Public Act 0938 93RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY

HB4788 Enrolled LRB093 18387 RLC 44095 b

Public Act 093-0938

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 12-6.4 as follows:

(720 ILCS 5/12-6.4 new)

Sec. 12-6.4. Criminal street gang recruitment on school grounds or public property adjacent to school grounds.

(a) A person commits the offense of criminal street gang recruitment on school grounds or public property adjacent to school grounds when on school grounds or public property adjacent to school grounds, he or she threatens the use of physical force to coerce, solicit, recruit, or induce another person to join or remain a member of a criminal street gang, or conspires to do so.

(b) Sentence. Criminal street gang recruitment on school grounds or public property adjacent to school grounds is a Class 1 felony.

(c) In this Section, "criminal street gang" has the meaning ascribed to it in Section 10 of the Illinois Streetgang Terrorism Omnibus Prevention Act and "school grounds" means the building or buildings or real property comprising a public or private elementary or secondary school, community college, college, or university and includes a school yard, school playing field, or school playground.

Effective Date: 1/1/2005