94TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2005 and 2006
HB4564

 

Introduced 01/11/06, by Rep. John E. Bradley

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
New Act

    Creates the Gun-free Zone Criminal Conduct Liability Act. Provides that any person, organization, or entity or any agency of government, including any unit of local government, that creates a gun-free zone is liable for all costs, attorney's fees, and treble damages resulting from criminal conduct that occurs against an individual in the gun-free zone, if a reasonable person would believe that possession of a firearm could have helped the individual defend against such conduct. Defines "gun-free zone". Effective immediately.


LRB094 18507 RLC 53833 b

FISCAL NOTE ACT MAY APPLY

 

 

A BILL FOR

 

HB4564 LRB094 18507 RLC 53833 b

1     AN ACT to create the Gun-free Zone Criminal Conduct
2 Liability Act.
 
3     Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
4 represented in the General Assembly:
 
5     Section 1. Short title. This Act may be cited as the
6 Gun-free Zone Criminal Conduct Liability Act.
 
7     Section 5. Liability for criminal conduct in a gun-free
8 zone.
9     (a) Any person, organization, or entity or any agency of
10 government, including any unit of local government, that
11 creates a gun-free zone is liable for all costs, attorney's
12 fees, and treble damages resulting from criminal conduct that
13 occurs against an individual in the gun-free zone, if a
14 reasonable person would believe that possession of a firearm
15 could have helped the individual defend against such conduct.
16     (b) For the purposes of this Section:
17         (1) "Criminal conduct" includes offenses specified in
18     the Criminal Code of 1961.
19         (2) "Gun-free zone" means any building, place, area, or
20     curtilage that is open to the public, or in or upon any
21     public conveyance, where a person's right or ability to
22     keep arms or to bear arms is infringed, restricted, or
23     diminished in any way by statute, policy, rule, regulation,
24     ordinance, utterance, or posted signs.
 
25     Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
26 becoming law.