Bill Text: IL SB3698 | 2023-2024 | 103rd General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Expressway Camera Act. Provides that funds needed to conduct the program for use on expressways under the jurisdiction of the Illinois State Toll Highway Authority may be used for equipment, installation, service, and maintenance of the camera systems, for telecommunication costs, and for camera warranties.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-05-03 - Rule 3-9(a) / Re-referred to Assignments [SB3698 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2023-SB3698-Introduced.html

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103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2023 and 2024 SB3698 Introduced 2/9/2024, by Sen. Christopher Belt SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
605 ILCS 140/5
Amends the Expressway Camera Act. Provides that funds needed to conduct the program for use on expressways under the jurisdiction of the Illinois State Toll Highway Authority may be used for equipment, installation, service, and maintenance of the camera systems, telecommunication costs, and for camera warranties.
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A BILL FOR
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AN ACT concerning transportation.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The Expressway Camera Act is amended by
changing Section 5 as follows:
(605 ILCS 140/5)
(Section scheduled to be repealed on July 1, 2025)
Sec. 5. Camera program.
(a) The Illinois State Police, the Illinois Department of
Transportation, and the Illinois State Toll Highway Authority
shall work together to conduct a program to increase the
amount of cameras along (i) expressways and the State highway
system in the counties of Boone, Bureau, Champaign, Cook,
DeKalb, DuPage, Grundy, Henry, Kane, Kendall, Lake, LaSalle,
Macon, Madison, McHenry, Morgan, Peoria, Rock Island,
Sangamon, St. Clair, Will, and Winnebago and (ii)
Jean-Baptiste Pointe DuSable Lake Shore Drive in Cook County.
Within 90 days after June 3, 2022 (the effective date of Public
Act 102-1042), details about the program objectives, counties
where the program is operational, and policies under which the
program operates shall be made publicly available and posted
online.
(b) Images from the cameras may be extracted by any

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authorized user and used by any municipal police department,
county sheriff's office, State Police officer, or other law
enforcement agency with jurisdiction in the investigation of
any offenses involving vehicular hijacking, aggravated
vehicular hijacking, terrorism, motor vehicle theft, or any
forcible felony, including, but not limited to, offenses
involving the use of a firearm; to detect expressway hazards
and highway conditions; and to facilitate highway safety and
incident management. Images from the cameras shall not be used
to enforce petty offenses or offenses not listed in this
subsection, unless use of the images pertains to expressway or
highway safety or hazards. Images from the cameras may be used
by any law enforcement agency conducting an active law
enforcement investigation. All images from the cameras shall
be deleted within 120 days, unless the images are relevant to
an ongoing investigation or pending criminal trial. Cameras
shall not be used to monitor individuals or groups in a
discriminatory manner contrary to applicable State or federal
law.
(b-5) By June 30th of each year, the Illinois State
Police, the Illinois Department of Transportation, and the
Illinois State Toll Highway Authority shall issue a joint
report to the General Assembly detailing the program
operations, including, but not limited to:
(1) the cost of installation of cameras by county;
(2) the cost of ongoing maintenance of the camera

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systems per county, including electrical costs and data
transfer costs;
(3) the number of inquiries where the investigation
involved the criminal offenses outlined in subsection (b);
and
(4) the number of incidents in which law enforcement
searched the stored data for the criminal offenses
outlined in subsection (b).
(c) Subject to appropriation, any funds needed to conduct
the program for use on the expressways or State highway system
under the jurisdiction of the Department of Transportation
shall be taken from the Road Fund and shall be included in
requests for qualification processes. Any funds needed to
conduct the program for use on expressways under the
jurisdiction of the Illinois State Toll Highway Authority
shall be paid for by funds from the Illinois State Tollway
Highway Authority and shall be included in requests for
qualification processes.Funds may be used for equipment,
installation, service, and maintenance of the camera systems,
telecommunication costs, and for camera warranties.
(c-5) Any forcible felony, gunrunning, or firearms
trafficking offense, as defined in Section 2-8, 24-3a, or
24-3b of the Criminal Code of 2012, respectively, committed on
an expressway monitored by a camera system funded by money
from the Road Fund and investigated by officers of the
Illinois State Police may be prosecuted by the Attorney

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