93RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2003 and 2004
HB4788


 
Introduced 02/04/04, by Frank Aguilar
 
SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 		













720 ILCS 5/12-6.4 new










    Amends the Criminal Code of 1961. Creates the offense of criminal street gang recruitment on school grounds.  Provides that a person commits the offense when on school grounds  he or she threatens  the  use  of  physical  force to coerce, solicit, recruit, or
     induce another person to join or remain a member of  a  criminal  street gang,  or  conspires  to do so.  Provides that criminal street gang recruitment on school grounds is a Class 4 felony.



















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HB4788

LRB093 18387 RLC 44095 b









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    AN ACT concerning criminal law.

 
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    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
 
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represented in the General Assembly:


 
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    Section 5. The Criminal Code of 1961 is amended  by adding 
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Section 12-6.4 as follows:
 
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    (720 ILCS 5/12-6.4  new)
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    Sec. 12-6.4. Criminal street gang recruitment on school 
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grounds.
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    (a) A  person  commits the offense of  criminal  street gang 
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recruitment on school
     grounds when on school grounds, he or she  
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threatens  the  use  of  physical  force to coerce, solicit, 
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recruit, or
     induce another person to join or remain a member of  
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a  criminal  street gang,  or  conspires  to do so.
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    (b) Sentence. Criminal street gang recruitment on school 
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grounds is a Class 4 felony.
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    (c) In this Section, "criminal street gang" has the meaning 
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ascribed to it in Section 10 of the Illinois Streetgang 
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Terrorism Omnibus Prevention Act and "school grounds" means the 
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building or buildings  or real property comprising a public or 
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private elementary or secondary school, community college, 
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college, or university.