Sen. Steve McClure
Filed: 4/12/2021
 
 

 

 

 
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1
AMENDMENT TO SENATE BILL 1933




2    AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend Senate Bill 1933 by replacing 
3everything after the enacting clause with the following:


 
 
4    "Section 5. The Criminal Code of 2012 is amended  by 
5changing Section 31-4 as follows:
 



6    (720 ILCS 5/31-4)  (from Ch. 38, par. 31-4)



7    Sec. 31-4. Obstructing justice. 

8    (a) A person obstructs justice when, with intent to 
9prevent the apprehension
or obstruct the prosecution or 
10defense of any person, he or she knowingly commits
any of the 
11following acts:

12        (1) Destroys, alters, conceals or disguises physical 
13    evidence, plants
false evidence, furnishes false 
14    information; or

15        (2) Induces a witness having knowledge material to the 
16    subject at issue
to leave the State or conceal himself or 
 
 
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1    herself; or

2        (3) Possessing knowledge material to the subject at 
3    issue, he or she leaves the
State or conceals himself; or
4        (4) If a parent, legal guardian, or caretaker
of a 
5    child under  13 years of age reports materially false 
6    information to a law enforcement agency, medical examiner, 
7    coroner, State's Attorney, or other governmental agency 
8    during an investigation of the disappearance or death of a 
9    child under circumstances described in subsection (a) or 
10    (b) of Section 10-10 of this Code.

11    (b) Sentence.


12        (1) Obstructing justice is a Class 4 felony, except as 
13    provided in
paragraph (2) of this subsection (b).


14        (2) Obstructing justice in furtherance of streetgang 
15    related or
gang-related activity, as defined in Section 10 
16    of the Illinois Streetgang
Terrorism Omnibus Prevention 
17    Act, is a Class 3 felony.

18    (c)  For purposes of paragraph (1) of subsection (a), 
19"conceal" means hiding evidence in a manner that makes its 
20discovery or recovery materially more difficult or impossible. 
21(Source: P.A. 97-1079, eff. 1-1-13.)

 
 
22    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon 
23becoming law.".