Bill Text: IL HB0021 | 2011-2012 | 97th General Assembly | Chaptered

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Bill Title: Amends the Criminal Code of 1961. Provides that a person also commits the offense of drug induced homicide by causing another person's death through absorption of an unlawfully delivered controlled substance. Effective immediately.

Sponsorship: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 6-1)

Status: (Passed) 2011-07-22 - Public Act . . . . . . . . . 97-0191 [HB0021 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2011-HB0021-Chaptered.html

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Public Act 097-0191
HB0021 Enrolled LRB097 03020 RLC 43051 b
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 changing
Section 9-3.3 as follows:
(720 ILCS 5/9-3.3) (from Ch. 38, par. 9-3.3)
Sec. 9-3.3. Drug-induced homicide.
(a) A person who violates Section 401 of the Illinois
Controlled Substances Act or Section 55 of the Methamphetamine
Control and Community Protection Act by unlawfully delivering a
controlled substance to another, and any person's death is
caused by the injection, inhalation, absorption, or ingestion
of any amount of that controlled substance, commits the offense
of drug-induced homicide.
(b) Sentence. Drug-induced homicide is a Class X felony.
(c) A person who commits drug-induced homicide by violating
subsection (a) or subsection (c) of Section 401 of the Illinois
Controlled Substances Act or Section 55 of the Methamphetamine
Control and Community Protection Act commits a Class X felony
for which the defendant shall in addition to a sentence
authorized by law, be sentenced to a term of imprisonment of
not less than 15 years and not more than 30 years or an
extended term of not less than 30 years and not more than 60

years.
(Source: P.A. 94-556, eff. 9-11-05; 94-560, eff. 1-1-06;
95-331, eff. 8-21-07.)
Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
becoming law.