Bill Text: IL SB1206 | 2025-2026 | 104th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Firearms Restraining Order Act. Provides that if the petitioner for a firearms restraining order against a respondent is a law enforcement officer, the petitioner shall be referred to as the law enforcement agency in which the officer is employed on all public indexes concerning the petition and not the individually named officer who filed the petition. Effective immediately.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2026-05-22 - Rule 3-9(a) / Re-referred to Assignments [SB1206 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2025-SB1206-Introduced.html

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104TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2025 and 2026 SB1206 Introduced 1/24/2025, by Sen. Jil Tracy SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
430 ILCS 67/5
Amends the Firearms Restraining Order Act. Provides that if the petitioner for a firearms restraining order against a respondent is a law enforcement officer, the petitioner shall be referred to as the law enforcement agency in which the officer is employed on all public indexes concerning the petition and not the individually named officer who filed the petition. Effective immediately.
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A BILL FOR
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AN ACT concerning safety.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The Firearms Restraining Order Act is amended
by changing Section 5 as follows:
(430 ILCS 67/5)
Sec. 5. Definitions. As used in this Act:
"Family member of the respondent" means a spouse, former
spouse, person with whom the respondent has a minor child in
common, parent, child, or step-child of the respondent, any
other person related by blood or present marriage to the
respondent, or a person who shares a common dwelling with the
respondent.
"Firearms restraining order" means an order issued by the
court, prohibiting and enjoining a named person from having in
his or her custody or control, purchasing, possessing, or
receiving any firearms or ammunition, or removing firearm
parts that could be assembled to make an operable firearm.
"Intimate partner" means a spouse, former spouse, a person
with whom the respondent has or allegedly has a child in
common, or a person with whom the respondent has or has had a
dating or engagement relationship.
"Petitioner" means:

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(1) a family member of the respondent as defined in
this Act; or
(2) a law enforcement officer who files a petition
alleging that the respondent poses a danger of causing
personal injury to himself, herself, or another by having
in his or her custody or control, purchasing, possessing,
or receiving a firearm, ammunition, or firearm parts that
could be assembled to make an operable firearm or removing
firearm parts that could be assembled to make an operable
firearm.
If the petitioner is a law enforcement officer, the
petitioner shall be referred to as the law enforcement agency
in which the officer is employed on all public indexes
concerning the petition and not the individually named officer
who filed the petition.
"Respondent" means the person alleged in the petition to
pose a danger of causing personal injury to himself, herself,
or another by having in his or her custody or control,
purchasing, possessing, or receiving a firearm, ammunition, or
firearm parts that could be assembled to make an operable
firearm or removing firearm parts that could be assembled to
make an operable firearm.
(Source: P.A. 101-81, eff. 7-12-19; 102-345, eff. 6-1-22.)
Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
becoming law.