Bill Text: IL HR0618 | 2023-2024 | 103rd General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Declares February 3-10, 2024 as Court Reporting and Captioning Week.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Passed) 2024-05-03 - Resolution Adopted [HR0618 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2023-HR0618-Introduced.html
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1 | HOUSE RESOLUTION | ||||||
2 | WHEREAS, The Illinois Court Reporters Association (ILCRA) | ||||||
3 | is the sole state-wide association of freelance and official | ||||||
4 | court reporters in Illinois, with professional membership | ||||||
5 | exclusively comprised of licensed certified shorthand | ||||||
6 | reporters (CSRs), individuals who are highly trained and | ||||||
7 | skilled and ethically bound to write in real time each spoken | ||||||
8 | word spoken at hearings, trials, arbitrations, and | ||||||
9 | depositions; and
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10 | WHEREAS, Illinois licensed certified shorthand reporters | ||||||
11 | (stenographers) are the only professionals in Illinois for | ||||||
12 | whom the title court reporter is reserved by state statute; | ||||||
13 | and
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14 | WHEREAS, Court reporters write shorthand at 225 words a | ||||||
15 | minute, and often much faster, to create the verbatim record | ||||||
16 | upon which the courts and counsel rely as the gold standard of | ||||||
17 | transcripts of proceedings and from which discrete case law | ||||||
18 | and citations derive; and
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19 | WHEREAS, Court reporters write each word spoken at legal | ||||||
20 | proceedings in Illinois using phonetic alphabetic keyboards on | ||||||
21 | stenographic machines that store the shorthand verbatim notes | ||||||
22 | on redundant electronic text backup so that the courts, |
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1 | counsel, litigants, and defendants can rest assured that the | ||||||
2 | accurate, full record of proceedings is safe and secure not | ||||||
3 | only for transcript production but also from the dangers of | ||||||
4 | the testimony being altered, publicly disseminated, or | ||||||
5 | entirely lost through the vulnerabilities of unlicensed audio | ||||||
6 | recorder operators who do not possess the inimitable skills of | ||||||
7 | certified shorthand reporters; and
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8 | WHEREAS, Illinois shorthand reporters and real-time | ||||||
9 | captioners provide Communication Access Realtime Translation | ||||||
10 | (CART) by captioning for attorneys, litigants, defendants, | ||||||
11 | jurors, and the public at legal proceedings, business | ||||||
12 | meetings, educational classes and lectures, sporting events, | ||||||
13 | and arts performances for many Illinoisans who are deaf or | ||||||
14 | hard-of-hearing, have auditory processing disabilities, or for | ||||||
15 | whom English is not their first language; and
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16 | WHEREAS, Stenographers and captioners produce a reliably | ||||||
17 | accurate and complete record of each spoken word and deserve | ||||||
18 | the public's confidence earned by the court reporters' | ||||||
19 | position of neutrality and adherence to confidentiality and | ||||||
20 | ethics guidelines necessitated by the CSRs' role as an officer | ||||||
21 | of the court; therefore, be it
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22 | RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE ONE | ||||||
23 | HUNDRED THIRD GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that |
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1 | we declare February 3-10, 2024 as "Court Reporting and | ||||||
2 | Captioning Week" in the State of Illinois; and be it further
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