Public Act 096-1207
 
SB3389 EnrolledLRB096 17970 RLC 33339 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 Code of Criminal Procedure of 1963 is 
amended  by changing Section 111-4 as follows:
 



    (725 ILCS 5/111-4)  (from Ch. 38, par. 111-4)



    Sec. 111-4. Joinder of offenses and defendants. 

    (a) Two or more offenses may be charged in the same 
indictment,
information or complaint in a separate count for 
each offense if the
offenses charged, whether felonies or 
misdemeanors or both, are based on
the same act or on 2 or more 
acts which are part of the same comprehensive
transaction.

    (b) Two or more defendants may be charged in the same 
indictment,
information or complaint if they are alleged to 
have participated in the
same act or in the same comprehensive 
transaction out of which the offense
or offenses arose. Such 
defendants may be charged in one or more counts
together or 
separately and all of the defendants need not be charged in

each count.

    (c) Two or more acts or transactions in violation of any 
provision or
provisions of Sections 8A-2, 8A-3, 8A-4, 8A-4A and 
8A-5 of the Illinois
Public Aid Code, Sections 16-1, 16-1.3, 
16-2, 16-3, 16-5, 16-7, 16-8, 16-10, 16A-3,
16B-2, 16C-2, 
16G-15, 16G-20, 16H-15, 16H-20, 16H-25, 16H-30, 16H-45, 
16H-50, 16H-55, 17-1, 17-3, 17-6, 17-7, 17-8, 17-9 or 17-10 of 
the Criminal Code of
1961 and Section 118 of Division I of the 
Criminal Jurisprudence Act, may
be charged as a single offense 
in a single count of the same indictment,
information or 
complaint, if such acts or transactions by one or more

defendants are in furtherance of a single intention and design 
or if the
property, labor or services obtained are of the same 
person or are of
several persons having a common interest in 
such property, labor or
services. In such a charge, the period 
between the dates of the first and
the final such acts or 
transactions may be alleged as the date of the
offense and, if 
any such act or transaction by any defendant was committed
in 
the county where the prosecution was commenced, such county may 
be
alleged as the county of the offense.

(Source: P.A. 95-384, eff. 1-1-08; 96-354, eff. 8-13-09.)

 
 
    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon 
becoming law.