Illinois House Bill 5475 (Prior Session Legislation)

---

Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 6-0)
Status: Failed on January 8 2019 - 100% progression
Action: 2019-01-08 - Session Sine Die
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

Amends the Criminal Code of 2012. Increases the penalty for unlawful use of weapons by selling, manufacturing, purchasing, possessing, or carrying a machine gun, other than in the passenger compartment of a motor vehicle or on one's person if the weapon is loaded, from a Class 2 felony, with a mandatory sentence of not less than 3 years and not more than 7 years imprisonment to a Class 1 felony, with a mandatory sentence of not less than 4 years and not more than 15 years imprisonment. Amends the Unified Code of Corrections. Provides that a person serving a sentence for this violation shall receive no more than 7.5 days sentence credit for each month of his or her sentence of imprisonment (rather than day for day sentence credit).

MACHINE GUN-PENALTIES

Rep. Barbara Wheeler [R]	Rep. David Olsen [R]	Rep. Grant Wehrli [R]	Rep. Margo McDermed [R]
Rep. Sheri Jesiel [R]	Rep. Patricia Bellock [R]

Date	Chamber	Action
2019-01-08	House	Session Sine Die
2018-03-06	House	Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Patricia R. Bellock
2018-02-28	House	Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Sheri Jesiel
2018-02-27	House	Chief Co-Sponsor Changed to Rep. Grant Wehrli
2018-02-27	House	Added Chief Co-Sponsor Rep. Grant Wehrli
2018-02-22	House	Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Margo McDermed
2018-02-20	House	Added Chief Co-Sponsor Rep. David S. Olsen
2018-02-16	House	Referred to Rules Committee
2018-02-16	House	First Reading
2018-02-16	House	Filed with the Clerk by Rep. Barbara Wheeler

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
720	5	24-1	Amended Code	Citation Text
730	5	3-6-3	Amended Code	Citation Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.ilga.gov/legislation/BillStatus.asp?DocNum=5475&GAID=14&DocTypeID=HB&SessionID=91&GA=100
Text	https://www.ilga.gov/legislation/100/HB/10000HB5475.htm