SB1598 103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY

LRB103 25235 RLC 51579 b

103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2023 and 2024
SB1598

Introduced 2/8/2023, by Sen. Jason Plummer

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:

720 ILCS 5/9-3.3

from Ch. 38, par. 9-3.3

Amends the Criminal Code of 2012. Provides that a person commits drug-induced homicide when he or she violates delivery of a controlled substance or methamphetamine or a similar law of another jurisdiction, by unlawfully delivering a controlled substance to another, and the injection, inhalation, absorption, or ingestion of any amount of that controlled substance is a contributing cause of the person's death.

A BILL FOR

AN ACT concerning criminal law.

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

Section 5. The Criminal Code of 2012 is amended by changing Section 9-3.3 as follows:

(720 ILCS 5/9-3.3) (from Ch. 38, par. 9-3.3)

Sec. 9-3.3. Drug-induced homicide.

(a) A person commits drug-induced homicide when he or she violates Section 401 of the Illinois Controlled Substances Act or Section 55 of the Methamphetamine Control and Community Protection Act by unlawfully delivering a controlled substance to another, and any person's death is caused by the injection, inhalation, absorption, or ingestion of any amount of that controlled substance or the injection, inhalation, absorption, or ingestion of any amount of that controlled substance is a contributing cause of the person's death.

(a-5) A person commits drug-induced homicide when he or she violates the law of another jurisdiction, which if the violation had been committed in this State could be charged under Section 401 of the Illinois Controlled Substances Act or Section 55 of the Methamphetamine Control and Community Protection Act, by unlawfully delivering a controlled substance to another, and any person's death is caused in this State by the injection, inhalation, absorption, or ingestion of any amount of that controlled substance or the injection, inhalation, absorption, or ingestion of any amount of that controlled substance is a contributing cause of the person's death.

(b) Sentence. Drug-induced homicide is a Class X felony, except:

(1) A person who commits drug-induced homicide by violating subsection (a) or subsection (c) of Section 401 of the Illinois Controlled Substances Act or Section 55 of the Methamphetamine Control and Community Protection Act commits a Class X felony for which the defendant shall in addition to a sentence authorized by law, be sentenced to a term of imprisonment of not less than 15 years and not more than 30 years or an extended term of not less than 30 years and not more than 60 years.

(2) A person who commits drug-induced homicide by violating the law of another jurisdiction, which if the violation had been committed in this State could be charged under subsection (a) or subsection (c) of Section 401 of the Illinois Controlled Substances Act or Section 55 of the Methamphetamine Control and Community Protection Act, commits a Class X felony for which the defendant shall, in addition to a sentence authorized by law, be sentenced to a term of imprisonment of not less than 15 years and not more than 30 years or an extended term of not less than 30 years and not more than 60 years.

(Source: P.A. 100-404, eff. 1-1-18.)