25 | individuals, or establishing a security or traffic | ||||||
| 26 | perimeter surrounding such operations, or any other | ||||||
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| 1 | on-site support; | ||||||
| 2 | (2) give any immigration agent access, including by | ||||||
| 3 | telephone, to any individual who is in that agency's | ||||||
| 4 | custody; | ||||||
| 5 | (3) transfer any person into an immigration agent's | ||||||
| 6 | custody; | ||||||
| 7 | (4) permit immigration agents use of agency facilities | ||||||
| 8 | or equipment, including any agency electronic databases | ||||||
| 9 | not available to the public, for investigative interviews | ||||||
| 10 | or other investigative or immigration enforcement purpose; | ||||||
| 11 | (5) enter into or maintain any agreement regarding | ||||||
| 12 | direct access to any electronic database or other | ||||||
| 13 | data-sharing platform maintained by any law enforcement | ||||||
| 14 | agency, or otherwise provide such direct access to the | ||||||
| 15 | U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, United States | ||||||
| 16 | Customs and Border Protection or any other federal entity | ||||||
| 17 | enforcing civil immigration violations; | ||||||
| 18 | (6) provide information in response to any immigration | ||||||
| 19 | agent's inquiry or request for information regarding any | ||||||
| 20 | individual in the agency's custody; or | ||||||
| 21 | (7) provide to any immigration agent information not | ||||||
| 22 | otherwise available to the public relating to an | ||||||
| 23 | individual's release or contact information, or otherwise | ||||||
| 24 | facilitate for an immigration agent to apprehend or | ||||||
| 25 | question an individual for immigration enforcement. | ||||||
| 26 | (i) Nothing in this Section shall preclude a law | ||||||
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| 1 | enforcement official from otherwise executing that official's | ||||||
| 2 | duties in investigating violations of criminal law and | ||||||
| 3 | cooperating in such investigations with federal and other law | ||||||
| 4 | enforcement agencies (including criminal investigations | ||||||
| 5 | conducted by federal Homeland Security Investigations (HSI)) | ||||||
| 6 | in order to ensure public safety. | ||||||
| 7 | (Source: P.A. 102-234, eff. 8-2-21; 103-154, eff. 6-30-23.)
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| 8 | (5 ILCS 805/25) | ||||||
| 9 | Sec. 25. Reporting requirements. | ||||||
| 10 | (a) In order to ensure compliance with this Act, starting | ||||||
| 11 | on the effective date of this amendatory Act of the 102nd | ||||||
| 12 | General Assembly, law enforcement agencies shall submit a | ||||||
| 13 | report annually to the Attorney General. Starting on the | ||||||
| 14 | effective date of this amendatory Act of the 104th General | ||||||
| 15 | Assembly, schools shall also submit a report annually to the | ||||||
| 16 | Attorney General. This report shall include: | ||||||
| 17 | (1) Any requests from the United States Department of | ||||||
| 18 | Homeland Security, including, but not limited to, | ||||||
| 19 | Immigration and Customs and Enforcement, with respect to | ||||||
| 20 | participation, support, or assistance in any immigration | ||||||
| 21 | agent's civil enforcement operation, and any documentation | ||||||
| 22 | regarding how the request was addressed, provided that if | ||||||
| 23 | an agency does not receive any such requests during a | ||||||
| 24 | reporting period, the agency shall certify and report that | ||||||
| 25 | it received no such requests; | ||||||
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| 1 | (2) All immigration detainers or civil immigration | ||||||
| 2 | warrants received by the law enforcement agency, provided | ||||||
| 3 | that if an agency does not receive any such detainers or | ||||||
| 4 | warrants during a reporting period, the agency shall | ||||||
| 5 | certify and report that it received no such detainers or | ||||||
| 6 | warrants. The reports shall include: | ||||||
| 7 | (A) the date when the immigration detainer or | ||||||
| 8 | civil immigration warrant was received; | ||||||
| 9 | (B) the date and time the individual subject to | ||||||
| 10 | the immigration detainer or civil immigration warrant | ||||||
| 11 | posted criminal bail, if applicable; | ||||||
| 12 | (C) whether the individual subject to the | ||||||
| 13 | immigration detainer or civil immigration warrant was | ||||||
| 14 | released or transferred; | ||||||
| 15 | (D) the date and time the individual was released | ||||||
| 16 | or transferred; and | ||||||
| 17 | (E) if the individual is transferred, to which | ||||||
| 18 | governmental agency's custody. | ||||||
| 19 | (b) Law enforcement agencies shall not include names or | ||||||
| 20 | other personally identifying information in any reports | ||||||
| 21 | required under this Section. | ||||||
| 22 | (Source: P.A. 102-234, eff. 8-2-21.)
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| 23 | (5 ILCS 805/30) | ||||||
| 24 | Sec. 30. Attorney General enforcement provisions. In order | ||||||
| 25 | to ensure compliance with this Act: | ||||||
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| 1 | (a) The Attorney General shall have authority to | ||||||
| 2 | conduct investigations into violations of this Act. The | ||||||
| 3 | Attorney General may: (1) require a law enforcement | ||||||
| 4 | agency, law enforcement official, school, school employee, | ||||||
| 5 | or any other person or entity to file a statement or report | ||||||
| 6 | in writing under oath or otherwise, as to all information | ||||||
| 7 | the Attorney General may consider necessary; (2) examine | ||||||
| 8 | under oath any law enforcement official, school employee, | ||||||
| 9 | or any other person alleged to have participated in or | ||||||
| 10 | with knowledge of the alleged violation; or (3) issue | ||||||
| 11 | subpoenas, obtain records, conduct hearings, or take any | ||||||
| 12 | other actions in aid of any investigation. In the event a | ||||||
| 13 | law enforcement agency, law enforcement official, school, | ||||||
| 14 | school employee, or other person or entity fails to | ||||||
| 15 | comply, in whole or in part, with a subpoena or other | ||||||
| 16 | investigative request issued pursuant to this paragraph, | ||||||
| 17 | the Attorney General may compel compliance through an | ||||||
| 18 | action in the circuit court. | ||||||
| 19 | (b) Upon his or her own information or upon the | ||||||
| 20 | complaint of any person, the Attorney General may maintain | ||||||
| 21 | an action for declaratory, injunctive or any other | ||||||
| 22 | equitable relief in the circuit court against any law | ||||||
| 23 | enforcement agency, law enforcement official, or other | ||||||
| 24 | person or entity who violates any provision of this Act. | ||||||
| 25 | These remedies are in addition to, and not in substitution | ||||||
| 26 | for, other available remedies. | ||||||
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| 1 | (Source: P.A. 102-234, eff. 8-2-21.) | ||||||
