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HB4788 Enrolled |
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LRB093 18387 RLC 44095 b |
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| AN ACT concerning criminal law.
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| Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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| represented in the General Assembly:
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| Section 5. The Criminal Code of 1961 is amended by adding |
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| Section 12-6.4 as follows:
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| (720 ILCS 5/12-6.4 new) |
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| Sec. 12-6.4. Criminal street gang recruitment on school |
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| grounds or public property adjacent to school grounds. |
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| (a) A person commits the offense of criminal street gang |
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| recruitment on school grounds or public property adjacent to |
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| school grounds when on school grounds or public property |
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| adjacent to school grounds, he or she threatens the use of |
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| physical force to coerce, solicit, recruit, or
induce another |
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| person to join or remain a member of a criminal street gang, or |
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| conspires to do so. |
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| (b) Sentence. Criminal street gang recruitment on school |
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| grounds or public property adjacent to school grounds is a |
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| Class 1 felony. |
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| (c) In this Section, "criminal street gang" has the meaning |
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| ascribed to it in Section 10 of the Illinois Streetgang |
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| Terrorism Omnibus Prevention Act and "school grounds" means the |
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| building or buildings or real property comprising a public or |
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| private elementary or secondary school, community college, |
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| college, or university and includes a school yard, school |
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| playing field, or school playground.
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