103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2023 and 2024 SB3381 Introduced 2/8/2024, by Sen. Mike Simmons SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED: New Act775 ILCS 5/6-102 Creates the Censorship in Correctional Facilities Act. Provides that a law enforcement agency or law enforcement official shall not refuse to approve the use or prohibit the use of books, including, but not limited to, memoirs, autobiographies, and biographies, based upon the depiction in those materials of matters related to the protected characteristics or categories identified in the Illinois Human Rights Act in any correctional facility in the State. Defines terms. Makes corresponding changes. LRB103 38389 MXP 68524 b A BILL FOR 103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2023 and 2024 SB3381 Introduced 2/8/2024, by Sen. Mike Simmons SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED: New Act775 ILCS 5/6-102 New Act 775 ILCS 5/6-102 Creates the Censorship in Correctional Facilities Act. Provides that a law enforcement agency or law enforcement official shall not refuse to approve the use or prohibit the use of books, including, but not limited to, memoirs, autobiographies, and biographies, based upon the depiction in those materials of matters related to the protected characteristics or categories identified in the Illinois Human Rights Act in any correctional facility in the State. Defines terms. Makes corresponding changes. LRB103 38389 MXP 68524 b LRB103 38389 MXP 68524 b A BILL FOR
103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2023 and 2024 SB3381 Introduced 2/8/2024, by Sen. Mike Simmons SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
New Act775 ILCS 5/6-102 New Act 775 ILCS 5/6-102
New Act
775 ILCS 5/6-102
Creates the Censorship in Correctional Facilities Act. Provides that a law enforcement agency or law enforcement official shall not refuse to approve the use or prohibit the use of books, including, but not limited to, memoirs, autobiographies, and biographies, based upon the depiction in those materials of matters related to the protected characteristics or categories identified in the Illinois Human Rights Act in any correctional facility in the State. Defines terms. Makes corresponding changes.
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1 AN ACT concerning correctional facilities.
2 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3 represented in the General Assembly:
4 Section 1. Short title. This Act may be cited as the
5 Censorship in Correctional Facilities Act.
6 Section 5. Definitions. As used in this Act:
7 "Law enforcement agency" means an agency of the State or
8 of a unit of local government charged with enforcement of
9 State, county, or municipal laws or with managing custody of
10 detained persons in the State.
11 "Law enforcement official" means any individual with the
12 power to arrest or detain individuals, including law
13 enforcement officers, corrections officers, and others
14 employed or designated by a law enforcement agency. "Law
15 enforcement official" includes a probation officer.
16 Section 10. Censorship or book bans prohibited. A law
17 enforcement agency or law enforcement official shall not
18 refuse to approve the use or prohibit the use of books,
19 including, but not limited to, memoirs, autobiographies, and
20 biographies, based upon the depiction in those materials of
21 matters related to the protected characteristics or categories
22 identified in subsection (Q) of Section 1-103 of the Illinois
103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2023 and 2024 SB3381 Introduced 2/8/2024, by Sen. Mike Simmons SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
New Act775 ILCS 5/6-102 New Act 775 ILCS 5/6-102
New Act
775 ILCS 5/6-102
Creates the Censorship in Correctional Facilities Act. Provides that a law enforcement agency or law enforcement official shall not refuse to approve the use or prohibit the use of books, including, but not limited to, memoirs, autobiographies, and biographies, based upon the depiction in those materials of matters related to the protected characteristics or categories identified in the Illinois Human Rights Act in any correctional facility in the State. Defines terms. Makes corresponding changes.
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1 Human Rights Act in any correctional facility in the State.
2 Section 15. The Illinois Human Rights Act is amended by
3 changing Section 6-102 as follows:
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