102ND GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2021 and 2022
HB1122
 
Introduced 2/17/2021, by Rep. Emanuel Chris Welch
 
SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
  
720 ILCS 5/31-4  from Ch. 38, par. 31-4

    Amends the Criminal Code of 2012.  Makes a technical change in a Section
concerning obstructing justice.



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A BILL FOR
 


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1    AN ACT concerning criminal law.

 
2    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, 
3represented in the General Assembly: 

 
4    Section 5. The Criminal Code of 2012 is amended by 
5changing Section 31-4 as follows:
 



6    (720 ILCS 5/31-4)  (from Ch. 38, par. 31-4)



7    Sec. 31-4. Obstructing justice. 

8    (a) A person obstructs justice when, with intent to 
9prevent the
the apprehension
or obstruct the prosecution or 
10defense of any person, he or she knowingly commits
any of the 
11following acts:
12        (1) Destroys, alters, conceals or disguises physical 
13    evidence, plants
false evidence, furnishes false 
14    information; or

15        (2) Induces a witness having knowledge material to the 
16    subject at issue
to leave the State or conceal himself or 
17    herself; or

18        (3) Possessing knowledge material to the subject at 
19    issue, he or she leaves the
State or conceals himself; or
20        (4) If a parent, legal guardian, or caretaker
of a 
21    child under  13 years of age reports materially false 
22    information to a law enforcement agency, medical examiner, 
23    coroner, State's Attorney, or other governmental agency 
 
 
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1    during an investigation of the disappearance or death of a 
2    child under circumstances described in subsection (a) or 
3    (b) of Section 10-10 of this Code.

4    (b) Sentence.


5        (1) Obstructing justice is a Class 4 felony, except as 
6    provided in
paragraph (2) of this subsection (b).


7        (2) Obstructing justice in furtherance of streetgang 
8    related or
gang-related activity, as defined in Section 10 
9    of the Illinois Streetgang
Terrorism Omnibus Prevention 
10    Act, is a Class 3 felony.

11(Source: P.A. 97-1079, eff. 1-1-13.)