Bill Text: IL SB3315 | 2011-2012 | 97th General Assembly | Engrossed

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Bill Title: Amends the Private Detective, Private Alarm, Private Security, Fingerprint Vendor, and Locksmith Act of 2004. Provides an exemption from the provisions of the Act relating to licensure of private detectives for persons who engage in providing computer forensics services. Permits the Department to disclose information and documents related to an examination or investigation of a licensee or applicant only to law enforcement officials, other regulatory agencies that have an appropriate regulatory interest as determined by the Secretary, or a party presenting a lawful subpoena to the Department. Provides that any formal complaint against a licensee filed with the Department or an order issued by the Department against a licensee or applicant shall be a public record. Effective immediately.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3)

Status: (Failed) 2013-01-08 - Session Sine Die [SB3315 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2011-SB3315-Engrossed.html

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AN ACT concerning regulation.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The Private Detective, Private Alarm, Private
Security, Fingerprint Vendor, and Locksmith Act of 2004 is
amended by changing Section 15-5 as follows:
(225 ILCS 447/15-5)
(Section scheduled to be repealed on January 1, 2014)
Sec. 15-5. Exemptions; private detective. The provisions
of this Act relating to the licensure of private detectives do
not apply to any of the following:
(1) An employee of the United States, Illinois, or a
political subdivision of either while the employee is
engaged in the performance of his or her official duties
within the scope of his or her employment. However, any
such person who offers his or her services as a private
detective or uses a similar title when these services are
performed for compensation or other consideration, whether
received directly or indirectly, is subject to this Act.
(2) A person, firm, or other entity engaged exclusively
in tracing and compiling lineage or ancestry who does not
hold himself or herself out to be a private detective.
(3) A person engaged exclusively in obtaining and

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furnishing information as to the financial rating or
creditworthiness of persons or a person who provides
reports in connection with (i) consumer credit
transactions, (ii) information for employment purposes, or
(iii) information for the underwriting of consumer
insurance.
(4) Insurance adjusters employed or under contract as
adjusters who engage in no other investigative activities
other than those directly connected with adjustment of
claims against an insurance company or a self-insured
entity by which they are employed or with which they have a
contract. No insurance adjuster or company may use the term
"investigation" or any derivative thereof, in its name or
in its advertising.
(5) A person, firm, or other entity engaged in
providing computer forensics services so long as the
person, firm, or other entity does not hold himself or
herself out to be a private detective. For the purposes of
this subsection, "computer forensics services" means a
branch of forensic science pertaining to the recovery and
analysis of electronically stored information.
(Source: P.A. 93-438, eff. 8-5-03.)
Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
becoming law.