HB0036 95TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

LRB095 03680 RLC 23707 b

95TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2007 and 2008
HB0036

Introduced 1/19/2007, by Rep. Tom Cross - Patricia Reid Lindner - Ed Sullivan, Jr.

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:

720 ILCS 5/12-3.6 new

Amends the Criminal Code of 1961. Creates the offense of domestic damage to property when a person knowingly or intentionally causes damage to a family or household member's personal property or commonly owned property while in the immediate presence of that family or household member so as to deliberately and intentionally intimidate or threaten that family or household member. Requires a peace officer to arrest the offender upon the establishment of probable cause. Makes the offense a Class A misdemeanor.

CORRECTIONAL BUDGET AND IMPACT NOTE ACT MAY APPLY

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 1961 is amended by adding Section 12-3.6 as follows:

(720 ILCS 5/12-3.6 new)

Sec. 12-3.6. Domestic damage to property.

(a) A person commits domestic damage to property when he or she knowingly or intentionally causes damage to a family or household member's personal property or commonly owned property while in the immediate presence of that family or household member, as defined in subsection (3) of Section 112A-3 of the Code of Criminal Procedure of 1963, so as to deliberately and intentionally intimidate or threaten that family or household member. A peace officer must arrest the offender upon the establishment of probable cause.

(b) Sentence. Domestic damage to property is a Class A misdemeanor.