Bill Text: IL HB3788 | 2021-2022 | 102nd General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Creates the Ballistics Information Act. Provides that, whenever a law enforcement agency recovers any spent shell casing at a crime scene or has reason to believe that the recovered spent shell casing is related to or associated with the commission of a crime or the unlawful discharge of a firearm, the law enforcement agency shall, within a 24-hour period, submit the ballistics information to the National Integrated Ballistics Identification Network. Provides that, whenever a law enforcement agency seizes or recovers a semiautomatic firearm that is deemed suitable to be entered into the National Integrated Ballistics Identification Network system that was: unlawfully possessed, used for any unlawful purpose, recovered from the scene of a crime, is reasonably believed to have been used or associated with the commission of a crime, or is acquired by the law enforcement agency as an abandoned or discarded firearm, the law enforcement agency shall arrange for every such firearm to be test fired within 24 hours and the results of that test firing to be submitted to the National Integrated Ballistics Identification Network to determine whether the firearm is associated with or related to a crime, criminal event, or any individual associated with or related to a crime or criminal event or reasonably believed to be associated with or related to a crime or criminal event.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 21-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-05-19 - Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Lindsey LaPointe [HB3788 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2021-HB3788-Introduced.html

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102ND GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2021 and 2022 HB3788 Introduced , by Rep. Denyse Stoneback SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
New Act
Creates the Ballistics Information Act. Provides that, whenever a law enforcement agency recovers any spent shell casing at a crime scene or has reason to believe that the recovered spent shell casing is related to or associated with the commission of a crime or the unlawful discharge of a firearm, the law enforcement agency shall, within a 24-hour period, submit the ballistics information to the National Integrated Ballistics Identification Network. Provides that, whenever a law enforcement agency seizes or recovers a semiautomatic firearm that is deemed suitable to be entered into the National Integrated Ballistics Identification Network system that was: unlawfully possessed, used for any unlawful purpose, recovered from the scene of a crime, is reasonably believed to have been used or associated with the commission of a crime, or is acquired by the law enforcement agency as an abandoned or discarded firearm, the law enforcement agency shall arrange for every such firearm to be test fired within 24 hours and the results of that test firing to be submitted to the National Integrated Ballistics Identification Network to determine whether the firearm is associated with or related to a crime, criminal event, or any individual associated with or related to a crime or criminal event or reasonably believed to be associated with or related to a crime or criminal event.
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A BILL FOR
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AN ACT concerning criminal law.
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
Ballistics Information Act.
Section 5. Ballistics information.
(a) Whenever a law enforcement agency recovers any spent
shell casing at a crime scene or has reason to believe that the
recovered spent shell casing is related to or associated with
the commission of a crime or the unlawful discharge of a
firearm, the law enforcement agency shall, within a 24-hour
period, submit the ballistics information to the National
Integrated Ballistics Identification Network.
(b) Whenever a law enforcement agency seizes or recovers a
semiautomatic firearm that is deemed suitable to be entered
into the National Integrated Ballistics Identification Network
system that was: unlawfully possessed, used for any unlawful
purpose, recovered from the scene of a crime, is reasonably
believed to have been used or associated with the commission
of a crime, or is acquired by the law enforcement agency as an
abandoned or discarded firearm, the law enforcement agency
shall arrange for every such firearm to be test fired within 24
hours and the results of that test firing to be submitted to

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the National Integrated Ballistics Identification Network to
determine whether the firearm is associated with or related to
a crime, criminal event, or any individual associated with or
related to a crime or criminal event or reasonably believed to
be associated with or related to a crime or criminal event.
(c) As used in this Act, "law enforcement agency" means
all State agencies with law enforcement officers, county
sheriff's offices, municipal, special district, college, or
unit of local government police departments.