Bill Text: IL SR0718 | 2023-2024 | 103rd General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Declares February 3 through February 10, 2024 as Court Reporting and Captioning Week in the State of Illinois.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2024-02-07 - Resolution Adopted [SR0718 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2023-SR0718-Introduced.html
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| 1 | SENATE RESOLUTION | ||||||
| 2 | WHEREAS, For half a century, the Illinois Court Reporters | ||||||
| 3 | Association (ILCRA) has been the preeminent association in | ||||||
| 4 | Illinois to provide continual training to Certified Shorthand | ||||||
| 5 | Reporters (CSRs), also known as court reporters, on | ||||||
| 6 | professionalism, neutrality, confidentiality, and ethics for | ||||||
| 7 | the benefit of all litigants, defendants, and the people of | ||||||
| 8 | this State; and
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| 9 | WHEREAS, Illinois court reporters are licensed CSRs who | ||||||
| 10 | diligently serve as Guardians of the Record, safeguarding | ||||||
| 11 | litigants' personal, private, confidential, and proprietary | ||||||
| 12 | information so that such information is not improperly | ||||||
| 13 | released to the public; and
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| 14 | WHEREAS, Using advanced technology, court reporters write | ||||||
| 15 | in shorthand, a simultaneous verbatim report of the spoken | ||||||
| 16 | word, in pretrial depositions and hearings, trials, | ||||||
| 17 | arbitrations, and sworn statements, which are the critical | ||||||
| 18 | foundation to the pursuit of justice in every legal | ||||||
| 19 | proceeding; and
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| 20 | WHEREAS, Illinois shorthand reporters and real-time | ||||||
| 21 | captioners provide Communication Access Realtime Translation | ||||||
| 22 | (CART) by captioning for attorneys, litigants, and jurors in | ||||||
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| 1 | legal proceedings, at business meetings, at educational | ||||||
| 2 | classes and lectures, at sporting events, and at arts | ||||||
| 3 | performances for many Illinoisans who are deaf or | ||||||
| 4 | hard-of-hearing, have auditory processing disabilities, or for | ||||||
| 5 | whom English is not their first language; and
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| 6 | WHEREAS, Court reporters and captioners preserve history | ||||||
| 7 | for all Americans by translating spoken word into readable, | ||||||
| 8 | searchable, storable, and usable text and electronic media; | ||||||
| 9 | and
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| 10 | WHEREAS, Illinois CSRs are licensed by the State as the | ||||||
| 11 | services provided by shorthand reporters and court reporters | ||||||
| 12 | have long been declared to affect the public health, safety, | ||||||
| 13 | and welfare of the people of Illinois; therefore, be it
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