99TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2015 and 2016
HB1161

 

Introduced , by Rep. Michael J. Madigan

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
725 ILCS 110/1  from Ch. 60, par. 51

    Amends the Arrest and Conviction of Out of State Murderers Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the manner of payment.


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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 Arrest and Conviction of Out of State
5Murderers Act is amended by changing Section 1 as follows:
 
6    (725 ILCS 110/1)  (from Ch. 60, par. 51)
7    Sec. 1.
8    Whenever any citizen of this state, or any minor child
9residing with its parents or guardian in this state, shall
10heretofore have been, or shall hereafter be, by fraudulent
11pretenses, enticed or kidnapped and and taken out of this state
12into any other state, and by such enticer or kidnapper or his
13confederates murdered, and the relatives or parents or guardian
14of such person, shall have pursued or shall pursue such
15criminal and procured his arrest and conviction of such crime
16under the laws of such other state, the reasonable expense
17incurred in procuring such arrest and conviction in such other
18state, shall be paid out of the treasury of this state as
19follows:
20    Any person making claim under the provision of this act
21shall file a statement of the claim with the several items
22thereof with the State Comptroller, which claim shall be
23verified by the oath of the claimant and by record or other

 

 

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1satisfactory proof of the conviction of the criminal, and by
2such other proof as the nature of the case will admit, and such
3claim and the proofs shall be considered by the governor,
4Comptroller and attorney general, who shall examine said claim
5and proof and may require other proof if they judge necessary;
6and upon being satisfied that said claim or any of the items
7thereof was incurred in the prosecution of such criminal in
8such other state, and was a just and reasonable expense for
9that purpose, they shall allow the same for such an amount as
10they judge just and reasonable, and shall so certify to the
11Comptroller, who shall thereupon draw his warrant in favor of
12the claimant on the treasurer for the amount so allowed:
13Provided, no more than $3,500 shall be allowed in any one case.
14(Source: P.A. 78-592.)