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IL HB3262

Bill

Status

Introduced

2/7/2025

Primary Sponsor

Patrick Sheehan

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Origin

House of Representatives

104th General Assembly

AI Summary

  • Amends the Children's Advocacy Center Act to remove standing for persons charged with criminal offenses involving child abuse or neglect to object to failures to comply with electronic recording requirements for forensic interviews

  • Establishes that unrecorded forensic interviews do not violate the Act when recording equipment malfunctions, provided the malfunction was not due to failure to maintain equipment or provide adequate supplies

  • Creates an exception allowing unrecorded forensic interviews when the interviewer lacks necessary recording equipment due to circumstances that could not have been reasonably foreseen

  • Maintains existing law that consent is not required for electronic recording of forensic interviews and that failure to record does not make a forensic interview inadmissible in court

Legislative Description

CHILD ADVOCACY-VIDEO-INTERVIEW

Last Action

Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Norine K. Hammond

4/29/2025

Committee Referrals

Rules3/21/2025
Judiciary - Criminal3/13/2025
Rules3/12/2025
Judiciary - Criminal3/11/2025
Rules2/18/2025

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