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 1                    AMENDMENT TO SENATE BILL 460
 2        AMENDMENT NO.     .  Amend Senate Bill 460  by  replacing
 3    the title with the following:
 4        "AN  ACT  in relation to criminal justice, amending named
 5    Acts."; and
 6    by replacing everything after the enacting  clause  with  the
 7    following:
 8        "Section  5.  The  Code  of Criminal Procedure of 1963 is
 9    amended by changing Section 115-5 as follows:
10        (725 ILCS 5/115-5) (from Ch. 38, par. 115-5)
11        Sec. 115-5. Business records as evidence.
12        (a)  Any writing or record, whether in  the  form  of  an
13    entry  in a book or otherwise, made as a memorandum or record
14    of any act,  transaction,  occurrence,  or  event,  shall  be
15    admissible  as evidence of such act, transaction, occurrence,
16    or event, if made in regular course of any business,  and  if
17    it  was  the  regular  course  of  such business to make such
18    memorandum or record at the time of  such  act,  transaction,
19    occurrence, or event or within a reasonable time thereafter.
20        All  other circumstances of the making of such writing or
21    record, including lack of personal knowledge by  the  entrant
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 1    or  maker,  may  be  shown  to  affect  its  weight, but such
 2    circumstances shall not affect its admissibility.
 3        The term "business," as used in  this  Section,  includes
 4    business, profession, occupation, and calling of every kind.
 5        (b)  If any business, institution, member of a profession
 6    or calling, or any department or agency of government, in the
 7    regular  course  of business or activity has kept or recorded
 8    any memorandum,  writing,  entry,  print,  representation  or
 9    combination  thereof, of any act, transaction, occurrence, or
10    event, and in the regular course of business has  caused  any
11    or  all  of the same to be recorded, copied, or reproduced by
12    any   photographic,   photostatic,   microfilm,   micro-card,
13    miniature photographic, optical  imaging,  or  other  process
14    which   accurately  reproduces  or  forms  a  medium  for  so
15    reproducing the original, the original may  be  destroyed  in
16    the  regular  course  of  business unless its preservation is
17    required  by  law.  Such  reproduction,  when  satisfactorily
18    identified, is as admissible  in  evidence  as  the  original
19    itself in any proceeding whether the original is in existence
20    or  not  and an enlargement or facsimile of such reproduction
21    is  likewise  admissible  in   evidence   if   the   original
22    reproduction  is  in  existence  and available for inspection
23    under direction of court. The introduction  of  a  reproduced
24    record, enlargement, or facsimile does not preclude admission
25    of  the  original.  This  Section  shall  not be construed to
26    exclude from evidence any document or copy thereof  which  is
27    otherwise admissible under the rules of evidence.
28        (c)  No  writing  or record made in the regular course of
29    any business shall  become  admissible  as  evidence  by  the
30    application of this Section if:
31        (1)  Such  writing  or  record has been made by anyone in
32    the regular  course  of  any  form  of  hospital  or  medical
33    business; or
34        (2)  Such  writing  or  record  has  been  made by anyone
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 1    during an investigation of an alleged offense or  during  any
 2    investigation  relating  to pending or anticipated litigation
 3    of any kind, except for hearings  to  revoke  a  sentence  of
 4    probation,  conditional  discharge, or court supervision that
 5    are based on a technical violation  of  a  sentencing  order.
 6    "Technical violation" means any breach of a sentencing order,
 7    except an allegation of a subsequent criminal act asserted in
 8    a formal criminal charge.
 9    (Source: P.A. 89-437, eff. 12-15-95.)
10        Section  10.  The  Pretrial  Services  Act  is amended by
11    changing Section 4 as follows:
12        (725 ILCS 185/4) (from Ch. 38, par. 304)
13        Sec. 4.  All pretrial services agency personnel shall  be
14    full-time  employees  supervised  by the director and, except
15    for secretarial staff, subject to  the  hiring  and  training
16    requirements  established by the Supreme Court as provided in
17    the Probation and Probation Officers Act  "An  Act  providing
18    for   a   system   of  probation,  for  the  appointment  and
19    compensation  of  probation  officers,  and  authorizing  the
20    suspension of final judgment and the imposition  of  sentence
21    upon  persons  found  guilty  of  certain  defined crimes and
22    offenses, and legalizing  their  ultimate  discharge  without
23    punishment", approved June 10, 1911, as amended.
24    (Source: P.A. 84-1449.)
25        Section  15.  The Probation and Probation Officers Act is
26    amended by changing Section 10 as follows:
27        (730 ILCS 110/10) (from Ch. 38, par. 204-2)
28        Sec. 10. Before entering upon the duties of  his  or  her
29    office, each probation officer shall take and subscribe to an
30    oath  before  the  chief  judge  county  clerk  of his or her
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 1    circuit or the chief judge's designee county to  support  the
 2    constitution  and  laws of the United States and of the State
 3    of Illinois, and faithfully to perform the duties of  his  or
 4    her office.
 5    (Source: P.A. 84-692.)
 6        Section  99.  Effective date.  This Act takes effect upon
 7    becoming law.".

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