Bill Text: IL HR0390 | 2011-2012 | 97th General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Urges Congress and the U.S. Department of Transportation to pass legislation that curtails the use of police-checkpoint smartphone applications in the United States.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-1)
Status: (Passed) 2011-05-31 - Resolution Adopted 112-002-001 [HR0390 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2011-HR0390-Introduced.html
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| 1 | HOUSE RESOLUTION
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| 2 | WHEREAS, Currently, numerous smartphone applications | ||||||
| 3 | identify the location of police D.U.I. checkpoints and send | ||||||
| 4 | warnings to drivers about the locations of the checkpoints; and
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| 5 | WHEREAS, Such programs can be used by a drunk driver to | ||||||
| 6 | evade police sobriety checks and represent a very serious | ||||||
| 7 | danger to the drivers of the State of Illinois and elsewhere; | ||||||
| 8 | therefore, be it
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| 9 | RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE | ||||||
| 10 | NINETY-SEVENTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that | ||||||
| 11 | we urge Congress and the U.S. Department of Transportation to | ||||||
| 12 | pass legislation that curtails the use of police-checkpoint | ||||||
| 13 | smartphone applications in the United States; and be it further
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| 14 | RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | ||||||
| 15 | presented to the Secretary of the U.S. Department of | ||||||
| 16 | Transportation and the members of the Illinois congressional | ||||||
| 17 | delegation.
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