Bill Text: IL SB1862 | 2019-2020 | 101st General Assembly | Engrossed

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Bill Title: Dedicates the Act to the memory of Lieutenant Scott Gillen, Trooper Brooke Jones-Story, and Trooper Christopher Lambert. Amends the State Finance Act. Creates the Scott's Law Fund as a special fund in the State treasury. Amends the Illinois Vehicle Code. Provides that, when approaching a stationary authorized emergency vehicle, if changing lanes would be impossible or unsafe, a person shall proceed with due caution, reduce the speed of the vehicle maintaining a safe speed for road conditions and leaving a safe distance until safely past the stationary vehicles. Provides that, when approaching a disabled vehicle with lighted hazard lights on a highway having at least 4 lanes, of which at least 2 are proceeding in the same direction, a driver of a vehicle shall, proceeding with due caution, yield the right-of-way by making a lane change into a lane not adjacent to that of the disabled vehicle, if possible with due regard to safety and traffic conditions, or, if changing lanes would be impossible or unsafe proceeding with due caution, reduce the speed of the vehicle, maintaining a safe speed for road conditions and leaving a safe distance until safely past the stationary vehicles. Provides that a person who violates provisions prescribing how to safely approach an authorized emergency vehicle commits a business offense punishable by a minimum fine of $250 and not more than $10,000 for the first violation and a fine of not less than $750 or more than $10,000 for the second or subsequent violation (instead of a fine of not less than $100 or more than $10,000), and (i) if the violation results in damage to another vehicle, the person commits a Class A misdemeanor; and (ii) if the violation results in the injury or death of another person, the person commits a Class 4 felony. Provides that commission of the offense of reckless homicide while committing a violation of the Section concerning proper approach of a stationary authorized emergency vehicle shall be afforded as a factor in aggravation and extended-term sentencing. Provides that the Director of the State Police shall use all moneys in the Scott's Law Fund in the Department's discretion to fund the production of materials to educate drivers on approaching stationary authorized emergency vehicles, to hire off-duty Department of State Police for enforcement of the Section concerning proper approach of a stationary authorized emergency vehicle, and for other law enforcement purposes the Director deems necessary for such efforts. Provides that, for violations issued by a county or municipal police officer, the assessment shall be deposited into the county or municipality's Transportation Safety Highway Hire-back Fund to hire off-duty county police officers to monitor construction or maintenance zones in that county on highways other than interstate highways. Provides that the county, in its discretion, may also use a portion of the moneys in its Transportation Safety Highway Hire-back Fund to purchase equipment for county law enforcement and fund the production of materials to educate drivers on construction zone safe driving habits and approaching stationary authorized emergency vehicles. Amends the Criminal and Traffic Assessment Act. Imposes a conditional assessment of $250 for a violation of provisions prescribing how to safely approach an authorized emergency vehicle. Amends the Criminal Code of 2012. Provides that a person who commits reckless homicide while violating provisions prescribing how to safely approach an authorized emergency vehicle shall be sentenced to a term of not less than 3 years and not more than 14 years, or, if the person caused the deaths of 2 or more persons, not less than 6 years and not more than 28 years. Makes other changes. Amends the Unified Code of Corrections. Provides that a person charged with violating provisions prescribing how to safely approach an authorized emergency vehicle is not eligible for supervision.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 58-33)

Status: (Passed) 2019-07-30 - Public Act . . . . . . . . . 101-0173 [SB1862 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2019-SB1862-Engrossed.html



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1 AN ACT concerning transportation.
2 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3represented in the General Assembly:
4 Section 5. The Illinois Vehicle Code is amended by changing
5Sections 1-154.7 and 5-302 as follows:
6 (625 ILCS 5/1-154.7)
7 Sec. 1-154.7. Out-of-state salvage vehicle buyer. A person
8who is licensed in another state or jurisdiction and acquires
9salvage or junk vehicles for the primary purpose of taking them
10out of this State state.
11(Source: P.A. 95-783, eff. 1-1-09.)
12 (625 ILCS 5/5-302) (from Ch. 95 1/2, par. 5-302)
13 Sec. 5-302. Out-of-state salvage vehicle buyer must be
14licensed.
15 (a) No person in this State shall sell or offer at auction
16a salvage vehicles to a nonresident individual or business
17licensed in the United States unless the nonresident is who is
18not licensed in another state or jurisdiction and provides a
19resale tax certificate, if applicable, and one of the
20following: a National Motor Vehicle Title Information System
21(NMVTIS) number, a federal employer identification number, or a
22government-issued driver's license or passport. A person in

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1this State shall not sell at auction a salvage vehicle to an
2out-of-country buyer, unless if the nonresident is licensed in
3a jurisdiction that is not a state, then the nonresident shall
4provide to the seller the number of the nonresident's license
5issued by that jurisdiction and a copy of the nonresident's
6passport or the passport of an owner or officer of the
7nonresident entity or a copy of another form of
8government-issued identification from the nonresident or an
9owner or officer of the nonresident entity.
10 (b) (Blank).
11 (c) (Blank).
12 (d) (Blank).
13 (e) (Blank).
14 (f) (Blank).
15 (g) An out-of-state salvage vehicle buyer shall be subject
16to the inspection of records pertaining to the acquisition of
17salvage vehicles in this State in accordance with this Code and
18such rules as the Secretary of State may promulgate.
19 (h) (Blank).
20 (i) (Blank).
21 (j) An out-of-state salvage vehicle buyer who provides an
22address outside of the United States shall receive a salvage
23certificate stamped by the seller with the designation of "For
24Export Only" at the point of sale for each salvage vehicle
25purchased and the NMVTIS record shall be designated "EXPORT".
26(Source: P.A. 95-783, eff. 1-1-09.)
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