Illinois 2025-2026 Regular Session

Illinois House Bill HR0041 Compare Versions

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4	4	2 WHEREAS, The Illinois Court Reporters Association (ILCRA)
5	5	3 is the sole statewide association of freelance and official
6	6	4 court reporters in Illinois, with professional membership
7	7	5 exclusively comprised of licensed certified shorthand
8	8	6 reporters (CSRs), individuals who are highly trained and
9	9	7 skilled and ethically bound to write in real time each word
10	10	8 spoken at hearings, trials, arbitrations, and depositions; and
11	11	9 WHEREAS, Illinois licensed CSRs, also known as
12	12	10 stenographers, are the only professionals in Illinois for whom
13	13	11 the title "court reporter" is reserved by State statute; and
14	14	12 WHEREAS, Court reporters write shorthand at 225 words per
15	15	13 minute, and often much faster, to create the verbatim record
16	16	14 upon which the courts and counsel rely as the gold standard of
17	17	15 transcripts of proceedings and from which discrete case law
18	18	16 and citations derive; and
19	19	17 WHEREAS, Court reporters write each word spoken at legal
20	20	18 proceedings in Illinois using phonetic alphabetic keyboards on
21	21	19 stenographic machines that store the shorthand verbatim notes
22	22	20 on redundant electronic text backup so that the courts,
23	23	21 counsel, litigants, and defendants can rest assured that the
24	24	22 accurate, full record of proceedings is safe and secure not
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33	33	1 only for transcript production but also from the dangers of
34	34	2 the testimony being altered, publicly disseminated, or
35	35	3 entirely lost through the vulnerabilities of unlicensed audio
36	36	4 recorder operators who do not possess the inimitable skills of
37	37	5 CSRs; and
38	38	6 WHEREAS, Illinois shorthand reporters and real-time
39	39	7 captioners provide Communication Access Realtime Translation
40	40	8 (CART) by captioning for attorneys, litigants, defendants,
41	41	9 jurors, and the public at legal proceedings, business
42	42	10 meetings, educational classes and lectures, sporting events,
43	43	11 and arts performances for many Illinoisans who are deaf or
44	44	12 hard of hearing, who have auditory processing disabilities, or
45	45	13 for whom English is not their first language; and
46	46	14 WHEREAS, Stenographers and captioners produce a reliably
47	47	15 accurate and complete record of each spoken word and deserve
48	48	16 the public's confidence earned by the court reporters'
49	49	17 position of neutrality and adherence to confidentiality and
50	50	18 ethics guidelines necessitated by the CSRs' role as an officer
51	51	19 of the court; therefore, be it
52	52	20 RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE ONE
53	53	21 HUNDRED FOURTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that
54	54	22 we declare February 1 through February 8, 2025 as Court
55	55	23 Reporting and Captioning Week in the State of Illinois; and be
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