HB 3513

Abstract

Amends the Criminal Code of 2012 and the Code of Criminal Procedure of 1963. Transfers the reporting requirement by the State's Attorney under the Criminal Code of 2012 concerning the use of consensual eavesdropping devices under certain circumstances to the consensual eavesdropping reporting provisions of the Code of Criminal Procedure of 1963. Provides that the report shall be due on February 1 of each year, with State's Attorney submitting this report to the Department of State Police (rather than the General Assembly). Repeals certain reporting requirements required by the State's Attorney of each county to the Department of State Police concerning the use of eavesdropping devices due on or before February 1 of each year (currently, in January of each year). Requires the eavesdropping reports by the Department of State Police to be filed with the General Assembly on or before April 1 of each year and include the consensual eavesdropping report of the State's Attorneys. House Committee Amendment No. 2 Replaces everything after the enacting clause. Reinserts the provisions of the introduced bill. Further amends the Criminal Code of 2012. Extends from January 1, 2020 to January 1, 2022, the date of the inoperability of the eavesdropping exemption that provides with prior request to and written or verbal approval of the State's Attorney of the county in which the conversation is anticipated to occur, recording or listening with the aid of an eavesdropping device to a conversation in which a law enforcement officer, or any person acting at the direction of a law enforcement officer, is a party to the conversation and has consented to the conversation being intercepted or recorded in the course of an investigation of a qualified offense as defined in the exemption. Effective immediately.