Full Text of HB1138 102nd General Assembly
HB1138 102ND GENERAL ASSEMBLY |
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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 |
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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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| 1 | | AN ACT concerning criminal law.
| 2 | | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, | 3 | | represented in the General Assembly:
| 4 | | Section 5. The Arrest and Conviction of Out of State | 5 | | Murderers 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 | 8 | | child residing with its
parents or guardian in this state, | 9 | | shall heretofore have been, or shall
hereafter be, by | 10 | | fraudulent pretenses, enticed or kidnapped and
and taken out
| 11 | | of this state into any other state, and by such enticer or | 12 | | kidnapper or his
confederates murdered, and the relatives or | 13 | | parents or guardian of such
person, shall have pursued or | 14 | | shall pursue such criminal and procured his
arrest and | 15 | | conviction of such crime under the laws of such other state, | 16 | | the
reasonable expense incurred in procuring such arrest and | 17 | | conviction in such
other state, shall be paid out of the | 18 | | treasury of this state as follows: | 19 | | Any person making claim under the provision of this act | 20 | | shall file a
statement of the claim with the several items | 21 | | thereof with the State
Comptroller, which claim shall be | 22 | | verified by the oath of the claimant and
by record or other | 23 | | satisfactory proof of the conviction of the criminal,
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| 1 | | such other proof as the nature of the case will admit, and such
| 2 | | claim and the proofs shall be considered by the governor, | 3 | | Comptroller and
attorney general, who shall examine said claim | 4 | | and proof and may require
other proof if they judge necessary; | 5 | | and upon being satisfied that said
claim or any of the items | 6 | | thereof was incurred in the prosecution of such
criminal in | 7 | | such other state, and was a just and reasonable expense for
| 8 | | that purpose, they shall allow the same for such an amount as | 9 | | they judge
just and reasonable, and shall so certify to the | 10 | | Comptroller, who shall
thereupon draw his warrant in favor of | 11 | | the claimant on the treasurer for
the amount so allowed: | 12 | | Provided, no more than $3,500 shall be allowed in
any one case.
| 13 | | (Source: P.A. 78-592 .)
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