Bill Text: IL HB5255 | 2023-2024 | 103rd General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Illinois Vehicle Code. Provides that fleeing or attempting to elude a peace officer is a Class 4 felony if there is video evidence of the driver or operator of the motor vehicle fleeing or attempting to elude the peace officer and that the fleeing or attempting to elude the peace officer results in damage to property of the State, a unit of local government, or school district.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2)

Status: (Failed) 2025-01-07 - Session Sine Die [HB5255 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2023-HB5255-Introduced.html

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103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2023 and 2024 HB5255 Introduced , by Rep. Harry Benton SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
625 ILCS 5/11-204 from Ch. 95 1/2, par. 11-204
Amends the Illinois Vehicle Code. Provides that fleeing or attempting to elude a peace officer is a Class 4 felony if there is video evidence of the driver or operator of the motor vehicle fleeing or attempting to elude the peace officer and that the fleeing or attempting to elude the peace officer results in damage to property of the State, a unit of local government, or school district.
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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 A
misdemeanor, except that fleeing or attempting to elude a
peace officer is a Class 4 felony if there is video evidence of
the driver or operator of the motor vehicle fleeing or
attempting to elude the peace officer and that the fleeing or
attempting to elude the peace officer results in damage to
property of the State, a unit of local government, or school
district. 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

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