102ND GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2021 and 2022
HB1138

 

Introduced 2/17/2021, by Rep. Emanuel Chris Welch

 

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. Whenever any citizen of this state, or any minor
8child residing with its parents or guardian in this state,
9shall heretofore have been, or shall hereafter be, by
10fraudulent pretenses, enticed or kidnapped and and taken out
11of this state into any other state, and by such enticer or
12kidnapper or his confederates murdered, and the relatives or
13parents or guardian of such person, shall have pursued or
14shall pursue such criminal and procured his arrest and
15conviction of such crime under the laws of such other state,
16the reasonable expense incurred in procuring such arrest and
17conviction in such other state, shall be paid out of the
18treasury of this state as follows:
19    Any person making claim under the provision of this act
20shall file a statement of the claim with the several items
21thereof with the State Comptroller, which claim shall be
22verified by the oath of the claimant and by record or other
23satisfactory proof of the conviction of the criminal, and by

 

 

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