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[ Introduced ][ Senate Amendment 001 ]

90_HB3374eng

      New Act
          Creates the Endangering School  Bus  Transportation  Act.
      Provides   that   the   offense  of  endangering  school  bus
      transportation is committed when  a  person  tampers  with  a
      facility  of  school  bus transportation with intent to cause
      damage, malfunction, or nonfunction or knowingly threatens  a
      driver  or  passenger with death or imminent bodily injury or
      with a deadly weapon or words or actions intended  to  induce
      belief  that  the  person  is  armed  with  a  deadly weapon.
      Provides that the offense is a Class A misdemeanor.
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 1        AN ACT concerning school buses.
 2        Be it enacted by the People of  the  State  of  Illinois,
 3    represented in the General Assembly:
 4        Section  1.  Short  title.   This Act may be cited as the
 5    Endangering School Bus Transportation Act.
 6        Section 5.  Definition.  In this Act,  "school  bus"  has
 7    the same meaning as it has in the Illinois Vehicle Code.
 8        Section  10.  Endangering  school  bus transportation.  A
 9    person  commits  the  offense  of  endangering   school   bus
10    transportation  if  the  person  does  any one or more of the
11    following:
12        (1)  Tampers with a school bus  or  school  bus  facility
13    with intent to cause any damage, malfunction, or nonfunction.
14        (2)  On  a  school  bus knowingly threatens any driver or
15    passenger:
16             (A)  with death or imminent bodily injury; or
17             (B)  with a deadly weapon or with words  or  actions
18        intended to induce belief that the person is armed with a
19        deadly weapon.
20        Section    15.  Sentence.     Endangering    school   bus
21    transportation is a Class A misdemeanor.

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