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
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
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
LRB104 03395 RTM 13417 b
A BILL FOR
HB3719LRB104 03395 RTM 13417 b HB3719 LRB104 03395 RTM 13417 b
HB3719 LRB104 03395 RTM 13417 b
1 AN ACT concerning local government.
2 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3 represented in the General Assembly:
4 Section 5. The Emergency Telephone System Act is amended
5 by adding Section 85 as follows:
6 (50 ILCS 750/85 new)
7 Sec. 85. Encrypted police scanner transmissions. A law
8 enforcement agency that encrypts police scanner transmissions
9 must provide, by license or otherwise, real-time access to
10 those transmissions to broadcast stations, broadcasting
11 stations, and radio broadcast stations, as those terms are
12 defined in 47 U.S.C. 153, and to newspapers, as that term is
13 described in Section 5 of the Notice By Publication Act.
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
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
LRB104 03395 RTM 13417 b
A BILL FOR
50 ILCS 750/85 new
LRB104 03395 RTM 13417 b
HB3719 LRB104 03395 RTM 13417 b