HB4788 93RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY

LRB093 18387 RLC 44095 b

93RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2003 and 2004
HB4788

Introduced 02/04/04, by Frank Aguilar

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:

720 ILCS 5/12-6.4 new

Amends the Criminal Code of 1961. Creates the offense of criminal street gang recruitment on school grounds. Provides that a person commits the offense when on 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. Provides that criminal street gang recruitment on school grounds is a Class 4 felony.

CORRECTIONAL BUDGET AND IMPACT NOTE ACT MAY APPLY

A BILL FOR

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 adding Section 12-6.4 as follows:

(720 ILCS 5/12-6.4 new)

Sec. 12-6.4. Criminal street gang recruitment on school grounds.

(a) A person commits the offense of criminal street gang recruitment on school grounds when on 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.

(b) Sentence. Criminal street gang recruitment on school grounds is a Class 4 felony.

(c) In this Section, "criminal street gang" has the meaning ascribed to it in Section 10 of the Illinois Streetgang Terrorism Omnibus Prevention Act and "school grounds" means the building or buildings or real property comprising a public or private elementary or secondary school, community college, college, or university.