Bill Text: IL HB3061 | 2023-2024 | 103rd General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Firearm Dealer License Certification Act. Provides that a certified licensee and any employee of a certified licensee who sells or transfers firearms shall receive at least 2 hours of training annually on how to recognize individuals with mental illness, mental impairment, or mental disease that would make those individuals a clear and present danger to themselves or others if those individuals possessed firearms. Provides that a federally licensed firearm dealer who sells or delivers firearms in the State and is exempt from the certification requirements of the Act is required to receive training on recognizing individuals with mental illness, mental impairment, or mental disease that would make those individuals a clear and present danger to themselves or others if those individuals possessed firearms. Amends the Criminal Code of 2012 to make conforming changes. Defines "clear and present danger".

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2023-03-10 - Rule 19(a) / Re-referred to Rules Committee [HB3061 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2023-HB3061-Introduced.html

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103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2023 and 2024 HB3061 Introduced , by Rep. Kevin John Olickal SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
430 ILCS 68/5-30
720 ILCS 5/24-3 from Ch. 38, par. 24-3
Amends the Firearm Dealer License Certification Act. Provides that a certified licensee and any employee of a certified licensee who sells or transfers firearms shall receive at least 2 hours of training annually on how to recognize individuals with mental illness, mental impairment, or mental disease that would make those individuals a clear and present danger to themselves or others if those individuals possessed firearms. Provides that a federally licensed firearm dealer who sells or delivers firearms in the State and is exempt from the certification requirements of the Act is required to receive training on recognizing individuals with mental illness, mental impairment, or mental disease that would make those individuals a clear and present danger to themselves or others if those individuals possessed firearms. Amends the Criminal Code of 2012 to make conforming changes. Defines "clear and present danger".
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A BILL FOR
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AN ACT concerning safety.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The Firearm Dealer License Certification Act is
amended by changing Section 5-30 as follows:
(430 ILCS 68/5-30)
Sec. 5-30. Training of certified licensees. Any certified
licensee and any employee of a certified licensee who sells or
transfers firearms shall receive at least 2 hours of training
annually regarding legal requirements and responsible business
practices as applicable to the sale or transfer or firearms
and how to recognize individuals with mental illness, mental
impairment, or mental disease that would make those
individuals a clear and present danger to themselves or others
if those individuals possessed firearms. The Illinois State
Police may adopt rules regarding continuing education for
certified licensees related to legal requirements and
responsible business practices regarding the sale or transfer
of firearms and how certified licensees and their employees
may recognize individuals with mental illness, mental
impairment, or mental disease that would make those
individuals a clear and present danger to themselves or others
if those individuals possessed firearms. In this Section,

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"clear and present danger" has the meaning ascribed to it in
Section 1.1 of the Firearm Owners Identification Card Act.
A federally licensed firearm dealer under Section 923 of
the federal Gun Control Act of 1968 who sells or delivers
firearms in this State and is exempt from the certification
requirements of this Act is required to receive training on
recognizing individuals with mental illness, mental
impairment, or mental disease that would make those
individuals a clear and present danger to themselves or others
if those individuals possessed firearms.
(Source: P.A. 102-538, eff. 8-20-21.)
Section 10. The Criminal Code of 2012 is amended by
changing Section 24-3 as follows:
(720 ILCS 5/24-3) (from Ch. 38, par. 24-3)
Sec. 24-3. Unlawful sale or delivery of firearms.
(A) A person commits the offense of unlawful sale or
delivery of firearms when he or she knowingly does any of the
following:
(a) Sells or gives any firearm of a size which may be
concealed upon the person to any person under 18 years of
age.
(b) Sells or gives any firearm to a person under 21
years of age who has been convicted of a misdemeanor other
than a traffic offense or adjudged delinquent.

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(c) Sells or gives any firearm to any narcotic addict.
(d) Sells or gives any firearm to any person who has
been convicted of a felony under the laws of this or any
other jurisdiction.
(e) Sells or gives any firearm to any person who has
been a patient in a mental institution within the past 5
years. In this subsection (e):
"Mental institution" means any hospital,
institution, clinic, evaluation facility, mental
health center, or part thereof, which is used
primarily for the care or treatment of persons with
mental illness.
"Patient in a mental institution" means the person
was admitted, either voluntarily or involuntarily, to
a mental institution for mental health treatment,
unless the treatment was voluntary and solely for an
alcohol abuse disorder and no other secondary
substance abuse disorder or mental illness.
(f) Sells or gives any firearms to any person who is a
person with an intellectual disability.
(g) Delivers any firearm, incidental to a sale,
without withholding delivery of the firearm for at least
72 hours after application for its purchase has been made,
or delivers a stun gun or taser, incidental to a sale,
without withholding delivery of the stun gun or taser for
at least 24 hours after application for its purchase has

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been made. However, this paragraph (g) does not apply to:
(1) the sale of a firearm to a law enforcement officer if
the seller of the firearm knows that the person to whom he
or she is selling the firearm is a law enforcement officer
or the sale of a firearm to a person who desires to
purchase a firearm for use in promoting the public
interest incident to his or her employment as a bank
guard, armed truck guard, or other similar employment; (2)
a mail order sale of a firearm from a federally licensed
firearms dealer to a nonresident of Illinois under which
the firearm is mailed to a federally licensed firearms
dealer outside the boundaries of Illinois; (3) (blank);
(4) the sale of a firearm to a dealer licensed as a federal
firearms dealer under Section 923 of the federal Gun
Control Act of 1968 (18 U.S.C. 923); or (5) the transfer or
sale of any rifle, shotgun, or other long gun to a resident
registered competitor or attendee or non-resident
registered competitor or attendee by any dealer licensed
as a federal firearms dealer under Section 923 of the
federal Gun Control Act of 1968 at competitive shooting
events held at the World Shooting Complex sanctioned by a
national governing body. For purposes of transfers or
sales under subparagraph (5) of this paragraph (g), the
Department of Natural Resources shall give notice to the
Illinois State Police at least 30 calendar days prior to
any competitive shooting events at the World Shooting

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Complex sanctioned by a national governing body. The
notification shall be made on a form prescribed by the
Illinois State Police. The sanctioning body shall provide
a list of all registered competitors and attendees at
least 24 hours before the events to the Illinois State
Police. Any changes to the list of registered competitors
and attendees shall be forwarded to the Illinois State
Police as soon as practicable. The Illinois State Police
must destroy the list of registered competitors and
attendees no later than 30 days after the date of the
event. Nothing in this paragraph (g) relieves a federally
licensed firearm dealer from the requirements of
conducting a NICS background check through the Illinois
Point of Contact under 18 U.S.C. 922(t). For purposes of
this paragraph (g), "application" means when the buyer and
seller reach an agreement to purchase a firearm. For
purposes of this paragraph (g), "national governing body"
means a group of persons who adopt rules and formulate
policy on behalf of a national firearm sporting
organization.
(h) While holding any license as a dealer, importer,
manufacturer or pawnbroker under the federal Gun Control
Act of 1968, manufactures, sells or delivers to any
unlicensed person a handgun having a barrel, slide, frame
or receiver which is a die casting of zinc alloy or any
other nonhomogeneous metal which will melt or deform at a

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temperature of less than 800 degrees Fahrenheit. For
purposes of this paragraph, (1) "firearm" is defined as in
the Firearm Owners Identification Card Act; and (2)
"handgun" is defined as a firearm designed to be held and
fired by the use of a single hand, and includes a
combination of parts from which such a firearm can be
assembled.
(i) Sells or gives a firearm of any size to any person
under 18 years of age who does not possess a valid Firearm
Owner's Identification Card.
(j) Sells or gives a firearm while engaged in the
business of selling firearms at wholesale or retail
without being licensed as a federal firearms dealer under
Section 923 of the federal Gun Control Act of 1968 (18
U.S.C. 923). In this paragraph (j):
A person "engaged in the business" means a person who
devotes time, attention, and labor to engaging in the
activity as a regular course of trade or business with the
principal objective of livelihood and profit, but does not
include a person who makes occasional repairs of firearms
or who occasionally fits special barrels, stocks, or
trigger mechanisms to firearms.
"With the principal objective of livelihood and
profit" means that the intent underlying the sale or
disposition of firearms is predominantly one of obtaining
livelihood and pecuniary gain, as opposed to other

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intents, such as improving or liquidating a personal
firearms collection; however, proof of profit shall not be
required as to a person who engages in the regular and
repetitive purchase and disposition of firearms for
criminal purposes or terrorism.
(k) Sells or transfers ownership of a firearm to a
person who does not display to the seller or transferor of
the firearm either: (1) a currently valid Firearm Owner's
Identification Card that has previously been issued in the
transferee's name by the Illinois State Police under the
provisions of the Firearm Owners Identification Card Act;
or (2) a currently valid license to carry a concealed
firearm that has previously been issued in the
transferee's name by the Illinois State Police under the
Firearm Concealed Carry Act. This paragraph (k) does not
apply to the transfer of a firearm to a person who is
exempt from the requirement of possessing a Firearm
Owner's Identification Card under Section 2 of the Firearm
Owners Identification Card Act. For the purposes of this
Section, a currently valid Firearm Owner's Identification
Card or license to carry a concealed firearm means receipt
of an approval number issued in accordance with subsection
(a-10) of Section 3 or Section 3.1 of the Firearm Owners
Identification Card Act.
(1) In addition to the other requirements of this
paragraph (k), all persons who are not federally

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licensed firearms dealers must also have complied with
subsection (a-10) of Section 3 of the Firearm Owners
Identification Card Act by determining the validity of
a purchaser's Firearm Owner's Identification Card.
(2) All sellers or transferors who have complied
with the requirements of subparagraph (1) of this
paragraph (k) shall not be liable for damages in any
civil action arising from the use or misuse by the
transferee of the firearm transferred, except for
willful or wanton misconduct on the part of the seller
or transferor.
(l) Not being entitled to the possession of a firearm,
delivers the firearm, knowing it to have been stolen or
converted. It may be inferred that a person who possesses
a firearm with knowledge that its serial number has been
removed or altered has knowledge that the firearm is
stolen or converted.
(m) Is a federally licensed firearm dealer under
Section 923 of the federal Gun Control Act of 1968 and
sells or delivers firearms in this State if the federally
licensed firearm dealer has not received the training
prescribed in Section 30 of the Firearm Dealer License
Certification Act on how to recognize individuals with
mental illness, mental impairment, or mental disease that
would make those individuals a clear and present danger to
themselves or others if those individuals possessed

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firearms. In this paragraph (m), "clear and present
danger" has the meaning ascribed to it in Section 1.1 of
the Firearm Owners Identification Card Act.
(B) Paragraph (h) of subsection (A) does not include
firearms sold within 6 months after enactment of Public Act
78-355 (approved August 21, 1973, effective October 1, 1973),
nor is any firearm legally owned or possessed by any citizen or
purchased by any citizen within 6 months after the enactment
of Public Act 78-355 subject to confiscation or seizure under
the provisions of that Public Act. Nothing in Public Act
78-355 shall be construed to prohibit the gift or trade of any
firearm if that firearm was legally held or acquired within 6
months after the enactment of that Public Act.
(C) Sentence.
(0.5) Any person convicted of unlawful sale or
delivery of firearms in violation of paragraph (m) of
subsection (A) commits a Class A misdemeanor.
(1) Any person convicted of unlawful sale or delivery
of firearms in violation of paragraph (c), (e), (f), (g),
or (h) of subsection (A) commits a Class 4 felony.
(2) Any person convicted of unlawful sale or delivery
of firearms in violation of paragraph (b) or (i) of
subsection (A) commits a Class 3 felony.
(3) Any person convicted of unlawful sale or delivery
of firearms in violation of paragraph (a) of subsection
(A) commits a Class 2 felony.

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(4) Any person convicted of unlawful sale or delivery
of firearms in violation of paragraph (a), (b), or (i) of
subsection (A) in any school, on the real property
comprising a school, within 1,000 feet of the real
property comprising a school, at a school related
activity, or on or within 1,000 feet of any conveyance
owned, leased, or contracted by a school or school
district to transport students to or from school or a
school related activity, regardless of the time of day or
time of year at which the offense was committed, commits a
Class 1 felony. Any person convicted of a second or
subsequent violation of unlawful sale or delivery of
firearms in violation of paragraph (a), (b), or (i) of
subsection (A) in any school, on the real property
comprising a school, within 1,000 feet of the real
property comprising a school, at a school related
activity, or on or within 1,000 feet of any conveyance
owned, leased, or contracted by a school or school
district to transport students to or from school or a
school related activity, regardless of the time of day or
time of year at which the offense was committed, commits a
Class 1 felony for which the sentence shall be a term of
imprisonment of no less than 5 years and no more than 15
years.
(5) Any person convicted of unlawful sale or delivery
of firearms in violation of paragraph (a) or (i) of

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subsection (A) in residential property owned, operated, or
managed by a public housing agency or leased by a public
housing agency as part of a scattered site or mixed-income
development, in a public park, in a courthouse, on
residential property owned, operated, or managed by a
public housing agency or leased by a public housing agency
as part of a scattered site or mixed-income development,
on the real property comprising any public park, on the
real property comprising any courthouse, or on any public
way within 1,000 feet of the real property comprising any
public park, courthouse, or residential property owned,
operated, or managed by a public housing agency or leased
by a public housing agency as part of a scattered site or
mixed-income development commits a Class 2 felony.
(6) Any person convicted of unlawful sale or delivery
of firearms in violation of paragraph (j) of subsection
(A) commits a Class A misdemeanor. A second or subsequent
violation is a Class 4 felony.
(7) Any person convicted of unlawful sale or delivery
of firearms in violation of paragraph (k) of subsection
(A) commits a Class 4 felony, except that a violation of
subparagraph (1) of paragraph (k) of subsection (A) shall
not be punishable as a crime or petty offense. A third or
subsequent conviction for a violation of paragraph (k) of
subsection (A) is a Class 1 felony.
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unlawful sale or delivery of firearms in violation of
paragraph (a) or (i) of subsection (A), when the firearm
that was sold or given to another person under 18 years of
age was used in the commission of or attempt to commit a
forcible felony, shall be fined or imprisoned, or both,
not to exceed the maximum provided for the most serious
forcible felony so committed or attempted by the person
under 18 years of age who was sold or given the firearm.
(9) Any person convicted of unlawful sale or delivery
of firearms in violation of paragraph (d) of subsection
(A) commits a Class 3 felony.
(10) Any person convicted of unlawful sale or delivery
of firearms in violation of paragraph (l) of subsection
(A) commits a Class 2 felony if the delivery is of one
firearm. Any person convicted of unlawful sale or delivery
of firearms in violation of paragraph (l) of subsection
(A) commits a Class 1 felony if the delivery is of not less
than 2 and not more than 5 firearms at the same time or
within a one-year period. Any person convicted of unlawful
sale or delivery of firearms in violation of paragraph (l)
of subsection (A) commits a Class X felony for which he or
she shall be sentenced to a term of imprisonment of not
less than 6 years and not more than 30 years if the
delivery is of not less than 6 and not more than 10
firearms at the same time or within a 2-year period. Any
person convicted of unlawful sale or delivery of firearms

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in violation of paragraph (l) of subsection (A) commits a
Class X felony for which he or she shall be sentenced to a
term of imprisonment of not less than 6 years and not more
than 40 years if the delivery is of not less than 11 and
not more than 20 firearms at the same time or within a
3-year period. Any person convicted of unlawful sale or
delivery of firearms in violation of paragraph (l) of
subsection (A) commits a Class X felony for which he or she
shall be sentenced to a term of imprisonment of not less
than 6 years and not more than 50 years if the delivery is
of not less than 21 and not more than 30 firearms at the
same time or within a 4-year period. Any person convicted
of unlawful sale or delivery of firearms in violation of
paragraph (l) of subsection (A) commits a Class X felony
for which he or she shall be sentenced to a term of
imprisonment of not less than 6 years and not more than 60
years if the delivery is of 31 or more firearms at the same
time or within a 5-year period.
(D) For purposes of this Section:
"School" means a public or private elementary or secondary
school, community college, college, or university.
"School related activity" means any sporting, social,
academic, or other activity for which students' attendance or
participation is sponsored, organized, or funded in whole or
in part by a school or school district.
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subsection (A) of this Section may be commenced within 6 years
after the commission of the offense. A prosecution for a
violation of this Section other than paragraph (g) of
subsection (A) of this Section may be commenced within 5 years
after the commission of the offense defined in the particular
paragraph.
(Source: P.A. 102-237, eff. 1-1-22; 102-538, eff. 8-20-21;
102-813, eff. 5-13-22.)