SB1933 102ND GENERAL ASSEMBLY

LRB102 16281 RLC 21663 b

102ND GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2021 and 2022
SB1933

Introduced 2/26/2021, by Sen. Steve McClure

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:

720 ILCS 5/31-4

from Ch. 38, par. 31-4

Amends the Criminal Code of 2012. Defines "concealment" for purposes of the obstructing justice statute. Defines "concealment" as hiding evidence in a manner that makes its recovery substantially more difficult or impossible. Effective immediately.

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A BILL FOR

AN ACT concerning criminal law.

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

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

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

Sec. 31-4. Obstructing justice.

(a) A person obstructs justice when, with intent to prevent the apprehension or obstruct the prosecution or defense of any person, he or she knowingly commits any of the following acts:

(1) Destroys, alters, conceals or disguises physical evidence, plants false evidence, furnishes false information; or

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

(3) Possessing knowledge material to the subject at issue, he or she leaves the State or conceals himself; or

(4) If a parent, legal guardian, or caretaker of a child under 13 years of age reports materially false information to a law enforcement agency, medical examiner, coroner, State's Attorney, or other governmental agency during an investigation of the disappearance or death of a child under circumstances described in subsection (a) or (b) of Section 10-10 of this Code.

(b) Sentence.

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

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

(c) For purposes of this Section, "concealment" means hiding evidence in a manner that makes its recovery substantially more difficult or impossible.

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

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