Illinois Senate Bill 2081 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: Failed on January 13 2021 - 100% progression
Action: 2021-01-13 - Session Sine Die
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

Amends the Code of Criminal Procedure of 1963. Creates the Forensic Science Act. Provides that a convicted person may file a petition for relief based on relevant forensic scientific evidence that was not available to be offered at the convicted person's trial or entry of judgment, plea of guilty, or plea of nolo contendere or that undermines forensic scientific evidence relied upon by the prosecution at trial. Prescribes what shall be included in a petition for relief under the Act. Provides that, upon reviewing a petition, a court shall grant relief to the petitioner if the court finds that, had the forensic scientific evidence been presented at trial or entry of judgment, plea of guilty, or plea of nolo contendere, there is a reasonable likelihood the petitioner would not have been convicted. Provides that, in making a finding as to whether relevant forensic scientific evidence was not ascertainable through the exercise of reasonable diligence on or before a specific date, the court shall consider whether the relevant forensic scientific evidence has changed since the applicable trial date or dates, or date of entry of judgment, plea of guilty, or plea of nolo contendere, for a determination made with respect to an original application, or the date on which the original application or a previously considered application, as applicable, was filed, for a determination made with respect to a subsequent application. Effective July 1, 2019.

CRIM PRO-FORENSIC SCIENCE

Sen. Michael Hastings [D]

Sen. Patricia Van Pelt [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2021-01-13	Senate	Session Sine Die
2019-04-12	Senate	Rule 3-9(a) / Re-referred to Assignments
2019-03-20	Senate	Placed on Calendar Order of 2nd Reading March 21, 2019
2019-03-20	Senate	Do Pass as Amended Criminal Law; 009-000-000
2019-03-19	Senate	Senate Committee Amendment No. 1 Adopted
2019-03-19	Senate	Senate Committee Amendment No. 1 Assignments Refers to Criminal Law
2019-03-14	Senate	Senate Committee Amendment No. 1 Referred to Assignments
2019-03-14	Senate	Senate Committee Amendment No. 1 Filed with Secretary by Sen. Michael E. Hastings
2019-03-13	Senate	Added as Chief Co-Sponsor Sen. Patricia Van Pelt
2019-03-12	Senate	Postponed - Criminal Law
2019-03-05	Senate	Assigned to Criminal Law
2019-02-15	Senate	Referred to Assignments
2019-02-15	Senate	First Reading
2019-02-15	Senate	Filed with Secretary by Sen. Michael E. Hastings

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.ilga.gov/legislation/BillStatus.asp?DocNum=2081&GAID=15&DocTypeID=SB&SessionID=108&GA=101
Text	https://www.ilga.gov/legislation/101/SB/10100SB2081.htm
Amendment	https://www.ilga.gov/legislation/101/SB/10100SB2081sam001.htm