Bill Text: IL HB3262 | 2025-2026 | 104th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Children's Advocacy Center Act. Provides that a person charged with a criminal offense involving abuse or neglect of a child does not have standing to object to the failure to comply with the electronic recording requirement of a forensic interview. Provides that it is not a violation of the Act if a forensic interview is not recorded because: (1) the recording equipment malfunctions and the malfunction is not the result of a failure to maintain the equipment or provide adequate supplies for the equipment; or (2) due to circumstances that could not have been reasonably foreseen by the interviewer, the interviewer does not have the necessary recording equipment.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 4)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2025-04-29 - Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Norine K. Hammond [HB3262 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2025-HB3262-Introduced.html

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104TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2025 and 2026 HB3262 Introduced , by Rep. Brad Halbrook SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
55 ILCS 80/4.5
Amends the Children's Advocacy Center Act. Provides that a person charged with a criminal offense involving abuse or neglect of a child does not have standing to object to the failure to comply with the electronic recording requirement of a forensic interview. Provides that it is not a violation of the Act if a forensic interview is not recorded because: (1) the recording equipment malfunctions and the malfunction is not the result of a failure to maintain the equipment or provide adequate supplies for the equipment; or (2) due to circumstances that could not have been reasonably foreseen by the interviewer, the interviewer does not have the necessary recording equipment.
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A BILL FOR
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AN ACT concerning local government.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The Children's Advocacy Center Act is amended
by changing Section 4.5 as follows:
(55 ILCS 80/4.5)
Sec. 4.5. Forensic interviews; electronic recordings.
(a) Consent is not required for a forensic interview to be
electronically recorded. Failure to record does not render a
forensic interview inadmissible. A person charged with a
criminal offense involving abuse or neglect of a child does
not have standing to object to the failure to comply with the
electronic recording requirement of a forensic interview.
(b) A forensic interview, an electronic recording, or a
forensic interview transcription or electronic recording is
confidential and exempt from public inspection and copying
under Section 7.5 of the Freedom of Information Act and may
only be viewed by a court, attorneys, investigators, or
experts for the purpose of judicial and administrative
hearings and shall not be disseminated except pursuant to a
court's protective order.
(c) Nothing in this Act shall be construed to limit or
prohibit electronically recorded forensic interviewing in

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accordance with Article 14 of the Criminal Code of 2012 or
Article 108A or Article 108B of the Code of Criminal Procedure
of 1963.
(d) It is not a violation of this Act if a forensic
interview is not recorded because:
(1) the recording equipment malfunctions and the
malfunction is not the result of a failure to maintain the
equipment or provide adequate supplies for the equipment;
or
(2) due to circumstances that could not have been
reasonably foreseen by the interviewer, the interviewer
does not have the necessary recording equipment.
(Source: P.A. 101-236, eff. 1-1-20.)