Bill Text: IL SB3581 | 2019-2020 | 101st General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Code of Criminal Procedure of 1963. Provides that in a prosecution of an offense that is a violent crime as defined in the Rights of Crime Victims and Witnesses Act, the court may set any conditions it finds just and appropriate on the taking of testimony of a victim who is a child under the age of 18 years or a moderately, severely, or profoundly intellectually disabled person or a person affected by a developmental disability, involving the use of a facility dog in any proceeding involving that offense.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-1)

Status: (Failed) 2021-01-13 - Session Sine Die [SB3581 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2019-SB3581-Introduced.html

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101ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2019 and 2020 SB3581 Introduced 2/13/2020, by Sen. Melinda Bush SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
725 ILCS 5/106B-10
Amends the Code of Criminal Procedure of 1963. Provides that in a prosecution of an offense that is a violent crime as defined in the Rights of Crime Victims and Witnesses Act, the court may set any conditions it finds just and appropriate on the taking of testimony of a victim who is a child under the age of 18 years or a moderately, severely, or profoundly intellectually disabled person or a person affected by a developmental disability, involving the use of a facility dog in any proceeding involving that offense.
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A BILL FOR
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AN ACT concerning criminal law.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The Code of Criminal Procedure of 1963 is
amended by changing Section 106B-10 as follows:
(725 ILCS 5/106B-10)
Sec. 106B-10. Conditions for testimony by a victim who is a
child or a moderately, severely, or profoundly intellectually
disabled person or a person affected by a developmental
disability. In a prosecution of criminal sexual assault,
predatory criminal sexual assault of a child, aggravated
criminal sexual assault, criminal sexual abuse, or aggravated
criminal sexual abuse, or any violent crime as defined in
subsection (c) of Section 3 of the Rights of Crime Victims and
Witnesses Act, the court may set any conditions it finds just
and appropriate on the taking of testimony of a victim who is a
child under the age of 18 years or a moderately, severely, or
profoundly intellectually disabled person or a person affected
by a developmental disability, involving the use of a facility
dog in any proceeding involving that offense. When deciding
whether to permit the child or person to testify with the
assistance of a facility dog, the court shall take into
consideration the age of the child or person, the rights of the

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parties to the litigation, and any other relevant factor that
would facilitate the testimony by the child or the person. As
used in this Section, "facility dog" means a dog that is a
graduate of an assistance dog organization that is a member of
Assistance Dogs International.
(Source: P.A. 99-94, eff. 1-1-16.)