Illinois 2025-2026 Regular Session

Illinois House Bill HB3719 Compare Versions

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1	1	104TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2025 and 2026 HB3719 Introduced , by Rep. La Shawn K. Ford SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED: 50 ILCS 750/85 new Amends the Emergency Telephone System Act. Provides that a law enforcement agency that encrypts police scanner transmissions must provide, by license or otherwise, real-time access to those transmissions to broadcast stations, broadcasting stations, radio broadcast stations, and newspapers. Effective January 1, 2026. LRB104 03395 RTM 13417 b A BILL FOR 104TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2025 and 2026 HB3719 Introduced , by Rep. La Shawn K. Ford SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED: 50 ILCS 750/85 new 50 ILCS 750/85 new Amends the Emergency Telephone System Act. Provides that a law enforcement agency that encrypts police scanner transmissions must provide, by license or otherwise, real-time access to those transmissions to broadcast stations, broadcasting stations, radio broadcast stations, and newspapers. Effective January 1, 2026. LRB104 03395 RTM 13417 b LRB104 03395 RTM 13417 b A BILL FOR
2	2	104TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2025 and 2026 HB3719 Introduced , by Rep. La Shawn K. Ford SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
3	3	50 ILCS 750/85 new 50 ILCS 750/85 new
4	4	50 ILCS 750/85 new
5	5	Amends the Emergency Telephone System Act. Provides that a law enforcement agency that encrypts police scanner transmissions must provide, by license or otherwise, real-time access to those transmissions to broadcast stations, broadcasting stations, radio broadcast stations, and newspapers. Effective January 1, 2026.
6	6	LRB104 03395 RTM 13417 b LRB104 03395 RTM 13417 b
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11	11	1 AN ACT concerning local government.
12	12	2 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
13	13	3 represented in the General Assembly:
14	14	4 Section 5. The Emergency Telephone System Act is amended
15	15	5 by adding Section 85 as follows:
16	16	6 (50 ILCS 750/85 new)
17	17	7 Sec. 85. Encrypted police scanner transmissions. A law
18	18	8 enforcement agency that encrypts police scanner transmissions
19	19	9 must provide, by license or otherwise, real-time access to
20	20	10 those transmissions to broadcast stations, broadcasting
21	21	11 stations, and radio broadcast stations, as those terms are
22	22	12 defined in 47 U.S.C. 153, and to newspapers, as that term is
23	23	13 described in Section 5 of the Notice By Publication Act.
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27	27	104TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2025 and 2026 HB3719 Introduced , by Rep. La Shawn K. Ford SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
28	28	50 ILCS 750/85 new 50 ILCS 750/85 new
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30	30	Amends the Emergency Telephone System Act. Provides that a law enforcement agency that encrypts police scanner transmissions must provide, by license or otherwise, real-time access to those transmissions to broadcast stations, broadcasting stations, radio broadcast stations, and newspapers. Effective January 1, 2026.
31	31	LRB104 03395 RTM 13417 b LRB104 03395 RTM 13417 b
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