Bill Text: IL HB0073 | 2025-2026 | 104th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Criminal Code of 2012. Provides that a person, in addition to other elements of the offense, obstructs justice when, with intent to prevent the apprehension or obstruct the prosecution or defense of any person, he or she knowingly takes a body camera or any part of a body camera from a person known to be a peace officer. Provides that a violation, if the body camera or any part of the body camera is taken from the peace officer during the commission of an offense that has caused great bodily harm to the officer or another person, is a Class 1 felony. Provides that any other violation of this provision is a Class 2 felony.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2025-01-15 - Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Tony M. McCombie [HB0073 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2025-HB0073-Introduced.html

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104TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2025 and 2026 HB0073 Introduced , by Rep. Jackie Haas SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
720 ILCS 5/31-4 from Ch. 38, par. 31-4
Amends the Criminal Code of 2012. Provides that a person, in addition to other elements of the offense, obstructs justice when, with intent to prevent the apprehension or obstruct the prosecution or defense of any person, he or she knowingly takes a body camera or any part of a body camera from a person known to be a peace officer. Provides that a violation, if the body camera or any part of the body camera is taken from the peace officer during the commission of an offense that has caused great bodily harm to the officer or another person, is a Class 1 felony. Provides that any other violation of this provision is a Class 2 felony.
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A BILL FOR
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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 2012 is amended by
changing Section 31-4 as follows:
(720 ILCS 5/31-4) (from Ch. 38, par. 31-4)
Sec. 31-4. Obstructing justice.
(a) A person obstructs justice when, with intent to
prevent the apprehension or obstruct the prosecution or
defense of any person, he or she knowingly commits any of the
following acts:
(1) destroys Destroys, alters, conceals or disguises
physical evidence, plants false evidence, furnishes false
information; or
(2) induces Induces a witness having knowledge
material to the subject at issue to leave the State or
conceal himself or herself; or
(3) possessing Possessing knowledge material to the
subject at issue, he or she leaves the State or conceals
himself; or
(4) if If a parent, legal guardian, or caretaker of a
child under 13 years of age reports materially false
information to a law enforcement agency, medical examiner,

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