TIPS Legislation

This TIPS legislation will reduce crime and provide peace of mind for Illinois families. 

  • HB 1387 (Haas) Aggravated domestic battery by strangulation is a Class X offense

  • HB 1388 (Haas) Creation of habitual misdemeanant

  • HB 1389 (Haas) Adds the taking or attempting to take a body camera from an officer to obstruction of the justice offense

  • HB 1390 (Haas) Sex offenders convicted of a felony sex offense are not eligible for probation

  • HB 1542 (Ugaste) Appropriates $80,000,000 from the General Revenue Fund to the Law Enforcement Training Standards Board for deposit into the Law Enforcement Camera Grant Fund

  • HB 3209 (McCombie-Windhorst) Protect Our Victims Act – deletes provision that allows a defendant from compelling a victim to testify at a detention hearing

  • HB 3217 (Bunting) Back the Badge Program - Creates within the Illinois Law Enforcement Training Standards Board a Recruitment Division. To assist local law enforcement agencies establish recruitment plans

  • HB 3329 (Haas) Makes it a class 1 or class x for a hate crime committed with a firearm or if the victim is under 18 years of age

  • HB 3352 (Cabello-Windhorst) Requires DNA collection at arrest instead of indictment or preliminary hearing for serious felonies including felony domestic battery

  • HB 3353 (Cabello-Tipsword-Windhorst) Increases the percentage of moneys that are transferred from the Cannabis Regulation Fund to the Local Government Distributive Fund to 15%. Provides that moneys allocated to counties under those provisions shall be directed to a fund under the control of the Sheriff

  • HB 3354 (Friess-Windhorst) Provides that, in matters a sheriff deems essential to preventing or assisting with disasters or events of civil disorder, the sheriff may authorize plain clothes to be worn by auxiliary deputies

  • HB 3356 (Grant-Windhorst) Adds a victim being 60 years or older to the offense of aggravated domestic battery

  • HB 3357 (Grant-Ugaste-Windhorst) Creates the offense of domestic assault

  • HB 3358 (Tipsword-Cabello-Windhorst) Requires each member of the General Assembly annually complete a ride-along and a simulation training program

  • HB 3359 (Ugaste-Grant-Windhorst) Prohibits auto expungement for attempt to commit a disqualified offense, such as a sex offense, or Class 2 felony or higher.

  • HB 3360 (Ugaste-Grant-Windhorst) Adds to registerable offenses, home invasion if a sex offense was committed during the commission of the home invasion

  • HB 4046 (Cabello-Windhorst) Removes the ability to file anonymous complaints against officers. Add automatic expungement of the misconduct records where the officer has been found not to have committed any wrong doing or the complaint was found to be frivolous. Deletes provision that an officer has no property right in their certification, thereby ensuring the officer is afforded due process 

  • HB 4047 (Cabello-Windhorst) Requires ILETSB to create a waiver process for out of state law enforcement officers who want to work in Illinois. In use of force, adds “back” as a place where an officer can discharge kinetic impact projectiles or other non-lethal or less-lethal projectiles in a manner that targets the back

  • HB 4048 (Friess-Windhorst) Creates a loan repayment program for officers who are working in under-staffed areas

  • HB 4049 (Friess-Windhorst) Removes day for day credit on EM, reinstated provisions that make it mandatory instead of permissive for consecutive sentencing

  • HB 4050 (Tipsword-Windhorst) In body camera provisions, exempts undercover officers from the requirement of wearing body cameras, except they must wear body cameras when conducting interviews. Deletes prohibition on review of videos prior to writing reports. Adds the taking or attempting to take a body camera from an officer to obstruction of the justice offense

  • HB 4051 (Tipsword-Windhorst) clarifies the process for when a person is arrested on an out of county warrants

  • HB 4052 (Ugaste-Grant-Windhorst) Reinstate cash bail as recommended by the IL SC commission report. Hybrid system that has a presumption of release but allows for cash bail or detention

  • HB 4053 (Windhorst) 3 phone calls provision – adds protections for victims to the right to communicate and remove presumptions of inadmissibility and allows for it to be used in the totality of circumstances determination for voluntariness. Adds to the provision for release by citation that allows and officer to verify the identity of the accused.