Bill Text: IL HB4339 | 2023-2024 | 103rd General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Amends the Local Records Act. Provides that a law enforcement agency that encrypts police scanner transmissions must provide, by license or otherwise, real-time access to those transmissions to broadcast stations, broadcasting stations, radio broadcast stations, and newspapers. Effective January 1, 2025.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2024-04-05 - Rule 19(a) / Re-referred to Rules Committee [HB4339 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2023-HB4339-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, | |||||||||||||||||||
3 | represented in the General Assembly:
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4 | Section 5. The Local Records Act is amended by adding | |||||||||||||||||||
5 | Section 30 as follows:
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6 | (50 ILCS 205/30 new) | |||||||||||||||||||
7 | Sec. 30. Encrypted police scanner transmissions. A law | |||||||||||||||||||
8 | enforcement agency that encrypts police scanner transmissions | |||||||||||||||||||
9 | must provide, by license or otherwise, real time access to | |||||||||||||||||||
10 | those transmissions to broadcast stations, broadcasting | |||||||||||||||||||
11 | stations, and radio broadcast stations, as those terms are | |||||||||||||||||||
12 | defined in 47 U.S.C. 153, and to newspapers, as that term is | |||||||||||||||||||
13 | described in Section 5 of the Notice By Publication Act.
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