Full Text of SB1860 095th General Assembly
SB1860 95TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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95TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2007 and 2008 SB1860
Introduced 8/8/2007, by Sen. Martin A. Sandoval SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED: |
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625 ILCS 5/11-213 new |
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720 ILCS 5/9-3 |
from Ch. 38, par. 9-3 |
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Amends the Illinois Vehicle Code. Provides that an officer of a fire department, in the performance of his or her official duties, has the authority to close to traffic a highway, or a lane or lanes of a highway, as necessary to protect the safety of persons or property. Amends the Criminal Code of 1961. Increases the penalties for the offense of reckless homicide if the offense is committed as a result of failing to follow the procedures required when approaching a stationary authorized emergency vehicle. Further increases the penalties if the defendant causes the deaths of 2 or more persons as
part of a single course of conduct.
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A BILL FOR
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| AN ACT concerning transportation, which may be referred to | 2 |
| as James "Shib" Miller and William Grant's 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 Illinois Vehicle Code is amended by adding | 6 |
| Section 11-213 as follows: | 7 |
| (625 ILCS 5/11-213 new) | 8 |
| Sec. 11-213. Power of a fire department officer; highway or | 9 |
| lane closure. An officer of a fire department, in the | 10 |
| performance of his or her official duties, has the authority to | 11 |
| close to traffic a highway, or a lane or lanes of a highway, as | 12 |
| necessary to protect the safety of persons or property. | 13 |
| Section 10. The Criminal Code of 1961 is amended by | 14 |
| changing Section 9-3 as follows:
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| (720 ILCS 5/9-3) (from Ch. 38, par. 9-3)
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| Sec. 9-3. Involuntary Manslaughter and Reckless Homicide.
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| (a) A person who unintentionally kills an individual | 18 |
| without lawful
justification commits involuntary manslaughter | 19 |
| if his acts whether lawful
or unlawful which cause the death | 20 |
| are such as are likely to cause death or
great bodily harm to | 21 |
| some individual, and he performs them recklessly,
except in |
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| cases in which the cause of the death consists of the driving | 2 |
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a motor vehicle or operating a snowmobile, all-terrain | 3 |
| vehicle, or watercraft,
in which case the person commits | 4 |
| reckless homicide. A person commits reckless homicide if he or | 5 |
| she unintentionally kills an individual while driving a vehicle | 6 |
| and using an incline in a roadway, such as a railroad crossing, | 7 |
| bridge
approach, or hill, to cause the vehicle to become | 8 |
| airborne.
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| (b) (Blank).
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| (c) (Blank).
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| (d) Sentence.
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| (1) Involuntary manslaughter is a Class 3 felony.
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| (2) Reckless homicide is a Class 3 felony.
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| (e) (Blank). | 15 |
| (e-1) Except as otherwise provided in subsection (e-2), in | 16 |
| cases involving
reckless homicide in which the offense was | 17 |
| committed as result
of a violation of subsection (c) of Section | 18 |
| 11-907 of the Illinois Vehicle Code,
the penalty is a Class 2 | 19 |
| felony, for which a
person, if sentenced to a term of | 20 |
| imprisonment, shall be sentenced to a term of
not less than 3 | 21 |
| years and not more than 14 years. | 22 |
| (e-2) In cases involving
reckless homicide in which the | 23 |
| offense was committed as result
of a violation of subsection | 24 |
| (c) of Section 11-907 of the Illinois Vehicle Code and the | 25 |
| defendant caused the deaths of 2 or more persons as
part of a | 26 |
| single course of conduct,
the penalty is a Class 2 felony, for |
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| which a
person, if sentenced to a term of imprisonment, shall | 2 |
| be sentenced to a term of
not less than 6 years and not more | 3 |
| than 28 years.
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| (e-5) (Blank).
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| (e-7) Except as otherwise provided in subsection (e-8), in | 6 |
| cases involving
reckless homicide in which the defendant was
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| driving in a construction or maintenance zone, as defined in | 8 |
| Section 11-605
of the Illinois Vehicle Code,
the penalty is a | 9 |
| Class 2 felony, for which a
person, if sentenced to a term of | 10 |
| imprisonment, shall be sentenced to a term of
not less than 3 | 11 |
| years and not more than 14 years.
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| (e-8) In cases involving reckless homicide in which the | 13 |
| defendant was
driving in a construction or maintenance zone, as | 14 |
| defined in Section 11-605
of the Illinois Vehicle Code, and | 15 |
| caused the deaths of 2 or more persons as
part of a single | 16 |
| course of conduct,
the penalty is a Class 2 felony, for which a
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| person, if sentenced to a term of imprisonment, shall be | 18 |
| sentenced to a term of
not less than 6 years and not more than | 19 |
| 28 years.
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| (e-9) In cases involving reckless homicide in which the | 21 |
| defendant drove a vehicle and used an incline in a roadway, | 22 |
| such as a railroad crossing, bridge
approach, or hill, to cause | 23 |
| the vehicle to become airborne, and caused the deaths of 2 or | 24 |
| more persons as
part of a single course of conduct,
the penalty | 25 |
| is a Class 2 felony.
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| (f) In cases involving involuntary manslaughter in which |
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| the victim was a
family or household member as defined in | 2 |
| paragraph (3) of Section 112A-3 of the
Code of
Criminal | 3 |
| Procedure of 1963, the penalty shall be a Class 2 felony, for | 4 |
| which a
person if sentenced to a term of imprisonment, shall be | 5 |
| sentenced to a term of
not less than 3 years and not more than | 6 |
| 14 years.
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| (Source: P.A. 92-16, eff. 6-28-01; 93-178, eff. 6-1-04; 93-213, | 8 |
| eff. 7-18-03; 93-682, eff. 1-1-05.)
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