Bill Text: IL HB3206 | 2025-2026 | 104th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Illinois Vehicle Code. Increases the penalty for fleeing or attempting to elude a peace officer from a Class A misdemeanor to a Class 4 felony, and, for a third or subsequent violation, from a Class 4 felony to a Class 3 felony.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 6)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2025-03-26 - Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Joe C. Sosnowski [HB3206 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2025-HB3206-Introduced.html

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104TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2025 and 2026 HB3206 Introduced , by Rep. Patrick Sheehan SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
625 ILCS 5/11-204 from Ch. 95 1/2, par. 11-204
Amends the Illinois Vehicle Code. Increases the penalty for fleeing or attempting to elude a peace officer from a Class A misdemeanor to a Class 4 felony, and, for a third or subsequent violation, from a Class 4 felony to a Class 3 felony.
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A BILL FOR
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AN ACT concerning transportation.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The Illinois Vehicle Code is amended by
changing Section 11-204 as follows:
(625 ILCS 5/11-204) (from Ch. 95 1/2, par. 11-204)
Sec. 11-204. Fleeing or attempting to elude a peace
officer.
(a) Any driver or operator of a motor vehicle who, having
been given a visual or audible signal by a peace officer
directing such driver or operator to bring his vehicle to a
stop, wilfully fails or refuses to obey such direction,
increases his speed, extinguishes his lights, or otherwise
flees or attempts to elude the officer, is guilty of a Class 4
felony A misdemeanor. The signal given by the peace officer
may be by hand, voice, siren, red or blue light. Provided, the
officer giving such signal shall be in police uniform, and, if
driving a vehicle, such vehicle shall display illuminated
oscillating, rotating or flashing red or blue lights which
when used in conjunction with an audible horn or siren would
indicate the vehicle to be an official police vehicle. Such
requirement shall not preclude the use of amber or white
oscillating, rotating or flashing lights in conjunction with

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red or blue oscillating, rotating or flashing lights as
required in Section 12-215 of Chapter 12.
(b) Upon receiving notice of such conviction the Secretary
of State shall suspend the drivers license of the person so
convicted for a period of not more than 6 months for a first
conviction and not more than 12 months for a second
conviction.
(c) A third or subsequent violation of this Section is a
Class 3 4 felony.
(Source: P.A. 93-120, eff. 1-1-04.)