Bill Status of HB 5705   99th General Assembly


Short Description:  CORRECTIONS OFF-CARRY FIREARM

House Sponsors
Rep. Thomas M. Bennett

Last Action  View All Actions

DateChamber Action
  1/10/2017HouseSession Sine Die

Statutes Amended In Order of Appearance
720 ILCS 5/24-2

Synopsis As Introduced
Amends the Criminal Code of 2012. Exempts from a violation of the unlawful use of weapons and aggravated unlawful use of a weapon statutes concerning the carrying of firearms, the carrying or possessing of firearms by wardens, superintendents and keepers of prisons, penitentiaries, jails and other institutions for the detention of persons accused or convicted of an offense, whether or not the firearms are carried while in the performance of their official duty or whether or not they are commuting between their homes and places of employment (currently, if the corrections officer is not a holder of a concealed carry license, he or she may carry a firearm outside his or her land or outside his or her own abode, legal dwelling, or fixed place of business, or outside the land or outside the legal dwelling of another person as an invitee with that person's permission, only while in the performance of his or her official duty, or while commuting between his or her home and place of employment).

Actions 
DateChamber Action
  2/10/2016HouseFiled with the Clerk by Rep. Thomas M. Bennett
  2/10/2016HouseFirst Reading
  2/10/2016HouseReferred to Rules Committee
  1/10/2017HouseSession Sine Die

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