101ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2019 and 2020
SB3617

 

Introduced 2/14/2020, by Sen. Steve Stadelman

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
725 ILCS 5/112A-20  from Ch. 38, par. 112A-20

    Amends the Code of Criminal Procedure of 1963. Provides that the duration of a civil no contact order is permanent if a judgment of conviction for criminal sexual assault is entered.


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A BILL FOR

 

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1    AN ACT concerning criminal law.
 
2    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3represented in the General Assembly:
 
4    Section 5. The Code of Criminal Procedure of 1963 is
5amended by changing Section 112A-20 as follows:
 
6    (725 ILCS 5/112A-20)  (from Ch. 38, par. 112A-20)
7    Sec. 112A-20. Duration and extension of final protective
8orders.
9    (a) (Blank).
10    (b) A final protective order shall remain in effect as
11follows:
12        (1) if entered during pre-trial release, until
13    disposition, withdrawal, or dismissal of the underlying
14    charge; if, however, the case is continued as an
15    independent cause of action, the order's duration may be
16    for a fixed period of time not to exceed 2 years;
17        (2) if in effect in conjunction with a bond forfeiture
18    warrant, until final disposition or an additional period of
19    time not exceeding 2 years; no domestic violence order of
20    protection, however, shall be terminated by a dismissal
21    that is accompanied by the issuance of a bond forfeiture
22    warrant;
23        (3) until 2 years after the expiration of any

 

 

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1    supervision, conditional discharge, probation, periodic
2    imprisonment, parole, aftercare release, or mandatory
3    supervised release for domestic violence orders of
4    protection and civil no contact orders; or
5        (4) until 2 years after the date set by the court for
6    expiration of any sentence of imprisonment and subsequent
7    parole, aftercare release, or mandatory supervised release
8    for domestic violence orders of protection and civil no
9    contact orders; and
10        (5) permanent for a stalking no contact order if a
11    judgment of conviction for stalking is entered; and .
12        (6) permanent for a civil no contact order if a
13    judgment of conviction for criminal sexual assault is
14    entered.
15    (c) Computation of time. The duration of a domestic
16violence order of protection shall not be reduced by the
17duration of any prior domestic violence order of protection.
18    (d) Law enforcement records. When a protective order
19expires upon the occurrence of a specified event, rather than
20upon a specified date as provided in subsection (b), no
21expiration date shall be entered in Department of State Police
22records. To remove the protective order from those records,
23either the petitioner or the respondent shall request the clerk
24of the court to file a certified copy of an order stating that
25the specified event has occurred or that the protective order
26has been vacated or modified with the sheriff, and the sheriff

 

 

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1shall direct that law enforcement records shall be promptly
2corrected in accordance with the filed order.
3    (e) Extension of Orders. Any domestic violence order of
4protection or civil no contact order that expires 2 years after
5the expiration of the defendant's sentence under paragraph (2),
6(3), or (4) of subsection (b) of Section 112A-20 of this
7Article may be extended one or more times, as required. The
8petitioner, petitioner's counsel, or the State's Attorney on
9the petitioner's behalf shall file the motion for an extension
10of the final protective order in the criminal case and serve
11the motion in accordance with Supreme Court Rules 11 and 12.
12The court shall transfer the motion to the appropriate court or
13division for consideration under subsection (e) of Section 220
14of the Illinois Domestic Violence Act of 1986, subsection (c)
15of Section 216 of the Civil No Contact Order Act, or subsection
16(c) of Section 105 of the Stalking No Contact Order as
17appropriate.
18    (f) Termination date. Any final protective order which
19would expire on a court holiday shall instead expire at the
20close of the next court business day.
21    (g) Statement of purpose. The practice of dismissing or
22suspending a criminal prosecution in exchange for issuing a
23protective order undermines the purposes of this Article. This
24Section shall not be construed as encouraging that practice.
25(Source: P.A. 100-199, eff. 1-1-18; 100-597, eff. 6-29-18.)