Bill Text: IL HB3273 | 2021-2022 | 102nd General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Creates the Green Alert Program Act. Provides that each law enforcement agency shall implement a Green Alert Program for missing members of the Armed Forces. Provides that each law enforcement agency may adopt necessary rules to implement the Green Alert Program. Requires each law enforcement agency to adopt specified rules. Requires the Illinois State Police to adopt rules to assist investigating law enforcement agencies during their investigations as a resource for the receipt, analysis, and dissemination of information to those agencies that have a need and right to know about a missing member of the Armed Forces. Requires the Department of Transportation to adopt rules for the display on its variable message signs of appropriate information that may assist in the safe return of a missing member of the Armed Forces, consistent with applicable State and federal requirements. Provides that if an investigating law enforcement agency receives notice that an individual is a missing member of the Armed Forces, the agency shall solicit information from the family or legal guardian of the missing member of the Armed Forces to provide information regarding the physical or mental condition of the missing member of the Armed Forces. Requires the investigating law enforcement agency to notify the Illinois State Police of the missing member of the Armed Forces. Provides that the Illinois State Police shall make all the necessary notifications and assist the investigating law enforcement agency. Contains provisions regarding the cancellation of a Green Alert. Contains other provisions.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 9-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-03-01 - Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Janet Yang Rohr [HB3273 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2021-HB3273-Introduced.html

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102ND GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2021 and 2022 HB3273 Introduced , by Rep. Natalie A. Manley SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
New Act
Creates the Green Alert Program Act. Provides that each law enforcement agency shall implement a Green Alert Program for missing members of the Armed Forces. Provides that each law enforcement agency may adopt necessary rules to implement the Green Alert Program. Requires each law enforcement agency to adopt specified rules. Requires the Illinois State Police to adopt rules to assist investigating law enforcement agencies during their investigations as a resource for the receipt, analysis, and dissemination of information to those agencies that have a need and right to know about a missing member of the Armed Forces. Requires the Department of Transportation to adopt rules for the display on its variable message signs of appropriate information that may assist in the safe return of a missing member of the Armed Forces, consistent with applicable State and federal requirements. Provides that if an investigating law enforcement agency receives notice that an individual is a missing member of the Armed Forces, the agency shall solicit information from the family or legal guardian of the missing member of the Armed Forces to provide information regarding the physical or mental condition of the missing member of the Armed Forces. Requires the investigating law enforcement agency to notify the Illinois State Police of the missing member of the Armed Forces. Provides that the Illinois State Police shall make all the necessary notifications and assist the investigating law enforcement agency. Contains provisions regarding the cancellation of a Green Alert. Contains other provisions.
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AN ACT concerning veterans.
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 Green
Alert Program Act.
Section 5. Definitions. In this Act:
"ACIM Alert Program" or "ACIM" means "A Child is Missing
Alert Program", a national rapid-response communication
network that offers free assistance to law enforcement
agencies to aid in the recovery, identity, or apprehension of
missing persons through the use of immediate public
notification and dissemination of information via telephone in
a targeted community.
"Green Alert Program" or "Green Alert" means the
procedures used to aid in the identification of a missing
member of the Armed Forces.
"Investigating law enforcement agency" means the law
enforcement agency that has primary jurisdiction in the area
in which a complaint regarding a missing member of the Armed
Forces is filed.
"Missing member of the Armed Forces" means an individual
who meets all of the following:
(1) The individual's location is unknown.

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(2) The individual's domicile is in this State at the
time the individual is reported missing.
(3) The individual is a veteran or an active duty
member of the United States Armed Forces, including the
National Guard or the reserves.
(4) The individual is known to have a physical or
mental health condition that is related to the
individual's service as an active duty member of the
United States Armed Forces, including the National Guard
or reserves.
(5) The individual's disappearance poses a credible
threat to the health or safety of the individual, as
determined by the investigating law enforcement agency.
"Veteran" means an individual who has served in the United
States Armed Forces, including the National Guard or the
reserves.
Section 10. Establishment of the Illinois Green Alert
Program.
(a) Each law enforcement agency shall implement a Green
Alert Program, consistent with the ACIM Alert Program, for
missing members of the Armed Forces.
(b) Each law enforcement agency may adopt necessary rules
to implement the Green Alert Program. The rules must include
the following:
(1) Procedures for the use of the Illinois State

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Police to provide support to the investigating law
enforcement agency as a resource for the receipt,
analysis, and dissemination of information regarding a
missing member of the Armed Forces and the whereabouts of
the missing member of the Armed Forces.
(2) Procedures for the investigating law enforcement
agency to use to verify whether a missing member of the
Armed Forces is missing and the circumstances under which
the agency must enter descriptive information of the
missing member of the Armed Forces into the Illinois State
Police and the National Crime Information Center system.
(3) The process for reporting the information to
designated media outlets for this State.
(c) The Illinois State Police shall adopt rules for the
use of the Illinois State Police to assist investigating law
enforcement agencies during their investigations as a resource
for the receipt, analysis, and dissemination of information to
those agencies that have a need and right to know about a
missing member of the Armed Forces.
(d) The Department of Transportation shall adopt rules for
the display on its variable message signs of appropriate
information that may assist in the safe return of a missing
member of the Armed Forces, consistent with applicable State
and federal requirements.
Section 15. Activation of the Green Alert Program.

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(a) If an investigating law enforcement agency receives
notice that an individual is a missing member of the Armed
Forces, the agency shall solicit information from the family
or legal guardian of the missing member of the Armed Forces to
provide information regarding the physical or mental condition
of the missing member of the Armed Forces.
If the investigating law enforcement agency verifies that
the individual is a missing member of the Armed Forces, the
investigating law enforcement agency shall enter the
descriptive information of the missing member of the armed
forces into the Illinois State Police and the National Crime
Information Center system.
The investigating law enforcement agency shall notify the
Illinois State Police of the missing member of the armed
forces. The Illinois State Police shall make all the necessary
notifications and assist the investigating law enforcement
agency.
(b) If an investigating law enforcement agency verifies
that an individual is a missing member of the Armed Forces, the
investigating law enforcement agency shall send an alert to
designated media outlets for this State.
The alert must include all appropriate information that
may assist in the safe return of the missing member of the
Armed Forces, along with a statement instructing anyone with
information relating to the missing member of the Armed Forces
to contact the investigating law enforcement agency or another

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law enforcement agency.
If an investigating law enforcement agency verifies that
an individual is a missing member of the Armed Forces, the
investigating law enforcement agency shall contact the
Department of Transportation. The Department of Transportation
shall display on its variable message signs appropriate
information that may assist in the safe return of the missing
member of the Armed Forces.
Section 20. Cancellation of a Green Alert.
(a) The investigating law enforcement agency shall notify
the designated media outlets when a Green Alert has been
cancelled.
(b) A law enforcement agency that locates a missing member
of the Armed Forces who is the subject of a Green Alert shall
notify the Illinois State Police and the National Crime
Information Center as soon as possible that the missing member
of the Armed Forces has been located.