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