Public Act 096-0199
 		





SB0141 Enrolled
LRB096 04807 RLC 14871 b






    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 1961 is amended  by changing 
Section 12-6.4 as follows:
 
    (720 ILCS 5/12-6.4)
    Sec. 12-6.4. Criminal street gang recruitment on school 
grounds or public property adjacent to school grounds and 
criminal street gang recruitment of a minor.
    (a) A  person  commits the offense of  criminal  street gang 
recruitment on school grounds or public property adjacent to 
school grounds when on school grounds or public property 
adjacent to school grounds, he or she  threatens  the  use  of  
physical  force to coerce, solicit, recruit, or
     induce another 
person to join or remain a member of  a  criminal  street gang,  or  
conspires  to do so.
    (a-5)  A person commits the offense of criminal street gang 
recruitment of a minor when he or she threatens the use of 
physical force to coerce, solicit, recruit, or induce another 
person to join or remain a member of a criminal street gang, or 
conspires to do so, whether or not such threat is communicated 
in person, by means of the Internet, or by means of a 
telecommunications device. 
    (b) Sentence. Criminal street gang recruitment on school 
grounds or public property adjacent to school grounds is a 
Class 1 felony and criminal street gang recruitment of a minor 
is a Class 1 felony.
    (c) In this Section:
        "Criminal , "criminal street gang" has the meaning 
    ascribed to it in Section 10 of the Illinois Streetgang 
    Terrorism Omnibus Prevention Act. and
        "School "school grounds" means the building or 
    buildings  or real property comprising a public or private 
    elementary or secondary school, community college, 
    college, or university and includes a school yard, school 
    playing field, or school playground.

        "Minor" means any person under 18 years of age.
        "Internet" means an interactive computer service or 
    system or an information service, system, or access 
    software provider that provides or enables computer access 
    by multiple users to a computer server, and includes, but 
    is not limited to, an information service, system, or 
    access software provider that provides access to a network 
    system commonly known as the Internet, or any comparable 
    system or service and also includes, but is not limited to, 
    a World Wide Web page, newsgroup, message board, mailing 
    list, or chat area on any interactive computer service or 
    system or other online service.
        "Telecommunications device" means a device that is 
    capable of receiving or transmitting speech, data, 
    signals, text, images, sounds, codes, or other information 
    including, but not limited to, paging devices, telephones, 
    and cellular and mobile telephones. 
(Source: P.A. 93-938, eff. 1-1-05.)





Effective Date:  1/1/2010