Sen. Michael Noland

Filed: 3/29/2011

 

 


 

 


 
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AMENDMENT TO SENATE BILL 1808

2    AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend Senate Bill 1808 by replacing
3everything after the enacting clause with the following:
 
4    "Section 5. The Criminal Code of 1961 is amended by
5changing Section 32-8 as follows:
 
6    (720 ILCS 5/32-8)  (from Ch. 38, par. 32-8)
7    (Text of Section before amendment by P.A. 96-1508)
8    Sec. 32-8. Tampering with public records.
9    (a) A person who knowingly and without lawful authority
10alters, destroys, defaces, removes or conceals any public
11record commits a Class 4 felony.
12    (b) "Public record" expressly includes, but is not limited
13to, court records pertaining to any civil or criminal
14proceeding in any court.
15    (c) Any judge, circuit clerk or clerk of court, public
16official or employee, court reporter, or other person who

 

 

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1knowingly and without lawful authority alters, destroys,
2defaces, removes, or conceals, or falsifies any public record
3received or held by any judge or by a clerk of any court
4commits a Class 3 felony.
5    (d) Any person convicted under subsection (c):
6        (1) shall forfeit his or her public office or public
7    employment, if any, and shall thereafter be ineligible for
8    both State and local public office and public employment in
9    this State for a period of 5 years after completion of any
10    term of probation, conditional discharge, or mandatory
11    supervised release;
12        (2) shall forfeit all retirement, pension, and other
13    benefits arising out of public office or public employment
14    in accordance with the applicable provisions of the
15    Illinois Pension Code;
16        (3) shall be subject to termination of any professional
17    licensure or registration in this State in accordance with
18    the provisions of the applicable professional licensing or
19    registration laws;
20        (4) may be ordered by the court, after a hearing in
21    accordance with applicable law and in addition to any other
22    penalty or fine imposed by the court, to forfeit to the
23    State an amount equal to any financial gain or the value of
24    any advantage realized by the person as a result of the
25    offense; and
26        (5) may be ordered by the court, after a hearing in

 

 

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1    accordance with applicable law and in addition to any other
2    penalty or fine imposed by the court, to pay restitution to
3    the victim in an amount equal to any financial loss or the
4    value of any advantage lost by the victim as a result of
5    the offense.
6    For the purposes of this subsection (d), an offense under
7subsection (c) committed by a person holding public office or
8public employment shall be rebuttably presumed to relate to or
9arise out of or in connection with that public office or public
10employment.
11    (e) Any party having an interest in the protection and
12integrity of any court record, whether such party be a public
13official or a private individual, shall have the right to
14request and, if necessary, to demand that an investigation be
15opened into the alteration, destruction, defacement, removal,
16or concealment, or falsification of any public record. Such
17request may be made to any law enforcement agency, including,
18but not limited to, local law enforcement and the State Police.
19    (f) When the local law enforcement agency having
20jurisdiction declines to investigate, or inadequately
21investigates, a violation of subsection (c), the State Police
22shall have the authority to investigate, and shall investigate,
23the same, without regard to whether such local law enforcement
24agency has requested the State Police to do so.
25    (g) When the State's Attorney having jurisdiction declines
26to prosecute a violation of subsection (c), the Attorney

 

 

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1General shall have the authority to prosecute the same, without
2regard to whether such State's Attorney has requested the
3Attorney General to do so.
4    (h) Prosecution of a violation of subsection (c) shall be
5commenced within 3 years after the act constituting the
6violation is discovered or reasonably should have been
7discovered.
8(Source: P.A. 96-1217, eff. 1-1-11.)
 
9    (Text of Section after amendment by P.A. 96-1508)
10    Sec. 32-8. Tampering with public records.
11    (a) A person who knowingly, without lawful authority, and
12with the intent to defraud any party, public officer or entity,
13alters, destroys, defaces, removes or conceals any public
14record commits a Class 4 felony.
15    (b) "Public record" expressly includes, but is not limited
16to, court records, or documents, evidence, or exhibits filed
17with the clerk of the court and which have become a part of the
18official court record, pertaining to any civil or criminal
19proceeding in any court.
20    (c) Any judge, circuit clerk or clerk of court, public
21official or employee, court reporter, or other person who
22knowingly, without lawful authority, and with the intent to
23defraud any party, public officer or entity, alters, destroys,
24defaces, removes, or conceals, or falsifies any public record
25received or held by any judge or by a clerk of any court

 

 

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1commits a Class 3 felony.
2    (d) Any person convicted under subsection (c) who at the
3time of the violation was responsible for making, keeping,
4storing, or reporting the record for which the tampering
5occurred:
6        (1) shall forfeit his or her public office or public
7    employment, if any, and shall thereafter be ineligible for
8    both State and local public office and public employment in
9    this State for a period of 5 years after completion of any
10    term of probation, conditional discharge, or incarceration
11    in a penitentiary including the period of mandatory
12    supervised release;
13        (2) shall forfeit all retirement, pension, and other
14    benefits arising out of public office or public employment
15    as may be determined by the court in accordance with the
16    applicable provisions of the Illinois Pension Code;
17        (3) shall be subject to termination of any professional
18    licensure or registration in this State as may be
19    determined by the court in accordance with the provisions
20    of the applicable professional licensing or registration
21    laws;
22        (4) may be ordered by the court, after a hearing in
23    accordance with applicable law and in addition to any other
24    penalty or fine imposed by the court, to forfeit to the
25    State an amount equal to any financial gain or the value of
26    any advantage realized by the person as a result of the

 

 

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1    offense; and
2        (5) may be ordered by the court, after a hearing in
3    accordance with applicable law and in addition to any other
4    penalty or fine imposed by the court, to pay restitution to
5    the victim in an amount equal to any financial loss or the
6    value of any advantage lost by the victim as a result of
7    the offense.
8    For the purposes of this subsection (d), an offense under
9subsection (c) committed by a person holding public office or
10public employment shall be rebuttably presumed to relate to or
11arise out of or in connection with that public office or public
12employment.
13    (e) Any party litigant who believes a violation of this
14Section has occurred may seek the restoration of the court
15record as provided in the Court Records Restoration Act. Any
16order of the court denying the restoration of the court record
17may be appealed as any other civil judgment.
18    (f) When the sheriff or local law enforcement agency having
19jurisdiction declines to investigate, or inadequately
20investigates, the court or any interested party, shall notify
21the State Police of a suspected violation of subsection (a) or
22(c), who shall have the authority to investigate, and may
23investigate, the same, without regard to whether such local law
24enforcement agency has requested the State Police to do so.
25    (g) If the State's Attorney having jurisdiction declines to
26prosecute a violation of subsection (a) or (c), the court or

 

 

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1interested party shall notify the Attorney General of such
2refusal. The Attorney General shall, thereafter, have the
3authority to prosecute, and may prosecute, the same, without a
4referral from such State's Attorney.
5    (h) Prosecution of a violation of subsection (c) shall be
6commenced within 3 years after the act constituting the
7violation is discovered or reasonably should have been
8discovered.
9(Source: P.A. 96-1217, eff. 1-1-11; 96-1508, eff. 6-1-11.)
 
10    Section 95. No acceleration or delay. Where this Act makes
11changes in a statute that is represented in this Act by text
12that is not yet or no longer in effect (for example, a Section
13represented by multiple versions), the use of that text does
14not accelerate or delay the taking effect of (i) the changes
15made by this Act or (ii) provisions derived from any other
16Public Act.
 
17    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
18becoming law.".