Bill Text: IL HB1637 | 2019-2020 | 101st General Assembly | Engrossed

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Bill Title: Creates the Keep Illinois Families Together Act. Provides that on or after the effective date of the Act, no law enforcement agency or official may enter into or remain in an agreement with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement under a federal delegated authority program. Provides that nothing shall preclude a law enforcement official from otherwise executing that official's duties in ensuring public safety. Defines terms. Effective immediately.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 40-0)

Status: (Passed) 2019-06-21 - Public Act . . . . . . . . . 101-0019 [HB1637 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2019-HB1637-Engrossed.html

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AN ACT concerning immigration.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 1. Short title. This Act may be cited as the Keep
Illinois Families Together Act.
Section 5. Public safety.
(a) In this Section:
"Law enforcement agency" means an agency in this State
charged with enforcement of State, county, or municipal
laws or with managing custody of detained persons in the
State, including municipal police departments, sheriff's
departments, campus police departments, the Department of
State Police, and the Department of Juvenile Justice.
"Law enforcement official" means any officer or other
agent of a State or local law enforcement agency authorized
to enforce criminal laws, rules, regulations, or local
ordinances or operate jails, correctional facilities, or
juvenile detention facilities or to maintain custody of
individuals in jails, correctional facilities, or juvenile
detention facilities also including any school resource
officer or other police or security officer assigned to any
public school, including any public pre-school and other
early learning program, public elementary and secondary

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school, or public institution of higher education.
(b) On or after the effective date of this Act, no law
enforcement agency or official may enter into or remain in an
agreement with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement under a
federal 287(g) program.
(c) Nothing in this Section shall preclude a law
enforcement official from otherwise executing that official's
duties in ensuring public safety.
Section 97. Severability. The provisions of this Act are
severable under Section 1.31 of the Statute on Statutes.