HB1460 94TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

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94TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2005 and 2006
HB1460

Introduced 02/10/05, by Rep. John J. Millner - Jim Sacia

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:

725 ILCS 5/107-14

from Ch. 38, par. 107-14

Amends the Code of Criminal Procedure of 1963. Provides that any person who fails to answer an officer's temporary questioning (after the officer identifies himself as a peace officer and demands the name and address of the person and an explanation of his or her actions) is guilty of a Class A misdemeanor. Effective immediately.

CORRECTIONAL BUDGET AND IMPACT NOTE ACT MAY APPLY

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 Code of Criminal Procedure of 1963 is amended by changing Section 107-14 as follows:

(725 ILCS 5/107-14) (from Ch. 38, par. 107-14)

Sec. 107-14. Temporary questioning without arrest.

A peace officer, after having identified himself as a peace officer, may stop any person in a public place for a reasonable period of time when the officer reasonably infers from the circumstances that the person is committing, is about to commit or has committed an offense as defined in Section 102--15 of this Code, and may demand the name and address of the person and an explanation of his actions. Such detention and temporary questioning will be conducted in the vicinity of where the person was stopped. A person who fails to answer an officer's temporary questioning as provided under this Section is guilty of a Class A misdemeanor.

(Source: Laws 1968, p. 218.)

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