Credit Justin Fowler, Springfield State Journal-Register
The Illinois House Judiciary Criminal Committee advanced two bills Tuesday with unanimous support, one to decriminalize transmission of HIV and another to expand protections for survivors of sexual assault.
An amendment to House Bill 1063, introduced by Democratic state Rep. Carol Ammons, of Urbana, changes several Illinois statutes related to persons living with HIV/AIDS and its transmission. On Wednesday, the House approved the bill 90-9, sending it to the Senate for consideration.
Under current Illinois law, a person who transmits HIV to another person can be charged with “criminal transmission of HIV.”
The AIDS Confidentiality Act, meant to protect Illinoisans from having an HIV-positive status disclosed or used against them, contains exceptions allowing law enforcement officials to subpoena or petition for the HIV status of criminal defendants in order to determine whether they should be charged for potential crimi
SPRINGFIELD A Rockford legislator is pushing for lifetime no-contact orders for sexual assault offenders.
Right now, survivors of sexual assault are required to go to court every two years to extend no-contact orders against their convicted assailants.
State Sen. Steve Stadelman, D-Rockford, wants that law changed so survivors can seek and obtain a lifetime order.
“Survivors of sexual assault are forced to live day in and day out with their trauma,” Stadelman said in a news release issued Tuesday. “The least we can do is not make them relive it.”
Stadelman passed legislation supporting the change out of committee on Tuesday.
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Credit Justin Fowler, Springfield State Journal-Register
The Illinois House Judiciary Criminal Committee advanced two bills Tuesday with unanimous support, one to decriminalize transmission of HIV and another to expand protections for survivors of sexual assault.
An amendment to House Bill 1063, introduced by Democratic state Rep. Carol Ammons, of Urbana, changes several Illinois statutes related to persons living with HIV/AIDS and its transmission.
Under current Illinois law, a person who transmits HIV to another person can be charged with “criminal transmission of HIV.”
The AIDS Confidentiality Act, meant to protect Illinoisans from having an HIV-positive status disclosed or used against them, contains exceptions allowing law enforcement officials to subpoena or petition for the HIV status of criminal defendants in order to determine whether they should be charged for potential criminal transmission.
House panel OKs sexual assault survivors protection
Raymon Troncoso Capitol News Illinois
April 14, 2021
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SPRINGFIELD – The Illinois House Judiciary Criminal Committee advanced two bills Tuesday with unanimous support, one to expand protections for survivors of sexual assault and another to decriminalize transmission of HIV.
House Bill 1732, introduced by state Rep. Maura Hirschauer, D-Batavia, expands protections for sexual assault survivors by amending the Civil No Contact Order Act.
The law allows for “victims of non-consensual sexual conduct or penetration” to a receive a court order protecting that person, their family, household or someone providing them services from having contact with the perpetrator of the crime.