Full Text of SB1598 103rd General Assembly
SB1598 103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY |
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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 |
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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.
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| 1 | | AN ACT concerning criminal law.
| 2 | | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
| 3 | | represented in the General Assembly:
| 4 | | Section 5. The Criminal Code of 2012 is amended by | 5 | | changing Section 9-3.3 as follows:
| 6 | | (720 ILCS 5/9-3.3) (from Ch. 38, par. 9-3.3)
| 7 | | Sec. 9-3.3. Drug-induced homicide.
| 8 | | (a) A person commits drug-induced homicide when he or she | 9 | | violates Section
401 of
the Illinois Controlled Substances Act | 10 | | or Section 55 of the Methamphetamine Control and Community | 11 | | Protection Act by unlawfully delivering a controlled
substance | 12 | | to another, and any person's death is caused by the injection,
| 13 | | inhalation, absorption, or ingestion of any amount of that | 14 | | controlled substance or the injection, inhalation, absorption, | 15 | | or ingestion of any amount of that controlled substance is a | 16 | | contributing cause of the person's death .
| 17 | | (a-5) A person commits drug-induced homicide when he or | 18 | | she violates the law of another jurisdiction, which if the | 19 | | violation had been committed in this State could be charged | 20 | | under Section 401 of the Illinois Controlled Substances Act or | 21 | | Section 55 of the Methamphetamine Control and Community | 22 | | Protection Act, by unlawfully delivering a controlled | 23 | | substance to another, and any person's death is caused in this |
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| 1 | | State by the injection, inhalation, absorption, or ingestion | 2 | | of any amount of that controlled substance or the injection, | 3 | | inhalation, absorption, or ingestion of any amount of that | 4 | | controlled substance is a contributing cause of the person's | 5 | | death . | 6 | | (b) Sentence. Drug-induced homicide is a Class X felony, | 7 | | except:
| 8 | | (1) A person who commits drug-induced homicide by | 9 | | violating subsection (a)
or subsection (c) of Section 401 | 10 | | of the Illinois Controlled Substances Act or Section 55 of | 11 | | the Methamphetamine Control and Community Protection Act
| 12 | | commits a Class X felony for which the
defendant shall in | 13 | | addition to a sentence authorized by law, be sentenced
to | 14 | | a term of imprisonment of not less than 15 years and not | 15 | | more than 30
years or an extended term of not less than 30 | 16 | | years and not more than 60 years.
| 17 | | (2) A person who commits drug-induced homicide by | 18 | | violating the law of another jurisdiction, which if the | 19 | | violation had been committed in this State could be | 20 | | charged under subsection (a) or subsection (c) of Section | 21 | | 401 of the Illinois Controlled Substances Act or Section | 22 | | 55 of the Methamphetamine Control and Community Protection | 23 | | Act, commits a Class X felony for which the defendant | 24 | | shall, in addition to a sentence authorized by law, be | 25 | | sentenced to a term of imprisonment of not less than 15 | 26 | | years and not more than 30 years or an extended term of not |
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| 1 | | less than 30 years and not more than 60 years. | 2 | | (Source: P.A. 100-404, eff. 1-1-18 .)
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