104TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2025 and 2026 SB1460 Introduced 1/31/2025, by Sen. Robert F. Martwick SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED: 430 ILCS 65/3.1 from Ch. 38, par. 83-3.1 Amends the Firearm Owners Identification Card Act concerning the Firearm Transfer Inquiry Program. Provides that the Illinois State Police may charge a fee not to exceed $10 and any processing fee. Provides that the processing fees shall be limited to charges by the State Treasurer for using the electronic online payment system. Provides that $4 from each fee collected under this provision shall be deposited into the State Police Firearm Enforcement Fund. Currently, the Illinois State Police may utilize existing technology which allows the caller to be charged a fee not to exceed $2. LRB104 02904 RLC 12914 b A BILL FOR 104TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2025 and 2026 SB1460 Introduced 1/31/2025, by Sen. Robert F. Martwick SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED: 430 ILCS 65/3.1 from Ch. 38, par. 83-3.1 430 ILCS 65/3.1 from Ch. 38, par. 83-3.1 Amends the Firearm Owners Identification Card Act concerning the Firearm Transfer Inquiry Program. Provides that the Illinois State Police may charge a fee not to exceed $10 and any processing fee. Provides that the processing fees shall be limited to charges by the State Treasurer for using the electronic online payment system. Provides that $4 from each fee collected under this provision shall be deposited into the State Police Firearm Enforcement Fund. Currently, the Illinois State Police may utilize existing technology which allows the caller to be charged a fee not to exceed $2. LRB104 02904 RLC 12914 b LRB104 02904 RLC 12914 b A BILL FOR 104TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2025 and 2026 SB1460 Introduced 1/31/2025, by Sen. Robert F. Martwick SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED: 430 ILCS 65/3.1 from Ch. 38, par. 83-3.1 430 ILCS 65/3.1 from Ch. 38, par. 83-3.1 430 ILCS 65/3.1 from Ch. 38, par. 83-3.1 Amends the Firearm Owners Identification Card Act concerning the Firearm Transfer Inquiry Program. Provides that the Illinois State Police may charge a fee not to exceed $10 and any processing fee. Provides that the processing fees shall be limited to charges by the State Treasurer for using the electronic online payment system. Provides that $4 from each fee collected under this provision shall be deposited into the State Police Firearm Enforcement Fund. Currently, the Illinois State Police may utilize existing technology which allows the caller to be charged a fee not to exceed $2. LRB104 02904 RLC 12914 b LRB104 02904 RLC 12914 b LRB104 02904 RLC 12914 b A BILL FOR SB1460LRB104 02904 RLC 12914 b SB1460 LRB104 02904 RLC 12914 b SB1460 LRB104 02904 RLC 12914 b 1 AN ACT concerning safety. 2 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, 3 represented in the General Assembly: 4 Section 5. The Firearm Owners Identification Card Act is 5 amended by changing Section 3.1 as follows: 6 (430 ILCS 65/3.1) (from Ch. 38, par. 83-3.1) 7 Sec. 3.1. Firearm Transfer Inquiry Program. 8 (a) The Illinois State Police shall provide a dial up 9 telephone system or utilize other existing technology which 10 shall be used by any federally licensed firearm dealer, gun 11 show promoter, or gun show vendor who is to transfer a firearm, 12 stun gun, or taser under the provisions of this Act. The 13 Illinois State Police may charge utilize existing technology 14 which allows the caller to be charged a fee not to exceed $10 15 and any applicable processing fees. The processing fees shall 16 be limited to charges by the State Treasurer for using the 17 electronic online payment system $2. Fees collected by the 18 Illinois State Police shall be deposited in the State Police 19 Firearm Services Fund and used to provide the service; $4 from 20 each fee collected under this subsection (a) shall be 21 deposited into the State Police Firearm Enforcement Fund. 22 (b) Upon receiving a request from a federally licensed 23 firearm dealer, gun show promoter, or gun show vendor, the 104TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2025 and 2026 SB1460 Introduced 1/31/2025, by Sen. Robert F. Martwick SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED: 430 ILCS 65/3.1 from Ch. 38, par. 83-3.1 430 ILCS 65/3.1 from Ch. 38, par. 83-3.1 430 ILCS 65/3.1 from Ch. 38, par. 83-3.1 Amends the Firearm Owners Identification Card Act concerning the Firearm Transfer Inquiry Program. Provides that the Illinois State Police may charge a fee not to exceed $10 and any processing fee. Provides that the processing fees shall be limited to charges by the State Treasurer for using the electronic online payment system. Provides that $4 from each fee collected under this provision shall be deposited into the State Police Firearm Enforcement Fund. Currently, the Illinois State Police may utilize existing technology which allows the caller to be charged a fee not to exceed $2. LRB104 02904 RLC 12914 b LRB104 02904 RLC 12914 b LRB104 02904 RLC 12914 b A BILL FOR 430 ILCS 65/3.1 from Ch. 38, par. 83-3.1 LRB104 02904 RLC 12914 b SB1460 LRB104 02904 RLC 12914 b SB1460- 2 -LRB104 02904 RLC 12914 b SB1460 - 2 - LRB104 02904 RLC 12914 b SB1460 - 2 - LRB104 02904 RLC 12914 b 1 Illinois State Police shall immediately approve or, within the 2 time period established by Section 24-3 of the Criminal Code 3 of 2012 regarding the delivery of firearms, stun guns, and 4 tasers, notify the inquiring dealer, gun show promoter, or gun 5 show vendor of any objection that would disqualify the 6 transferee from acquiring or possessing a firearm, stun gun, 7 or taser. In conducting the inquiry, the Illinois State Police 8 shall initiate and complete an automated search of its 9 criminal history record information files and those of the 10 Federal Bureau of Investigation, including the National 11 Instant Criminal Background Check System, and of the files of 12 the Department of Human Services relating to mental health and 13 developmental disabilities to obtain any felony conviction or 14 patient hospitalization information which would disqualify a 15 person from obtaining or require revocation of a currently 16 valid Firearm Owner's Identification Card. 17 (b-5) By January 1, 2023, the Illinois State Police shall 18 by rule provide a process for the automatic renewal of the 19 Firearm Owner's Identification Card of a person at the time of 20 an inquiry in subsection (b). Persons eligible for this 21 process must have a set of fingerprints on file with their 22 applications under either subsection (a-25) of Section 4 or 23 the Firearm Concealed Carry Act. 24 (c) If receipt of a firearm would not violate Section 24-3 25 of the Criminal Code of 2012, federal law, or this Act, the 26 Illinois State Police shall: SB1460 - 2 - LRB104 02904 RLC 12914 b SB1460- 3 -LRB104 02904 RLC 12914 b SB1460 - 3 - LRB104 02904 RLC 12914 b SB1460 - 3 - LRB104 02904 RLC 12914 b 1 (1) assign a unique identification number to the 2 transfer; and 3 (2) provide the licensee, gun show promoter, or gun 4 show vendor with the number. 5 (d) Approvals issued by the Illinois State Police for the 6 purchase of a firearm are valid for 30 days from the date of 7 issue. 8 (e) (1) The Illinois State Police must act as the Illinois 9 Point of Contact for the National Instant Criminal Background 10 Check System. 11 (2) The Illinois State Police and the Department of Human 12 Services shall, in accordance with State and federal law 13 regarding confidentiality, enter into a memorandum of 14 understanding with the Federal Bureau of Investigation for the 15 purpose of implementing the National Instant Criminal 16 Background Check System in the State. The Illinois State 17 Police shall report the name, date of birth, and physical 18 description of any person prohibited from possessing a firearm 19 pursuant to the Firearm Owners Identification Card Act or 18 20 U.S.C. 922(g) and (n) to the National Instant Criminal 21 Background Check System Index, Denied Persons Files. 22 (3) The Illinois State Police shall provide notice of the 23 disqualification of a person under subsection (b) of this 24 Section or the revocation of a person's Firearm Owner's 25 Identification Card under Section 8 or Section 8.2 of this 26 Act, and the reason for the disqualification or revocation, to SB1460 - 3 - LRB104 02904 RLC 12914 b SB1460- 4 -LRB104 02904 RLC 12914 b SB1460 - 4 - LRB104 02904 RLC 12914 b SB1460 - 4 - LRB104 02904 RLC 12914 b SB1460 - 4 - LRB104 02904 RLC 12914 b